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I've taken the liberty of setting up an official folding@home team for Soylent News. In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's.
There is more information on the project here, which explains it much better than I could.
Clients are available for Linux, OSX, and even Windows (if you swing that way), so come join our botnet!
That Other Site's team is ranked at 1817, so we've got some catching up to do.
On a personal note, my Dad carries the gene markers for Huntington's disease, and will eventually succumb to it. Research like this is very helpful for understanding, and hopefully developing treatments for it.
tl;dr Our Soylent News team ID is 230319
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @07:42PM
Make sure to give Microsoft and other such corporations lots of money, because rich people donate some of their money to charity. The fact that it does some good does not justify the evil it does by not respecting your freedoms. Your attitude is a race to the bottom.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @09:41PM
I like how you read my post, completely disregarded all content contained therein, and then replied to an argument I never made. Good job.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @09:48PM
I didn't disregard all the content within. Your point was simply idiotic. You tried to downplay the fact that it's proprietary software by saying that it also does some good things.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 28 2016, @10:59PM
You tried to downplay the fact that it's proprietary software by saying that it also does some good things.
I think the other AC succeeded at that, not merely tried. And your argument was remarkably stupid. Up your game.