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[00:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:27] <exec> 08└─Or they had absolutely no desire to actually improve anything until electrics actually brought the competition. Corporate efficiency at its best :P
[00:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:28] <exec> 08└─Mazda has been knocking it out of the park the last few years with the whole SkyActiv engineering philosophy. Should these engines prove themselves, they will be approaching similar fuel economy/efficiency as as other manufacturers without the need to cheat emissions test or graft 500lbs of batteri...
[00:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:30] <exec> 08└─Its fuel economy potentially matches that of a diesel engine
[00:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:32] <exec> 08└─> Either [snip] engineering is heavily brain damaged or I don't quite understand what has been so difficult. I'm going to politely suggest the latter. Anyone with obvious answers to long-running engineering problems is typically missing a grasp on the actual practical complexity of the design tradeo...
[00:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:34] <exec> 08└─It really depends on the amount of re-engineering required. If they can get these HCCI engines made on existing engine assembly lines, and they fit existing engine bays, then the re-tooling is minimal, and the cost savings are massive. Re-engineering for electric or hybrid power has to be many multi...
[00:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:37] <exec> 08└─See my comment below, link: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] None of this sounds hard at all. Diesel engines have been using pulsed injection for a while for emission control and quieter/smoother operation. If they kept the spar...
[00:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:39] <exec> 08└─Diesel engines are ~30% more efficient than gas, (due in part because diesel is ~12% more energy dense than gasoline). So a 30% increase in gas engine efficiency, doesn't get you all the way there....but it gets you really fucking close. At that point the energy extraction of both engine types are b...
[00:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:41] <exec> 08└─Here is the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You are correct, the major issue has been controlling the autoignition. I'm not sure how Mazda solved it, I think the previous leading method is variable compression which is also a d...
[00:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:43] <exec> 08└─It's time to stop.
[00:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:45] <exec> 08└─Diesel engine gets higher efficiency due to its lean burn - honda did that with CRX in the 90s, getting awesome mileage, but it faced the same problem with diesel engine - too much NOX emission. So how is this getting around the problem?
[00:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Ruler" Form Factor for Server SSDs - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:58] <exec> 08└─Isn't this basically Intel saying "we are making this existing technology in a new form factor, called 'ruler?'" Granted it's good to know and I guess newsworthy, but nothing really groundbreaking or new. It would be like Apple saying, "the next iPhone will be available in Orange as well." Maybe I'm...
[00:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:47] <exec> 08└─You also failed to mention the fast chargers that are available in locations convenient to most people driving > 4 hours per day.
[00:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:48] <exec> 08└─> you CAN'T take off on a day trip to a spot a hundred miles away without worrying about working charging into your schedule. 250 miles/2 = 125 miles 125 miles > 100 miles
[00:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:08] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that sex is inherently sacred or meaningful and I don't believe that humans have souls that separate them from other animals. what the point of sex is
[00:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe, maybe not. Some people enjoy their work, you know. Some people actually chose professions that they truly enjoy. Also, some women enjoy sex. I know, that's an anti-puritan point of view, but some women enjoy sex a little, others enjoy sex a lot, some few women just can't get enough sex. You c...
[00:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:12] <exec> 08└─The reason to decriminalize is that it's an incredibly problematic practice to have legalized. People go into prostitution for various reasons, but the whole happy hooker trope that people imagine when talking about prostitution is hardly the status quo. There's plenty of sex slaves, drug addicts, l...
[00:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:14] <exec> 08└─Except, the swedish model DOESN'T work. Prostitution's still around, the prostitutes don't report their customers, even borderline abusive ones, oh, and since the selling is legal but not buying, you have created a perfect trafficking situation: A common method now is for Polish, Russian and other p...
[00:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:16] <exec> 08└─I think sex is morally supposed to be more than a physical thing.
[00:30:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:46] <exec> 08└─we see cableless boxes that can travel not just vertically but horizontally and even diagonally.
[00:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:58] <exec> 08└─For the bottom floors don't forget factories, power generation, large-scale storage... basically all your industrial stuff. And a big structure like that is going to need lots of environmental equipment, such as air circulation, heating, cooling, plumbing, fire suppression, etc. Might as well put it...
[00:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:46] <exec> 08└─You sound like someone with a 5 figure income.
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[01:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:21] <exec> 08└─It's more systemd propaganda. If you read it, you'll go blind!
[01:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:23] <exec> 08└─Seriously though
[01:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:25] <exec> 08└─But what if I'm already blind, you insensitive clod!
[01:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:28] <exec> 08└─Was expecting a multi-post NCommander novel.
[01:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:50] <exec> 08└─Two words: Dunning and Kruger. It is the height of arrogance to believe that one has figured out something so simple from a few minutes of Google and Wikipedia that teams of highly trained and experienced automotive engineers working on the problem for decades with billions of dollars in R&D money b...
[01:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:52] <exec> 08└─If so, I'll stick with the bus and light rail.
[01:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:55] <exec> 08└─Has been at least partially solved for some time (2014) using machine learning to predict the chaotic behavior of HCCI: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:57] <exec> 08└─Experienced engineers who have been working for decades are too old to be working. Time to hire more young and shoot the olds in the head.
[01:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:59] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to the Wankel?
[01:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:01] <exec> 08└─Thanks for highlighting my point, corporations won't do things that result in less profit and will actively suppress advancements if it results in higher profit.
[01:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:03] <exec> 08└─Can't stop. I'm a giant rabbit. I need to eat my own cecal pellets to recover valuable nutrients.
[01:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:05] <exec> 08└─Article says the plugs stay: Mazda's engine employs spark plugs under certain conditions, such as at low temperatures, to overcome technical hurdles that have hampered commercialization of the technology
[01:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:07] <exec> 08└─Variable compression isn't hard at all today, thanks to Atkinson-cycle engines and variable-valve timing. Mazda's newest engines already employ this technology (basically, holding the exhaust valves open a bit longer when in Atkinson cycle, IIRC; the engines switch to Otto cycle at full throttle I b...
[01:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:10] <exec> 08└─Why would you waste energy firing the spark plugs if you don't need to? It's trivial to just turn them off (the ECU has to give a command for them to fire; no command, no fire). This isn't like the old days with distributors; they haven't used those in ages.
[01:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:12] <exec> 08└─Depending on if this HCCI engine is piston or rotor driven will probably tell you which cars it is going in. Addendum: If this is a wankel engine, then the fuel economy improvement is less than advertised, since most of the wankels got a 10-30 percent drop in fuel efficiency compared to a piston eng...
[01:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Ruler" Form Factor for Server SSDs - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:26] <exec> 08└─I think compression/encoding efficiency are vastly more important than any arbitrary "storage equivalent". How many images can your brain hold? Does it hold them intact like a computer, or reconstruct them on the fly from much less data? Efficiency is a hallmark of evolved systems, and computer tech...
[01:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:17] <exec> 08└─And I bet you live in a big city where you can walk or get public transportation anywhere you would want to go... For the rest of us, 25+ miles a day is an everyday occurrence.
[01:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:41] <exec> 08└─So are you religious, and think sex is something that should only happen between a man and woman who are married, or you one of those people who have been brainwashed by renaissance-era troubadours? "Love" is a social construct, historically it's never been a factor in marriage or sex. Current views...
[01:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:43] <exec> 08└─The problem is mainly disease transmission ...
[01:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:45] <exec> 08└─Different AC: I largely agree with you. There is at least one other moral aspect to some kinds of sex: responsibility. Responsibility to know your health status, even if asymptomatic, when engaging in sexual contact and the responsibility for the chance of pregnancy. You could argue that this could...
[01:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:47] <exec> 08└─Another twist is to test customers as well. That way the whole business would be pretty much nothing to bother with. Oh btw.. That might collide with the habits of politicians, executive class people, and other sadists. ;)
[01:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:49] <exec> 08└─You have some statistics that show that people who pay with a credit card tip in cash more often than on the card? If not, I stand by my statement.
[01:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:51] <exec> 08└─It would change the power setup. That will attract some players from the shadows..
[01:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:53] <exec> 08└─Another twist is to test customers as well.
[01:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:14] <exec> 08└─LOL. You're right. Skynet didn't drop one bomb, or two, to drive her point home. She dropped them ALL.
[01:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO Hackers Post More Material, Demand Bitcoins - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:01] <exec> 08└─Its good to want. It builds character.
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[02:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:17] <exec> 08└─how does fake news spread in the first place? Well, first you need a democrat... and then, it's just snowballs. It's what special snowflakes do.
[02:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:19] <exec> 08└─Uh... Preemptive "SHHH!" to the grammar nazis... It just snowballs
[02:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should focus on creating citizens who are educated enough to evaluate an idea instead of mere slogans.
[02:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:23] <exec> 08└─If their IQ is too low, education won't bite unfortunately.
[02:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:25] <exec> 08└─How does #FakeNews get created and spread? The Blue Checkmark Mafia on Twitter create the Narrative and the Legacy Media spreads it through the New York Times, CNN, NBC News, Politico, The Washington Post, etc. Compared that that multi-billion dollar machine with millions and millions of eyeballs so...
[02:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:27] <exec> 08└─A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.* * Yes, I know Twain likely never said anything of the sort. Whoosh.
[02:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:11] <exec> 08└─The young are too busy writing worthless cellphone apps and ugly flat-UI web pages to do anything useful. Of course, the older guys didn't come up with this breakthrough either, in America: it took Japanese engineers to achieve this. Who knows whether they're young or old or a mix. But considering I...
[02:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:13] <exec> 08└─It'd be better to see them pair this up with the hybrid tech from the Prius. Mazda also just announced with Toyota that they're working on a joint venture, and there's been pictures floating around of a prototype Mazda 3 they built with the 2.0L SkyActiv engine and a Prius-style hybrid system. And T...
[02:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:15] <exec> 08└─The OP said it could cause fouling problems. So fire them as needed. Between "always" and "only when needed to ignite". Maybe with the warm up time it's enough to keep them clean, or when the RPMs are in a given range.
[02:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tedd [1691] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Horizons Target 2014 MU69 May be a "Contact Binary" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:41] <exec> 08└─Count the number of times the word 'comet' is said in the summary, or indeed whatever this target is. I'll wait..
[02:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:22] <exec> 08└─You are missing the point. Your car really sucks at carrying around a load of lumber. It is limiting your lifestyle. Any kind of construction project will require careful planning and many trips back and forth to the store. You should upgrade to a superior vehicle, a truck. Or maybe people have diff...
[02:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:54] <exec> 08└─But if you own something, you are allowed to sell it.
[02:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:55] <exec> 08└─Slavery is already illegal, and yet it still happens. It happens specifically because people don't seem to care about the results of their selfishness. The solution here is to make selling of sex legal and come down hard on the johns, pimps and others that profit off it. It's ultimately, the only wa...
[02:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:58] <exec> 08└─And yet nobody has come up with an effective strategy of dealing with the problem. Making it legal just increases the amount of money that's to be made by selling sex. With increased money comes all sorts of people trying to make money off of it. Strip clubs have done an OK job of avoiding it, but t...
[02:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:00] <exec> 08└─Perhaps because those regulated brothel prostitutes requires condom. Or even testing? If there is evidence that show what you say. Then it's great. Haven't seen any though.
[02:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:02] <exec> 08└─No, it would make it so that prostitutes wouldn't have to worry about going to the police and being arrested. There's nothing we can do that's going to completely solve these problems, but by legalizing the provision of sex for money, it would put the actual victims of these crimes in a position whe...
[02:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:04] <exec> 08└─And none of those things are currently legal. If you're going to claim I'm using bad logic, then you might want to not have posts that are completely full of shit. Shanghaing, and the rest of it have been illegal for quite some time. ICE regularly conducts raids in an attempt to catch employers hiri...
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[02:29:06] <exec> 08└─Why is it you people never use the term Marxist correctly?
[02:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:08] <exec> 08└─You argued that what we do with our bodies is our own business. You can argue with me all you want, but the reality is that what we do with our bodies isn't without limits. A lot of the things we do with our bodies do impact other people and society in general and it's naive to suggest otherwise. Pu...
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[03:25:17] <exec> 08└─But "it" is Republican yellow snow! The NPR interviewee was asked precisely the question of whether the other side didn't do it is well. The stats pointed out that there was a 5-1 preponderance of pro-Republican social media bots to Democratic ones. Fake news is a Republican meme, they own it, and t...
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[03:25:28] <exec> 08└─systemd-screenreaderd will be automatically installed, and your old screen reader will be permanently disabled.
[03:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:06] <exec> 08└─It's too little, too late. The world will be moving to EVs over the next couple of decades.
[03:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:07] <exec> 08└─*3-4 decades There's plenty of time for this engine to be sold.
[03:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Target 2014 MU69 May be a "Contact Binary" - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:35] <exec> 08└─2014 MU69 has been compared to 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko since before there was any evidence of it being a contact binary: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:55] <exec> 08└─You have some statistics that show that people who pay with a credit card tip in cash more often than on the card? If not, I stand by my statement.
[03:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:57] <exec> 08└─Exernalities is code word for somebody else is stuck cleaning up your mess you selfish asshole prick.
[03:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 1495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:59] <exec> 08└─my poor friend tells me her worst "bad dates" would choke her out, hit her, threaten to break her bones, or even threaten to kill her. They got off on her fear and pain. And she says the worst of them were clergy, law enforcement, and even professors. The ones in law enforcement don't surprise me on...
[03:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:01] <exec> 08└─The best approach is, according to somebody who does a lot of charity work for prostitutes in my area: Make both the buying and selling legal, and make the pimping illegal. The fact that prostitution is illegal is part of what gives pimps control over the prostitutes. And that means that when the co...
[03:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:03] <exec> 08└─The reason to decriminalize is that it's an incredibly problematic practice to have legalized. People go into prostitution for various reasons, but the whole happy hooker trope that people imagine when talking about prostitution is hardly the status quo. There's plenty of sex slaves, drug addicts, l...
[03:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:05] <exec> 08└─The for profit prison system pays taxes, prostitutes are potential tax revenue producers. Prisons need to be full, otherwise we're 'soft on crime.' Same bullshit that keeps marijuana illegal. Gotta keep those prisons full man! Profit over sense. The American legal system in a nutshell. I can just se...
[03:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:07] <exec> 08└─If neither the customer nor the victim get in trouble for it, it's more likely that they will report pimps.
[03:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:09] <exec> 08└─If a 7/11 clerk gets tuberculosis, then they will be contagious.
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[04:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:25] <exec> 08└─In other news, jmorris dismisses science, and refuses to RTFA, especially when he disagrees with the findings.
[04:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:27] <exec> 08└─http://kazu.org/post/fake-news-bots-are-here [kazu.org] http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org [securingdemocracy.org]
[04:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:29] <exec> 08└─Herd immunity also works with viral ideas. You only need a critical mass of the populace not buying bullshit for bullshit to become ineffective as a driver of society.
[04:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:31] <exec> 08└─Dear mods, stop abusing negative moderation just because you don't like what the author has to say. We all know jmorris genuinely believes what he is saying, this is obviously not trolling.
[04:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:33] <exec> 08└─The republicans need the bots. Democrats can spread fake news without them. You start with the DNC. These people committed actual fraud and successfully deflected attention to republican.ru And what with all their whining it turns out that the democrats are more fanatical than the republicans by far...
[04:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:35] <exec> 08└─Or, just maybe, the Dems don't need fake news the way Republicans do, because they actually have policy, like health care for all and jobs for everyone, as opposed to the Republican failed proposal of cutting health insurance so we can give tax cuts to the wealthy. Or, what you said is actually cor...
[04:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:37] <exec> 08└─Dear complainer about the mods: jmorris is not trolling because he is saying things he does not believe, he is trolling because he is saying things he believes in the face of all reason and fact! So of course he is to be modded down. Do we really want a site where Alex Jones is our role model?
[04:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:49] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that's not true. Clicking the link does give you hairy palms though.
[04:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:29] <exec> 08└─You realize there's a difference between "hard to accomplish" and "hard to manufacture" right? Try making it as CHEAP and RELIABLE as current models. Now you've got a breakthrough. Damn near everything "new" takes 10-20 years before it hits the market. We've had prototype quantum computers. Prototyp...
[04:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:30] <exec> 08└─American Engineers love innovation. American MANAGEMENT hate innovation. Go to any industry and you'll see the biggest stagnation to tech... is the profit margins. Cable Internet should be faster. Intel has HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of viable patents for proven technology that they ONLY ROLL OUT whe...
[04:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:32] <exec> 08└─There are a ton of differences between Diesel and Otto cycle engines. I took courses on the very subject back in college. Diesel runs higher compression. But the fuel has a LOWER energy density. Diesels simply inject more fuel to get more power, up until the maximum fuel richness. Gasoline has a hig...
[04:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:34] <exec> 08└─If you are not paid for this, you are a moron.
[04:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:36] <exec> 08└─It's a piece of shit, that's what. The seals go after 100,000 miles. They didn't even have a sixth digit on the odometer.) the wankel simply couldn't compete. Additionally, most people don't like the idea of their car sounding like a weed trimmer. Young adult men don't pay $25,000 for people to call...
[04:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:38] <exec> 08└─Diesel has lower energy density? Which "college" did you go to?
[04:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tedd [1691] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Horizons Target 2014 MU69 May be a "Contact Binary" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:07] <exec> 08└─You're not getting it. What the F are they talking about? It's just a bunch of names and numbers..
[04:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Melt Season Leads to Decade-Long Ecosystem Changes in Antarctic Polar Desert - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:18] <exec> 08└─So only manmade warming supporters are allowed to talk about longterm trends?
[04:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:36] <exec> 08└─If you want sex, there's no shortage of women giving it away for free if you can appear to have money and power. Which is much less morally problematic than the issues surrounding prostitution.
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[05:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Tech Testing "Driverless" Car Driven by Guy Wearing a Car Seat Costume - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:17] <exec> 08└─The worker was wearing the uniform he was supposed to wear.
[05:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:38] <exec> 08└─I noticed you avoided defining what constitutes a critical mass. We educate a significant percentage of young people in this country. Most of them well beyond the level needed to function in the world, and spot bullshit. You would think we had some approximation of a critical mass by now.
[05:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:39] <exec> 08└─Now it is my turn to complain about mods. But I won't. Someone mods me "flamebait" for dissing Alex Jones? Wow, this site is further gone than I thought. Alex Jones lost his kids. His lawyer said he is an "entertainer". My first encounter with his was in Linklater's "Waking Life", where he is drivi...
[05:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:42] <exec> 08└─But after the Not-so great Recession under Reagan, we gave up on this and starting education for STEM. This produces a bunch of technocrats that could not thing their way out of a sexist stereotyping situation. And this is why these same under-educated folks voted for a grifter flim-flam real-estate...
[05:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:44] <exec> 08└─The study was intentionally and fundamentally biased, there was 0 control, there were numerous single points of failure, and so on. - Find fake news. It was not stated how they decided what was fake news. For their selection of fake news sites, they choose an average of more than 3,200 stories -...
[05:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:46] <exec> 08└─This place has a RWNJ infestation. I find that a lot of the smaller splinter tech sites do, for some reason, and it mystifies me as to why. The answer may be that I'm being solipsistic and assuming everyone has a generalist's outlook and wants to see how it all fits together, rather than a narrow fo...
[05:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:48] <exec> 08└─Heard an interview with the Dashboard site creator on NPR earlier today. From the linked page (click on the "First Time" button), "This dashboard displays data about Russian propaganda efforts on Twitter in near-real time. Our analysts use the dashboard and other sources to discover Russian propagan...
[05:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:45] <exec> 08└─Young adult men don't pay $25,000 for people to call you them fag at the "cool car" meetups.
[05:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:46] <exec> 08└─Liberty University? Praise Jesus! Diesel is communist.
[05:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Ruler" Form Factor for Server SSDs - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:01] <exec> 08└─In spite of touting a new form factor, the announcement doesn't say what the size is. The accompanying photo is captioned The Intel SSD DC S4600 and DC S4500 Series are targeted at HDD replacement in the data center.
[05:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 2554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:31] <exec> 08└─Say you have enough population in a given area to fill it completely with one-story buildings (so it's all streets, sidewalks, and buildings -- some residential, some business, but we'll blend them into a homogeneous mass). Now say you take every 3x3 region, tear down eight buildings, and convert th...
[05:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:32] <exec> 08└─What's the REAL point of higher buildings (except in a very few places where there really is no room left, as in city-states)?
[05:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:42] <exec> 08└─There's be a addendum, requiring all data to be funneled through UK gov't computers and the keys to decrypt all the data must be provided.
[05:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:48] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the UK could apply those eight rules to the NHS before they consider applying them to autonomous vehicles. Officially, the WannaCrypt malware only affected the NHS for a day or so. Unofficially, Microsoft sent patches almost daily for two weeks. Apparently, some patches were tested before th...
[05:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:50] <exec> 08└─All the consideration about the trolley problem [wikipedia.org] in relation to autonomous vehicles [wikipedia.org] is mental masturbation. A manufacturer, such as Mercedes-Benz, which prioritizes occupant safety [soylentnews.org] will have an economic advantage.
[05:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Can We Wean Elon Musk Off Government Support Already? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:24] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure most people do have five-figure incomes.
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[06:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Tech Testing "Driverless" Car Driven by Guy Wearing a Car Seat Costume - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:31] <exec> 08└─Ford Transit Connect van ... being driven by a man wearing a car seat costume.
[06:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Tech Testing "Driverless" Car Driven by Guy Wearing a Car Seat Costume - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:32] <exec> 08└─Here's a real driverless.. [youtube.com] car. ;-)
[06:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:00] <exec> 08└─*an average of more than 3,200 stories per site
[06:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 1509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:01] <exec> 08└─Might as well fisk this thing in the published order. So full of deliberate misinformation it is of course #FakeNews in a meta spiral of bogosity. The infographic / whatever is of course referencing spirit cooking. That one was most certainly not a bot operation, that was pure weaponized autism from...
[06:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:03] <exec> 08└─The study was intentionally and fundamentally biased,
[06:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:06] <exec> 08└─they are still pretending that snopes.com hasn't been totally discredited as a "fact checker".
[06:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:08] <exec> 08└─Elite shits on the productive public, response is had. Not that complicated.
[06:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:10] <exec> 08└─Poor kazss, not elite. Words hard to write. Comment he did. Not Complicated.
[06:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:12] <exec> 08└─Leadership, group think, leader-vs-follower ratio, overrating source over content, not checking etc also plays in. And with internet those herds instead becomes gigantic multidimensional Venn diagram filter bubbles bypassing most protections. The unfortunately conclusion might be that some people ju...
[06:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:14] <exec> 08└─RWNJ means?
[06:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:16] <exec> 08└─some people just are not up to handing internet.
[06:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─Actually, there are plenty of computer-controlled engines that do fire the spark plugs when they don't need to. It's called "wasted spark." There are two advantages to this setup. First is that two cylinders can share one ignition coil, so you only need half the number of ignition coils and half as...
[06:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:18] <exec> 08└─Economical advantage is likely the factor that will make the win. But I suspect laws and cities locking out certain models etc might counter it.
[06:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New UK Guidance on Vehicle Cyber Security - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:19] <exec> 08└─Microsoft products shouldn't be relied on in a hospital or any mission critical setting. That is where the mistake was done from the beginning.
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[07:25:13] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Cooke [wikipedia.org] was right all along! Quick, send out the skimmer!
[07:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Tech Testing "Driverless" Car Driven by Guy Wearing a Car Seat Costume - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:29] <exec> 08└─You're supposed to be able to see the other drivers, FFS! There are plenty of times where you're supposed to make eye contact with another driver... or a pedestrian... or a cyclist... so they know that you know each other is there and have some kind of idea as to where you intend to go! Are autonomo...
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[07:26:11] <exec> 08└─"manipulate stock markets, make people choose dangerous health-care options, and manipulate elections" Oh, they mean advertising.
[07:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they support health care for all, which is why they didn't do any such thing when they had a super majority under Obama. The reality is that there are many corporate democrats, and they obstruct policies that would otherwise be implemented.
[07:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThatIrritatingGuy [5857] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:25] <exec> 08└─But what if want a screen reader that won't defragment my hard drive ?
[07:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 1743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:14] <exec> 08└─You are correct but I am still not sure what the breakthrough is here. Diesels don't have a throttle because they run lean at low loads. As GP pointed out, running lean produces more NOx (for either gasoline or diesel) (hence the VW diesel emissions fraud). Gasoline engines without a (conventional)...
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[08:26:17] <exec> 08└─We educate a significant percentage of young people in this country.
[08:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:18] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>I'm sure it was for the Alex Jones thing and not for responding to a completely cordial comment with condescension.
[08:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:20] <exec> 08└─-took because it leads kids to disobey their parents
[08:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know what you think "trolling" means, but it doesn't mean what you think it means. The level of wrongness is not a valid criteria.
[08:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:25] <exec> 08└─For instance what of stories on Breitbart that are not 'fake'?
[08:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, I am sorry for your condition. I hope you get better. Perhaps a local community college could help?
[08:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:29] <exec> 08└─We educate a significant percentage of young people in this country.
[08:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:42] <exec> 08└─Make sure you don't put a number in the username, then it won't run as root so it can't defrag. Unless, of course, your domain has an underscore in it.
[08:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:52] <exec> 08└─*and if the machine knew what the glide performance was with 2-engines out* they could have landed at an airport instead of in the river. But that particular performance spec is not currently available
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[09:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:20] <exec> 08└─Resistance is useless
[09:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ptman [5676] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:21] <exec> 08└─I believe there are lots of different Nokia featurephones available. Some are quite small and have amazing battery life. Another option is one of several Raspberry PI based phones. Some have big screens, some have small. Lots of variety.
[09:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ptman [5676] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:23] <exec> 08└─I think some of the DIY phones were maybe based on arduino, not Raspberry Pi as I first recalled.
[09:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:58] <exec> 08└─I agree, but it'd also be cheaper only for the airline... They'd most likely increase ticket prices overall to cover for the cost of the new equipment, then likely create a new expensive "human-piloted" class of flights for people with plenty of money to spend. (Also, wouldn't #1 and #6 in your list...
[09:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:59] <exec> 08└─You should really read the article that an AC posted above you: http://www.askthepilot.com [askthepilot.com] Basically, the impression we've all picked up from the media is horribly wrong — to quote the author: Essentially, high-tech cockpit equipment assists pilo...
[09:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:01] <exec> 08└─I can't say whether most flying is boring, but it's a lot more labor-intensive than the vast majority of people realize. A link someone else posted below covers it really well: http://www.askthepilot.com [askthepilot.com]
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[10:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:17] <exec> 08└─I am interested in this as well. Have been looking at things like plasma mobile and Jolla lately, but i wonder how good these options actually are. I have no interest in pokemon apps and the like, but I do need a browser, email, etc stuff that works reliably and not to slow...
[10:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:19] <exec> 08└─i use a nokia c130, and its pretty good (haven't tested if it exfiltrates any data, no access to gsm/gprs/etc test equipment). Cost like 50ish bucks.. It lasts a week on a full charge after a year of usage, and does not support MMS... only sms and voice. But its just nokia-branded, there is a micros...
[10:25:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:56] <exec> 08└─Herd immunity also works with viral ideas. You only need a critical mass of the populace not buying bullshit for bullshit to become ineffective as a driver of society.
[10:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:31] <exec> 08└─We educate a significant percentage of young people in this country.
[10:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:46] <exec> 08└─It's an interesting set of posts, which discuss various inits and supervisors in a reasonable manner. Systemd is the choice of the author, but the author is also cognizant of attributes of systemd that cause issues for other people, and it is by no means a pro-systemd polemic. Basically, if you can...
[10:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:00] <exec> 08└─the old worn out feet that your mama gave you at birth?
[10:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:01] <exec> 08└─The need to punish is because humans have desires which may actually be harmful to others. Computers, at least the ones we can currently build, don't have any desires, harmful or otherwise, therefore punishment would be pointless. Or said differently, where there's no will, you don't need fear to co...
[10:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:04] <exec> 08└─Bash the hell out of it.
[10:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, you have some software running it all, but what are the redundancies?
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[11:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Embassy Employees in Cuba Possibly Subjected to 'Acoustic Attack' - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe, interrogators? [dailymail.co.uk] Nah... Can't be. That's senate approved. Completely safe. Clearly, the Cubans did something sneaky. Maybe using Mambo, Swing and all that Jazz...
[11:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:24] <exec> 08└─I am interested in this as well. Have been looking at things like plasma mobile and Jolla lately, but i wonder how good these options actually are. I have no interest in pokemon apps and the like, but I do need a browser, email, etc stuff that works reliably and not to slow...
[11:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:26] <exec> 08└─If there's no particular reason you need a brand new model, you might look into older model Android phones that can be flashed to run current versions of Android/LineageOS/etc... My current phone is like four years old but runs a rooted, -O3 version of of the latest LineageOS (based on the latest re...
[11:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Tech Testing "Driverless" Car Driven by Guy Wearing a Car Seat Costume - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:49] <exec> 08└─Haven't you been paying attention? There's been much talk in recent years of autonomous cars droping their owner off somewhere and then going to find somewhere to park. And lots of other scenarios for driverless cars without anyone in the driver's seat. Not that there's much point in making eye cont...
[11:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:42] <exec> 08└─...he is trolling because he is saying things he believes in the face of all reason and fact!
[11:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:43] <exec> 08└─Dude, read the footnote. I shouldn't have to type "Whoosh" twice.
[11:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:45] <exec> 08└─I find that a lot of the world outside my little protective bubble does, for some reason, and it mystifies me as to why.
[11:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:47] <exec> 08└─RWNJ means?
[11:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:49] <exec> 08└─Bots on twitter? you don't say.
[11:30:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 1601 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:13] <exec> 08└─> If there were no johns, there would be no pimps. And something has gone massively fucking wrong with people > when they think they have a right to another person's sexuality, at *any* price. Religion and society frown upon men getting laid easily or for free, yet they have a strong impulse to it....
[11:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:22] <exec> 08└─If you take "victim" as "dead" then it's true. I'm not convinced. When the UK health system was attacked by the NSA's 'Eternal Blue' exploit, hospitals were affected. I don't think anyone can say for certain that nobody who died during that time would not have been saved had the US government not pr...
[11:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:24] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the data is available now, and I'm sure that if that exact situation happened next time a computer could have done what Sulley did, possibly better. However what happens next time there's something that hasn't been dealt with? But generally for every Sulley there's a Lubitz. In cars it's li...
[11:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:49] <exec> 08└─I have a footpath, it's like a treadmill but the belt is 25,000 miles long
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[12:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:15] <exec> 08└─I wonder how long it will be until TV implodes from people dumping cable for streaming only to have content producers jump ship and create their own streaming services. We go full circle back to having individual channels served up to us by the cable companies.
[12:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:17] <exec> 08└─Individual channels, but with on-demand content. But ten times as expensive as it's worth, probably.
[12:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:19] <exec> 08└─But Al-a-carte is the dream isn't it? Paying for only the channels you want? Rejoice! we won!
[12:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:21] <exec> 08└─Nah, the dream is using some Russian or Chinese or Barbados streaming site to get all of the content in one place, for free. While using an adblocker. Fall back to BitTorrent if you can't find something.
[12:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Embassy Employees in Cuba Possibly Subjected to 'Acoustic Attack' - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:30] <exec> 08└─It seems possible, but I don't understand the motive or whether or not the devices were built for that purpose.
[12:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Embassy Employees in Cuba Possibly Subjected to 'Acoustic Attack' - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:32] <exec> 08└─Isn't this kind of odd. If only two people are affected but it is supposed to be sound generated. So either other people are immune or not as effected by it or they are somehow creating a very narrow sound beam that only hits certain targeted people? At least it wasn't brown note generators ...
[12:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe you can get a nice deal on a BLU phone [soylentnews.org]?
[12:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:47] <exec> 08└─Much like this guy [xda-developers.com], I'm inclined towards Xiaomi since they have a good FOSS policy company-wide and offer cheap models with decent hardware. But there are a lot of recently added, and possibly better, options from many other manufacturers here: http://www.cyanogenmods.org
[12:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:49] <exec> 08└─Good luck finding a smartphone that actually provides root access to the owner of the device. Most mobile devices have to be rooted.
[12:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:51] <exec> 08└─This is a discussion relevant to me, too. I have a very old Samsung Stratosphere II I have been nursing along for years, having replaced several hardware components in it. The reason is I like the slide-out physical keyboard. Nobody has that anymore. I have been wondering if a mobile equivalent of S...
[12:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:26] <exec> 08└─Because shell scripts were "too complicated" to use and debug, LOL. Also it doesn't work because its running a windows DLL using the wine emulator, but thats OK, because whats really important is all systems use the same thing even if it doesn't work, and for no apparent reason gnome and kde require...
[12:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Target 2014 MU69 May be a "Contact Binary" - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:46] <exec> 08└─The names and numbers all mean something: When 2014 MU69 was first observed, it was labelled 1110113Y,[15] and nicknamed "11", for short.[5][3] Its existence as a potential target of the New Horizons probe was announced by NASA in October 2014[16][17] and it was unofficially designated PT1 ("Potenti...
[12:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Melt Season Leads to Decade-Long Ecosystem Changes in Antarctic Polar Desert - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:59] <exec> 08└─That probably isn't a good strategy rhetorically. You are calling a two year "pause" real after people have spent 15+ years calling another "pause" too short.
[12:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:30] <exec> 08└─If you devote more than than 60 minutes of your day to a commute, you may benefit immeasurably by looking for an alternative job or living arrangement that lets you devote more of your time to important, productive, or enjoyable activities.able. Life is short, don't spend it in traffic.
[12:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:32] <exec> 08└─Oh! The car, not the prostitute...you post made me do a double take.
[12:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngarrang [896] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:34] <exec> 08└─These kind of cars are not for people with a long commute like myself. Or, that don't like to fly and would prefer to drive through a few states. And this is okay. But, please, the adherents need to stop preaching these things as the answer to every driver. They are WAY too expensive. The people tha...
[12:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:54] <exec> 08└─Live Bugz: http://news.aviation-safety.net [aviation-safety.net] [aviation-safety.net]
[12:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:55] <exec> 08└─can have fuzzier thinking, slower reaction times, bigger distractions, and still make a solid
[12:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:57] <exec> 08└─And that seat function is very rarely used...
[12:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:00] <exec> 08└─Agree and extend your remarks with two paths One is the firmware on every deployed lidar shuts down at noon UTC on aug 15 2017 unless it can access a cryptographic update server in NK or something. So nuke NK or even merely shut off its inet access and every self driving car in the world crashes at...
[12:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:26] <exec> 08└─Hows the HVAC? Where I live the wx outdoors is really nice about 4 months per year. Not so good the rest of the year. I really enjoy hiking but its more of an "extra luxury" when ma nature cooperates, rather than something I do every day more or less before lunch.
[12:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah datacenters and UPS battery farms and hospitals and stuff like that. Also gotta be realistic, only maybe 5% of the population has a "thing" about requiring a window, most of the planet is pretty cool with their work cubicle or bedroom closet or shower stall not having an outdoor window. Along t...
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[13:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:23] <exec> 08└─Disney will be restricting themselves to a smaller audience, maybe they can increase profit margins enough to make that a good decision, but it will be reducing their market exposure. I suspect they're going to do this for 5-10 years, then cycle back out to whatever mainstream services are dominant...
[13:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:25] <exec> 08└─No, what we want is (a) for new, high-profile content, the ability to pay for only the shows we want to see. (b) for older "syndicated" content, few-year-old movies, classics and post-pub rubbish - a single subscription like Netflix, or Amazon Prime, offering a comprehensive range. Oh, and we want t...
[13:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:27] <exec> 08└─ESPN might help make the platform less niche. Get the parents paying for ESPN, and then the kids get Disney.
[13:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:29] <exec> 08└─Really it looks like you will have to splice that cord back together to get all the content you want in the same place. Good news for pirate sites though.
[13:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Embassy Employees in Cuba Possibly Subjected to 'Acoustic Attack' - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:40] <exec> 08└─Great plot for a movie. Seems like with an acoustic attack, you might hear it? Unless it was really low frequency in which case you would feel it. So that leaves really high frequency? Perhaps mask the attack with other noise. Did the victims like a particularly loud night club? Fortunately in the c...
[13:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Embassy Employees in Cuba Possibly Subjected to 'Acoustic Attack' - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:42] <exec> 08└─they probably tried to listen in on something they should not have, and in return, got punished. Besides, why else bring them to the US, Cuba has a better health care system.
[13:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Embassy Employees in Cuba Possibly Subjected to 'Acoustic Attack' - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:44] <exec> 08└─The daily mail? Really?
[13:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:02] <exec> 08└─OtterBox
[13:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:03] <exec> 08└─I did, but I do not consider it free (in the philosophical sense) and hackable enough. Perhaps I am wrong though?
[13:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:06] <exec> 08└─The quotes I've been getting from shops locally are that it will cost 80-100€ to repair the phone, which is irksome, as the phone itself is only 130€. Apparently I have to replace "both screens" which I guess is the glass front and the LCD behind it. I have refurbished my older Samsung Galaxy S4...
[13:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:08] <exec> 08└─+1 for LineageOS. If my phone gets broken it will be because I smash it for constantly nagging me. Or, you know, I could take control by installing a non-malicious OS that understands I am the boss. Look for used phones on https://swappa.com [swappa.com] perhaps already rooted and/or comes with an...
[13:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:43] <exec> 08└─Irony: All the systemd functionality could be achieved with shellscripts, without even having to change the SysVInit style of things. Everything. From the process control to the cgroups functionality to everything. But, apparently, it all had to be executables... erm... because. And now we have init...
[13:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:44] <exec> 08└─He says "As far as I know the first supervisor was daemontools, which hit the scene in the late 90s." So is he pleading ignorance, or saying that Unix in the 60's didn't have anything to handle this issue? I'm pretty sure the phone switching systems running 24/7 on this had to have the problem cover...
[13:30:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Prostitution Decriminalized: Rhode Island's Experiment - 444 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:41] <exec> 08└─This is the worst argument ever. Pretty much everyone "sells their body." It's called manual labor. Do you think miners are down there for the fun of it? No, they are there because they like getting paid. If this counts as exploitation in your book, then I guess we should ban it also. Free the wage...
[13:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:14] <exec> 08└─Oh, we also only made the boarding call because we were carry-on only, for a 3 week stay. That was one line we got to skip.
[13:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:16] <exec> 08└─Scalability is what corrective and preventative action loops and all that other design control quality crap is about. I call crap because regulations are forcing it on classes of systems which contain small simple products that don't significantly benefit from the processes. As you scale up the comp...
[13:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03What planet is this [5031] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:18] <exec> 08└─Talk about blue screen of death!
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[14:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:30] <exec> 08└─President Donald Trump appears to have painted himself into a corner: He must now follow up on his pledge of hitting North Korea with "fire and fury," or he risks further blowing U.S. credibility.
[14:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:32] <exec> 08└─their South Korean counterparts
[14:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:34] <exec> 08└─Do you have anything besides adjectives?
[14:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:36] <exec> 08└─Not sure what you mean. GP gave me some helpful prepositions, dull but necessary articles, informative nouns (couple proper ones too along with other decent, hard-working words that are pro-noun), a nice assortment of good, simple verbs, and even a few basic adverbs. Was honestly disappointed. Didn'...
[14:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:38] <exec> 08└─Oh you shouldn't have owned up to the mistake! It was better when Trump couldn't tell the difference between the North and South.
[14:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:40] <exec> 08└─Adjectives are useless.
[14:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:42] <exec> 08└─We have to let them draw first blood. Then extermination will be fully justified. I hope Trump has the guts to follow through.
[14:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:57] <exec> 08└─It's not a dream, more like a nightmare. Each "channel" will require their own accounts, play pricing games, bidding wars on content so shows bounce from one service another, and increases in advertising. And on top of that we might have ISP's playing net neutrality games charging you more and more...
[14:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:59] <exec> 08└─That won't work, cable today is basically a bunch of ads and shitty self-produced garbage/reality tv/other shit nobody wants to watch. To get the content that was on old-cable you need to spend just as much on individual pay TV channels that will fleece you just as much as the plethora of streaming...
[14:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Embassy Employees in Cuba Possibly Subjected to 'Acoustic Attack' - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:12] <exec> 08└─Seems like with an acoustic attack, you might hear it?
[14:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Embassy Employees in Cuba Possibly Subjected to 'Acoustic Attack' - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:13] <exec> 08└─Making a person feel uneasy is a much lower bar than making them sick. My experience is you feel low freq a long time before it causes serious harm.
[14:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:36] <exec> 08└─Since the Stratosphere is a Verizon phone, the newest physical keyboard phone is the LG Enact. I personally use the LG Mach on Boost(unlimited 4G) and the Motorola Photon Q on Freedompop. I like the Motorola more, but it double keys for some reason(bad keyboard?). The LG Mach is a usable phone even...
[14:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:37] <exec> 08└─I used to swear by MIUI until last year. Not anymore. Their latest and greatest version has constantly regressed. Off the top of my head, it is now impossible to remove stock apps, delete whole threads of SMS (it crashes), impossible to set a live lock screen wallpaper. Their service is so bad, it i...
[14:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:39] <exec> 08└─Cat (Caterpillar) has a range of more or less indestructible phones. Designed for use in construction, farming or general outdoor activities. The top model Cat S60 has a FLIR (infrared camera) and a 3800 mAh battery. I'm very happy with it, after several expensive phones that liked to break all on t...
[14:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:41] <exec> 08└─While all the comments here are referring to used android phones, even I have one running Lineage OS has a backup business phone. For a new phone, recommend Moto G4. Its unlocked and comes only in two version, USA and international. The USA model I have, it works on all carriers. Thats right, ALL US...
[14:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:08] <exec> 08└─No, the world will not be moving to EVs. They cost more. Gasoline is going to be around for a very long time yet. It will continue to dominate easily throughout your lifetime. Make your peace with that.
[14:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:59] <exec> 08└─I wonder that, if that had happened, 9/11 wouldn't have done (as the concept would have actually been known). It also occurs that with fully-automated planes with no onboard controls at all, 9/11 (and any other hijacks) wouldn't have happened. You wouldn't need any security at all either if there's...
[14:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:00] <exec> 08└─I wish this were true, but the fascist sons of bitches are even at the local subway stations. With assault rifles for my safety, of course.
[14:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:03] <exec> 08└─Touche!
[14:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:05] <exec> 08└─I (meaning, my prejudices) would say that airline pilots have more alcoholics and philanderers per-capita than all the other groups, far more than engineers, programmers, and by extension of those: soylent news posters.
[14:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:37] <exec> 08└─Once I pointed out the problem the landlord had their new handyman install one, but that involved cutting through the tile floor to get to it. Major work to fix one forgotten piece.
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[15:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:34] <exec> 08└─So are there enough of those black holes to explain dark matter?
[15:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:36] <exec> 08└─Do we know without a doubt that they exist at all? Because according to theory, the whole universe should get swallowed up, right?
[15:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:38] <exec> 08└─Because according to theory, the whole universe should get swallowed up, right?
[15:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:51] <exec> 08└─-1, Flamebait? Please! More politically correct bullshit that will be our downfall. These assholes declared was on the US. We should bomb them now, but letting them fire the first shot makes it more justifiable and easier to sell to the public. I say we eliminate the threat! I hope Trump feels the s...
[15:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:53] <exec> 08└─They've tried diplomatic channels, sanctions, and now threats. Maybe we should get to the heart of the matter and block N.K. imports of twinkies so fat-fingered Kim can get out of his sugar rush.
[15:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:55] <exec> 08└─Blood? I see Trump and Kim as peas in a pod -- both the result of a coddled childhood with rich, powerful fathers. Why not put the two of them in the ring to fight, sumo style?
[15:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:57] <exec> 08└─You are pretty fucking cavalier about "letting them draw first blood". So you'd happily let Kim wipe out Guam just so you can feel better about stroking your nuclear rage-boner? If it's so damned important and "political correctness" means so little to you, why not save a bunch of american lives and...
[15:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:59] <exec> 08└─That would turn gay really quick, which would result in liberals no longer being allowed to hate them.
[15:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:01] <exec> 08└─There's no bad result for Trump (as Trump sees it). Let's take a look at the possibilities: NK doesn't have a capable missile: NK doesn't do anything, NK looks weak/crazy, Trump claims to be a genius because he "knew" that NK couldn't do anything to the USNK has the missile, but not a functional war...
[15:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:03] <exec> 08└─I hate to say it, but the other AC absolutely right - an attack on American soil historically does absolute wonders for getting the general public to accept military action. Trump attacking first would be a significantly worse move politically.
[15:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:06] <exec> 08└─On the other other hand
[15:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:22] <exec> 08└─Ah shit, does that mean that there will be no new series of Luke Cage, Daredevil, Iron Fist or Jessica Jones? Or will they be "rebooted" with new actors, plots and stories? If so, count me out.
[15:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Embassy Employees in Cuba Possibly Subjected to 'Acoustic Attack' - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:37] <exec> 08└─You probably nailed it. Eavesdropping on audio from a windowpane which had audio anti-eavesdropping measures causing sickness.
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[15:26:39] <exec> 08└─#FakeNoise
[15:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ptman [5676] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:05] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping something will come out of this: https://www.indiegogo.com [indiegogo.com]
[15:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:07] <exec> 08└─Most of what you describe sounds fantastic but Can be book unlocked via website to load a different ROM
[15:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:09] <exec> 08└─It's a carrier, not a phone maker, but check out Consumer Cellular's site. They definitely seem to be marketing to grannies of some sort.
[15:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:11] <exec> 08└─Blackberry phones are just Android these days. They have a very locked-down bootloader and some extra security stuff that may or may not actually help. I have one because I wanted a physical keyboard, and they're really the only option. (I'd rather have a phone based on their previous QNX-derived OS...
[15:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:13] <exec> 08└─Got one last March for $80, very nice. Problems? Sound isn't loud enough, with the volume at max setting I can barely hear a phone call, nor the ringer. I can hear MP3's, but I'd like them to be louder. I also seem to have an issue with my ring tone. I set it to what I want, and next time the phone...
[15:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:15] <exec> 08└─Blackberry Priv or KeyOne. If you don't care about apps AT ALL beyond email and a browser, a Q10, Classic, or Passport.
[15:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:17] <exec> 08└─Erm... If you have a Samsung Galaxy S4, what do you gain by buying another phone? The Galaxy S4 is easy as hell to flash new firmware on and it runs the latest LineageOS peachy keen.
[15:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:20] <exec> 08└─I did this with the Nexus 5x. It is about the oldest phone with a lot of LTE antennas (it will get LTE service in most countries). Also the Nexus line has a decent track record of supporting the developer community. I payed about $200 a year ago for a used device in the USA.
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:22] <exec> 08└─I hate to say this, as Jolla was a breakaway from a Nokia project I was part of, and I know lots of people who worked on the project, and I respect those I know enormously, but I think Jolla is mostly unusable crap. It look many of the worst ideas of Harmattan (nokia N9), and managed to make them wo...
[15:28:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:27] <exec> 08└─"manipulate stock markets, make people choose dangerous health-care options, and manipulate elections" Oh, they mean advertising.
[15:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:10] <exec> 08└─You miss the point. It isn't about needing to commute four hours, it isn't about driving four hours on a "regular" basis. It is about knowing you are on a short leash, you CAN'T take off on a day trip to a spot a hundred miles away without worrying about working charging into your schedule.
[15:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:12] <exec> 08└─These days ICE cars don't usually fail due to the engine -- if you stay on the maintenance schedule and do the seals and belts/chains every 100,000 miles or whatever the rest of the car will usually fall apart before the engine goes. The wear and tear on the interior, the switches, the electrical sy...
[15:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:45] <exec> 08└─Sure, but it should at least mean an end to the groping to get on a plane.
[15:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:47] <exec> 08└─Modern planes and fly-by-wire -- they rely on computers to fly now. Hell I rented a car a few months back, the handbrake was electronic, and just next to the 'powered by microsoft' button. I was very comforted. We're run by avaricious Ferengi trying to cut costs everywhere. How would you feel dying...
[15:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:49] <exec> 08└─Sure. Just as soon as they certify them safe, install seats that weren't designed by a one-armed, one-legged dwarf engineer, and get rid of the TSA and all the rest of the idiotic security theater. I flew from Delhi to London yesterday - Two arm rests - check - plenty of legroom - check - No TSA -...
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[16:25:24] <exec> 08└─Nit-pick here. Not quite exactly. They would no longer experience the solar wind [wikipedia.org], or radiation pressure [wikipedia.org], which would probably decrease the orbital radius slightly. In addition, I don't know if the Sun's magnetic field and a black hole's would be similar enough not to...
[16:25:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:31] <exec> 08└─President Donald Trump appears to have painted himself into a corner: He must now follow up on his pledge of hitting North Korea with "fire and fury," or he risks further blowing U.S. credibility.
[16:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─Go back to the hospital McCain, we are tired of your boomer warmongering.
[16:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:48] <exec> 08└─Based on how things have gone down so far, I see it as much more likely the left would turn on LGBT before they accepted Trump. My reason for believing this is CNN having articles about how paid maternity leave was bad for women just after Ivanka said it was one of her fathers goals.
[16:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:50] <exec> 08└─- Kim doesn't fire his test missile but continues to prod Trump until Trump does something rash. The situation continues to escalate until some kind of hostile incident occurs between US and China / China, and suddenly all Trump's big talk about the size of his weapons looks a lot less impressive. I...
[16:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:52] <exec> 08└─I find it somewhat odd that in the current reporting of the incident Trump is still painted as the insane one, not Kim even tho he has been trying to blackmail the world for decades and his father before him. Someone, Trump, has finally called the NK-nuke-for-aid-bluff for what it is and decided to...
[16:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not happy unless I get at least two gerunds.
[16:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:56] <exec> 08└─Trump's basic response to any opposition from anybody, for any reason, is to find ways to hurt them until they comply with his demands. So his reaction to Kim Jong Un is completely 100% predictable, because it would not occur to him to do anything else. Kim Jong Un, for his side in all this, is not...
[16:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:58] <exec> 08└─Except that conventional weapons that North Korea has can reach millions of people in South Korea and China. Nailing an ally in dealing with the North would be just as bad or worse than hitting Guam.
[16:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:00] <exec> 08└─You make good points. The NK situation is not and never has been an easy one and it's not fair to blame Trump for not fixing it. I'm not sure anyone could fix it. The two possible paths seem to be indefinite appeasement or mass killings. None of this doesn't make Trump any less insane, of course. Ki...
[16:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:03] <exec> 08└─I find it somewhat odd that in the current reporting of the incident Trump is still painted as the insane one, not Kim even tho he has been trying to blackmail the world for decades and his father before him Because we expect the leader of north korea to the be the insane one. We expect the 'leader...
[16:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:05] <exec> 08└─Kim is a smart cookie, or at least North Korea is playing it pretty smart. Does anyone remember "The Axis of Evil [wikipedia.org]"? There were three countries that made up this group Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. One of the three complied with all requests made by America. They let arms inspectors...
[16:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:07] <exec> 08└─why not save a bunch of american lives and strike first? I would prefer that, but sometimes sacrifices must be made for good public relations. We don't want the whole world turning against us. And besides, we have over 7.5 billion people on the planet. So what if we lose 3 or 4 billion? Personally,...
[16:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─"wider conflicts" -- let's remember that China has a defense treaty with North Korea that *requires* them to go to war on their behalf if they're attacked.
[16:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:28] <exec> 08└─Oh, and we want to be able to "rent" a recent movie online, in HD, for significantly less than it costs to *buy and keep* a nicely packaged DVD/blu-ray with bonus content etc.
[16:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:29] <exec> 08└─Is the profits for content providers on Netflix that bad?
[16:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:31] <exec> 08└─Those series will continue to live on Netflix and be developed, is my understanding.
[16:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Embassy Employees in Cuba Possibly Subjected to 'Acoustic Attack' - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:48] <exec> 08└─> Did the victims like a particularly loud night club? And did he often hit his head on the floor when he fell over after drinking too much rum?
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe a better thing to recommend is not phone models, but phone vendors. I have no idea if Carphone Warehouse are as good now as they were in the 90s when I was first buying a mobile phone, but they used to have a great "if you don't like it, bring it back within 2 weeks for a full refund" promise....
[16:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:25] <exec> 08└─And that is precisely why, despite having a couple of more modern phone models in my drawers, I still use my Nokia N900. I like it as it's not a phone, it's a computer that happens to have phone functionality.
[16:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:27] <exec> 08└─That's been a constant annoyance. I had a nexus one years ago that made the process trivial, but those aren't cheap phones and these days they don't even come with removable batteries and micro sd slots as far as I can tell.
[16:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─Don't buy from LG, I'm on my 3rd v10 because the idiots couldn't engineer it right, and I have yet to find a way of getting root. If steer clear until they demonstrate that they know what qa is.
[16:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks for this. The 150€ is to enable me to buy a device that has 3/4G connectivity, to allow it to work as a hotspot for a tablet or some other devices, and I would like potentially to use it as a navigation device, hence why smartphones are in scope of the recommendations. I have almost always...
[16:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, it also has a replaceable battery. I'm working on doing exactly as you say, putting LineageOS on it, and in the end that may suffice. However, I don't know if it safeguards against the problem I ran into on holidays, that is, if dropped and the screen cracks, the phone may become unusable. A de...
[16:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:36] <exec> 08└─"Perhaps the best alternative is a redundant array of inexpensive phones. Once you get past the "I must have one and only one phone for five years" thing, for the cost of a really tough top end phone you can buy a new "pay as you go" phone every week or two for practically nothing, even cheaper if y...
[16:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:38] <exec> 08└─That looks like a winner. Thanks! I'll be watching that.
[16:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:40] <exec> 08└─The obsolescence of my current device has been growing as an issue for a while now, and, also, I've grown so irritated with government and corporate overreach that I just don't trust a damn thing they have to offer. So I've been toying with the idea of rolling my own from scratch so it has the featu...
[16:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Tech Testing "Driverless" Car Driven by Guy Wearing a Car Seat Costume - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:03] <exec> 08└─There's a cop who lectures bike groups, who says that making eye contact with drivers is pointless. They will look right through you and drive over you anyway. The thing to do is watch their wheels. You can see a wheel start to turn or spin much sooner than you can see the car start to move.
[16:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:00] <exec> 08└─Hey look, here is one now! Hi nutto :)
[16:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:02] <exec> 08└─Fascist partisan motherfucker. It is good you went the libertarian route, helps keep your natural tendencies in check.
[16:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:04] <exec> 08└─A shit turd learning from a shit sandwich how to misquote. Get an original thought once in a while, putting a disclaimer on a bad quote is stupid.
[16:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:06] <exec> 08└─It is sad to she jmortis constantly modded insightful. Guess there is nothing left in the RWNJ arsenal but bullshit and vote manipulation. #sad
[16:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:08] <exec> 08└─In my day we got a thing called an education. Apart from being taught reading, writing and arithmetic we were taught to argue about things. They beat Shakespeare into us (just to goad us with gobbledygook and the fact that he got to invent words when he couldn't think of them but we're not allowed t...
[16:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Melt Season Leads to Decade-Long Ecosystem Changes in Antarctic Polar Desert - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:01] <exec> 08└─So only manmade warming supporters are allowed to talk about longterm trends? The solar cycle is only 11 years! So, no, if you're talking about solar maxima/minima then you're basically limited to stretches of 11 years. I'll also not that the 2013/14 maxima was the lowest in 100 years! [space.com] I...
[16:31:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:29] <exec> 08└─You also failed to mention the fast chargers that are available in locations convenient to most people driving > 4 hours per day.
[16:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:38] <exec> 08└─I drive 25 miles to work, each way, every day. My company is moving in the near future, and that will increase to 35 miles each way. There are many examples of people who drive MUCH more than 25 miles a day. My BIL drives 100 miles each way to work every day due to SF Bay Area housing prices and the...
[16:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:14] <exec> 08└─If we replace the pilots with sysadmins, do you really think we won't end up with sysadmins doing the same things?
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[17:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:22] <exec> 08└─I'm gluten intolerant.
[17:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─More common just like how hurricanes were supposed to be more common I guess
[17:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:34] <exec> 08└─They may have taken the "picture" in April: http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] Scientists believe they are on the verge of obtaining the first ever picture of a black hole. They have built an Earth-sized "virtual telescope" by linking a large array of radio receivers - fr...
[17:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─So are there enough of those black holes to explain dark matter?
[17:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:38] <exec> 08└─Tens of millions of black holes? Did someone point a telescope at Africa?
[17:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:40] <exec> 08└─+1 Pedantic
[17:26:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number6x [903] 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 1431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─Kim is a smart cookie, or at least North Korea is playing it pretty smart. Does anyone remember "The Axis of Evil [wikipedia.org]"? There were three countries that made up this group Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. One of the three complied with all requests made by America. They let arms inspectors...
[17:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:14] <exec> 08└─He flat out told it like it is, this would be one of the most one sided wars ever and all that would be left might be one smoldering crater of a nation.
[17:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:16] <exec> 08└─North Korea is a nearly impossible intelligence target. We know shockingly little about what goes on there. How, then, could the intelligence community be so certain about the most intimate details of the most closely guarded military program there? The report is from un-named sources. Are those sou...
[17:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:18] <exec> 08└─Another way to know is that the US military allows personnel stationed in Seoul to bring their families along. If the families head home, the generals think it's going down.
[17:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:20] <exec> 08└─There may be covert means of gathering the intelligence, such as covert acoustic devices. :^)
[17:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:22] <exec> 08└─>this would be one of the most one sided wars ever The estimates of allied casualties in a conventional war are horrifying. The North Koreans learned all about US air power over fifty years ago and have been digging in ever since. Digging them out would be bloody and horrible, and Seoul would be in...
[17:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks Obama for sitting on your ass for 8 years while the little fatty (following the big fatty) was building an ICBM and nuke. Maybe you shouldn't have tried to appease Russia by not deploying missile shield you useless fucking coward.
[17:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 2287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:27] <exec> 08└─You, and others, are dramatically underestimating the challenge of combat. We've lost thousands of soldiers in Iraq to guerrilla forces that are literally using WW2 era rifles and home made explosives. And their entire forces are a minuscule fraction of what North Korea has. Literally 30% [wikipedia...
[17:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:29] <exec> 08└─Ahh yes, trump points us towards a nuclear war so its Obama's fault. Keep it classy trumpites.
[17:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:31] <exec> 08└─Not operating under that impression at all. A war in the area would be a disaster, for all involved and possible the area at large and I have no doubts about that. NK isn't going to just roll over and die. What I do believe Trump has done is to tell Kim that he ain't getting one more dollar and any...
[17:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:53] <exec> 08└─please explain in detail how we can have both. One word: bittorrent. Time for us to set the rules and the prices.
[17:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 2073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:54] <exec> 08└─How long before every big content corporation does the same? (my guess is they are all planning it now, and have been for a while.) If you want to see Disney/ABC/ESPN/Marvel/Star Wars content you will have to subscribe to Disney. If you want to see Time Warner/HBO/Cartoon Network/TBS/TNT you will ha...
[17:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:56] <exec> 08└─The solution: more Big Content mergers!
[17:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:58] <exec> 08└─One word: bittorrent.
[17:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:01] <exec> 08└─So which do Soylentils actually want? A discount for a limited viewing period, or ending DRM? If you find this a false dilemma, please explain in detail how we can have both.
[17:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:02] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that. I used to have LGs and then switched to the Samsung lines. Is the Enact sound?
[17:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 1803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:03] <exec> 08└─> I used to swear by MIUI until last year. Not anymore. Ha? Just switch to non-MiUI apps or LineageOS like OP suggested. That's the whole premise of the reply. > it is now impossible to remove stock apps That's Google's policy. The way they told the OEMs to do things is to allow users to install wha...
[17:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:28] <exec> 08└─we have educations, too -- they teach us now to learn the controversy by forcing creationist views into science classes. You'd think right wingers would claim that is a SJW approach, but no, it's SJW when people that trust the science don't want their kids getting someone else's religious beliefs ta...
[17:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:48] <exec> 08└─Compared to other things the problem of starting tasks in a proper order and keeping them running is a simple problem.
[17:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, there are plenty of computer-controlled engines that do fire the spark plugs when they don't need to. It's called "wasted spark." There are two advantages to this setup. First is that two cylinders can share one ignition coil What in the hell are you talking about? When was the last time y...
[17:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:41] <exec> 08└─I remember my Wankel days fondly. When I was younger and very poor I scrimped and saved to buy an old RX-7. What a machine that was. It was the best fun I've ever had. It lasted two years before the engine gave out at 127k miles. It was one of the really old ones with the 12A engine and it looked li...
[17:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:43] <exec> 08└─Wow, this is an incredibly stupid post. If you were around in the early 1900s, you would have said the same thing about horse-drawn carriages. Back around 2005, you were probably saying that smartphones would never become popular with consumers. EVs are only expensive now because of the cost of batt...
[17:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:45] <exec> 08└─No, they're too late. The era of gasoline and diesel is ebbing and the era of electric has begun.
[17:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:47] <exec> 08└─No, the world will not be moving to EVs. They cost more. "No, the world will not be moving to personal computers, they're $4,000 and a typewriter is only a hundred." ALL new tech is more expensive than new twch at first. Plus, the maintenance costs of electric are far lower--no oil or coolant change...
[17:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:49] <exec> 08└─No one uses separate ignition coils any more: every car now uses coil-on-plug ignition.
[17:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:51] <exec> 08└─Checkout Mazda i-eloop setup. Regenerative braking with a capacitor. I think you end up with most of the great benefits of a prius style hybrid, ie. capture breaking energy to use again to get going, but without all the weight of the batteries. It's an interesting setup. I assume that's going to be...
[17:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:53] <exec> 08└─Early ones sure. Turbo Charged one, definitely. Naturally Aspirated 12a and 13b motors from the 80's and 90's are good for a 150K+
[17:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Ruler" Form Factor for Server SSDs - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:09] <exec> 08└─You're looking at it wrong, I think. Our evolved ability to store images is imprecise, somewhat arbitrary, and subject to crosstalk with other storage. I would give a lot to be able to actually recall an image correctly. An AI will be able to do that. This is highly desirable. If it costs more stora...
[17:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Pilot? No Way! - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:52] <exec> 08└─The Ferengi aren't stupid enough to kill their customers.
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[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─To clarify, glad you're not affected by wheat crop, but not sure it's a good thing that you're gluten intolerant.
[18:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:30] <exec> 08└─Good thing I'm on a ketogenic diet now and don't touch anything with carbs in it... It's going to spike the price of bread, cereal, and many processed foods and that's gonna sting for a lot of people, but on the bright side people in America need to go on a diet and stop eating so much sugar and car...
[18:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:32] <exec> 08└─More common just like how hurricanes were supposed to be more common I guess Hurricanes have become more common. [wunderground.com] "... the number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes had increased 80% in the past 30 years." However, you miss-state the scientific consensus on the issue. "Though there is...
[18:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:34] <exec> 08└─They have been changing the definitions of those categories so you are comparing apples to oranges, also the score depends on population density... Since the NHC had previously rounded incorrectly to keep storms in Category 4 in each unit of measure, the change does not affect the classification of...
[18:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:36] <exec> 08└─TFS speweth the following malarky: Those sorts of rapid swings between extreme precipitation and flooding on the one hand, and extreme flash droughts on the other, are only going to become more common from here on out. Eventually, most of the agriculture in the region will have to cease.
[18:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:38] <exec> 08└─Damnit, I read my post several times and missed this anyway. A few minutes of editing opportunity would be so welcome.... sigh. * no one has and any idea...
[18:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:40] <exec> 08└─you still "touch" carbs indirectly, as your non-carb products are probably fed a rather high carb diet, which is based off if cereal grains or byproducts.
[18:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:43] <exec> 08└─The irony of Grist reporting on lack of grain is quite rich
[18:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:45] <exec> 08└─Darn optimists! "It's not a famine, it's a diet opportunity!"
[18:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:47] <exec> 08└─I'm confused. Are we talking about celiac disease [wikipedia.org]? Or are we complaining about health food fads?
[18:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:49] <exec> 08└─Oklahoma was going through an extended wet cycle, which made crop raising there quite productive. Then the Dust Bowl suddenly happened, returning the region back to the longer cycle "norm", where it is now. farmers and ranchers usually can absorb a "big hit" every once in awhile. Part of their conse...
[18:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/04/extreme-heat-warnings-issued-europe-temperatures-pass-40c [theguardian.com] https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Lots of crops damage ($billions) and a few fatalities from dehydration. "Lucifer" they called...
[18:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:53] <exec> 08└─Look here [usda.gov]. The inflation-adjusted cost of wheat and other crops is on a long-term decline. There's no sign of a problem due to man-made climate change.
[18:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah my son too, the bad news is instead of using wheat as a filler, "they" will have to use GF grains as filler, raising the prices of GF stuff even more. So the GF birthday cake mix will be $8 now instead of $6 per box or whatever. After the first couple years we just don't eat grains stuff, gener...
[18:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:58] <exec> 08└─You Warmers wonder why we yawn at the daily Doom! thread? Because you are worse than Zero Hedge in proclaiming Doom! daily and things failing to go boom. We don't care if you are lying or deluded anymore, we know you can be ignored so we stop the thought process there. If an unexpected calamity were...
[18:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─Nothing fattens up mammals quite like corn products, see both livestock farmers AND the fatties on peopleofwalmart.com Its all one big icky interconnected marketplace. Less wheat means more corn demand means more demand for grass fed beef means my local farmer who sells me 1/2 cows is gonna end up c...
[18:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:15] <exec> 08└─You'll never find one for real. The acceleration attributed to black holes is electromotive force from the same galactic currents who's z-pinch creates arms of spiral galaxies. Also, Quasars prove non-cosmological redshift exists. They're not brighter than entire galaxies, redshift can just be cause...
[18:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:16] <exec> 08└─I think this is more invisible stuff in addition to dark matter and dark energy. So if those two account for 96% of the universe, and there are 10^8 black holes each the mass of 30 suns in a galaxy with the mass of 10^12 suns, we should add another 0.3% giving 96.3%. https://www.space.com
[18:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:18] <exec> 08└─If black holes don't exist, where did you crawl out of? The Time Cube?
[18:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:01] <exec> 08└─Exactly. First the false flag, then the "counter" attack.
[18:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:03] <exec> 08└─Personally, I would prefer to get rid of about 5 or 6. You do realize the odds you are giving yourself here. Not a great chance that you would be in the remaining 1.5-2.5, and even then you might wish you were part of the 5/6.
[18:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:05] <exec> 08└─Trump likes to negotiate from a strong position. If you come to the table with: "Stop the threats or face hell fire, we're getting everyone on our side so we won't have any fear of retaliation." then you're in a MUCH better position to negotiate than if you come to the table with, "I really wish you...
[18:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─And you seem to be completely ignorant about the true nature of war. [youtube.com]
[18:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:09] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't have voted Trump in in the first place :) Fucking union pigdog, living off his daddy's wealth!
[18:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:11] <exec> 08└─At face value, you are correct. OTOH, evacuation of dependents would be seen as provocative if in fact we seek peace, and as telegraphing the punch if we opt for war. Since boots on the Korean ground is a military liability anyway (too few, and pre-registered by plentiful NK arty), pulling back ever...
[18:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:13] <exec> 08└─I'm partial to dangling participles, myself. They're the naughty bits of grammar.
[18:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:16] <exec> 08└─And the United States has a defense treaty with NATO that requires its members to go to war if any of them is attacked. I think China would work pretty hard to find a loophole in the agreement to get themselves out of the pact with NK. On another level, China and the US are on a collision course. Be...
[18:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:18] <exec> 08└─I think strategic planners know this. China is keenly aware that the US boomers in the Pacific can be repositioned and alerted for a possible low-trajectory counterforce strike that would neuter China's rather small arsenal with very little warning. China is not prepared, or obligated, to commit sui...
[18:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:20] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/04/06/1722245 [soylentnews.org]
[18:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:49] <exec> 08└─Laptops, too.
[18:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:50] <exec> 08└─Another vote for Moto G series. Closest you can get to pure Android (without the high cost of the Pixel or Nexus flagships.) I got my G5 Plus for about $200. Due note, however, that this year's model is the G5 [wikipedia.org] (aluminum body, fingerprint reader, slightly faster CPU) while last year's...
[18:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:52] <exec> 08└─It's really pretty easy. Heimdall and the builds here [lineageos.org] won't let you flash the wrong model's image. If you need an image for the Sprint model or a little more responsiveness and control, the guys over here [androidfilehost.com] built an optimized version. Just keep in mind that all yo...
[18:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:55] <exec> 08└─Oops, forgot instructions for the optimized build are here [xda-developers.com].
[18:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:21] <exec> 08└─Republicans fillibustered single-payer out of the ACA. Put the blame where it belongs.
[18:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:23] <exec> 08└─Fascist and partisan while being a libertarian? You really need to look those words up. You obviously lack any understanding of their meanings. Motherfucker is accurate enough though.
[18:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:25] <exec> 08└─"Shit turd"? Really? You're such a butt ass.
[18:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:45] <exec> 08└─init system binaries running their own DNS resolver (badly)
[18:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 1396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:44] <exec> 08└─So, I'm as big of a Rotary fanboy as you'll ever meet. Here's the thing, all the classic advantages of a rotary, Flat torque curve, great power/displacement ratio, etc, are no longer unique advantages. Piston Engine development has completely overcome those particular short comings. Variable Valve...
[18:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 1983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I have a Mazda 3 with this. They're actually dropping it on the 2018 models because so few buyers wanted it: they decoupled it from the other safety features on the 2017 model, offering it as a stand-alone option (which probably got close to zero buyers), and now they're dropping it entirely....
[18:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:48] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right about his post being incredibly stupid, and I like your PC/typewriter analogy. However, the maintenance cost thing I don't think is quite true. Teslas have very expensive maintenance, way more than my Mazda, and it does include changing the coolant: EVs use coolant to cool th...
[18:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:50] <exec> 08└─Finally, there's this: ie. capture breaking energy to use again to get going, Surely you aren't a real mechanic.
[18:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:52] <exec> 08└─There are definitely cars made within the last decade that are still sharing a coil pack across opposing cylinders. Name one. Sometimes it's a strange hybrid setup like on the 98-2005 Miata 2005 was 12 years ago. Are you not aware that we are currently in 2017? or the "Coil Rail" in my 2006 Wrangler...
[18:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:54] <exec> 08└─eh, 10,11 years...what's a model year between friends?
[18:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extreme Melt Season Leads to Decade-Long Ecosystem Changes in Antarctic Polar Desert - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:40] <exec> 08└─If you see something happen the same way 20 times, and then you see it happen differently the 21st time, you'd certainly call that an outlier based on given data, no? Nobody doubts 100-year events. It's still interesting to see what they are. Oh, and also, you can look at ice cores and soil composit...
[18:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extreme Melt Season Leads to Decade-Long Ecosystem Changes in Antarctic Polar Desert - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:41] <exec> 08└─Parts of antarctica frequently cool when the rest of the world is heating up. It's actually pretty interesting. https://data.giss.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] is a really handy resource.
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[19:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:18] <exec> 08└─The idea of platoons (cars and/or trucks) keeps coming around. It has the engineers fascinated with reduced air drag and better mileage for the group, not to mention less drivers to pay. But it will be a real pain for other road users, for example, if you are in the fast (left in most countries) lan...
[19:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:20] <exec> 08└─I'm only interested in trolley problems.
[19:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:22] <exec> 08└─For follow-ons so tight as to take advantage of drafting, there's also "if the first truck crashes, then the rest..." There are likely engineering solutions to that, but I do worry a bit about the first series of implementations. I drive a lot.
[19:25:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:36] <exec> 08└─TFS speweth the following malarky: Those sorts of rapid swings between extreme precipitation and flooding on the one hand, and extreme flash droughts on the other, are only going to become more common from here on out. Eventually, most of the agriculture in the region will have to cease.
[19:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:48] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the quote is taken verbatim from TFA. So it's the article, not the submitter, who's at fault. But, yeah. [Citation Needed] on this claim. It doesn't inspire confidence in the article that the quote you reference is in a paragraph immediately following one that actually IS a quote from a...
[19:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:49] <exec> 08└─farmers and ranchers usually can absorb a "big hit" every once in awhile. Part of their conservatism is driven by this. But it doesnt take too many big hit events in a row to push them over the edge.
[19:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:51] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. Next year will be better.
[19:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:54] <exec> 08└─There is a little of both. Gluten intolerance (GI) includes more than just Celiac Disease, but actual scientific studies put the prevalence less than most realize even when you count those that are asymptomatic. According to my gastroenterologist (that I see for things other than GI), the last time...
[19:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:11] <exec> 08└─Ok, let's try that and make measurements to settle this argument.
[19:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:13] <exec> 08└─However, if you start accounting for things like that, and begin giving people an accurate picture of the cosmos then you get drummed out of academia.
[19:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:07] <exec> 08└─Report is unimpeachable, comes straight from the chair of Lockheed. Buy more interceptors!
[19:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:08] <exec> 08└─The really scary thing is Trump appears to be nearly as ignorant of the subject as you are.
[19:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:10] <exec> 08└─In the Korean War we attempted to invade North Korea and lost there unambiguously.
[19:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:13] <exec> 08└─It was just over a week ago that scenario made the news, and apparently people are shocked to find out that Commanders are going to obey the President, even if it is Trump. Pacific Fleet commander Scott Swift told a security conference in Australia that all members of US military had sworn an oath t...
[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:15] <exec> 08└─I bought one of Trump's books from a second-hand stall - but the previous owner had already coloured it in.
[19:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:17] <exec> 08└─Trump knows China won't do squat if we hit NK. China knows we keep 3 missile subs on patrol in the Pacific. Each carries 24 missiles, with 5-7 warheads each. At minimum, that's about 360 warheads ready to go. The boats can be moved in close undetected and the missiles can be fired on a low-trajector...
[19:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 2988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:19] <exec> 08└─NK is weird. Its not like north vs south dakota. I used to work with a SK dude and verified my data today via wikipedia. "In the good old days" back when cigarette smoke and leaded gas were good for you, "we" did about 100 above ground nuke tests, sometimes multiple tests per year. It'll piss people...
[19:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:21] <exec> 08└─"The happier your enemy is, the more he has to lose."
[19:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:23] <exec> 08└─> What did the USA do in response? It invaded... Maybe. Not sure I'm going to accept your line of reasoning. I thought we went into Iraq because Bush-2 thought Saddam was after his Daddy. And for the oil. No oil in N. Korea (maybe some coal--do you think Trump will be interested in non-USA coal??)
[19:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:25] <exec> 08└─> All the pundits are morons who haven't read any of Trump's books. Just so we are clear on this, Trump hasn't read Trumps book(s) either -- see, http://www.newyorker.com [newyorker.com] For the tell-all by the ghostwriter.
[19:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:28] <exec> 08└─How, then, could the intelligence community
[19:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:30] <exec> 08└─Right: - Phase 1: US+South Korea vs North Korea. We get crushed. - Phase 2: UN + US + South Korea vs North Korea. We do well. - Phase 3: UN + US + South Korea vs North Korea + limited Chinese force. We get pushed back. - Phase 4: More or less a stalemate. This in no way goes against wha...
[19:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 2151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:57] <exec> 08└─If you have been reading these threads about streaming for any length of time you have read me predicting exactly this outcome. So long as Netflix was an "in addition to" cable service, basically reselling the same shows the customer had already paid the cable company (and thus Hollywood) for they w...
[19:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:58] <exec> 08└─Yet many of us also want to end digital restrictions management (DRM) [defectivebydesign.org]. But as far as I can tell, the only way "rent" can be cheaper than "buy and keep" is through DRM.
[19:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Total of Four Earth-Sized Planets Detected Around Tau Ceti - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:13] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it. I played that game so much as a kid!
[19:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Virginia Tech Testing "Driverless" Car Driven by Guy Wearing a Car Seat Costume - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:32] <exec> 08└─hmm thats an interesting idea that I have not heard being mentioned before. Additional feature an autonomous car perhaps needs: a set of eyes to make eye contact with. May or may not have cameras, but are pointed via sensors to indicate to pedestrians and other human drivers, "Yes, I know you are th...
[19:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:39] <exec> 08└─Brietbart and TheOnion both intentionally post fake stories. Their goals differ, but the methodology is the same.
[19:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Ruler" Form Factor for Server SSDs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:21] <exec> 08└─http://www.anandtech.com/show/11702/intel-introduces-new-ruler-ssd-for-servers [anandtech.com] http://images.anandtech.com [anandtech.com]
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[20:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 128 TB SSD With QLC NAND - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:14] <exec> 08└─...are better be sent to /dev/null straight away. Saves everyone the expense. :)
[20:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 128 TB SSD With QLC NAND - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Might lead to some nice thumb drives eventually but I'll be damned if I'm going to use it as primary storage.
[20:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 128 TB SSD With QLC NAND - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:17] <exec> 08└─If you are expecting to do multiple drive writes per day on a 100+ TB SSD, you can be excused for getting TLC/MLC/SLC instead.
[20:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 128 TB SSD With QLC NAND - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:19] <exec> 08└─If you have 128 TB of it, you can use all sorts of post-RAID erasure coding, .PAR files, and ZFS active FS scrubbing kind of stuff to workaround the fact that it's a per-bit useless cesspit, and wind up with more reliable data overall. 32 TB useable after insane amounts of redundancy vs. 32 GB of "r...
[20:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:30] <exec> 08└─It seems that consideration of Autonomous Semi Trucks, has several facets to consider: * safety of the truck payload (probably number one concern to managers) * safety of the general public sharing the roads with Autonomous Semi Trucks * unemployment caused by automation of drivers, not just Semi Tr...
[20:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:33] <exec> 08└─Not that hard: You put the trucks in heaviest-to-lightest order and have a wireless emergency brake signal. Should take care of most common cases.
[20:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:35] <exec> 08└─For follow-ons so tight as to take advantage of drafting,
[20:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:37] <exec> 08└─Most of us think our job cannot be automated. But so did a lot of people, like truck drivers. What happens when most people are put out of jobs by automation?
[20:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:39] <exec> 08└─For trucks that big, the follow distance does not have to be as tight as you imagine.
[20:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:09] <exec> 08└─98% of the gluten whiners are indeed talking about the fad. The fad is something of a self fulfilling prophesy. You see a fad, you jump on the band wagon. You avoid wheat like it was death. Gradually your gut loses the ability to digest wheat. (not just gluten - all of the wheat). You eat some wheat...
[20:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:11] <exec> 08└─"If an unexpected calamity were underway one would expect the markets [bloomberg.com] would be reacting a bit stronger than that little July blip." Because markets are known for acting rationally and not as a schizophrenic collection of random events. /s
[20:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:13] <exec> 08└─trump calls this fake news.
[20:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─Eating grains is weird anyway. Why not eat real food like meat, vegetables, nuts, and fruit? Leave the grains for when you are really desperate, then the insects for being really, really desperate. They shouldn't be a staple food. Then again I don't enjoy sugary deserts either so maybe that is just...
[20:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:17] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking there is some contaminant in bread that people are getting allergic too, for example something left over from the cysteine extraction process: https://munchies.vice.com [vice.com] The more gluten intolerant people may just be le...
[20:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:19] <exec> 08└─Pessimists are usually correct because optimists are full of . . . um . . . something. Pessimists should be called Realists. I can find a local Optimists Club in my community. But no Pessimists Club?
[20:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:21] <exec> 08└─No more wheat? Let them eat twinkies!
[20:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:23] <exec> 08└─No more wheat? Let them eat twinkies!
[20:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:25] <exec> 08└─A pessimist is never disappointed...
[20:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:28] <exec> 08└─I'm a glutton for gluten.
[20:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 2884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:52] <exec> 08└─The Norks' first atomic detonation was a fizzle. It barely registered on seismographs. The yield was so small that there was some thought that the Norks had amassed a stockpile of conventional explosives and set that off all at once as a propaganda exercise. The USA's first gun-type uranium fission...
[20:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:54] <exec> 08└─Remember, Iraq had "verifiable" weapons of mass destruuction. Colin Powell even said so in front of the UN, and had the drawings of systems that proved it. This sounds like a rather ham-fisted statement of causis belli dT may want to have if he decides to tell Congress about an "immediate clear and...
[20:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 2394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:56] <exec> 08└─This is just usual stuff that has been going on pretty much my whole life, I'm not sure why you think this is new? CLINTON'S WARNING IRKS NORTH KOREA Published: July 13, 1993 TOKYO, July 12— The North Korean Government accused President Clinton today of provoking it with threats of war after he wa...
[20:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:58] <exec> 08└─I like the view when you tell 'em to turn over and you can look at their puns. Gets me going every time.
[20:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:27] <exec> 08└─No, what we want is (a) for new, high-profile content, the ability to pay for only the shows we want to see.
[20:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:29] <exec> 08└─OH, and you can rent those movies now, for about $4 in HD once the DVD comes out. So what are you complaining about besides not giving Netflix a monopoly on content?
[20:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney to Break Away From Netflix With its Own Streaming Service - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:31] <exec> 08└─This is already starting to happen in various circles: VRV is an example. Several Indy content streams and importers combined to perform on-demand streaming like Netflix. It and similar services probably will end up being something like the cable channels of their time. Probably only a handful of ve...
[20:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:39] <exec> 08└─"Perhaps the best alternative is a redundant array of inexpensive phones.
[20:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:40] <exec> 08└─I would suggest a BB Classic, BB Passport (if you are into that kind of thing), or a BB Priv. I currently use a Priv as my primary phone and a Classic as a backup. Good battery life, both have keyboards, sturdy and withstand being dropped on concrete.
[20:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Part Post on Supervisors and Init Systems - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:35] <exec> 08└─make -j is pretty good with ordering dependencies and executing them in parallel. I once built a Linux from Scratch and wrote makefiles instead of using the recommended start-up scripts. It worked pretty well. Then I became too lazy to do my own package management and just installed Gentoo. OpenRC i...
[20:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:40] <exec> 08└─i dunno. biggest waste is still the breaks (red light, slow traffic) with any pure combustion engine. my wish would be for a 5-stack wankel and a dynamo to have a baby which one could feed with butan and propan that "talks" to a big (grid-tie ready) battery which "talks" to 4 rims mated over two gen...
[20:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:42] <exec> 08└─> diesel is ~12% more energy dense than gasoline The table in the wikipedia article on the subject ( https://en.wikipedia.org ) says it's less than 5%
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[21:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─Women should stay at home and have babies. They need to accept that they are slaves to the species. Sorry, but that's the way god (nature) planned it.
[21:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 128 TB SSD With QLC NAND - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:25] <exec> 08└─If you are expecting to do multiple drive writes per day
[21:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 128 TB SSD With QLC NAND - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:26] <exec> 08└─32 TB useable after insane amounts of redundancy vs. 32 GB of "reliable" (Not that reliable anyway) SLC flash seems like a completely sane tradeoff.
[21:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 128 TB SSD With QLC NAND - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:29] <exec> 08└─JEDEC says data retention should be 1 year for a consumer SSD, after a certain TBW is reached. That should not change with QLC NAND. https://www.micron.com [micron.com] Then we have claims that QLC endurance is going to be similar to TLC for at...
[21:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a 128 TB SSD With QLC NAND - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:31] <exec> 08└─JEDEC says data retention should be 1 year for a consumer SSD, after a certain TBW is reached. That should not change with QLC NAND.
[21:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:45] <exec> 08└─Nevada has a lot of roads with one lane in either direction. And they are full of trucks already. Triple trailers are allowed in Nevada, and a few other western states. They have long sections of straight road in Nevada, but even there its difficult to pass these road trains for miles. Platoons woul...
[21:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:47] <exec> 08└─> There's not nearly enough room to stop if the truck in front suddenly piles up. That's only if you rely on seeing the truck brake before you act, losing precious seconds. With automated systems, the first truck deciding to brake can instantly trigger all of them braking. The question becomes: does...
[21:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.ieee.org/ [ieee.org] Engineers are always trying to anticipate what could go wrong. They build significant margins into designs to attempt to cover for that. The best engineers are the biggest pessimists. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:29] <exec> 08└─I don't think you should be nodded troll, it is actually a good point about why some people remain as deniers. It isn't about the science, it is more about human nature. The more you beat someone over the head with something the more likely they'll just dig in with their stubbornes. That said, Mr Fr...
[21:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:58] <exec> 08└─Also, we have large weapons that can be deployed is relatively high-altitude (relative to a ground burst), which significantly reduces the fallout products. The ground gets hammered with a shockwave that is unsurvivable for normal structures, but it doesn't get to be a significant part of the fireba...
[21:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:00] <exec> 08└─No, like I said, you spare the U.S. and white Europe. The rest are animals, turn 'em into shark bait... We'll all be better off.
[21:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:02] <exec> 08└─No, you are: mammoth giant spotty boundless thoughtful barbarous languid chunky dizzy unsightly sore fallacious erserk wealthy chemical utopian waggish cool bright dear glib standing vacuous precious versed disgusted inconclusive abounding abashed future disillusioned comfortable descriptive wanderi...
[21:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03justinb_76 [4362] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:04] <exec> 08└─"How would you feel with four Holocausts on your conscience?" and exactly which holocaust are you referring to? The Holodomor? al-Nakbah? Armenian Genocide? Amalekite Genocide? Rhine Meadow death camps? I know you really meant the '6 gorillion' one, but let's face it - Shlomo's story has got more ho...
[21:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:06] <exec> 08└─Just don't end your sentence in a preposition, bastard. [youtube.com]
[21:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ACE209 [4762] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:08] <exec> 08└─President Donald Trump appears to have painted himself into a corner: He must now follow up on his pledge of hitting North Korea with "fire and fury," or he risks further blowing U.S. credibility.
[21:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:49] <exec> 08└─I'm going to back up Phil here, from my perception Jolla is a great bunch of engineers with a great vision, and insufficient financial backing to make it stick. Lack of sufficient financial backing leads to under-developed products that struggle just to ship, much less excel.
[21:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:50] <exec> 08└─I've been happy with the Nexus 5 and later 5x - I never used a case on my 5 and it lasted 2 years before the screen shattered, have had a 5x for about a year now (always in a rubber edge case) and it looks much less dinged and warped than my 5 did at this point. Software wise, they're always up to t...
[21:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Feature/Smart Phone Recommendations Needed - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:53] <exec> 08└─That's why I have a Nexus 5x, it was $200 to purchase new (on interest free payments), while a repair of my 5 was quoted around $130.
[21:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Tech Testing "Driverless" Car Driven by Guy Wearing a Car Seat Costume - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:20] <exec> 08└─Googly eyes on the front bumper!
[21:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:32] <exec> 08└─Remember the crowd you're talking to, it took months of trunk fuckups for them to even consider he isn't a god emperor...
[21:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:34] <exec> 08└─Will add incest to your long list of character deficiencies, along with stupidity. Partisan: a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person; especially : one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance. You display these traits all the time. As an admin you should be more objecti...
[21:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:36] <exec> 08└─For a connosieur of shit I'd have thought you of all people would be aware of the different qualities of turds. I'll give you a hint, "shit turd" is composed of only one noun.
[21:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:38] <exec> 08└─∆ Probably need more than one character. The projection is strong with those cons.
[21:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:31] <exec> 08└─They've replaced the purge solenoids, gas cap, filters, the entire gas tank, the exhaust manifold...some of those more than once...and there's still problems in that system somewhere.
[21:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chevy Bolt Runs 250 Miles, Sets Consumer Reports' Electric Car Record - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:32] <exec> 08└─The people that these cars would most benefit (the poor) cannot afford them.
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[22:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:23] <exec> 08└─Worse? Or better? Isn't the goal to find the most qualified people, regardless of race, sex, religion and now gender? Maybe focus on trying to get more women to be qualified. Can we teach more little girls to grow into sociopaths and whatever other attributes associated with people in senior positio...
[22:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the problem isn't straight discrimination, it's that modern society basically discourages young girls from wanting to do anything technical or leadership-oriented. It's a very deep problem that won't be solved by affirmative action.
[22:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:27] <exec> 08└─We found the opposite, that de-identifying candidates reduced the likelihood of women being selected for the shortlist.
[22:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:29] <exec> 08└─You can't quantify "most qualified" in any kind of government survey. You _can_ quantify race and sex, so they do. They're urging them to stop the trial before they collect enough data that might suggest that the most qualified candidates do come from a racially and sexually biased subset of all app...
[22:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:31] <exec> 08└─The affirmative action needs to reach back into childhood choices - Cinderella needs to snag prince charming with a killer outfit she made on her 3D printer: https://www.thingiverse.com [thingiverse.com] Then, all the societal norms that give women biased advantage in "marrying ri...
[22:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:33] <exec> 08└─How can they keep the gender/race secret if they are doing interviews? Or am I to believe they are hiring people without performing in person or phone interviews? I don't know how many applicants I've reviewed that sounded good on paper only to fail miserably during the phone/in-person interview, wh...
[22:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:35] <exec> 08└─What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is. -- Kierkegaard, 1813-1855.
[22:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:37] <exec> 08└─Of course, there are a few unerasable gender differences - most notable being the time-out from career building that child-bearing usually brings.
[22:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:39] <exec> 08└─I am sick of cisfemale privilege. I have the privilege of using my assigned gender at birth as a legitimate excuse for my own failures.I have the privilege of being accountable only for my own actions and words.I have the privilege of my assigned gender at birth being a credential that is the equiva...
[22:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:42] <exec> 08└─So, if the ones who get to stay at home and consume are the slaves, how do you call those who have to work all day to provide them with the means to do it?
[22:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:44] <exec> 08└─So the hypothesis is that "underrepresented minorities" are that way because of bias, whether conscious or unconscious. They run an experiment designed to remove the possibility of such bias and the results do not change. So far this is all good solid science, propose a hypothesis, design an experim...
[22:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:46] <exec> 08└─It actually is a good thing they do this, ignorant fools will fail to comprehend the wider array of issues at play and suddenly we'll be in a eugenics war with this study being quoted by the genocidal maniacs.
[22:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Discussing Autonomous Semi Truck Testing in Nevada - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's what we already essentially have with double semis and I think I recall there were triples for a while there too, but the problems were exactly what you described: terrifying and dangerous for everyone else on the road. We already do have platoons of containers that avoid those problems...
[22:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:00] <exec> 08└─Since way back in the early 2000s in high school I'd been trying to warn people, the crops we can grow and how much are going to change. We need to start investing in sorghum, teff, black fonio, and tepary beans, like yesterday. We're going to have a rather warmer and drier climate inland sooner rat...
[22:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:01] <exec> 08└─But what about all the people who are intolerant of gluten intolerant people?
[22:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:03] <exec> 08└─There's no pessimist's club because a pessimist would assume the worst, which is nobody would join or actually turn up if they did. OTOH, the optimist's club is probably one guy with a cheesy grin and a lot of empty chairs. The realist is the one who goes out and asks whether anyone is interested b...
[22:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:05] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but it doesn't necessarily work that way. (I'm a single data point, so I need to say "necessarily".) For totally other reasons I stopped eating wheat for around a decade. So much so that my sister who has celiac and ends up in the hospital if she eats something that's been cut with a knife th...
[22:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:08] <exec> 08└─FWIW, if your Thai Chicken used soy sauce it wasn't gluten free. Similarly for many other such sauces. Most standard oriental dishes as normally served in a restaurant are NOT gluten free, even if they only use rice in the recipe...because most use soy sauce, or tamari, or terriyaki, or... That said...
[22:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:10] <exec> 08└─Darn.. If I'd done engineering at Uni, I could have an excuse for my realism.. "No, I'm not a pessimist, I'm an engineer with large margins of error"
[22:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:12] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but it was quite predictable that the yearly weather would start going into more extreme cycles even before the global warming thing started kicking in. You see, our parents and grand-parents were living during this thing called the "little climatic optimum", characterized by weather that was...
[22:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:32] <exec> 08└─Not quite pedantic enough. At least Mercury and Venus would also be affected by the dramatic change in surface temps, probably fractionally speeding up their rotation.
[22:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tens of Millions of Black Holes Likely to Exist in the Milky Way Galaxy - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:33] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of an episode of Stargate where a team is on some planet, and a black hole opens up nearby while the stargate is open, and threatens to suck the Earth in through the stargate if they can't close it. Maybe one will open up near Earth sometime soon.
[22:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:50] <exec> 08└─There were equally dire predictions about how difficult it was going to be to expel Saddam from Kuwait. Nope. Turns out a modern, well-trained multi-disciplinary military like the US's can run circles around the largest of 3rd world armies. In fact it was that little example that put China on its ru...
[22:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:51] <exec> 08└─it only has to work once.
[22:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Tech Testing "Driverless" Car Driven by Guy Wearing a Car Seat Costume - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:04] <exec> 08└─You can't even make eye contact anymore, courtesy of tinted windows (widespread at the front despite being mostly illegal), and how many people are staring at their phone or GPS.
[22:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Evidence that Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:16] <exec> 08└─I was this close to modding you Spam, but since you haven't pizdetz'd up the entire thread proper with your useless horseshit, just that one post, Troll it is. Crawl back under your rock, will you? Adults are talking here.
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mazda Announces Breakthrough in Long-Coveted Engine Technology - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─Some if not all of those "coil over the spark plug" do have the waste spark. Two coils share the same ECM pulse on engines that have one cylinder at TDC and another at BDC at the same time.
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[23:25:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chromas [34] 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:18] <exec> 08└─Worse? Or better? Isn't the goal to find the most qualified people, regardless of race, sex, religion and now gender? Maybe focus on trying to get more women to be qualified. Can we teach more little girls to grow into sociopaths and whatever other attributes associated with people in senior positio...
[23:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:32] <exec> 08└─You're right! Slaves should be more grateful to their masters!
[23:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:33] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with much of what you write, but this would be a logical deathblow to many. I've never been fully on board point #2 myself, so I'm not currently dizzy with cognitive dissonance. Food for thought here.
[23:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:35] <exec> 08└─Isn't the goal to find the most qualified people, regardless of race, sex, religion
[23:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:37] <exec> 08└─From The Fine Article: The trial found assigning a male name to a candidate made them 3.2 per cent less likely to get a job interview. Adding a woman's name to a CV made the candidate 2.9 per cent more likely to get a foot in the door.
[23:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 2199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:39] <exec> 08└─I see room for improvement. I believe the hypothesis was that women experience discrimination for no other reason than they are women. What inherent biases and assumptions does that statement contain? Is that really all we were trying to test? I ran through a quick list of privileges that womyn-born...
[23:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:42] <exec> 08└─I'll be back to mod you up tomorrow.
[23:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:44] <exec> 08└─Asian 👷🏿
[23:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:46] <exec> 08└─No, as usual you are unable to follow the plot and wandering in the direction of a thread hijack to your favorite subject. The question before us is simple: Is the observed reality that equal numbers of men and women are not employed in various fields a result of bias? If the answer is yes then affi...
[23:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:48] <exec> 08└─I don't know how many applicants I've reviewed that sounded good on paper only to fail miserably during the phone/in-person interview,
[23:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:50] <exec> 08└─Instead of the brain being gendered, maybe it's the chemical soup that gets run on the brain hardware? I'm not asserting, I'm wondering. I've been thinking this in the context of testosterone studies and the effects that chemical has on people's choices, let alone physical characteristics. Anyway, I...
[23:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Recruitment Trial to Boost Gender Equality is Making Things Worse - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:52] <exec> 08└─This already happens for men paying child support - many get cash-in-hand jobs, or stop work altogether, just to avoid paying for the child's upkeep (not that the payments go anywhere near covering the total costs)
[23:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:13] <exec> 08└─That's reasonable, though I don't know those particular crops. The thing is, the weather is less predictable than it used to be. You can't really count on it being either dryer or wetter. What you need is land with good drainage and crops with deep roots. Some of those you are recommending probably...
[23:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveys: Flash Drought In USA's High Plains Has Already Destroyed Half of the Wheat Crop - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:14] <exec> 08└─How does it make food more expensive for people who like to eat gluten? I would expect the opposite.
[23:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:54] <exec> 08└─which would result in liberals no longer being allowed to hate them.
[23:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:56] <exec> 08└─The USA's first gun-type uranium fission weapon was also a dud. (The concept is so "simple" that they didn't bother to test the mechanism.) They expected 19kt and the misfire over Hiroshima yielded 9kt.
[23:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:58] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's necessarily so. The uncle of a girl I dated once worked at a listening station in Taegu. They could hear handheld radio traffic north of the DMZ. If there's any communication that is happening electronically or anything that can be seen from a satellite, they know about it. Also...
[23:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Has Reportedly Miniaturized a Nuke, and is Threatening Guam - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, in that match up, I'd probably root for Trump too... But not otherwise (unless another equally implausible situation).
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