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[00:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:47] <exec> 08└─Those Indonesians will have a new Orangutan to capture for their eccentric brothel! :)
[00:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:59] <exec> 08└─Its interesting to do your own solar system simulations and include movement through the galaxy. The orbits that look like ellipses with reference to the sun are actually spirals relative to the center of the galaxy. I have no idea if some incite can be gained from that perspective but it was defini...
[00:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:01] <exec> 08└─Yup, and there was a lot of "evidence" for epicycles too.
[00:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Commercial Pet Breeding Law Passed, Signed - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no one's worried about tens of thousands of unadoptable parakeets. It's dogs and cats that are a real problem.
[00:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Commercial Pet Breeding Law Passed, Signed - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:50] <exec> 08└─That cost is the cost of pandering to animal rights people. That cost would cover shooting a billion animals. California has no where near that many cats, dogs, and rabbits. Animals that get loose are not loved, are not being cared for, are not well protected, are killing endangered wildlife, and ar...
[00:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Commercial Pet Breeding Law Passed, Signed - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:52] <exec> 08└─California has prisoners to feed. Alternately, ship the animals to Venezuela.
[00:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Commercial Pet Breeding Law Passed, Signed - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:54] <exec> 08└─I do not understand the crazy obsessions of animal lovers blossoming over the past twenty years. One of my friends and his wife do absolutely nothing all day long but repost dog videos on Facebook. I can't go to a store or restaurant these days without some shithead dragging their mutt inside as a "...
[00:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Government Report Says the Climate is Warming and the Cause is Human Activity - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:37] <exec> 08└─Are these the same government types who gave us baseless nutrition advice? The same universities whose professors supported eugenics in the early part of the 20th century? This global warming scare will be another feather in their cap.
[00:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Threw Away a Work of Modern Art - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:57] <exec> 08└─I know when I saw the article I said to myself,"you know would really love this? Ethanol-fueled, that's who!"
[00:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:01] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you guys are even talking about. I never have a problem finding a barber. I have noticed though that the trade seems to have been handed off from the Italians to the Azerbaijanis.
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[01:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:50] <exec> 08└─Based on the criteria they seem to use, TMB might be a different species...
[01:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Says 40 Percent of All VMs in Azure Run Linux - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:21] <exec> 08└─I know Linux popularity is much higher than that especially for servers. I just think Microsoft are still downplaying Linux because its a real threat to their core business.
[01:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Says 40 Percent of All VMs in Azure Run Linux - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:22] <exec> 08└─The claim is believable to me because it's a Microsoft ecosystem that did not have Linux (or at least its "Azure Cloud Switch" Linux distro) at launch.
[01:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Commercial Pet Breeding Law Passed, Signed - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:58] <exec> 08└─And I swear to God i will fucking strangle with my bare hands the next old lady I hear using the term grand-puppy.
[01:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:17] <exec> 08└─Humans may be the big animal winner, but I'd bet something like trees, algae, ants, or termites might win.
[01:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:18] <exec> 08└─I think you lost your train of thoughts—i. e., the reasoning of your assertion: There definitely was no great technological civilization because it would have used up all the easily accessible resources (like we did), so after a massive population loss there wouldn't have been such resources left...
[01:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Call of Duty WW2 Bosses Won't 'Shy Away' from History - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:46] <exec> 08└─Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is a War Game!
[01:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Call of Duty WW2 Bosses Won't 'Shy Away' from History - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:47] <exec> 08└─Well, there was nothing in your post glorifying Mao. That's tantamount to the same thing. These days, anyone who isn't a Maoist is considered a Nazi.
[01:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Call of Duty WW2 Bosses Won't 'Shy Away' from History - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:50] <exec> 08└─In Mussolini's day, journalist Ennio Flaiano [infogalactic.com] wrote: In Italy, fascists divide themselves into two categories: fascists and antifascists. Still works today.
[01:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Files New Lawsuit Against Apple, Alleging it Shared Confidential Information with Intel - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:26] <exec> 08└─OK, I give up, what effect are you trying to achieve with the /, //, and /// ?
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[02:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jellyfish-inspired Electronic Skin Glows When It Gets Hurt - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:35] <exec> 08└─Its touchscreen reacts when it is "hurt". And stones "want" to roll downhill - fact. (prove me wrong!)
[02:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:41] <exec> 08└─I've always thought the proteins evolved first.
[02:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:44] <exec> 08└─Erm, one of them is more complicated than the other. The simpler one is more likely, surely. The simpler one is a protein. Story sounds a bit "water is wet" to me.
[02:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:46] <exec> 08└─FatPhil beat me to this one.
[02:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:48] <exec> 08└─Proteins aren't self-replicating... DNA/RNA form basepairs.
[02:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:58] <exec> 08└─I can only hope that Trump is also another species. He certainly is specious!
[02:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:00] <exec> 08└─Do we have any evidence of procreative ability with other hominids?
[02:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:14] <exec> 08└─Explain this, then, a simple question: 1. Dark matter is affected by gravity. 2. Dark matter is needed at the outer edges of a galaxy in order to keep it from flying apart, but NOT needed at the central part of the galaxy at all, where it's existence would throw off the results given by general rela...
[02:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:15] <exec> 08└─I agree. The dark matter concept makes it seem like they are shaving hamsters until someone figures out what assumption is wrong. The only evidence for it is that their models predict the wrong thing. Then you get the ridiculously pompous claims that "GR is the best tested theory in the world".
[02:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:17] <exec> 08└─but NOT needed at the central part of the galaxy at all, where it's existence would throw off the results given by general relativity even further.
[02:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:19] <exec> 08└─Nonsense! It fits the data perfectly. They placed the dark matter *exactly* where it needs to be in order to make the data fit.
[02:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:22] <exec> 08└─Dude, it gets even worse than that. Apparently dark matter: a) is only affected by gravity, yet doesn't form any of the shapes you expect from gravity. It requires *haloes*, for pity's sake. b) doesn't interact with electromagnetic fields (thus "dark"), but bends *light* with its gravity. Scientists...
[02:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:24] <exec> 08└─Your citations fail to contradict the point that was being made, if anything they support it.
[02:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:26] <exec> 08└─Exactly: make the data fit the theory, rather than making the theory fit the data.
[02:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Says 40 Percent of All VMs in Azure Run Linux - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:45] <exec> 08└─If 40% of the most anti-linux company's hosts are linux, and all of their competitors are mostly linux, then that's not an insult at all. Basically you've persuaded the Pope that at least one of the Holy Trinity don't exist.
[02:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Threw Away a Work of Modern Art - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:27] <exec> 08└─Scheme does allow changes in state. But the Scheme proselytizers are using Scheme as a vehicle to explain functional programming, which it is also good at. Look for the functions with exclamation marks in their names. Those are the state-changers.
[02:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Threw Away a Work of Modern Art - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:28] <exec> 08└─But the conceptual penis is a social construct. It's the physical penis that isn't. I wish that the people parodying postmodernism wouldn't pick the few random postmodern items that actually have a slight grain of truth in them. It makes the parody look stupid.
[02:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06How I Threw Away a Work of Modern Art - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:30] <exec> 08└─It took longer than I care to admit, but once I realized "Ethanol-fueled" could be literally taken as a euphemism for a drunken rant, everything I've ever read from him snapped in to a completely new context and started making a lot more sense.
[02:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Threw Away a Work of Modern Art - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:32] <exec> 08└─I used to have this dismissive attitude to modern abstract art until the day I climbed a staircse in a Winipeg museum and saw the wall at the top. It contained one canvas, painted in three broad vertical stripes of different colours, and it just floored me. I was impressed. I spent a good five minu...
[02:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:40] <exec> 08└─He had a few playboys on a table in the weighting area. There is a barber in Portland, but I don't go there much as it charges twice as much as the salon near my apartment. But the barber in Portland also has playboys.
[02:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know by how much. I'm 53, I expect he is 56 or so.
[02:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, provided two things: 1. All devices capable of accessing resources on your network are capable of bypassing unknown issuer warnings or installing a private CA's root certificate. 2. All your users are willing to take such measures. Say you store videos on a NAS on your home LAN, and you've invi...
[02:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks again. Or, they may do what most people I know of do: "Sure, I'll accept that certificate! Certificates are a good thing- I have many I'm proud of!"
[02:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:18] <exec> 08└─There’s a kind of understanding that only ground level employees in any role understand. It’s not how the business runs itself; that much is true. It’s sknething much more important: the business’s relationship with its customers. Even programmers understand this better than upper management...
[02:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:20] <exec> 08└─IF you’re really worried about foreign censorship leaking into US operations, you’re paying attention to the wrong game. China is the big fish here, and unlike the EU where hate speech laws are democratic and theoretically exist for the benefit of the people, in China the Party censors anything...
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[03:05:55] <exec> 08└─Erm, one of them is more complicated than the other. The simpler one is more likely, surely.
[03:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:07] <exec> 08└─"More direct research is needed."
[03:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:08] <exec> 08└─Rule 34 suggests the answer is yes.
[03:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:30] <exec> 08└─Dude, join the IRC - it would be fun to have a chat
[03:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 4043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:31] <exec> 08└─Playing the linky game: 1. https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] "To make dark matter fit general relativity to the oberved galaxy rotations you have to assume that it stays spread out in a halo around the galaxy, and therefore does not have structure on small scales. Scarpa et al. look...
[03:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Says 40 Percent of All VMs in Azure Run Linux - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:52] <exec> 08└─So that makes Windows about 5% of the cloud then, best case? Azure's got 10% market share last I checked, allow 10% of their share in wiggle room for people hosting BSDs or Solaris (do they allow that?) or whatever on Azure, no other "cloud" host that I know of supports Windows Server.
[03:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Commercial Pet Breeding Law Passed, Signed - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:29] <exec> 08└─"It's better to get a snake that's been bred than one that's been captured, you know what you're getting and they don't have to disturb the local wildlife and deal with that. " Many if not most states have laws prohibiting taking wildlife as pets. With snakes, ones that have been captured and import...
[03:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed Turtles Fool Google Image Classification Algorithm - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:46] <exec> 08└─No, not a static photo. You have the right to read the article and view the video before you post again. Chose a more appropriate subject line next time.
[03:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Printed Turtles Fool Google Image Classification Algorithm - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:48] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that ticker tape parades are a thing any more. Years ago most areas decided that the cost of clean up wasn't worth it. Even when local teams have won championships, there was nothing like ticker tape being thrown. But, more likely, it would be handled the way that cars handle snow or...
[03:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:54] <exec> 08└─The reason is that we used up all the easily accessible resources such as surface copper and iron.
[03:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:55] <exec> 08└─One of the big proponents of Toba being the cause of the bottleneck is Stan Ambrose at the University of Illinois Anthropology Department. He's an interesting sort. I've repaired a number of pieces of lab gear for him over the years. His main research is about the human diet in ancient times.
[03:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cable-Chomping Cockatoos Give Internet Firm a Big Bill - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but plants crave monster juice.
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[04:05:44] <exec> 08└─Them who wrote these stuff belong in the b ark, don't they?
[04:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Commercial Pet Breeding Law Passed, Signed - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:35] <exec> 08└─Either way an asshole. I like the quote about being able to tell the quality of a person by how they treat their pets. Works pretty well for "decent human being" quality measurements.
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[04:10:49] <exec> 08└─The problem with individualism is that it was always exaggerated and it was mostly there because we didn't have the resources to have a social safety net and those that couldn't hack it ultimately suffered in ways that aren't acceptable in a developed society.
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[05:05:43] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[05:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:45] <exec> 08└─Write a bot that locates message board posts that go on for hundreds of pages. I am completely convinced that the majority of websites harbor kiddie porn. Any one site won't last long but new ones appear quickly.
[05:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:47] <exec> 08└─Typical politician's response to any perceived problem. When do they figure out that if they remove the penises of all new born babies, all crime will evaporate in about six or eight decades? Of course, there will be an immediate, if temporary increase in illicit sex . . .
[05:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:49] <exec> 08└─I agree, it forces people to base their perception on the content rather than use argument from authority heuristics (eg credentials). On the other hand, argument from consensus gains more power. Still I think it is good.
[05:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is on Facebook, which doesn't have anonymity. So lets go after sites that allow it.
[05:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:28] <exec> 08└─SN is dying, I'm sure now. So many comments and not a single Trump joke, even TMB got himself jabbed but not the orange-gutan
[05:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:30] <exec> 08└─Trump is the new normal. Best President since Lincoln. Definitely not a new species. #MAGorillA
[05:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:32] <exec> 08└─But this newly described great ape will be added to the list of Critically Endangered species, just as it is added to the zoological textbooks.
[05:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:34] <exec> 08└─Since then, a research project has unpicked their biological secret.
[05:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:37] <exec> 08└─Click bait is far from dead, fam.
[05:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Printed Turtles Fool Google Image Classification Algorithm - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:15] <exec> 08└─OP was designed by Google in Mountain View, California.
[05:12:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 588 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:22] <exec> 08└─This is why it's important to create unsafe spaces. People that have always been coddled and never forced out of their safe zone are often shockingly naïve and willfully stupid. Someone needs to love your cousin enough to look him in the eye and tell him to quit being a lazy, stupid fucktard. There...
[05:12:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 500 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:27] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it will turn out to be a cyclical thing, like mainframe / pc / server / desktop / cloud. In seven years we might all be sitting here dissecting the great bulldozing of the walled gardens and the renaissance of open web. of course it won't be called the open web, it will have to have some stu...
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[06:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:50] <exec> 08└─Don't let anything be wasted. Always take advantage... so let's end anonimity for the plebs. Everyone keep your papers with the teeth. Doublebonus, less talking and always identified. Oh, that means ID card for everyone is needed too. See? Always taking advantage. Next you will hear USA hacked Russi...
[06:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:51] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that a congressional ban on anonymous speech will not survive supreme court scrutiny; for many reasons. Most immediately relevant is that any such ban can simply not reach outside the borders of the US. We recently had a story about balkanisation of the internet by national laws; sup...
[06:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:53] <exec> 08└─Banning anonymity would last two seconds before congressmen realized it would mean they couldn't cyberstalk their interns anymore.
[06:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:56] <exec> 08└─Let the creeps pass around their vile trash; it's better that they keep their urges virtual. Spend resources instead on curing malaria.
[06:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:58] <exec> 08└─If CP can't be shared somewhere then anything else can be taken down by the elites as well.
[06:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:00] <exec> 08└─But I think that the citizenry of the United States have shown themselves fully incompetent as to the legal and philosophical nature of their country. And now thanks to the polarization of Americans into extremely antagonistic left and right factions, the legal framework of the country is finally su...
[06:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:02] <exec> 08└─I don't remember the case as it was a long time ago. Someone distributed an anonymous political pamphlet. They were charged under a law that required the disclosure of who paid for the pamphlet. SCOTUS ruled that the charge violated the first amendment.
[06:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:05] <exec> 08└─I don't even know who I am supposed to be anymore! When people doubt my persona on-line, it hurts me deeply. But it does not in the least affect the quality of my comments, or my submissions.
[06:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:07] <exec> 08└─Big difference between users being anonymous, and advertisers being the same. As Deepthroat (nice nick, dude!) said, "Follow the money." If you pay money, we want to know where to find you, because, well, you might have more of it.
[06:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:09] <exec> 08└─Good rule, bad messenger [politico.com]. Advertising has also been the Achilles' heel for a lot of copyright infringing sites, torrent sites, and sites that will censor certain content to stay "advertiser friendly" (the latest big example being YouTube).
[06:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tallinn declaration' Commits EU to Increase Use of Open Source - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:19] <exec> 08└─It's frankly absurd such arcane and technical specialist skills are required to vote. Only monks and clerks need that nonsense, Honest men can trust each others word!
[06:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Commercial Pet Breeding Law Passed, Signed - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:13] <exec> 08└─Buzzards gather around two kinds of animal: dead and moribund.
[06:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New US Government Report Says the Climate is Warming and the Cause is Human Activity - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:01] <exec> 08└─Who ever modded this down just doesn't get that "The Real Donald Trump" is sarcastic take on the great orange one seriously lacks some cognitive capacity.
[06:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cable-Chomping Cockatoos Give Internet Firm a Big Bill - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:07] <exec> 08└─Birds are very important. I am glad to live on a planet with birds.
[06:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Drives Totten Glacier Melting Process - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:25] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film) [wikipedia.org]
[06:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Threw Away a Work of Modern Art - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:37] <exec> 08└─An alternative explanation... [smbc-comics.com]
[06:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How I Threw Away a Work of Modern Art - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:38] <exec> 08└─Almost bought a $10k painting the other day. Was walking through a gallery of ugly modern stuff, turned a corner, and just stopped there staring at a beautiful vivid painting of a garden. Loved the style and the colors. The artist is trying to use lineage to a famous painter, I didn't like that at a...
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[07:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:43] <exec> 08└─Hate away, guys, you just make my skills and willingness to write perl more valuable.
[07:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:44] <exec> 08└─J _ _ _ _ _ r i p _?
[07:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:47] <exec> 08└─The more interesting data would be the most hated language only by those who actually know and have seriously used that language. And by that, I don't mean they have read a tutorial, looked at a program and maybe wrote a hello world in it. I mean they have written a substantial amount of code in tha...
[07:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:49] <exec> 08└─Everyone who doesn't know it hates it. Some people who didn't get the benefit of NeXT/Apple's longstanding ABI compatibility also hated it, but many others thought it was a far superior alternative to C++ with much better ABI compatibility (assuming the same runtime library/base classes.)
[07:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:11] <exec> 08└─Do you login to Facebook using a VPN? Tor [wikipedia.org]? If you don't, the cops have you right where they want you.
[07:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:13] <exec> 08└─Oh dear don't you. Rules are for you, not for me. There will absolutely be carve outs for politicians and individuals who "personal notoriety would make anonymity necessary." In other words, if you're a big donor - you also get access to anonymity.
[07:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:15] <exec> 08└─Anonymity is one of the biggest barriers to advertising. Are you advertising to the same person? Are you marketing Midol to a 45 year old man? And now you need not fear any sort of counter-narrative ever emerging. If somebody says something uncouth, fear not - hound them and their employer and make...
[07:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 2165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:17] <exec> 08└─Whether what they spread is full of lies or not, why does it matter? This country was founded upon freedom, and if people want to read erotic political fiction written by ruskies, why should I care? If those voters are swayed by such garbage so as to vote a certain way, how valuable was their vote t...
[07:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:20] <exec> 08└─This comment almost feels like a disagree mod.
[07:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tallinn declaration' Commits EU to Increase Use of Open Source - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:30] <exec> 08└─I've met quite a lot of people who choose not to use computers. […] Such people are unable to avail themselves of eGovernment. It's not that they can't use the computers at the library. It's because they don't want to.
[07:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:27] <exec> 08└─Epicycles are not wrong. Indeed, they are nothing but the Fourier series of the planets' movement relative to Earth. They are just a not very useful way to describe planet movement.
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[08:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:46] <exec> 08└─As you say: serious experience is necessary to really judge a language. I have written a *lot* of VB5 and VB6. For their time, I submit that they were excellent choices. Today, I would choose something else. VB wasn't elegant, but it was very well supported in Visual Studio, and it was very solid. N...
[08:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:15] <exec> 08└─Get beyond your feelings! Assert the Truth! I always have students who say, "Oh, you just want us to express our opinions?" And I say, "Who the fuck cares about your opinion? Who are you? Some Mightly Buzzard, wasting his karmic expanse upon the sands of the Tennessee?" And mostly, they say, "no"....
[08:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:16] <exec> 08└─Runaway, oh, Runaway, you should not generalize so much from your own personal case.
[08:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:18] <exec> 08└─Will I soon have to scan my ID at stores so that my purchases can be tracked and recorded?
[08:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:21] <exec> 08└─But some people want to get rid of that.
[08:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:28] <exec> 08└─Apparently dark matter: a) is only affected by gravity, yet doesn't form any of the shapes you expect from gravity. It requires *haloes*, for pity's sake.
[08:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:29] <exec> 08└─Your spoiler apparently is made of dark matter.
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[09:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:42] <exec> 08└─Exhibit One: Ethanol_fueled, fueled from a very early age, and since has adopted his German grandfather's anti-semitism. And has not managed to marry. For more information, please Consult aristarchus's rejected submission, The Alt-Right's Female Problem [soylentnews.org]. Nice to know that all this...
[09:05:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 759 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:51] <exec> 08└─The more interesting data would be the most hated language only by those who actually know and have seriously used that language. And by that, I don't mean they have read a tutorial, looked at a program and maybe wrote a hello world in it. I mean they have written a substantial amount of code in tha...
[09:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:55] <exec> 08└─As you say: serious experience is necessary to really judge a language. I have written a *lot* of VB5 and VB6.
[09:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:58] <exec> 08└─The most used, of course. There are not many Oberon 2 [wikipedia.org] haters Moreover, how many languages do you use in your job? Probably you hate the language you didn't choose
[09:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:00] <exec> 08└─On our team we're certainly happy to see that R is the least disliked programming language, relative to the number of people who liked it.
[09:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:02] <exec> 08└─5 on a weekly basis (c++, c#, java, php, javascript). May become 6 soon (lua)
[09:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:34] <exec> 08└─Fair point, but do you believe that to be a good thing?
[09:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:36] <exec> 08└─When did people give these guys the power of deciding for us what is the truth and what is a lie? Politicians, let us propaganda bots do our jobs, since we share the same occupation basically. In fact, we feed people less BS than you do on average.
[09:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:38] <exec> 08└─Those people are idiots. Yes, let's completely remove the option for people to buy things anonymously, thereby greatly increasing the ability of governments and corporations to track your purchases! That's what we need: Even more mass surveillance. The article you linked to in your other comment tri...
[09:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:40] <exec> 08└─My Facefook profile has little in common with my real identity
[09:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jellyfish-inspired Electronic Skin Glows When It Gets Hurt - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:57] <exec> 08└─So when the lights go out unexpectedly, just kick an amputee/robot?
[09:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:10] <exec> 08└─Looking for a different way of reconstructing things is necessary, I always write that I consider life as "matter x time". But I have trouble when people speak about irreducible complexity or probabilities. First, because we would not be here to witness failed attempts, so if the universe is virtual...
[09:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:54] <exec> 08└─Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ... thats all I wanted to say !!
[09:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:26] <exec> 08└─Beyond the time I have available to find the translation, magister.
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[10:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:45] <exec> 08└─Did those youth who drink develop psyche problems because they drink, or did they start drinking because of the onset of psyche problems? Also - what about responsible drinking? In generations past, as well as in today's Europe, children are commonly given a glass of wine or beer at dinner. That is,...
[10:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:46] <exec> 08└─Runaway! You are past sixty now! Danger past! Calm down, and put down that fifth of Jack Daniels! It will be alright. What you didn't learn from being prohibited until 21, is no excuse to not know it now! Or are you drunk-posting, again? Did we not have a little talk about this just a couple of wee...
[10:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:03] <exec> 08└─Sure, you can program all kinds of things in it, but so you can in MS Excel.
[10:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:04] <exec> 08└─Hey, old timer. What programming language did you use on that Antikythera mechanizzle?
[10:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 2498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:07] <exec> 08└─Not always true. Some are so bad the stench carries. PHP for example. A quick glance shows it is a steaming pile of poor design decisions that grew too fast without a wizard level designer at the helm during the critical early period. There is a reason Wordpress and all of the PHP based web engines...
[10:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:09] <exec> 08└─JapanTrips? JellyDrips? Juicy&ripe?
[10:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:11] <exec> 08└─Job Control Language
[10:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:13] <exec> 08└─Back then we did this thing called, machine code? Level one stuff. Right into to the, well, it was mostly brass or bronze gears then, now they would say on bare silicon, but that is not quite correct, either. The representation of pure thought, or mathematics, onto a machine, is nothing to be sneeze...
[10:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:16] <exec> 08└─There are people out there that think or consider HTML a programming language. By that comparison almost everything becomes a programming language. I have seen way to many MS Excel statistics projects. They are almost all utterly disgusting and they eventually become a gargantuan mess. Most of it is...
[10:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:18] <exec> 08└─JCL is great, if you can just remember to memorize the entire syntax or do what it seems everyone else does which is to just copy what someone did last time and then edit that a bit and hope that it works. I don't even remember if I have ever written anything in JCL from absolute scratch.
[10:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:54] <exec> 08└─What, credit cards? Cash? Or the abolition of cash? Well, I always pay in cash whenever possible. And I didn't actually get a credit card as long as practically possible. I think that answers your question.
[10:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:56] <exec> 08└─Funny. Did you know that it's actually against the law to fire a person for his political opinion? https://www.nolo.com [nolo.com] You might "get away" with firing me for my opinions - that is, a court may find that you can legally fire...
[10:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:58] <exec> 08└─Tennessee has such lovely beaches . . . don't mind if I do waste some karma on the sands there . . .
[10:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:00] <exec> 08└─As usual, the stated reason is a lie. They couldn't care less about the Russians. Hell, until the Wall fell the Democratic Party was openly aligned with Soviet Communism and considered it the Future. For that matter they still do consider it the Sunny Uplands of History and work toward it and it was...
[10:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:31] <exec> 08└─If this is the case, then there must have been some mechanism for converting protein into RNA and/or DNA, otherwise whether or not protein came first is irrelevant. As far as I'm aware, we don't yet have an example of reverse translation in the natural world. Discovering such a mechanism would be a...
[10:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:48] <exec> 08└─When you find yourself in the cultural orbit of an ancient civilization that is not one of the roots of your own, it behooves you to become at least moderately literate? I, myself, have learned English, much to my Dismay, and Latin, before that. So you cannot look up Sunzi, Art of War, chapter nine?...
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[11:05:47] <exec> 08└─last i read implied that the tool could produce somewhat accidental changes elsewhere in the genome; are we truly at a point where people can replace individual bases without affecting anything else now?
[11:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:57] <exec> 08└─I realize that you are obsessed with me, but this post isn't about me. There are millions of young Americans who are being screwed over by fascist anti-alcohol and anti-youth laws right now, today. How many American servicemen are deemed old enough, and responsible enough, to be responsible for an e...
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[11:06:22] <exec> 08└─I only remember Lua exists because I read it in a VLC [videolan.org] changelog or two.
[11:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:23] <exec> 08└─I don't really get the hate for Delphi. I haven't used it in a while, but its (Object)Pascal dialect was fairly solid, it had a useful UI designer (that allowed you to easily write programs that scaled reasonably when resizing). The language may be a bit verbose, but quite usable, nice to read most...
[11:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:04] <exec> 08└─Isn't it cute you still believe the rule of law applies in America. Show me ONE person on the Right who has had a twitter rage mob descend on their real ID or one who gets doxed at one of those dumb alt-right rallies who hasn't lost their job. They fired a Nobel Prize holding scientist, they fired a...
[11:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:06] <exec> 08└─Runaway, you fucking bitch! I will fucking fuck you in the ass, or have my lawyers do it, just on what you said about your younger female co-workers on this very sight, not too long ago. Not to mention your comment about African American Female colleagues, close to the same time frame. Do you think...
[11:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:08] <exec> 08└─But you see, Congress isn't going to pass a law, they are going to make the tech monopolies an offer they won't refuse. Be enshrined as THE monopolies if they play ball or trust busted into oblivion if they refuse. No, it won't be Congress passing a law, it will be Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and YouT...
[11:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:10] <exec> 08└─That comment contains more spelling and grammar mistakes than usual. Are you trying to attract Grammar Nazis, or are you sauced up?
[11:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:12] <exec> 08└─Citations, or you're making it all up. I have NEVER badmouthed any of my female coworkers, except for HR. In fact, I only have two coworkers who I have ever badmouthed. There is a third who needs it, but I've certainly never mentioned him here. He is only now moving up on my radar, so I know I've ne...
[11:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:14] <exec> 08└─And now thanks to the polarization of Americans into extremely antagonistic left and right factions
[11:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:17] <exec> 08└─So this is the rub: You may think your opinions are the right ones, and good on your for that, but, prove it? Give us the reasons that you have that make you think your opinions are true.
[11:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:19] <exec> 08└─Congress is conveniently ignoring the real basis for Russia's successful meddling in American elections, but would rather slap us all with the red herring of social media. The real basis for Russia's success is that our politicians make it all seem so plausible. They behave so badly, have such obvio...
[11:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tallinn declaration' Commits EU to Increase Use of Open Source - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:29] <exec> 08└─And even that to "open source" rather than free software. Public software should be free software by default and exceptions would have to be explained in detail and rarely granted. But this will not happen because our wondrous governors don't care about the people they supposedly represent. https://...
[11:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:35] <exec> 08└─Haloes are not sperical, they are annular.
[11:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New US Government Report Says the Climate is Warming and the Cause is Human Activity - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:23] <exec> 08└─I'd say that's pretty darn unlikely. You know, scientist have a field of study. If you don't like science, what the hell are you going to trust? An ouijaboard and magic mushrooms? Or do you just suggest we call collectively bury our heads in the sand and wish the problems of the world away?
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[12:05:44] <exec> 08└─It seems like the accuracy/precision is going up all the time. Nonviral CRISPR-Gold Editing Technique Fixes Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mutation in Mice [soylentnews.org] Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing [addgene.org] The study described in the summary is another such adv...
[12:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Can Now Be Used to Edit Individual Bases - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:45] <exec> 08└─thanks for fishing out these related links. this is becoming really impressive.
[12:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Can Now Be Used to Edit Individual Bases - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:48] <exec> 08└─So, all your bases belong to CRISPR?
[12:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Can Now Be Used to Edit Individual Bases - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:50] <exec> 08└─CRISPR's gonna cut ya, man! CRISPR's a blade man, man!
[12:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:01] <exec> 08└─Early age of drinking or early age of binge drinking? Any studies with adolescents of other countries? Binge eating damages your health too. Parents should teach their kids how and what to eat and drink properly. What I notice is lots of young people in the USA and UK regularly drink till they are d...
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[12:06:02] <exec> 08└─good for you man. but lets not take this data-point as a personal affront, its a study and we all know that no one is average. drinking and drugging and incompetent parenting and drifting toward peers that have equal bottle-procuring, bottle-opening and joint-rolling skills is certainly a thing, and...
[12:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:04] <exec> 08└─dude, defend your vices much? want to make them seem like virtues much? paranoid much? i think you had too much of the cool-aid back in the day. are you going to argue that american kids should have hunting knives and live ammo now? because what, jews?
[12:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:30] <exec> 08└─There are not many Oberon 2 haters
[12:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:31] <exec> 08└─You ain't lying. I'd rather code assembly for a processor I've never worked with before and don't have the datasheets on.
[12:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:33] <exec> 08└─..Most of it is probably not the fault of MS Excel tho but the people that write the crap into their sheets. It provides the shovel but you dig your own hole.
[12:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe it wasn't me? Or is it just getting Runaway all rilled up by suggesting "You can't handle the truth!" I suspect he will be pink slipped by the end of the week, either in the "terminated" mode, or the "I feel pretty, oh so pretty, and happy, and gay!" mode. Poor Runaway. If only he were not so...
[12:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:23] <exec> 08└─Runaway, do you know who I am? Do you know that I am your superior, only posting with a pseudonym, just to keep track of how much damage you might be doing to the company? I only mention the fact that you have let slip so many details because I fear that it can be tracked back to our company, and yo...
[12:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tallinn declaration' Commits EU to Increase Use of Open Source - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:35] <exec> 08└─I thought I had a quick look on what my government (The Netherlands) has produced in terms of FOSS code. With all the articles mentioning it, it is pretty hard to find projects that were initiated by the government and have a function inside the government. I found just 1 project (EUPL licensed, not...
[12:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:15] <exec> 08└─When you find yourself in the cultural orbit of an ancient civilization that is not one of the roots of your own, it behooves you to become at least moderately literate? I, myself, have learned English, much to my Dismay, and Latin, before that. So you cannot look up Sunzi, Art of War, chapter nine?...
[12:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, but c0lo, what did you think "death ground" could possibly mean? And yes, even Sun-zi was well aware of this. The only winning move, is not to play? Or, one might think, to play a different game than your enemy/partner thinks they are playing? We will carry on, will we not?
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[13:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:03] <exec> 08└─This is one more way to demonstrate that our society is broken.
[13:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:05] <exec> 08└─You miss the point that it's common for the average young drinker (or drinker) in the USA to be binge drinking. https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] https://pathwaytohope.net
[13:06:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 2498 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:23] <exec> 08└─Not always true. Some are so bad the stench carries. PHP for example. A quick glance shows it is a steaming pile of poor design decisions that grew too fast without a wizard level designer at the helm during the critical early period. There is a reason Wordpress and all of the PHP based web engines...
[13:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:35] <exec> 08└─Lots of good stuff, and sensible opinions that I actually agree with, and then you fail to mention Fortran at all - such a disappointment. You'll be telling us you eat quiche next.
[13:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:36] <exec> 08└─Argh! Bad memories! Truly invented by a sadist to pester newbie programmers: (after 12 hours of mainframe run-time doing nothing): "you didn't pay attention on chapter 7 paragraph 3 about special exceptions on special exceptions on using whitespace, did you? so that extra space on line 513 of your s...
[13:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:38] <exec> 08└─Guessing here, it seems like Matlab is in the same category as R (I don't know much about R)? The Matlab programming language (which started as matrix routines for Fortran) is widely used in the automotive industry for data analysis and physics modeling. Also includes all kinds of add-in tools and d...
[13:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:40] <exec> 08└─I hear this kind of criticism of Java a lot, but it's not my experience. What other language does a better job of write-once-run-anywhere? Unless you are doing something abstruse, this usually works under Java, at least, since about Java 5 or 6.
[13:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:43] <exec> 08└─Instead of : What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? you have answered Why are Programming Languages Disliked? Well. What programming languages don't suck? if you can't answer this question, I will try this one: What programming language suck the least?
[13:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:45] <exec> 08└─Agree.
[13:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:35] <exec> 08└─Tu Quoque, Mon amici!
[13:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:37] <exec> 08└─Anonymity prevents holding a specific person accountable for their actions, but it also permits more freedom in what you post. Some folks don't like this use and the Russian thing makes a great opportunity to try to eliminate it. But, for the Russian tweaking the US election thing, Internet anonymit...
[13:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:11] <exec> 08└─If some specific protein had a survival advantage, it could not be passed down unless it could replicate. One solution is to have one molecule that both helps for survival and can replicate. Perhaps later, these two functions were separated into protein for doing and RNA for remembering. So what nea...
[13:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:23] <exec> 08└─Not convinced that we were reduced to 40 pairs 70000 years ago: http://www.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] After early modern humans emerged in Africa about 200,000 years ago, some eventually left the continent and mixed...
[13:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:24] <exec> 08└─The summary didn't but the article did mention it: http://www.npr.org [npr.org]
[13:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:34] <exec> 08└─Or, one might think, to play a different game than your enemy/partner thinks they are playing?
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[14:05:57] <exec> 08└─Id double check how they calculate those efficiencies if I were you. They like to play games with the denominator. Ie treat 1e6 cells, 99% of which die, then half of the remaining 10k cells are "edited" so it was 50% efficient. Also, in this paper we see they found some pre-edited cells (as is usual...
[14:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:13] <exec> 08└─who are being screwed over by fascist anti-alcohol... laws
[14:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Brunzen [6759] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:15] <exec> 08└─In my experience those who started drinking and smoking young came from broken homes. I was in school with two guys who started smoking (and to a lesser degree drinking) at the age of 9-10. Both were influenced by older friends, who thought it was funny to get young kids to smoke. I have no idea whe...
[14:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:51] <exec> 08└─A bunch of games use Lua for scripting, so it comes up often for modders. I recently learned a bit of Lua to debug some Factorio mods.
[14:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:52] <exec> 08└─I think you are confusing Fortran (mostly a modern language, based on FORTRAN) with FORTRAN (an old language whose development essentially stopped in 77). Note that while Fortran compilers must accept FORTRAN code (except for removed features), Fortran code is written in a different form that is bas...
[14:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:55] <exec> 08└─> What programming language suck the least? Hmm. [xkcd.com] Lisp? [xkcd.com] As long as you have the parens pedals, [reddit.com] of course.
[14:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:57] <exec> 08└─PHP. Wrote a fair bit of it. Shitty language. It's like a bunch of newbie programmers reinvented Perl but somehow made it worse! An example of how retarded and noobish they were back then- they first did it wrong: http://php.net [php.net] Then they continue...
[14:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:59] <exec> 08└─For some cases Perl is actually better than Java for that: 1) It's built in on many/most Unix systems. 2) You can pack it into a single executable to run on Windows without having to install it. As a result I can use a single perl agent for all OSes. It's true many things are done differently on Win...
[14:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:01] <exec> 08└─Why do developers hate R so much? Looking through the comments here and at TFA I see people calling it "a hopelessly crude language" or "not even a language". Are these all oop people?
[14:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:54] <exec> 08└─If you are my "superior", then you will remember that I've already told you that I have few superiors, and that none of them work at this plant. I find my superiors in odd places around the nation, and around the world. But, there are none working in this plant, and you know it. Now, kindly fuck off...
[14:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Brunzen [6759] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:55] <exec> 08└─Please lift internet anonymity for politicians for one day. How many of those on the right path are watching porn and writing dirty stories? The Out of the Ordinary [noveltrove.com] section on Noveltrove (nsfw) is probably full of such hypocrites.
[14:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:15] <exec> 08└─Haloes are not sperical, they are annular.
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[15:05:42] <exec> 08└─just send already senile people on the trip to Mars.
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[15:05:43] <exec> 08└─Reduces health care system costs as well -> win-win
[15:06:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 1542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:03] <exec> 08└─Did those youth who drink develop psyche problems because they drink, or did they start drinking because of the onset of psyche problems? Also - what about responsible drinking? In generations past, as well as in today's Europe, children are commonly given a glass of wine or beer at dinner. That is,...
[15:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:14] <exec> 08└─Cause and effect?... ... Both of them never really grew big.
[15:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah strange. The people I know who know Delphi seem to like it and are more productive with it than with many "mainstream" alternatives.
[15:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:57] <exec> 08└─The main reason for Delphi hate is that much of the code out there in Delphi was written by amateurs. I.e., it sucks. It's not the language itself, which besides from being verbose, was a fairly good implementation of an OO language. I imagine the same issue holds with many of the other "hated" lang...
[15:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:59] <exec> 08└─The price? https://www.code-partners.com [code-partners.com] Back in the old Borland days it was a lot more affordable.
[15:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:01] <exec> 08└─Not hate. I love it for doing statistical analysis, just not something I would write my next block chain app in.
[15:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:56] <exec> 08└─The people that would ban online anonymity are the same that refuse any sort of change control system for tracking who suggests what changes in legislation. Everyone is equal, just some people are more equal than others.
[15:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:58] <exec> 08└─Hell, until the Wall fell the Democratic Party was openly aligned with Soviet Communism and considered it the Future.
[15:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:00] <exec> 08└─0) This is not meddling with elections, this is trying to influence your voters. There's a difference. 1) Was it really successful? They may have meddled but was it really significant? Just because someone wanting Trump to win posted stuff on Soylentnews and Trump won doesn't mean that person succes...
[15:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:02] <exec> 08└─So in order to fight Russians and fascism the only thing we can do is to implement a fascist state? Thanks liberals. Glad to know that russians are so bad you want to give up all of your principles.
[15:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:04] <exec> 08└─Exactly. How about we 100% track and expose every minute of every day for the legislators proposing this kind of measure first, and see how they like it, before such a thing can be imposed on us. In the Second American Republic it should be a fundamental rule that any measure that can cause harm mus...
[15:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:39] <exec> 08└─I wonder if anyone has seriously considered the possibility that both "species" of protolife coexisted, and some of them developed a symbiotic relationship that gave them a dramatic evolutionary advantage.
[15:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:40] <exec> 08└─Why wouldn't reverse translation happen? Im sure it does but just isnt very useful since info is lost each time. Also the myriad of post translation modifications, disulfide bonds, etc may cause problems.
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[16:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:46] <exec> 08└─Vegetarian and Vegan faggots will still continue to be vegetarian and vegan, they wouldn't dare give up their smug sense of righteousness and ugly bumper stickers on the back of their Priuses. Chicken is for people who don't know what they want to order. Let's hope that Memphis meats can do seafood...
[16:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:47] <exec> 08└─I will be all over this. I'm an omnivore but once this is mainstream and at a reasonable price i probably won't ever eat a slaughtered animal again. This has ripple effects beyond the "last mile" as it were of meat farming, too; we could grow better things than corn, we could reforest a crapton of l...
[16:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, I drank ridiculously sparingly until my 24th or so birthday. And Gramps was not an anti-Semite, or Racist, but he sure hated unions.
[16:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:28] <exec> 08└─Young people drink to get drunk. They're not the type of people who have only a beer or glass of wine with dinner. Booze can be difficult to get at that age, so when you do get it, you're gonna want as much of that effect as possible -- even if you end up waking up in your own puke and the roof of y...
[16:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:15] <exec> 08└─JediScript, i am sure that's the word
[16:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:16] <exec> 08└─OpenWrt uses LUA for the web-ui backend and Vis (the text editor) uses it for highlighters and to store configurations (instead of an ini \ json file). I believe one of the BSD kernels uses it as well.
[16:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:18] <exec> 08└─I used to hate python, then discovered it was pretty rad. What isn't rad about it, though, is its hideous class syntax ("__init__" etc) and PEP8's incessant bitching (which can be disabled, but still...); and that Python 2 and Python 3 are not very compatible in places and that "mixing" the two requ...
[16:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:21] <exec> 08└─Oh god, having to use PHP in Web Programming class was the first and last time I touched that shit. var_dump var_dump var_dump var_dump var_dump var_dump var_dump var_dump var_dump var_dump! " Let me see your mysql escape string! " " AaaahhhhhhhhH! " " Let me see your real mysql escape string! " " A...
[16:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:23] <exec> 08└─Your joke would be funny if it weren't mostly true. [amazon.com]
[16:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I'd like to see the percentage of users of a language that hate it.
[16:08:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 649 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:13] <exec> 08└─Congress is conveniently ignoring the real basis for Russia's successful meddling in American elections, but would rather slap us all with the red herring of social media. The real basis for Russia's success is that our politicians make it all seem so plausible. They behave so badly, have such obvio...
[16:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:25] <exec> 08└─But the blame for our current political crises rests solely at the feet of Congress and the White House.
[16:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:27] <exec> 08└─Nixon had an enemies list too, ya soggy bagel =P
[16:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:29] <exec> 08└─What the fuck did i tell you about staying off the cross? Winter Is Coming (TM) and we need all the firewood we can get. Of course if you wanna burn too I've got no problems with that at all.
[16:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:31] <exec> 08└─I dunno, Dickless over there seems like he's still violent and deranged...probably just too lazy to do anything about it.
[16:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:33] <exec> 08└─But the blame for our current political crises rests solely at the feet of Congress and the White House. You are aware that those are elected positions, right?
[16:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:35] <exec> 08└─"Did ya ever get the feelin'...you wuz bein'...trolled...? *carrot chomp*"
[16:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:38] <exec> 08└─It's true: this man has no dick. (I've been wanting to say that in a social context in response to the appropriate comment forever now, it seems...)
[16:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:40] <exec> 08└─so uh you had me believing you up until the whole "login to Facebook" thing. I don't really believe it matters where you log into it from. Sort of like how "safe sex" doesn't matter for your own personal safety if you are already afflicted with everything you could already catch, or are too ugly to...
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 1957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─physicist here. i don't work in cosmology or quantum field theory. I'm gonna summarize, for those actually interested in facts. there are several ways to estimate how much matter there is in the universe. you can count stars. you can look at the microwave background, to see what conditions were like...
[16:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:03] <exec> 08└─Isn't the whole idea behind dark matter that there is evidence of "absence of evidence"? Substituting for "evidence": Absence of "absence of evidence" is not "absence of evidence" for absence. Im not sure it still makes sense in the dark matter case.
[16:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 1976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:06] <exec> 08└─Not a very good one - a proper spiral would require the planetary orbital plane to be perpendicular to the direction of the sun's motion. Since the orbital plane is inclined about 63 degrees from the galactic plane, that never happens. Even if it did happen it wouldn't last long as angular momentum...
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[17:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:47] <exec> 08└─I won't, at least not for a very long time. Making food substitutes has always come with unrecognized risks and I'll be skeptical that they've really managed to get it right. Meat is more than just the cells, there's other things in meat that can make or break it as a food.
[17:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:48] <exec> 08└─Omnivore myself. Have honestly NEVER CARED about the fact that meat comes from an animal bred for meat. Would still eat this if it were cheap, though. And still eat animals (because no way is it going to taste like a real chicken, have a skin, etc. and no way would they be able to produce every tast...
[17:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:51] <exec> 08└─Most of the vegetarians I know stopped because of the cruelty aspect. No cruelty = eat all the meat you want.
[17:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:53] <exec> 08└─This shit is for the proles. Question to ponder. Cannibalism is taboo almost everywhere in the world, right? And, anyplace that it isn't taboo, some more powerful outsiders have put a stop to it. So . . . if they can grow human muscle tissue, would it be alright to fry it up, and serve it with some...
[17:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, i never got the "I'll eat pork and beef, but horse, dog or cat? NEVER!" thing. Are horses really better than pigs because we ride them? With that logic, i could eat the flesh of guys, but not women. I'd try dog and cat: i've eaten mealworms, so i think dog and cat would be much tastier. Rat: i...
[17:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Astronauts Face Chronic Dementia Risk From Cosmic Ray Exposure - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:05] <exec> 08└─Isn't a rodent, like, tiny, compared to a human? With correspondingly tiny self-shielding strength? If the researchers were serious about predicting the effects on astronauts, and their kind hearts/low budget don't allow them to use chimps, it would've made much more sense to experiment on pigs, at...
[17:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Astronauts Face Chronic Dementia Risk From Cosmic Ray Exposure - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:07] <exec> 08└─Why can't radiation and spider bites do something cool, like give us superpowers?
[17:06:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:33] <exec> 08└─This is one more way to demonstrate that our society is broken.
[17:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:40] <exec> 08└─That reminds me of the liquor store that didn't card, I used to buy Boone's Farm Pickle Tink by the case for Fiesta Island.
[17:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:42] <exec> 08└─Which supports my theory: people are more likely to abuse alcohol as adults if they were not introduced to it in a controlled social setting by their parents when young.
[17:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:44] <exec> 08└─He is using the term "fascist" in the loose meaning. 2 :a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control early instances of army fascism and brutality —J. W. Aldridge
[17:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:47] <exec> 08└─I was young when no age restriction to alcohol applied. Being in a fine wine producers zone, I had a little wine every new year's eve and distilled stuff together with the traditional sweets too. Result, alcohol was a normal thing, bullies and alternative kids smoked cigarettes. Other euro guys livi...
[17:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:38] <exec> 08└─Greek.
[17:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:40] <exec> 08└─Laugh if you will, but spreadsheet programming — Excel, LibreOffice, etc. — does provide a very interesting programming paradigm. What other language has all of its variables organized in a four dimensional array (rows, columns, sheets, file)? What other language has all of its variables also be...
[17:07:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 4 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:49] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[17:08:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 1058 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:09] <exec> 08└─Get beyond your feelings! Assert the Truth! I always have students who say, "Oh, you just want us to express our opinions?" And I say, "Who the fuck cares about your opinion? Who are you? Some Mightly Buzzard, wasting his karmic expanse upon the sands of the Tennessee?" And mostly, they say, "no"....
[17:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:49] <exec> 08└─LOL, you can't refute anything so you have to label someone "Breitbart reader" aka "alt-right" (neither of which is actually a bad thing, only in SJW shitcunt circles) and everyone can see right through your virtue-signaled veneer of authoritative moral superiority.
[17:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:50] <exec> 08└─Tell that to James Damore.
[17:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:52] <exec> 08└─Russia won. When anonymity is removed from American based platforms, they'll now be able to not only monitor their own people, but non-Russians too. This is a KGB/FSB/Putin coup. Technology before wisdom, the bane of humanity.
[17:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:54] <exec> 08└─Because the electorate CHOOSES to remain ignorant, and doesn't want to get involved in their civic duty. Their precious, narcissistic lives are more important than the bigger picture of the society they live in, and their role in it. They expect government to do FOR them that which they should be do...
[17:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Species of Orangutan Discovered - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─He thinks he's a Genus.
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[18:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:58] <exec> 08└─There's an instructable for that. http://www.instructables.com [instructables.com] That young huntsman helps to remove most of the difficulty.
[18:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ethical-consumption [smbc-comics.com]
[18:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, i never got the "I'll eat pork and beef, but horse, dog or cat? NEVER!" thing. Are horses really better than pigs because we ride them? With that logic, i could eat the flesh of guys, but not women. I'd try dog and cat: i've eaten mealworms, so i think dog and cat would be much tastier. Rat: i...
[18:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Astronauts Face Chronic Dementia Risk From Cosmic Ray Exposure - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─Radiation gives the oppressed cells the superpowers they need to fight off the yoke of the oppressive multi-cells class hierarchy orchestrated by the central nervous system. Some call them terrorists. Others, cancer. But me, I call them freedom fighters! #FreeMelanomaStan2017
[18:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentnewsfan1 [6684] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CRISPR Can Now Be Used to Edit Individual Bases - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:26] <exec> 08└─So 32k single base edits to making a more perfect human. 18k more complicated ones. It has been narrowed down to a thousand or so points on the genome that determine intelligence and they can be tweaked. While we are at it, re-activate our ability to synthesize Vitamin C, and why don't we add some s...
[18:06:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 642 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:37] <exec> 08└─I realize that you are obsessed with me, but this post isn't about me. There are millions of young Americans who are being screwed over by fascist anti-alcohol and anti-youth laws right now, today. How many American servicemen are deemed old enough, and responsible enough, to be responsible for an e...
[18:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:52] <exec> 08└─+1 I had every kind of drinks, I can withstand a couple. One time I almost got drunk. That is, no puking and no headache the day after. But my mood the day after was so awful. Alcohol is depression in a can. Honestly I think that getting drunk the second and nth time is an act of self hate, because...
[18:07:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 20 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:01] <exec> 08└─J _ _ _ _ _ r i p _?
[18:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:47] <exec> 08└─How about porting the Microsoft office suite to brainfuck? That sounds orders of magnitude more likely to induce suicide.
[18:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:48] <exec> 08└─Might not have that problem if using it on the back end, but why does anyone do that? Seriously, you have no real choice for executing in a browser but since you DO on the backend, why would anyone pick Javascript? Insanity.
[18:08:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:01] <exec> 08└─The problem is on Facebook, which doesn't have anonymity. So lets go after sites that allow it.
[18:08:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:35] <exec> 08└─And now thanks to the polarization of Americans into extremely antagonistic left and right factions
[18:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:02] <exec> 08└─Depending on where you start, America is "left and extreme left". But I agree on the argument being valid either way. (Full disclosure: not the GPP.)
[18:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:03] <exec> 08└─Rule of law has never been about ruling by the law. In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. - Anatole France
[18:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:05] <exec> 08└─Can't speak for Aristarchus, but being on YOUR enemy list would be a GOOD thing for me. Hell, might be enough to get laid!
[18:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:07] <exec> 08└─Eww, who left the door open during the rain? The worms are crawling in!
[18:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:10] <exec> 08└─Technology before wisdom... Nah, merely cat and mouse. Circumvention is always at hand should the desire arise. If not for public support, the state would wither away.
[18:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:12] <exec> 08└─I think he is Nixon...
[18:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:14] <exec> 08└─Not what liberals want, just as 95% of the shit Dubya did was not wanted by real conservatives. Now stop being such a partisan hack!
[18:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:16] <exec> 08└─why should I care?
[18:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:43] <exec> 08└─Change what data? You're just butt-hurt about dark matter for some reason.
[18:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 1564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:44] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia is a lousy source for this kind of argument. Pick an astronomy site. That said, I believe that a galactic halo is a thick, roughly spherical shell. Not a sphere, the inside has been generally eaten away by a black hole. OTOH, I don't have a link for this, and maybe the central black hole i...
[18:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:46] <exec> 08└─Maxwell solving difficult physics problems, even as a demon! Thank the lord for rejecting his application to heaven.
[18:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:49] <exec> 08└─The thing is, "dark matter" is pretty clearly present, but the name only refers to a large scale effect. Similarly for "dark energy". The name may well be misleading us as to its nature. So far all attempts to find particles of dark matter have been unsuccessful. There are still possibilities, but t...
[18:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:51] <exec> 08└─There is no 'theory of dark matter' where you can use the same formula to discover how much dark matter a galaxy contains: you find a galaxy, discover how much dark matter is needed to keep it from flying apart and that is how much dark matter the galaxy has. It's not like how E=mc2 gives a definite...
[18:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:53] <exec> 08└─An interesting read here: http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.ca [blogspot.ca]
[18:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Says 40 Percent of All VMs in Azure Run Linux - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:14] <exec> 08└─You are mistaken. Both AWS and Google Cloud also support Windows VMs. I was onsite a few weeks ago helping a customer get setup with AWS and Azure, and helped them build Domain Controllers (Windows) and DNS Appliances (Lucent QIP on Red Hat) in both environments. (Full Disclosure, I work for Microso...
[18:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Commercial Pet Breeding Law Passed, Signed - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:54] <exec> 08└─Hellmans.
[18:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─Humans may be the /big animal/ winner, but I'd bet something like trees, algae, ants, or termites might win.
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[19:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:47] <exec> 08└─I herd you like fail... The efficiency of an organization is proportional to the square of the inverse of funding received. More funds, more vultures, more spending for the sake of spending. Sure, defense should be an entirely different kind of business, where funding is not a problem as soon as the...
[19:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:49] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't the size of the budget, the problem is that there's no oversight and when recommendations for removing inefficiencies are made, they mostly get ignored. The fact that it's a large budget just makes it that much worse. But, they'd be having a lot of this trouble even if there budget...
[19:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:07] <exec> 08└─It's mostly because cats were essential to protecting our grains against rats and mice. Dogs were mostly around us because they were working for us doing things like helping us track game and scare off predators. Other "cute" animals mostly get eaten by people as they have no particular value to us...
[19:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:08] <exec> 08└─Anything about the price per unit (kg or that other weird unit non-metric "people" use) of this "clean meat"? Also are we going to have to change the definitions here of what is "meat" and not? Meat is the flesh of animals. If no animals are involved no meat? or?
[19:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:10] <exec> 08└─Given their trajectory I wouldn't expect seafood/shellfish anytime soon. At least, that's what I thought. But it turns out multiple companies are looking at it: https://gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com] https://www.theguardian.com
[19:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03oakgrove [5864] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:13] <exec> 08└─What would be cool is if I could grow some of this stuff at home. Kind of like how I can grow fresh tomatoes if I want. But meat! On a stick of sorts.
[19:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:15] <exec> 08└─"strange parts of the animals, etc." Ever eaten a hot dog?
[19:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:17] <exec> 08└─This shit is for the proles.
[19:07:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:15] <exec> 08└─Hate away, guys, you just make my skills and willingness to write perl more valuable.
[19:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:03] <exec> 08└─VB5 and VB6, unless I am misremembering, violated what I consider one of the most sacred rules of software -- that the source of a project all be plaintext. I seem to recall proprietary format binary forms and resources being a big part of VB.
[19:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:04] <exec> 08└─"As far as the whitespace goes, it makes the code taller but you gain a fuckload of speed and productivity not having to type curly-braces or declare every variable before using it. " And then lose it all back in the maintenance phase as an indentation flaws introduced during editing and refactoring...
[19:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:07] <exec> 08└─And I still like tcl/Tk, very weird language but if you need a GUI it will get one up and running quick. But nobody bothers to use it enough to realize it is still useful. I had to write a gui app for a mac quite recently (pretty much a custom frontend to iperf) -- I'd spent 40 minutes on the phone...
[19:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:09] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, but to be honest the only time I really used it in depth was for rapid prototyping, "quick and dirty," and vs. languages like VB and Javascript that is one application where Python shines. Funny enough, your description of thinking of logic, edge cases, and validation is generally where...
[19:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:11] <exec> 08└─So object code is plaintext, then?
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[20:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:48] <exec> 08└─The F-35 also uses a lot of technologies which are just pain bad ideas and/or don't seem mature enough to be even considered for aerospace use - the OBOGS and internal weapons bays being 2 good examples. There are a fuckton of internal cooling issues that were solved problems in aerospace half a cen...
[20:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:50] <exec> 08└─"And every time we get a GOP jerkoff in the Whitehouse, the budget increases, as well as the off the books spending because they're afraid that people will think that they have a small dick." To be clear here, the 'they' is not the GOP President (who is a he, not a they, whatever his other failings)...
[20:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:52] <exec> 08└─There's plenty of congressional oversight bought and paid-for by the good people of Lockheed Martin.
[20:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:16] <exec> 08└─It's basically not commercially available at all. It's still in the R&D + Silicon Valley / venture capitalist stage. The source story has an optimistic estimate: $1 / pound. Compare that to cheap ground beef: $2-3/lb, or cheap chicken: $1-3/lb. Note that most supermarkets mark down older meat, to as...
[20:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:17] <exec> 08└─They can already grow human skin, so chicharrones shouldn't be out of the question. Sounds yummy. Next item to work on are those little sausages
[20:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:19] <exec> 08└─Rat: i'd eat if prepared properly
[20:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:21] <exec> 08└─I'll add that given the nature of the product (no animal suffering, supported philosophically by PETA as well as less rabid animal activists, less environmental impact, potential to be grown without exposure to antibiotics or pesticides), you could see how this might be sold at a premium in the init...
[20:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:24] <exec> 08└─Back on your meds please. I know some people complained about your change towards more moderate and less offensive material, but really it was better for your mental state.
[20:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:26] <exec> 08└─I'm imagining a "meat vat" kind of like those algae tanks/bioreactors, and then taking the muscle + fat cells and spinning them centrifuge-style to make a meat spit like you might see at a schwarma [wikipedia.org] place.
[20:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:28] <exec> 08└─I should look up a squirrel trap.....hmmmm....
[20:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:30] <exec> 08└─how about a lab meat Chia Pet?
[20:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Astronauts Face Chronic Dementia Risk From Cosmic Ray Exposure - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:43] <exec> 08└─It would be worse in humans. The extra shielding that we have is more or less nothing compared with the penetration power of cosmic rays. To make matters worse, we have a significantly larger brain which means that at any given moment we're going to have more cosmic rays interfering with our brains...
[20:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Astronauts Face Chronic Dementia Risk From Cosmic Ray Exposure - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:44] <exec> 08└─It would be worse in humans.
[20:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CRISPR Can Now Be Used to Edit Individual Bases - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:59] <exec> 08└─The paper that I read with the claim that CRISPR produced high rates of unintended changes had many problems. E.g. the control group was improperly chosen. Also the test subjects were not validated against close relatives, but rather against somewhat different strains of mice, so the changes may wel...
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[20:07:00] <exec> 08└─The plaques are an interesting problem. Certain indications are that at a low level they are protective rather than injurious. Perhaps getting rid of them would be a mistake, and there merely needs to be a better way to trim them...or to keep excess plaques from being laid against the arterial walls...
[20:07:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:17] <exec> 08└─who are being screwed over by fascist anti-alcohol... laws
[20:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:27] <exec> 08└─Hangovers aren't bad if you're in a good environment. There is always the physical discomfort but also some mania and horniness from the GABA rebound. Hangovers can make people more sociable at work on Mondays, or otherwise feel in a good mood (though not physically). There are situations when hango...
[20:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:29] <exec> 08└─> command line php scripts. That is a thing that exists? Wow. Although if php is being used, I don't think it qualifies as a "command" line anymore... At best, it's a "suggestion" line.
[20:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:31] <exec> 08└─No, but object code is not source code, either. If you're trying to imply that forms are object code, no, they are not. Forms are source code, and should be plaintext.
[20:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:33] <exec> 08└─i don't do any pre-validation on the front end. i just put a note at the top of the page that reads "don't be a dumb ass and it will work!"
[20:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:35] <exec> 08└─Uh huh, block chain app.
[20:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:37] <exec> 08└─"had to write a gui app for a mac" what a skank "It's hard to be a team player" especially with ole dirty legs isostatic on the team.
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:58] <exec> 08└─No it will not. Can you tell me who I am?
[20:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─the correct terms would be "right and extreme right".
[20:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tallinn declaration' Commits EU to Increase Use of Open Source - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:13] <exec> 08└─I did a quick look if I could find anything from the Finnish gov and all I found was some meteorological stuff http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi [ilmatieteenlaitos.fi] Looks like the EUPL is kosher. FSF [gnu.org], OSI [opensource.org]
[20:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tallinn declaration' Commits EU to Increase Use of Open Source - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:14] <exec> 08└─if($gov != null) { $all_sw = Software::freeSoftware(); } else { $be_free = 1; }
[20:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─Stop reporting this crap. This is suggestion, not hard science that can be proved.
[20:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:37] <exec> 08└─I am very tempted by the arguments presented, particularly since I don't believe in continuity, though I tend to think the scale on which the universe should be discontinuous should be around 10^-33cm. I have trouble, however, with distances seeming to be independent of orientation. OTOH, I don't fe...
[20:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:38] <exec> 08└─There is no dark matter. General relativity is wrong. Not wrong in the sense of totally wrong, but wrong in the sense of newtonian gravity being wrong. It's accurate up to a point in many situations, but breaks down in certain circumstances due to unforseen effects. Dark matter is just a way of reco...
[20:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds a lot like how neutrinos were invented in order to rescue various theories about conservation.
[20:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not physicist, but I do have a genral theory that could explain both why galaxies don't fly apart and why the universe seems to expand without explanation. (dark matter and dark energy, respectively). Since I'm not a physicist I don't know if the math would work out or not, but it does at least...
[20:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:45] <exec> 08└─I'm kinda the same: I'm willing to look at alternatives. I believe there has to be something wrong with his theories where time travel is possible; the whole travel back in time and kill your grandfather so you could never be born so you could never go back in time and kill your grandfather, so you...
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[21:06:00] <exec> 08└─The F-35 wasn't designed by engineers. It was designed by patent lawyers and lobbyists seeking to spread the supply-chain across enough states to make the project politically favorable to support and suicidal to oppose. Like the x86, C++, Windows and Linux, being technically superior would have actu...
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[21:06:02] <exec> 08└─By the way, I should add... The explanation above also makes sense given the theory behind the F-22/F-35 pair. The F-22 was supposed to be the "real fighter" to take on the "serious enemies". The problem is, tens of billions of dollars for a weapon that is only useful in WWIII is not politically pal...
[21:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:04] <exec> 08└─" Currently, stealth aircraft are highly effective against 1970s era technology. "
[21:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:06] <exec> 08└─F-22 is not only super expensive, but can't be exported. So F-35 is cooked up to export to allied countries, but they tried to cram so much into it to make it high-tech swiss knife. Hah. High-tech swiss knife/rifle/rocket launcher/nail polisher. Think about that.
[21:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:09] <exec> 08└─You can always get complacent and make mistakes. I am guessing that is what happened there. Just because the technology is effective doesn't mean you don't still have to be on your game.
[21:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:11] <exec> 08└─Now we have an entire branch of the military that has been captured by the airframe manufacturing hegemony. I am not up to date on the latest reinterpretations of bullshit political economics terms: is this "free market" or "capitalism"?
[21:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:13] <exec> 08└─F-22 is not only super expensive, but can't be exported.
[21:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 2339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:15] <exec> 08└─Let me give you an example. A little before I took office there was a terrible article about the F-35 fighter jet. It was hundreds of billions of dollars over budget. It was seven years behind schedule. It was a disaster. So I called in Lockheed and I said, "I'm sorry, we're going to have to bid thi...
[21:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:17] <exec> 08└─Who is "the customer?" We are the customer, and every other "customer" besides the U.S. can go suck eggs. Reminds me of a Star Trek: TNG episode in which the Federation fights itself as an exercise. As I recall, Lt. Worf was asked how to fight despite going up against a superior adversary. He replie...
[21:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:20] <exec> 08└─The F-22 utilizes the OBOGS, and it is well-known that even its own pilots didn't want to fly it. I assume that if the problem was rectified, it was only by operating a more aggressive maintenance cycle.
[21:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:13] <exec> 08└─Can't speak for Aristarchus, but being on YOUR enemy list would be a GOOD thing for me. Hell, might be enough to get laid!
[21:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:55] <exec> 08└─small comment: "reconciliation problem": that is not actually proof of anything. the fact that we can't solve the math does not mean that reality is not like that. similar issue: nobody can write down the general solution of the double pendulum problem. however, the equations used to describe the do...
[21:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:56] <exec> 08└─Well I didn't mean to claim anything about a "proper" spiral, eg where the sun is supposed to be in front of the planets for some reason (why?). I meant spiral in a generic sense. I assure you, the orbits are spirals when you don't center on the sun or SSB and give the sun a velocity. From a visuali...
[21:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Says 40 Percent of All VMs in Azure Run Linux - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:19] <exec> 08└─A pox on your house, madam. A pox!
[21:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Says 40 Percent of All VMs in Azure Run Linux - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:20] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much of the problem is just NTFS? Work switched me from a Linux laptop to a Windows one, and the difference between NTFS and ext4 is astonishing. Powershell and Cygwin can't do mass file operations, full text searches, or anything similar at anywhere near the speed of my old machine. An...
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[22:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:45] <exec> 08└─I was hoping they would make a third Torchlight. I still play Torchlight 2.
[22:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:46] <exec> 08└─That's too bad. The Torchlight games are fun, and it's always a bummer when studios are closed, especially by parent companies snapping their fingers. Here's hoping the devs find work again soon, and that multiplayer services stay up for a long time. I just checked, and the only ways to play multipl...
[22:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:49] <exec> 08└─I'm kind of blown. But Path of Exile is another great successor to Diablo 2, if you're willing to use Windows. Diablo 2 with the Median XL [median-xl.com] mod and PlugY [plugy.free.fr] for infinite shared stash space is also a great twist on the classic. It's amazing how much development has gone in...
[22:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:51] <exec> 08└─Path of Exile is server-based and limited to Windows, but it is free to play. I found it fun with some fresh ideas and a more rugged look than the cartoonish look of the Torchlight series. Median XL [median-xl.com] is a great mod for Diablo 2. I have heard there is a multiplayer community for it. Se...
[22:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:53] <exec> 08└─Re: future-proofing, it's also on Linux, so you're not reliant on the Wine project or other such things when it's not compatible with the latest version/patch/whatever of Win or Mac at some point. Thinking about it more, with all the crap players do to keep playing old games already, with this accou...
[22:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:17] <exec> 08└─"The customer" is the US military (and Congress). Stealth is what they wanted. Engineers do not decide military procurement strategy.
[22:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:19] <exec> 08└─And yet, the ancient B-52 is still a part of our military doctrine.
[22:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:21] <exec> 08└─Take your dick out of your ass, its starting to peak out yer mouth like a xenomorph.
[22:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:23] <exec> 08└─Believe me, I don't mind the militaristic folks. Dianne Feinstein, as you know, says I'm "a good president." The best. She has "personal feelings" about me. As do many, many people. There's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong. And Marillyn did get my attention. Melania was living in New York at t...
[22:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:55] <exec> 08└─Whether or not calling it meat is a problem depends a great deal on how accurate the reproduction is. It's got the same nutritional value, taste, texture and the rest of it as regular meat that's not going to be enough. We also have to have some assurance that the process hasn't introduced chemicals...
[22:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:56] <exec> 08└─I should look up a squirrel trap
[22:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Astronauts Face Chronic Dementia Risk From Cosmic Ray Exposure - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:11] <exec> 08└─We do know that we weigh a lot more than a rodent and have a longer lifespan. So radiation damage is more likely to occur, even if it is a fixed amount per unit mass. And there will be more time for the damage to manifest (particularly relevant to cancer).
[22:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Astronauts Face Chronic Dementia Risk From Cosmic Ray Exposure - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:13] <exec> 08└─This isn't a matter of faith, we know the humans are more susceptible to cancer from this sort of damage than smaller animals are. As has been mentioned already, humans live a lot longer than rats and it's not even close, the difference is roughly an order of magnitude. We also have a larger brain,...
[22:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Astronauts Face Chronic Dementia Risk From Cosmic Ray Exposure - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:15] <exec> 08└─Lead hats. But really, I wonder what the plasticity of the mouse brain is compared to a human's, and if permenance of the damage could be mitigated in humans at varying stages of development? i.e. send a teenager to mars, then once he's there, would he develop normally? Many parents would volunteer...
[22:07:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06CRISPR Can Now Be Used to Edit Individual Bases - 1025 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:24] <exec> 08└─It seems like the accuracy/precision is going up all the time. Nonviral CRISPR-Gold Editing Technique Fixes Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mutation in Mice [soylentnews.org] Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing [addgene.org] The study described in the summary is another such adv...
[22:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Age of Drinking Leads to Neurocognitive and Neuropsychological Damage - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:57] <exec> 08└─Tell the results of this study to the French...
[22:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:04] <exec> 08└─I remember the full official price as always having been insanely expensive, and it's in line with other IDEs like VisualStudio I think... For those who don't want to spend that kind of money there is Delphi Starter and there is FreePascal with Lazarus IDE which is close enough for many things. Eith...
[22:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:05] <exec> 08└─No, it is an issue specifically with whitespace. If you added a couple of new if() or for() in one branch and need to merge/cherry-pick/... it into another branch, you can just use one of the many "ignore whitespace" options of the tools you use. With Python (until someone adds specific language sup...
[22:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:07] <exec> 08└─Can you provide an example in your code miscegnation? I get the feeling you're not talking about IronPython.
[22:09:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 775 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:47] <exec> 08└─As usual, the stated reason is a lie. They couldn't care less about the Russians. Hell, until the Wall fell the Democratic Party was openly aligned with Soviet Communism and considered it the Future. For that matter they still do consider it the Sunny Uplands of History and work toward it and it was...
[22:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:31] <exec> 08└─You are aware that there is an entrenched two-party system and it is incredibly hard for someone without the financial and political backing those parties provide to reach a wide enough audience to get noticed, right?
[22:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:32] <exec> 08└─The Supreme Court said anonymous speech is protected. This is a non-starter.
[22:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:34] <exec> 08└─It is the audience that is entrenched in tribalism with their two party system, which feeds on their antipathy.
[22:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Says 40 Percent of All VMs in Azure Run Linux - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:41] <exec> 08└─"If 40% of the most anti-linux company's hosts are linux, and all of their competitors are mostly linux, then that's not an insult at all." Microsoft is now well beyond the point it was when Ballmer said "Linux is a cancer"; they realized an open war was impossible to win therefore they changed thei...
[22:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cable-Chomping Cockatoos Give Internet Firm a Big Bill - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:18] <exec> 08└─It's got electrolytes!
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[23:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People Who Take Psychedelics Are Less Likely to Commit Violent Crimes, Study Says - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:49] <exec> 08└─Respondents who admitted to being longtime hallucinogen users had a 27 percent lower chance of having committed larceny and 22 percent lower chance of having committed a violent crime in the past 12 months. The study found that other illicit drugs were actually associated with increased odds of comm...
[23:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Who Take Psychedelics Are Less Likely to Commit Violent Crimes, Study Says - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:51] <exec> 08└─...but could it solve the LSD problem?
[23:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Who Take Psychedelics Are Less Likely to Commit Violent Crimes, Study Says - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:53] <exec> 08└─Burn down the DEA.
[23:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People Who Take Psychedelics Are Less Likely to Commit Violent Crimes, Study Says - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:55] <exec> 08└─So being fueled by pure ethanol you must be America's #1 Most Wanted! Shows how far we've fallen :(
[23:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People Who Take Psychedelics Are Less Likely to Commit Violent Crimes, Study Says - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:57] <exec> 08└─drugs users with a moderate (like once or twice a month) psychedelic consumption are usually emphatic and self conscious, it kind of hard to be a violent criminal when your violence is magnified back to you. 2C-E is particularly good at bringing your problem so close to your face that you only have...
[23:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pbnjoe [313] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:10] <exec> 08└─Re: Diablo II mods, nice! That plays into the more optimistic comment I just wrote. Fingers crossed that TL II gets that kind of treatment at some point. I'm sure it's better five years later, but I remember some friends of mine got Diablo III on release and were dying in single player because of te...
[23:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:12] <exec> 08└─Not all that surprising. They made a copy of a popular game, the Blizzard went and made a new version of its game and blew them out of the water. I remember trying Torchlight but all the time thinking why I would play this when I could play D3 instead. D3 should be fairly cheap now considering it h...
[23:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 2218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:14] <exec> 08└─When the Korean master race is playing Lost Ark. Seriously, Path of Exile is a terrible ARPG. Due to the inherent server-client latency issues, like (other) MMOs, Path of Exile substituted enjoyable game mechanics with addictive item fetishism (hoarding), randomness and enough essential game-knowled...
[23:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:16] <exec> 08└─I guess this is what I meant by rumor: https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] An implication that it might be done some time in the future.
[23:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:18] <exec> 08└─I'll admit to being a pleb on games. At the end of the day, I don't care enough to know all that info you wrote. +1
[23:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Runic Games, Studio Behind Torchlight and Hob, Shuts Down - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:20] <exec> 08└─It will probably happen eventually. After the Starcraft remaster and SC2 going free-2-play it seems inevitable they'll remaster their other hits sooner or later.
[23:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:49] <exec> 08└─>140 chars. sad.
[23:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Hobbled by Parts Shortages, Slow Repairs, Audit Finds - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:50] <exec> 08└─Both planes certainly have overly complex onboard logic. I mean just look at the problems we DO know about, like the "crossing the dateline bug". The backup oxygen system sounds like it was a similar type of issue; the backup oxygen system was not designed to deploy even when the computer detected a...
[23:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 1998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:24] <exec> 08└─Like I mentioned in another comment, lab grown meat could certainly enable a cheaper "pink slime". You could throw in any number of chemicals just like is done with traditional meats. And yes, it should be evaluated to make sure it isn't introducing something unexpected during the culturing process....
[23:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:26] <exec> 08└─This could be a great video concept. Make a Chia-like mould of Obama or Trump's head with a bunch of holes where the hair should be. Then squeeze ground beef through the holes somehow as you film it.
[23:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cargill, Bill Gates, Richard Branson Backed Memphis Meats Expects Meat From Cells in Stores by 2021 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:28] <exec> 08└─cargill. the monsanto of meats!
[23:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Astronauts Face Chronic Dementia Risk From Cosmic Ray Exposure - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:47] <exec> 08└─Now go learn some actual biology. It may surprise your pop-science right out of your larger brain. ;)
[23:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars-Bound Astronauts Face Chronic Dementia Risk From Cosmic Ray Exposure - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:48] <exec> 08└─We should mix lead into the astronauts' drinking water. That way they will have an intracellular protection mechanism. #FundItNASA
[23:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Can Now Be Used to Edit Individual Bases - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:05] <exec> 08└─A study published in Nature looked at changing an A base into a G; w process that could address around half of those mutations.
[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─2) You can pack it into a single executable to run on Windows without having to install it.
[23:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:43] <exec> 08└─PHP = Pretty Hard Penis. That's the best way to describe how fucked you are for choosing it.
[23:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:45] <exec> 08└─It's 1-indexed. NO LANGUAGE SHOULD BE 1-INDEXED. That is pure evil. Yes, Matlab/Octave are also evil because of this. Arrays should start at 0, or they shouldn't start at all. Also, typing "->" instead of "=" gets to be quite tedious when you have to do it a lot. Tutorials say you can use an equa...
[23:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages? - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─When I started reading this (sub)thread, the 1st thing that struck me was the closed-source proprietary nature of Delphi. Going to my usual source when I encounter these sorts of things, I see Lazarus and CodeTyphon. [alternativeto.net] Anybody used either of those FOSS tools? Is either a nice alter...
[23:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:14] <exec> 08└─Take a step back for a moment and think about this. When you're angry and don't have a good response, is it better to name-call or just to keep quiet? If GP really is a "worm," then his words will stand on their own and reveal him as such, but all your visceral reaction has done is helped to prove...
[23:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia's Social Media Meddling Could Spell the End of Online Anonymity - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:15] <exec> 08└─If you want to know who rules you, look at who you must not insult or question
[23:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Search for Dark Matter Comes up Empty - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:59] <exec> 08└─The sun will never stay in front of the planets no matter what - at most they'll all be (approximately) equally "front", at least in terms of center of mass. The vortex B.S. always shows the sun leading though, dragging the planets in its wake. Like I said, think I got a bit triggered. I did not mea...
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