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[00:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:12] <exec> 08└─Yet again we attempt to do statistics on a sample size of one and draw conclusions.
[00:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:13] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The thinking here (I'm being generous) is flawed. If two vehicles go the average speed down a highway for a four hour trip, and one leaves ten hours earlier, the latter will get to the goal first, and before the former even starts. They might both proceed at the same rate, but one got out th...
[00:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:15] <exec> 08└─I mean, we are one and done. If it turns out we are two and half done, ok. 4 and a quarter done, you can start drawing conclusions. But drawing conclusions from a complete lack of data, or ignoring the data? That's the Democrats way to the White house 2020.
[00:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:18] <exec> 08└─Sample size might one and conclusions statistically irrelevant but common sense supports the idea that after a civilization garners enough technology, it destroy itself. In evolutionary terms, our competitive and aggressive drives are healthy but mix in nuclear bombs, scarce resources and population...
[00:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:20] <exec> 08└─I don't think that all of that EM mixing(and re-mixing) that's being blasted out by millions(or billions) of sources, at all hours of the day and night, is something I would call 'silent'. His whole argument seems like speculation based on speculation. Or, my 'Space Alien Dispelling Rock' is working...
[00:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:22] <exec> 08└─We haven't met E.T., we don't pick up alien TV and we don't see megastructures. Conclusion: Armageddon. Somebody seems to have jumped a few steps somewhere. We don't know if alien civilizations hit the singularity and transcend our comprehension. We don't know if alien civilizations simply stay home...
[00:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:24] <exec> 08└─Without sounding racist, cultures develop at different rates for different reasons. At the time Islam dominated the Middle East, Europe was a backward place: no science to speak of, no development. In fact, many works of the ancient Greeks are known only because Islamic wise men had them copied. A f...
[00:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:26] <exec> 08└─It's linked in the Fermi article, but worth pointing alone https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Humankind's Great Filter must be ahead. We dream of terraforming Mars when we can't even keep Earth running after it was already "started" for us. Looking how humans have poor predic...
[00:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:28] <exec> 08└─Good ol' arrogance at its best here. Let's judge ALL by our own standards, as if we were the epitome of life, let's not imagine that other possible (probable) civilizations will probably be wildly different from us both intellectually and physically. In fact, isn't it already supposed that some alie...
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[00:27:48] <exec> 08└─that don't work under Chrome + my extensions. Vons.com, which won't let me login, and fizzbuzz, my stock brokerage that won't let me log in. I run Chrome pretty locked down, yet I've never figured out why those 2 sites won't work. Whatever. What gets me is how, when I forget I'm in FF, I hit a websi...
[00:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CVS Health Is Sued Over ‘Clawbacks’ of Prescription Drug Co-Pays - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:17] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your reply. I’m sorry if it appears that I trust the government (this one or the past few), I was merely pointing out what the government function should be. From your comment it seems that you have been voting independent, which I believe is the way to go. Both parties are too entan...
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[01:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:27] <exec> 08└─You know you never use a car analogy right? They always suck! ;-) So the destination in your example is like the end of the world because for example, 20,000 nukes go off and it really fucks things up. So the guy who left ten hours early got to that destination first, and then stops emitting signs o...
[01:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:28] <exec> 08└─On a universal time scale, the last 20,000 years of human history is basically nothing, and the last 1000, even more nothing. If you take a finite planet, it takes only a blink of universal time for someone to explore the whole thing and once that is done, technology on that planet distributes. Even...
[01:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:30] <exec> 08└─We don't know if we aren't currently a "preserve" to protect our developing civilization from contamination and death from culture shock.
[01:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 4852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:33] <exec> 08└─This is replying to the parent more than to the article, but it actually replies to both: High tech war is one of a few plausible reasons for "the great silence". Another is introversion. One way this has been suggested to work is that after a certain point nobody is willing to put up with a long la...
[01:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:53] <exec> 08└─And even funnier is that no one is denying the bad stuff in the emails. The big complaint is that everybody found out how bad the democrats were.
[01:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:54] <exec> 08└─i've moved all my instances to docker and will update/pin what i've built up over years in there. mozilla, with, where did i just read this? the best engineers stock-options could buy, is now doing politics and to me that means they are doomed. alternatives i have none. but anger about non-technica...
[01:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:56] <exec> 08└─might have been a bad link, but the story is 100% true. but truth? don't you know *you* can't handle the truth.
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[02:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:15] <exec> 08└─A lot of that ruggedization is there to protect the crew from debris and toxic chemical in case of blunt physical damage or fire... And say a year passes without an incident, all that proves is that they didn't have a big enough solar flare to fry the electronics or were lucky enough to bump too har...
[02:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:35] <exec> 08└─There's even more problems with the "Why aren't E.T.'s transmitting stuff at us?", like: - We don't know whether E.T.'s that know how to send out EM waves choose to do so. Consider that us humans are in the process of reducing how much EM is leaving our atmosphere as we switch to more communications...
[02:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:36] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your reply. What I mean is more in line with what happened to Islam at around the year 1600, it simply imploded and has never recovered its inlfuence over the civilized world. They brought numbers (i.e. [0..9]) from India and gunpowder from China, basically giving Europe two of its mos...
[02:26:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 629 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:26] <exec> 08└─Never go anywhere an email directs you. If something appears to come from Google, you go to the known related Google site directly and get after whatever it is using the provided tools. Likewise Amazon, etc., etc., etc. The converse is also true: If you want people to visit your site, then just say...
[02:27:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:23] <exec> 08└─uBlock Origin is availible in PaleMoon. Dunno about the rest, don't use them. Here's the official status list though: https://addons.palemoon.org [palemoon.org]
[02:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:08] <exec> 08└─First the situation in Spain is a little different as put in the article and even though we have problems with some tourist (specially UK tourists) the situation is nos as bad as it appear. Arran is not exactly a protest group as its related to la CUP a Catalonia independentist party, they practice...
[02:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:10] <exec> 08└─Dam, to view errors after posting. with some tourist -> with some tourists is nos as bad -> is not as bad and possibly some more. Posted very late (03:50).
[02:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Looks to New Food Technology for Home Delivery - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:31] <exec> 08└─That's not a knife. THAT'S a knife!
[02:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:50] <exec> 08└─Some species will survive. Others have not. E.g. From 1900-2010, freshwater fish species in North America went extinct at a rate 877 times faster than the rate found in the fossil record, while estimates indicate the rate may double between now and 2050.
[02:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 1454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:20] <exec> 08└─Stop blaming users and start looking into how to make software products that are as reliable as a car or a washing machine Why shouldn't users be blamed? They're the ones with the ultimate authority. The buck stops with them, so ultimately it's all their fault. If you disagree, then please explain w...
[02:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:21] <exec> 08└─With our current software development models it is literally impossible to build an IoT and hope to keep it secure. No, it's not. Companies just don't want to adopt the development methods used to make stuff like avionics software, nor are they willing to spend the money that requires. Consumers are...
[02:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:24] <exec> 08└─The first time I bring a girl home, and she sees my sub-standard $300 electronic lock, she'll run away screaming! Why do you think I pay $800 for an iphone, when I could get something just as good for less than $500? It's absolutely true: women with iPhones won't date men with Android phones (or eve...
[02:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:03] <exec> 08└─Pure hydrogen and oxygen ordinarily (on Earth) exist as molecules, not as atoms. Two molecules of hydrogen and one of oxygen can react to form one molecule of water.
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[03:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:14] <exec> 08└─It's come to be so bad that we actually have hard-hit states suing [nytimes.com] opioid manufacturers. And just in time for the government to finally crack down on doctors writing rampant unmedical opioid prescriptions, now the streets are flooded with that Afghan heroin to take their place, cultiva...
[03:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:44] <exec> 08└─We are the first technological species to evolve on Earth Are we sure about that? There's an Arthur C. Clarke & Steven Baxter book called "Light of Other Days", which, at the end (*spoilers*) tells about some intelligent race that lived on Earth 3 billion years ago but then was destroyed somehow, bu...
[03:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:45] <exec> 08└─We have this thing called "archeology".
[03:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:47] <exec> 08└─A little quibble, the mesoamericans and south americans were also essentially 'stone age' when Europeans arrived. They could work gold, silver, and copper into jewelry but their tools were still stone and they did not know how to make hard copper alloys that are suitable for tool-making, so their te...
[03:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:49] <exec> 08└─Also according to compression theory. The more you compress something the more it looks like noise and becomes uncompressable. If you want to maximize your data channel it will look like white noise. Now decode it. Plus data becomes wildly artifacted as you approach a sun. Those things give off huge...
[03:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 3977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:51] <exec> 08└─Academia ca not solve the Fermi Paradox by ignoring evidence that humanity has survived cataclysms of Biblical proportions. [youtube.com] Many structures claimed to be built by Medieval and Colonial peoples were built by far older civilizations. [youtube.com] The truth about our history is that hist...
[03:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:54] <exec> 08└─This is not a new idea at all, it's a conversation that's been going on for many decades at least. If we assume our civilization is somewhere near the middle of the bell curve, then we expect to see tons of radio wave evidence from civilizations that were at our level of development earlier. We do n...
[03:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:56] <exec> 08└─The cosmic silence can be simply noise masking the transmissions and the windows to detect the radio transmission of a civilizations is really small, 100 years for the hearth, after such period the radio transmissions tend to look more like random noise making it more difficult. Wee need some radio...
[03:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:58] <exec> 08└─tells about some intelligent race that lived on Earth 3 billion years ago
[03:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 2166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:20] <exec> 08└─This wasn't even a big ol hack. It was basically someone knew the passwords (password btw). That someone was an insider. They have a pretty good idea who it was. What is more interesting is the reaction to the leak instead of what was leaked. What was leaked is much much worse. I think their 'pied p...
[03:26:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Netflix Discussing Keeping Disney's Marvel, 'Star Wars' Films - 679 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:37] <exec> 08└─Disney missed the boat with my kids. They so zealously kept their movies and tv off netflix that mentions of mickey mouse, donald duck, and goofy get shrugs at best. they dont bug me for merchandise, they don't bug us to take them to disneyland. they don't really bug us for any branded merch, in fac...
[03:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Discussing Keeping Disney's Marvel, 'Star Wars' Films - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:38] <exec> 08└─One of my concerns however has been what would happen if Scientology and Disney were ever to synergize. The combination of Disney's product marketing to kids, and Scientology's mental enslavement of adults. They could keep themselves going indefinitely if this came to pass.
[03:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:52] <exec> 08└─Developers could stop using Microsoft and grow a brain.
[03:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:27] <exec> 08└─This is how Mozilla has been since the START. The only reason they had the success they did was because of the guy who developed phoenix, which eventually became firefox, and the luck of firefox becoming popular right about the time they finally got JIT support so they could enhance/ruin firefox by...
[03:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:28] <exec> 08└─Look who is in executive positions at Mozilla and wonder no longer. The people involved with Mozilla are mostly cronies of existing mozilla members, and the majority aren't devs, or only worked on the 'web design' side of things, not the browser engineering side of things. Short of a major shakeup i...
[03:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:30] <exec> 08└─The person in question did nothing relevant in the realm of technology to have that position. And someone non-technical are usually to clueless to make the right decision on what projects that should have resources. Oh, and the browser shows as others pointed out.
[03:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:32] <exec> 08└─They were involved in the MU* scene like 20-30 years ago. MU*ing has gotten very similiar to Mozilla, insofar that build time options have been removed and many previously configurable features are no longer configurable to administrators or end users in the same ways. New features are great, but br...
[03:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:34] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, Chrome/Chromium. I once had an xterm gobble gigs and gigs of memory (I like big scrollback buffers, and I cannot lie). Couldn't find which of my gazillion terminals would've gotten that ridiculously large. Installed pstree. Turns out the offending xterm was the one I'd started Chromium from...
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[03:28:37] <exec> 08└─Tip on user agent switcher and user agent strings?
[03:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:39] <exec> 08└─Oh I sure aren't disagreeing on the idiocy of the fat-toad-monolith approach here! Pulse did replicate it all on its own though, with a dedicated plugin/interface to allow it be an ESD client. Because, you know, peeps all love latency, so let's have some latency with that latency, yo. Man what a tri...
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[03:28:41] <exec> 08└─Skype is a spy tool for En-Ez-Ay that delivers a copy of your face every 5 minutes to their storage. So not much reason to keep it around.
[03:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:46] <exec> 08└─Spain where AirBnB rentals have driven up rental housing prices to levels where many locals cannot now afford to live there What exactly is the problem here? This isn't the tourists' fault, this is the fault of the Spanish people themselves. If they don't like AirBnB's effect on the housing market,...
[03:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:47] <exec> 08└─I forgot to add a great quote that's highly relevant here: "Every nation gets the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre
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[03:30:29] <exec> 08└─"Before"?
[03:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows That Artificial Lights Deter Nocturnal Pollinators - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:31] <exec> 08└─Sodium is yellow Mercury is blue Insects are affected And so are you [europa.eu]. Researchers found that moths are more attracted by the brighter white lighting that is increasingly being installed on roads around Britain compared to the older traditional orange street lights. [archive.org]
[03:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:03] <exec> 08└─How about men with no cell phone? Not even if they are older and have lots of money??
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[03:31:05] <exec> 08└─Believe or or not, a top guy at a USA aerospace supplier told me that they have avionics quality software written by a group in India. It seems that they have their own office in India where they hire and train their own people. He said it's working OK and is somewhat cheaper than doing it in USA. N...
[03:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Internet-Connected Smart Locks Bricked by Manufacturer - 2028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:07] <exec> 08└─We haven't fought anyone that could fight back since avionics went from mostly hardware to mostly software. Is it really more secure? We do not know and the only way we will find out could be a disaster of biblical proportions as the mightiest military machine in the annals of humanity is swept from...
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[03:31:47] <exec> 08└─or nano-thermite [ae911truth.org]
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[03:31:48] <exec> 08└─They are almost certainly generating hydrogen by oxidizing aluminum. There are already fuel cells that do exactly this.
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[04:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:16] <exec> 08└─Stop prescribing the shit all over the place? and find non-addictive alternatives where possible?
[04:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:17] <exec> 08└─It was a nice plot device in House series, but when it becomes a daily thing in real world, not so good. Now Trump declared it a crisis http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com [sandiegouniontribu...
[04:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:19] <exec> 08└─Bill the opioid promoters? I mean as bill to the ground.
[04:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:21] <exec> 08└─This is different. Heroin and crack are like Hurricane Katrina but opioids are like Hurricane Sandy. The opioid crisis is an emergency. I'm saying officially right now it is an emergency. Because it's striking down my beautiful, beautiful white Americans. Who marched -- and drove -- so bravely this...
[04:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:30] <exec> 08└─I want to get me some satellite based supercomputers. Like the Tree Diagram [wikia.com].
[04:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:32] <exec> 08└─all that proves is that they didn't have a big enough solar flare to fry the electronics or were lucky enough to bump too hard against the box and cause a mechanical part of a spark.
[04:25:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1592 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:45] <exec> 08└─Without sounding racist, cultures develop at different rates for different reasons. At the time Islam dominated the Middle East, Europe was a backward place: no science to speak of, no development. In fact, many works of the ancient Greeks are known only because Islamic wise men had them copied. A f...
[04:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:03] <exec> 08└─Your ointment has flies. Why do you hand waive FTL travel into existence but still balk at FTL communications? http://www.chicagotribune.com [chicagotribune.com] I submit you've got it backwards.
[04:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:05] <exec> 08└─It is likely what it takes to survive the big filter ahead. No politicians, executives, MBAs, economists, diversity commissars etc allowed as pets onboard.
[04:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 2155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:07] <exec> 08└─Thank you for reply. Thinking linearly is a mistake. Yes, Mayan and Aztec societies did not know how to work copper, bronze and much less steel, but that point of view is derived from European development, not an absolute yardstick. As I mentioned, the Mayan developed on their own, the concept of ze...
[04:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:09] <exec> 08└─But quantum entanglement don't guarantee FTL communications. I don't really balk at the possibility of FTL communications, but I think that FTL travel is going to happen before FTL communications, those are very different problems and also think that FTL travel is the easier one.
[04:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:33] <exec> 08└─The Republican neighbors all have Confederate flags, not Nazi flags. They also parade them around and get them detailed on to their Ford F-150s. TBH, I think I'd rather have Nazi fashion. It's so much snappier. Plus, it doesn't help that their idea of the Confederacy isn't wealthy young officers and...
[04:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:34] <exec> 08└─guess that will be handwriting and horse delivery..
[04:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:36] <exec> 08└─There is much more real trouble in the world to attend to.
[04:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:49] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure there's a relatively pain-free way to transfer bookmarks (copying a file, maybe changing the formatting IIRC), I've just never bothered with it. I jusr don't use them often enough to make it a big enough deal to take care of, and for the stuff that I do use often luakit's quickmarks...
[04:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:56] <exec> 08└─I smell "coincidence"..
[04:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hotsushi [6608] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:58] <exec> 08└─Kurt would be rolling over in his grave laughing out loud.
[04:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:53] <exec> 08└─Ah.. "ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field". Seen that for years. Thought it was something new. ;) Thought the name was ion thruster more or less.
[04:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:54] <exec> 08└─You can't say photonic / ionic, those are two very different things.
[04:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmDrive 3.0: Wait, Where's EmDrive 2.0? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:56] <exec> 08└─It could outcompete ion drives by using solar power and no propellant to counteract orbital decay.
[04:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid 2012 TC4 Will Pass Close to Earth on October 12th - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:06] <exec> 08└─Actual policy if there IS an impact is to not tell the public to avoid public riots. Figure that. I'll keep your point in mind though. There obviously seems to be a loophole.
[04:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants Mobile Data to Count as Broadband Internet - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:46] <exec> 08└─You can setup a proxy portal or add certificates.
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[05:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:15] <exec> 08└─I've briefly thought about this type of scenario well before the current political climate. I thought that if there is an a-symmetric war between two nuclear powers, the only way to attack without the internaltional community completely bearing down on you would be a high altitude blast, producing a...
[05:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:16] <exec> 08└─Has the Trump phenomenon really brought us that close? I guess it's time to head to the cave and groove with a pict.
[05:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:18] <exec> 08└─Kiss Your Sorry Ass Goodbye: The Atom Bomb Is Gonna Fly [ethicsgirls.com] But seriously... the South Korean capital of Seoul has ten million people, and is quite close to the border with the North. North Korea has a great many short-range missiles that could consume Seoul in fire were war ever to br...
[05:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:30] <exec> 08└─why all big media and even local media are all saying the exact goddamn things
[05:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:31] <exec> 08└─Trump seemed to be saying it was heroin being brought in from Mexico that was to blame. Actually is mostly from prescription drugs like Morphine, Oxycodone, Fentanyl and Naloxone. The drug dealers are not hanging out on street corners, They are the big pharmaceutical companies who push out pain kill...
[05:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:42] <exec> 08└─You don't die from "computer fires" because there's a shit ton of regulation governing everything from the power supplies to the materials used in the boards and chips that were written with gravity and the ability to crack open a window and leave the office when there's a fire in mind. Non of those...
[05:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 3530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:17] <exec> 08└─How intelligent could they have been if they never had stone workers, never developed metal, glass, or any other durable materials that could exist for that long. Would our buildings leave traces that last that long? I'm not aware of much we've found that's that old. The dinosaur fossils are only a...
[05:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:45] <exec> 08└─When the government can compel the corporation to include and not patch vulnerabilities for "national security" purposes it's not good for you. M$ itself says: Finally, this attack provides yet another example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem. This is an eme...
[05:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:18] <exec> 08└─Did I miss something?
[05:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:02] <exec> 08└─SeaMonkey just doesn't have enough developers or funds to keep any fights alive and is probably going to die when XUL etc are dropped from Mozilla. As a long time SeaMonkey user and fork maintainer, it's sad but that's Mozilla, don't give a shit about users, just "the architecture"
[05:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:03] <exec> 08└─NoScript will solve most of your problems, along with many others.
[05:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:05] <exec> 08└─Sadly SeaMonkey may not survive the stripping of stuff out of Gecko. It's all they can do to keep up with the build bustages and now that Mozilla is really ripping the good stuff out...
[05:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:40] <exec> 08└─And besides, it might just convince khallow that some ideas are just too stupid to believe.
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[06:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 1839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:18] <exec> 08└─Likely consequences in an exchange of nukes between NK and US: * Prevailing winds in the region hints that China will be the brunt recipient of the radioactive dust. * Increased rate of cancer sickness and death again in South Korea and maybe Japan depending on winds and sea currents. * The...
[06:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:19] <exec> 08└─If there could be a limited nuclear war. Once anyone uses them, it is use 'em or lose 'em! Unless you are the one remaining nuclear submarine, and your country has been completely destroyed, and you have, oh, a bunch of Tridents. What ya gonna do? Why do militaries just attract war criminals at th...
[06:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:21] <exec> 08└─So what if Koreans die, south or north. Who's gonna miss 'em? China only needs them as a buffer, cannon fodder. As for the rest of us, who the hell cares? It's not like they got big dicks or anything else worth looking at. Just sink the whole peninsula and be done with it. Problem solved. The Japane...
[06:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:24] <exec> 08└─The amount of fissile material North Korea has access to is limited so the number of nukes they can make is limited. Dirty bomb missiles is another matter though.
[06:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:26] <exec> 08└─Because the aggressor knows those "war criminals" will deliver on the Mutually-Assured-Destruction alias.. MAD. And so they have a very very good reason to stay calm. And white supremacist organizations have the purpose of protecting against invasion by foreign races and so they will remove them wit...
[06:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:28] <exec> 08└─Use more nukes. Problem solved. This massage was brought to you from Trump industries. Trump industries: Making roachkind's America great again.
[06:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:30] <exec> 08└─What if I want a korean waifu instead of japanese?
[06:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:32] <exec> 08└─protecting against invasion by foreign races
[06:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:34] <exec> 08└─Japan currently because of the Fukushima disaster dumps large amounts of radioactive waste in the Pacific Ocean
[06:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:37] <exec> 08└─That's a disgusting perspective! They're Koreans, no Floridians.
[06:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:39] <exec> 08└─This was the proposed solution to the Survey of Strategic Bombing after WWII, they figured out that bombing the bejessus out of people really had very little influence on whether they were inclined to stop fighting. So obviously, the solution was to bomb them more, until they did. So the US tried a...
[06:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:41] <exec> 08└─I just don't get why that was modded down. Why is there so much antipathy towards the truth? I mean, really! Look at these people! How many Koreans have ever won a Miss (or even Mister) Universe contest? They are an evolutionary mistake. Trump knows that. So should we. A little fire and fury will at...
[06:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:43] <exec> 08└─I would say it would not be so bad if the targets were Oklahoma and Arkansas, because American could actually afford to lose both of those states. Unfortunately, the Nukes are in Nebraska and Montana, which are states we really need to keep. So, no limited nuke war, unless we can limit it to Texas?...
[06:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:57] <exec> 08└─Media seems to feed on opioids too :p
[06:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:08] <exec> 08└─IRL the big problem is heat dissipation. Maybe if near-threshold computing or some amazing transistor advance [ieee.org] takes off, we can lower power consumption dramatically enough to put big computers in bad environments like that.
[06:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe they have encountered "HP" Carly Fiorina? ;)
[06:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:11] <exec> 08└─I was just wondering about that myself. Does the ISS have a way to dump that much extra heat?
[06:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:14] <exec> 08└─Bigger heat sinks (possibly as inactive/redundant solar panels that already have huge surface areas).
[06:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:50] <exec> 08└─But drawing conclusions from a complete lack of data
[06:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:51] <exec> 08└─Uhhh doesn't the heliopause trash most signals so unless they are dedicating time to send a boosted signal (like we did with the Arecibo message) we won't be getting squat? Or they may have simply went with different technology (imagine if we invented the telegraph and then just stayed on that line...
[06:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:53] <exec> 08└─Mediocrity certainly applies to this reasoning. According to this guy's logic, a year after we invented the radio, we should expect that any other civilizations in the universe also have on average one year of radio experience.
[06:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:55] <exec> 08└─The lack of data is, in this case, data itself. We're already creating a substantial body of evidence of our existence when we hadn't even put a satellite in orbit until 1957, 60 years ago. Kind of insane sounding. It's not unreasonable to imagine we'll have self replicating robots exploring the uni...
[06:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:58] <exec> 08└─But quantum entanglement don't guarantee FTL communications.
[06:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:00] <exec> 08└─That's sort of the opposite of the situation proposed in TFS. The ancients had data. We have only the absence of data. Its a lot easier to make a prediction with data than it is to make a prediction without data. The former is defined as history. The later is defined as fiction.
[06:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:02] <exec> 08└─Without sounding racist, cultures develop at different rates for different reasons.
[06:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:02] <exec> 08└─Too many people work in a sensitive environment like Microsoft that can't be hardened for the wild internet. Nor do they turn of html rendering or check email headers. To top it off, to many just click the links..
[06:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:03] <exec> 08└─If you think windows can't be hardened it shows how much you know.
[06:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:51] <exec> 08└─Like the AC said, Chrome has its share of issues as well. If your connection isn't goddamn perfect its processes tend to crash. No, seriously, if I've got a lot of packet loss for some reason and I'm loading certain sites, the load indicator will just sit there spinning for 10+ minutes and then fina...
[06:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask SoylentNews: Will You Stop Using Firefox If Firefox 57 Breaks Extension Compatibility? - 2022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:52] <exec> 08└─I'm in same boat, but with different extensions. I'm currently on 52 ESR to give things time, but whether I stay on Firefox or not long-term depends on what happens with the addons I rely on most: Tab GroupsTree Style TabUbiquityuBlock OriginOneTabIt's All Text The Tab Groups developer already aband...
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[06:30:28] <exec> 08└─They claim that the sun is a lot closer and smaller and rotates around the north pole, moving in towards the north pole in the summer, and out towards the antarctic ring in the winter. [youtube.com] Imagine a light bulb in a large dark room. Why is the entire floor not lit? Because the dot product o...
[06:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:30] <exec> 08└─I swear, I am not making this up.
[06:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:32] <exec> 08└─these people have a lot in common with the people that finds memos describing that in fact males and females have different features is evil and thus needs to be exorcised.
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[06:30:34] <exec> 08└─Agreed. There is a huge difference between a 9/11 'conspiracy' or cover up and something like a moon landing or a non-flat earth being faked. Theoretically 9/11 may have been a CIA/GOV operation where only half a dozen people know the truth and need to keep quiet, while everyone else just sees the r...
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[07:25:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/02/are-nuclear-weapons-100-times-less.html [nextbigfuture.com] Bad enough for the most population-dense metropolitan area on Earth, however.
[07:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:37] <exec> 08└─The Korean War has gone on for too long. Harry Truman couldn't finish it. I'm finishing it. He won World War 2 by going nuclear on the Japs. Smart move! He was a Dem, but that was very smart. Why didn't he nuke Korea? Stupid! I'd love to go nuclear, especially later in the summer. Or during sweeps w...
[07:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:39] <exec> 08└─The question becomes what China will do.
[07:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:41] <exec> 08└─...threatening to rain down fire and furries.
[07:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:43] <exec> 08└─-1, Flamebait See? The people modding the truth down like this have to be some kind of fag SJW. They find the truth so repulsive, they do what they can to prevent others from seeing it. That's so sad!
[07:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:45] <exec> 08└─There is no scenario I can think of in which the use of nuclear weapons is not "bad". There's the death and destruction, the fallout, and the EMP zapping electronics. Even if its limited it's still bad. Bad. Bad. Bad.
[07:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:47] <exec> 08└─Emotions, on two fronts: TFA: A _limited_ nuclear war, maybe 2-3 warheads, is nothing much in terms of damage. The firebombing of Dresden did roughly as much damage as dropping Fat Man on Nagasaki (casualties 80,000). There have been lots of nuclear tests on the planet; we are still here. The main i...
[07:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:02] <exec> 08└─In the 1980s the CIA was largely responsible for the rise of crack cocaine in the USA because it funded the Contras in Nicaragua. They were flying tons of cocaine to street dealers like Freeway Rick Ross through Nicaraguan émigrés such as Danilo Blandón who fled the country after the Sandinistas...
[07:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:16] <exec> 08└─Nah it's a more fundamental problem than a specific pay-off: NASA used to be able to fund their activities thanks to launching communication satellites into orbits. However, between the Russians, Europeans, SpaceX and the Indians, along with the budget cuts... Well, lets just say that "safety first"...
[07:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:00] <exec> 08└─I think you're giving insufficient consideration to the fact that curiosity is arguably one of the most important drives in bringing us to what and where we are. Renaissance aristocracy, which includes all the scientists we now know from that era, had in most cases everything they could ever possibl...
[07:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:02] <exec> 08└─Well, he is working with Arkansas as a basis for comparison. Runaway could tell us much about that! In fact, he already has!
[07:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:04] <exec> 08└─No politicians on Mars? Will the Martians not elect a leader? You can train to become an economist after landing on Mars. They will be no diversity commissars because every woman will be impregnated by Elon Musky's seed.
[07:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:06] <exec> 08└─jmorris, covering up the whole lizard people thing, again. Suspicious? Maybe?
[07:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:08] <exec> 08└─It's no wonder the religious folks can trounce literally ignorant atheists who ape such nonsense.
[07:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:10] <exec> 08└─This is the only possible conclusion from this "assholephysicist", White Lives Don't Matter! The existence of white people is without meaning, and they were not even the ones to have invented radio! "Stuck a feather in his hat, and called it Marconi!" Stupid white people in America, responsible for...
[07:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:38] <exec> 08└─I think I'd rather have Nazi fashion. It's so much snappier. Yes, that's how we figured out they're gay. They probably know the words to "Clang Clang Clang Goes the Trolley" also.
[07:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Discussing Keeping Disney's Marvel, 'Star Wars' Films - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:57] <exec> 08└─People living in a cradle-to-grave fantasy. Wait, we already have that. It's called monotheism.
[07:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 2441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:43] <exec> 08└─Let's not jump the gun. Here is a prominent Flat Earther who does believe the accepted eclipse model works on a globe. [youtube.com] (hint: It has to do with the speed of the moon out-pacing the earth's orbital velocity) Point being: It's wrong to think these few researchers represent the rest of th...
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[08:25:46] <exec> 08└─The site leaks contaminated cooling water. It's regularly on the news.
[08:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:47] <exec> 08└─If China is attacked, do you think Russia will stay out of it?
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[08:26:03] <exec> 08└─Dependency on a reliable supply of good quality opioids under sane medical supervision is not a problem - it can be managed well, but usually isn't. The problem is, if someone who is dependent on opioids believes their supply may be cut off, they will likely do risky things to maintain their supply...
[08:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:08] <exec> 08└─People in the south came from Polynesia, they likely mixed at some point, but they don't have the same origin.
[08:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:10] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It's not an exact parallel, but I can't help thinking of this... [xkcd.com]
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[08:29:06] <exec> 08└─Linux deserves a lot of the blame. The Linux OSS implementation allowed multiple channels, but only with hardware that did sound mixing. This completely missed the point of a kernel: to provide abstractions for userspace. Only one application could open /dev/dsp and so you needed something in usersp...
[08:30:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, I did realize that when I wrote it... There seems to be a diametrical contradiction. The ignorant have a strong hierarchical organizational tendency, whereas the open and free minds tend to be egalitarian. Group-think versus individual thought. It is actually quite interesting from a sociologic...
[08:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:44] <exec> 08└─I read once that the earth can't be flat, otherwise cats would have knocked everything off of it long ago.
[08:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:45] <exec> 08└─There will always be people who are ignorant. Ignorance is bliss, as they say.
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[09:25:54] <exec> 08└─It's not the destruction or the deaths that is the aftermath. It's the radioactive blanket that stays and poisons future generations that had nothing to do with this conflict.
[09:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:55] <exec> 08└─If China and Russia truly want a World War there isn't much chance of denying them, and we are all truly boned. Doubt it or they could have it anytime they wanted it.
[09:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:57] <exec> 08└─TL;DR: Not as bad as you think. [youtube.com]
[09:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:00] <exec> 08└─They need a reason that initiate them to start a war.
[09:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:02] <exec> 08└─Yes. It is perfect for them to watch, unharmed, as their two biggest rivals reduce each other. Russians are pragmatic to the point of cynicism.
[09:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:04] <exec> 08└─No they don't. A simple command from Comrades Xi or Putin is all the reason they need, if in fact war is their aim. That's the beauty of totalitarian regimes.
[09:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:06] <exec> 08└─How many Koreans have ever won a Miss (or even Mister) Universe contest?
[09:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should have used the words "leaks contaminated cooling water" instead of "dumps large amounts of radioactive waste."
[09:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:10] <exec> 08└─"relatively small in human casualties" Not really. Nation-wide disruption of food distribution logistics alone (disabled trucks, organizational chaos, failure of large refrigerated storage nodes) would trigger famine in major cities within weeks. Anarchy would be immediate. Once local warehouses hav...
[09:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:13] <exec> 08└─The old bumber sticker said: "One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day!"
[09:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:15] <exec> 08└─Do we accept that a limited exchange is necessary, now, to preclude an even more catastrophic exchange later?
[09:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:46] <exec> 08└─Budget cuts = Trump..
[09:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:48] <exec> 08└─First it's product placement, then comes Native Advertising. Next thing you know NASA will be filming a Plantronics headset commercial "on the moon"...wait, what?
[09:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:50] <exec> 08└─Budget cuts = Trump = Desperate times = desperate measures = Trump... AGHAGHAGHAGHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
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[09:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:41] <exec> 08└─in the absence of any evidence to the contrary we should consider ourselves typical
[09:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:43] <exec> 08└─Plate tectonics. Nothing survives being subducted.
[09:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:45] <exec> 08└─Simple contradiction is not argument: An argument is a connected series of statements to establish a definite proposition. A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.
[09:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 3135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:47] <exec> 08└─You're just being willfully ignorant. How easy was it to get the theory of relativity or any new science widely accepted if it went against the dogma of the day? Don't be a dumbass. It's common knowledge that rocking the boat in academia gets you fired. Same thing in Silicon Valley now, right? Simpl...
[09:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:22] <exec> 08└─The illogic given in the French vids is easy to debunk, as all you have to do it move towards the coast, and attempt to capture the same sunset from a lower altitude. If they can only capture the silhouette from 1000ft elevation, then they have *proved* the falsity of the flat earth, not debunked it...
[09:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:23] <exec> 08└─Do they have a reply for why water drains clockwise or anti-clockwise depending on which hemisphere you are in?
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[10:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:06] <exec> 08└─Even if you place no value on human life, you might take a look at what's produced in that area.
[10:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not grooving with Sean Connery ever.
[10:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:25] <exec> 08└─but punishment and moral castigation is not the way forward
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[10:31:17] <exec> 08└─This story and comments like yours sent me on a trip around the 'net to find some stuff to point at and laugh to make myself feel better. And yes, there was much to mock. There was also a collection of folks who set up simple tests that should have shown the heliocentric spinning globe model working...
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[11:25:24] <exec> 08└─Did he succeed or not?
[11:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:31] <exec> 08└─Folding knives, really? Have these people even looked in the general direction of the knife-making community?
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[11:26:23] <exec> 08└─This approach swiftly ended world war 2
[11:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:24] <exec> 08└─This massage was brought to you from Trump industries.
[11:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:27] <exec> 08└─for Hiroshima and Nagasaki the radiation now is not that bad. are today's nuclear weapons designed to change that?
[11:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 1623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:29] <exec> 08└─I am not sure Russia an China are still rivals as they were when USSR was in its apex. I'd say today they are heavy hearted allies, because America with (and even without) her alliances is 800-pound gorilla in the room. Russia has been watching the unfolding of events in the world since the times of...
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[11:27:04] <exec> 08└─If they could emanate shorter wavelengths [phys.org], then radiators could be made smaller for the same power rate.
[11:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:06] <exec> 08└─Well I sure hope they loaded ECC memory...
[11:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:02] <exec> 08└─"Of course a good calendar does not allow you to murder your neighbors easily, so the Europeans won." Sure, but to be fair, the Aztecs were no slouches at murder. Their obsidian knives were easily as sharp as anything the Spanish had, the only drawback being that they were so easily damages, and the...
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[11:29:07] <exec> 08└─Ah. I see what you are saying. I was like, where did MS come from :) You are of course right. But phishing is not really OS problem. The email lead developers to a password harvesting website. Once you have handed over login password, anything is possible. PEBKAC is PEBKAC but we can at least make i...
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[12:25:16] <exec> 08└─Mohamed: Mohamed, I'd very much like to introduce you to a good friend of mine. Mohamed: Okay Mohamed: Here he is, his name is Mohamed! Mohamed: (chuckles) Ah, ha! I like that name. Mohamed: Me too! [three men hug together] Mohamed: You goin to the black cube dance party this year in MECCA? Mohamed:...
[12:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:25] <exec> 08└─Sounds like me playing pool: between 2 and 2.5 pints of beer my game is at its best, I am unstoppable. Any more or any less and I can't play for shit.
[12:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:27] <exec> 08└─i love to lick it up yum yum i am yoga master
[12:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:30] <exec> 08└─The article follows Dan's attempt to follow the idea, popularised in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, that 10,000 hours of practice is the main factor in developing any skill to world class expertise.
[12:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:32] <exec> 08└─So in other words, golf is gay.
[12:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:34] <exec> 08└─The article follows Dan's attempt to follow the idea, popularised in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, that 10,000 hours of practice is the main factor in developing any skill to world class expertise.
[12:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:44] <exec> 08└─I can add three more to this list: reading, riting, and rithmetic :-(
[12:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Older than Our Solar System - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:52] <exec> 08└─As a 110% introvert, I want to visit one of those planets on my next vacation. Cool, quiet, and no people for 39.5 light years? Sign me up!
[12:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:41] <exec> 08└─I thought that if there is an a-symmetric war between two nuclear powers, the only way to attack without the internaltional community completely bearing down on you would be a high altitude blast, producing a magnetic pulse.
[12:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:42] <exec> 08└─Lame troll is lame.
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[12:27:01] <exec> 08└─Stuff like this isn't going to stop until people stop giving the healthcare industry their money. Since there is a new law (in the US) forcing people to give the healthcare industry money, I don't expect it to stop anytime soon. These hospitals, doctors, researchers, insurance companies, etc are *no...
[12:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:22] <exec> 08└─from power supply caps sparking the rich atmosphere
[12:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:24] <exec> 08└─NASA used to be able to fund their activities thanks to launching communication satellites into orbits.
[12:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:22] <exec> 08└─I'm old enough (59) that I remember being frustrated by the ever changing age of the Earth back in elementary school. We were still figuring it out, or at least, the best information was still working its way into the school systems back in the early 1960s. The Earth went from a few hundred million...
[12:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:23] <exec> 08└─But saying we are special is also generalizing from a sample of one. Bayesian inference allows a single sample to produce objective revision of an initial subjective assumption. If the initial assumption is "we are special" then the lack of radio signals would not give much revision. But if the init...
[12:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:04] <exec> 08└─An engineer that is unable to understand the overwhelming evidence that supports a somewhat blobby ellipsoid shape of our planet does not have the understanding to add knowledge to this subject! It is pure arrogance to think that because you find that there is an observation that doesn't seem to fit...
[12:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Army Discovery May Offer New Energy Source - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:38] <exec> 08└─I believe it could be done. Surround a lightning rod with a large toroid coil (a.k.a. make a huge current transformer) and use the transformed-down current from the coil to load a battery of high voltage capacitors to store the energy. On second thought, coupling lightning rod with an inductive load...
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[13:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:21] <exec> 08└─It's a bad idea to use PayPal, which is notorious for freezing your account for no reason and indefinitely.
[13:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:22] <exec> 08└─Link is paywalled at WSJ, I think I found the same text here? https://grassfire.com [grassfire.com] If the amounts discussed are correct, it looks like these operations ar...
[13:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:24] <exec> 08└─Did you know that TERRORISTS can get laptops and cell phones? Why, that's all they need to ATTACK AMERICA! If we don't stop TERRORISTS from having laptops and cell phones, no one is safe! Oh, and sir, here's that truckload of ammonium nitrate you ordered. And that's a nice AR-15 you have.
[13:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:38] <exec> 08└─FTFA: "Barely over halfway through, he’d pared his handicap to an all-time low of 2.6—a mark achieved by fewer than 6 percent of golfers." I'd say the qualifies, YMYV.
[13:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:40] <exec> 08└─You need three things to become exceptionally good at anything : 1) Natural skill 2) Detemination 3) Opportunity
[13:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:42] <exec> 08└─> So he bets everything on an overly simplified, mostly bullshit idea... This. I've had the chance to work with some Olympic cyclists and they are not like normal people. One had a resting heart rate of 25 beats/minute, could *smoothly* spin the pedals (under moderate load) at over 200 rpm and also...
[13:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:44] <exec> 08└─> 2) Detemination Anyone else read this as a variant of "detumescence"? They do say that sex steals all your strength away...
[13:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:47] <exec> 08└─You also need a lot of luck. For instance, Dale Earnhardt risked death every time he got into his car for a race, and a lot of those auto racing deaths had nothing to do with the skill or lack thereof of the driver.
[13:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 1423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:49] <exec> 08└─As TFA says, this probably appeals to people, because we all have "roads not taken", things we think we might have, should have, could have tried - but didn't. If we look at "Dan the golfer", odds are his talent is somewhere in the middle of the bell curve. He managed to get his handicap down to -2....
[13:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:59] <exec> 08└─So they've got a list of all the clogmakers? Missed one [treforowenclogmaker.co.uk].
[13:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:02] <exec> 08└─The UK is a bit of a nanny state, so making a folding knife in the UK would likely be analogous to building a nerve gas plant or ICBM in the USA. For laughs I looked up the laws and lockback knives are completely illegal, no one under 18 can touch a knife, etc. You can make and own an illegal knife,...
[13:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:00] <exec> 08└─Here's a couple movie plot or better grade ideas to toss out. China wants a buffer state, NK is mostly unpopulated farmland, an interesting post war agreement would be moving the ... Palestinians or some similar group into NK after moving all the NK into the south. How about the last white people le...
[13:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:01] <exec> 08└─relatively
[13:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:41] <exec> 08└─If two vehicles go the average speed down a highway for a four hour trip, and one leaves ten hours earlier, the latter will get to the goal first, and before the former even starts. They might both proceed at the same rate, but one got out the door first - and so is both further along while travelin...
[13:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Discussing Keeping Disney's Marvel, 'Star Wars' Films - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:30] <exec> 08└─So.... you mean what Sony attempted?
[13:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europeans: Tourists Go Home! - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:55] <exec> 08└─> About 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded either by immigrants Americans are 99% immigrants... yeah, all those fortune 500 companies were founded after the previous generations of immigrants perpetrated a genocide on the natives, so I think we are not considering all factors in this a...
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[14:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:24] <exec> 08└─I hadn't heard of the project. Hearing over to archive.org...
[14:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:25] <exec> 08└─and i'll sing you a song i will try not to sing out of key
[14:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:36] <exec> 08└─But I think we can all agree charging $8,700 for a laptop, cellphone and a VPN was the real crime.
[14:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:38] <exec> 08└─The US sends the merchandise to them over the same channels. I wonder if they get free shipping for such big orders.
[14:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:40] <exec> 08└─Indeed, my first though was, "OMG $8k! That's enough for half a deck!" Admittedly, I did just put a deck in, so paying for it is on my mind.
[14:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, and sir, here's that truckload of ammonium nitrate you ordered. And that's a nice AR-15 you have.
[14:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─Well, A macbook pro and iphone arent exactly cheap.
[14:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:46] <exec> 08└─Nice. You missed out the #MAGA T-Shirt though.
[14:25:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:59] <exec> 08└─The article follows Dan's attempt to follow the idea, popularised in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, that 10,000 hours of practice is the main factor in developing any skill to world class expertise.
[14:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 1908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:06] <exec> 08└─I work in this field and I'd like to jot down some of my thoughts on the matter. Perhaps one day this will be expanded into a study/publication. First - I'd like to say that I'm a huge Tim Ferriss fan. Don't get me wrong - he is a little bit of a pompous jerk California-person. That said - he is RIG...
[14:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 1873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:08] <exec> 08└─Bah - SN/computer mangled the comment. Better comment here: I work in this field and I'd like to jot down some of my thoughts on the matter. Perhaps one day this will be expanded into a study/publication. First - I'd like to say that I'm a huge Tim Ferriss fan. Don't get me wrong - he is a little bi...
[14:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:10] <exec> 08└─Many of his opinions have been formed from data, so even when he is wrong it is because his *data* was wrong. [...] His instructions for becoming world class are relatively sparse - find a teacher who is not especially gifted at the task (wrong body type, started very far from good), and train ve...
[14:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:13] <exec> 08└─If you define "top 5%" that way, then it's pretty meaningless. Being in the top 5% of the population worldwide - including all the people who don't practice the activity at all is meaningless. There are about 60 million golfers in the world. By your definition, when he played his very first round of...
[14:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:15] <exec> 08└─Just like programming (yourself): https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[14:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:17] <exec> 08└─How is "High T" women only a recent phenomenon? One would assume that if naturally high levels of testosterone were what made women win the 800m then 80%+ of all winners dating back to the start of the modern olympics would have this trait? For how long have we been capable of and actively testing f...
[14:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:19] <exec> 08└─Note that SunTzu (heh) didn't say "bad", but "not gifted", which is not the same thing. I understood that to mean "find a teacher who got good at the task with practice, not someone with innate talent." If you have talent, it's difficult to relate to those that don't have it, and that forms a large...
[14:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:30] <exec> 08└─I think there might be an aspect of "English (UK) as a foreign language" as they seem to use "craft" the way Americans would use something like contractor or freelancer. In the context of the website in the UK craft seems to mean low tech very high labor one man income generating full time employmen...
[14:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:31] <exec> 08└─Probably similar reasoning to here in AU. Ceramic knives aren't illegal, but they all must have a slab of steel in the handle. The thing that scares them is knives that don't show up on metal detectors.
[14:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's a linguistic thing. "Craft" originally meant "skilled profession that involves making something". Boat builders, coopers, weavers, blacksmiths and farriers, all that kind of stuff. I guess it grew to encompass similar tasks done on an amateur basis and from there to any kind of hobby that...
[14:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:35] <exec> 08└─http://davidadriansmith.com/ [davidadriansmith.com] I don't like John Mayer's music but he got some exposure thanks to the album artwork he did for him. The YouTube videos on the topic are very interesting to watch, it's pretty impressive how he does his work.
[14:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Older than Our Solar System - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:44] <exec> 08└─Our CMD analysis therefore reinforces a supersolar metallicity for TRAPPIST-1, but cannot constrain its age. [...] the current unavailability of appropriate evolutionary models encapsulating these effects again prevents us from extracting meaningful age constraints from this physical parameter. [......
[14:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Older than Our Solar System - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:47] <exec> 08└─How did they get the ages of these other stars to begin with, I have no idea.
[14:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Older than Our Solar System - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:49] <exec> 08└─Also, why are people using fonts that have special characters for if, iff, etc? What possible advantage is there to this?
[14:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:42] <exec> 08└─Nothing that can't be produced somewhere else. Really, they serve no purpose, except for propaganda at this point. And "human life"... please! Let's stop the melodramatics. Were/are you against the war in Afghanistan? Unless you want to bring the troops home, and stop selling/sending weapons to midd...
[14:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:44] <exec> 08└─War. War never changes.
[14:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:46] <exec> 08└─I did consider, just this morning, the possibility of just having the UN declare that China could take over NK. They then could set up their own buffer state, they'd even have the pre-made demilitarized zone.
[14:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:48] <exec> 08└─"dropping them from a B52" From 50,000 feet it'd be even more of a splash than those turkeys on WKRP.
[14:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:50] <exec> 08└─Dont't Panic! Look all, this is panicking over nothing. N. Korea is not going to launch nukes at the USA. (Unless some moron shoots at them first.) N. Korea has had nukes for years - they could have nuked us anytime. (Everybody knows the best way to get a nuke in the US is inside a bale of marijuana...
[14:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:52] <exec> 08└─Hush, troll. Or I'll make you listen to 2 years worth of K-Pop played at 78 speed.
[14:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:54] <exec> 08└─Many of the predictions for limited nuclear war are pretty overhyped, based on fuzzy assumptions and don't square with the results of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the large numbers of above ground nuclear tests (Tsar Bombe, anyone?). But let's get real. This is one experiment I'd really rather not do.
[14:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:56] <exec> 08└─Fuck the nutjobs are really making themselves known. Who blindly advocates genocide? Oh right, your fellow mutters who probably don't blink when you say shit like "raped and killed by the progressives." Also the same types that wouldn't blink an eye at deploying nukes. In other words: total morons.
[14:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:59] <exec> 08└─Russia has but one interest: Russia. They deeply resent the Chinese, and tolerate/cooperate out of expediency. Russians are masters of Realpolitik. If the US were to clobber them (China would be crushed by a massive US nuclear strike), and the US left hobbled, the Russians see no down side.
[14:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:17] <exec> 08└─There is nothing wrong with prescribing it. My doctor gives me prescription opioids. I use them occasionally. Sometimes for days in a row. When I don't need them I stop. When I need a refill, I ask, and have never been refused. Sometimes when the doctor asks if I need a refill, I already have plenty...
[14:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:19] <exec> 08└─Dependency on a reliable supply of good quality opioids under sane medical supervision is not a problem - it can be managed well, but usually isn't.
[14:28:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:49] <exec> 08└─Yet again we attempt to do statistics on a sample size of one and draw conclusions.
[14:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:42] <exec> 08└─In other words, drawing any sort of conclusion from a sample of one is pointless, which is exactly my, um, point. It could be that we are average, it could be that we are special, it could be that we are doomed, it could be that they are doomed; we have no way to know—yet. If we pick one of the al...
[14:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Discussing Keeping Disney's Marvel, 'Star Wars' Films - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:31] <exec> 08└─Because polytheism is so much better? Seriously, you polytheists just keep proselytizing on here, and it is getting old.
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[15:25:21] <exec> 08└─... in 3.. 2.. 1..
[15:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:22] <exec> 08└─Happy Birthday to You Happy Birthday to You Happy Birthday Dear Anonymous Happy Birthday to You. From good friends and true, From old friends and new, May good luck go with you, And happiness too.
[15:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:24] <exec> 08└─A few years back, I digitized a couple of 78s, and it's an interesting process. First of all, you have to do the actual digitizing, which requires having something that can play those records. Back then, I had access to a record player that could only play records at 33 and 45 RPM, so I connected it...
[15:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:27] <exec> 08└─Hey! Those words are copyrighted! You owe us for every eyeball that has or will ever view your post! -RIAA
[15:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:29] <exec> 08└─When we were kids 50 years ago we used to toss 78s like Frisbees. I wonder how much they would be worth now.
[15:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:31] <exec> 08└─Last time I Google this stuff, you could just scan in the record at high DPI and there was a bit of software that would perfectly reproduce the audio from it (by following the tracks in software alone, and forming even a stereo LP image - and LPs store their data in a format denser than a 78, which...
[15:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:33] <exec> 08└─digitize me! rock rock rock rock rock rock digitize me!
[15:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:35] <exec> 08└─Sounds (sorry) like you have a good process going. Why not share it with the Archive, http://great78.archive.org [archive.org]
[15:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:37] <exec> 08└─Hearing over
[15:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:54] <exec> 08└─I wasn't going there, but yes, anybody who doesn't think white rednecks can't be terrorists obviously know nothing about Timothy McVeigh.
[15:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:55] <exec> 08└─"Well, GOOOLLLLEEEE! Whoda thunk the TERRISTS could use online banking like regular people!!! Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
[15:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:23] <exec> 08└─I think there may be a difference between Olympic quality and professional (not a sports fan, so could be wrong). Yes, the final "best in the world" tier needs something special genetically. But to sustain yourself based on payments from your sport probably doesn't need that level of expertise. I'm...
[15:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:24] <exec> 08└─He pushed himself to the limit and still came up short.
[15:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:26] <exec> 08└─> 2) Detemination >> Anyone else read this as a variant of "detumescence"? No, just you.
[15:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:41] <exec> 08└─I wasn't sure what Gold Beating (http://heritagecrafts.org.uk/gold-beating/) was, and it turns out it is hitting gold with a hammer to form thin sheets. It is "extinct" in the list. However, reading the description it states it stopped because of completion from China in this very labour intensive p...
[15:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:43] <exec> 08└─I saw this interesting bit in browsing their crafts: Leadworking [heritagecrafts.org.uk] is listed as endangered on their list. Some of the problems: Lack of awareness: The architects, surveyors and specifiers do not understand historic leadwork as they have no training in this niche area.
[15:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:45] <exec> 08└─From here [heritagecrafts.org.uk]: I read about this a while ago, as they have the same problem in the US. Scientific experiments have long needed highly custom and technical glassmaking to facilitate them, so universities usually had scientific glassblowers on staff to work with scientists in desig...
[15:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:47] <exec> 08└─The entry here [heritagecrafts.org.uk] is interest but really seems to downplay the issue, and even says pocket knives are exempt. Of course they don't mention lockback knives. I'd like to know why they're whining so much about this: this entry about folding knives is actually one of the longest ent...
[15:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:59] <exec> 08└─The question is what the international community would think of the side going more conventional. If NK performs a high altitude blast, and the USA levels the country, would the world consider the USA's actions justified? However I would expect the USA not to go atomic in any scenario.
[15:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:01] <exec> 08└─look how much they've advanced the state of the art of cosmetic surgery Well yeah! After the blacks, they need more advanced cosmetic surgery! The blacks would be ahead in that department, but they're too lazy to get off their asses to work on it. We probably should nuke Africa too...
[15:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:03] <exec> 08└─The issues you identify are true, but it could be argued that the country having the distribution issues is at fault. Many countries deal with insufficient electrical systems every day, and they don't descend into cannibalism. The result of your scenario sounds like a Hollywood script for the apocal...
[15:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:05] <exec> 08└─A large-scale nuclear war... would reduce global temperatures by 8°C
[15:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:26] <exec> 08└─Study finds Legalizing Marijuana Decreases Fatal Opiate Overdoses. http://drugabuse.com [drugabuse.com] They can't admit they were completely wrong when they made Marijuana illegal. Solution - claim there's an "opiate crisis", and we have to do...
[15:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:49] <exec> 08└─In the north, the tribes and nations that populated what is now the U.S. and Canada, were still basically in the Stone Age. The Cahokia Indians had agriculture and a walled city. They died out about 400AD (I was raised in Cahokia, Il, close to where the Cahokia Mounds and museum are). Not sure about...
[15:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:51] <exec> 08└─It's possible, maybe likely, that life is rare in the universe. Maybe only one in fifty galaxies have a planet that has produced life. If that was the case we would never have proof of their existence. It's also possible that we're the first.
[15:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:53] <exec> 08└─You seem to misunderstand the concept of "billion". Only a few million years ago, most of the US was ocean. No civilization three billion years ago would leave any trace at all today.
[15:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:55] <exec> 08└─This [youtube.com] comes to mind...
[15:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:57] <exec> 08└─They're all possible -- and we'll likely never know.
[15:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:59] <exec> 08└─This "radio silence" is not at all established. Our telescope technology is rather modest, and doesn't include many possible wavelengths. A proper search may take thousands of years.
[15:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:29] <exec> 08└─With the evidence to the contrary [consortiumnews.com], you would think Ars would be concerned about being sued for libel for using a headline saying "Russian group that hacked DNC..."
[15:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:43] <exec> 08└─> There are sane people in the Flat Earth movement doing science, making disprovable hypotheses, providing repeatable experiments, and asking actual legitimate questions about the nature of our world. They might be sane, but they are hugely ignorant, and unaware of their ignorance. Just a very quic...
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[16:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:53] <exec> 08└─so I recorded in stereo and kept only one of the two channels of the recording
[16:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:54] <exec> 08└─http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/birthday-dirge-faq/ [faqs.org]
[16:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:56] <exec> 08└─i'll never go to your place of business again. I don't care how many burgers and fries you sell everyday, THIS IS SOYLENTNEWS and I CAN SAY WHAT I WANT ABOUT YOU! Next it's Yelp. Your server named, "Wendy" bumped into me and part of her wig shifted and I felt her erect penis brush against me. I foll...
[16:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:59] <exec> 08└─Last time I Google this stuff, you could just scan in the record at high DPI and there was a bit of software that would perfectly reproduce the audio from it
[16:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:46] <exec> 08└─At first I thought you were using luck in the sense of connecting with the right people to sponsor you, work on your team, etc. There are many excellent race drivers that just don't get noticed for whatever combination of bad luck and circumstance. Also, there is very little room at the top (in all...
[16:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:48] <exec> 08└─That competence has nothing to do with success (at least financial and status) and the inverse is often the case
[16:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:50] <exec> 08└─But then his back gave out.
[16:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:52] <exec> 08└─Talent counts. I can program rings around anyone who lacks the talent. OTOH, I like the piano, but 10,000 hours of practice might...barely...make me less painful to listen to.
[16:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:54] <exec> 08└─"Natural skill" might not be as magical as we think. Even if you end up being really good at something, you still start out really bad at it. If you start out as a kid, it doesn't matter as much that you suck because nobody expects better. Adults like Dan, however, have high barriers of "you suck" a...
[16:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:13] <exec> 08└─Well, it needs to be understood that "craft" is also commonly used in the construction industry. Carpenter, electrician, field engineer, iron worker, etc. Not to mention multi-craft, who usually start out as carpenters or pipe fitters, then branch out into other crafts. The most common multi-craftsm...
[16:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:15] <exec> 08└─We preserve old skills (not necessarily the same thing as defending them) for the same reason we preserve old books & old artefacts and old buildings and old data. It's history, in this case living history. A connection to the past and to one's ancestry, and a chance to learn something from our fore...
[16:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:17] <exec> 08└─Splendid.
[16:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:19] <exec> 08└─I found the overall list bit odd - why mention both knives and then folding knives but not lockback knives, which by law are two separate things -- they might in essence both be pocket knives but the the folding one you just fold and the lockback knives lock the blade so you have to release it befor...
[16:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:21] <exec> 08└─I saw this one too, also a comment on hackaday about learning to bend glass tubing in smooth arcs for neon signs which is rapidly becoming a lost art (the comment mentioned that most of his signs now are LED lit). I wonder if hot glass work could be made easier with an IR camera and an "enhanced rea...
[16:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:23] <exec> 08└─Have they made any progress on banning knives (including kitchen knives) with sharp points? I read several years ago how they were trying to pass such a ban in the UK.
[16:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Older than Our Solar System - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:34] <exec> 08└─But the Zorkians will be curious about your pink appendages and want to fiddle with each and every one.
[16:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Older than Our Solar System - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:35] <exec> 08└─I believe the combination of elements changes over time. If you know what kind (size) of star it is, then you can check its element proportion signature using spectragraphs against models which are calibrated using other methods, such as star clusters born at the same time but with different kinds o...
[16:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:42] <exec> 08└─Hollywood scripts, and your rebuttal, do not factor in trucks with fried ignition computers. Even Somalia has trucks. Also,in the event of this particular disaster, there won't be any massive influx of outside aid, unlike Katrina.
[16:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:44] <exec> 08└─China says North Korea on its own if it strikes first against US However, Beijing will back North if US opens hostilities, according to newspaper editorial https://www.irishtimes.com [irishtimes.com] B...
[16:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:46] <exec> 08└─Lots of great information and insight here, but the last paragraph gives me pause: The DPRK {North Korea) currently has nowhere near the nuclear stockpiles of Russia or the US or any of the other nuclear powers. It was not long ago that they had none at all. Were the DPRK to enter into battle with i...
[16:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:48] <exec> 08└─The difference is in the geography. North Korea in 1950, and Vietnam 1968, were rather dispersed in population and economy. Modern (and I use the term loosely) DPRK is basically Pyongyang surrounded by farms and wilderness. Destroy 1 big city and you win. Easy-Peasy Lemon Squeezy.
[16:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:50] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting that Korea was moving toward peace until George W. Bush intervened. [antiwar.com]
[16:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:52] <exec> 08└─"N. Korea has had nukes for years - they could have nuked us anytime. " Seriously? I call bullshit on that one. N. Korea has indeed possessed nukes for few years now. But, N. Korea has lacked a delivery system. Missile test after missile test has been conducted, and almost all of them blow up or fal...
[16:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:55] <exec> 08└─"Total, unconditional war, fought to unconditional surrender." I'm not sure you *truly* understand the concept of "total war". We launch a strike that includes some nukes, shit tons of more conventional bombs, along with artillery and airstrikes. We destroy the government, the army, and the infrastr...
[16:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:57] <exec> 08└─So - uhhh - just for the sake of argument - what is it that makes Nebraska and Montana valuable, and Oklahoma and Arkansas valueless? There must be SOME reason for you vacuous rant. Nebraska produces wheat, and Arkansas produces rice? Montana has mountains, and Oklahoma is mostly just rolling plains...
[16:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:59] <exec> 08└─did you miss that point? Smuggled across the border inside a barrel of weed! 100% possible, would be pretty easy to take out a coastal city. You fear mongers are freaking out over nothing, and this climate of fear and anger is much more likely to lead us into disaster.
[16:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:21] <exec> 08└─I also cringe at the idea that people want to take away this useful medicine from people who benefit greatly from it.
[16:31:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Russian Group Accused of Hacking DNC Used NSA Code in Attack on Hotels - 780 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:09] <exec> 08└─More importantly, everybody in the press looks past the fact that all of this was made possible by your friendly US Government. The same government that want's back doors into everything but apparently can't keep their own doors shut. Imagine the trouble we would all be in if they got their way, and...
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[17:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon-9 CRS 12 @ 1631 GMT (12:31 P.M. EDT) -- Successful Launch, Booster Landing, Deployment - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:26] <exec> 08└─All successful so far: launch, 1st stage return, and the assorted separations and deployments. Coming up next, the most boring vehicular chase sequence ever, with 36 hours of ISS driving in circles, pursued by a Dragon.
[17:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon-9 CRS 12 @ 1631 GMT (12:31 P.M. EDT) -- Successful Launch, Booster Landing, Deployment - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:28] <exec> 08└─You won't believe what happens at the end.
[17:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:50] <exec> 08└─> You might have got a slight improvement by averaging them. Or not, if they were slightly out of phase (esp. at high frequencies)... Getting a good mono signal from a true stereo pair is not trivial, adding them together often kills off a lot of the high frequency information as the distance from a...
[17:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, there was an old project that involved scanning records (in pieces, then stitching them, as LPs don't fit in a common A4 scanner), then trying to get some sound out of the scan. I don't think the project went anywhere other than a proof of concept, and certainly did not perfectly reproduce...
[17:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─If you haven't already seen it I would recommend you watch "A Noble Lie" [imdb.com]. It has some interesting information about McVeigh's motives and probable backers.
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:12] <exec> 08└─...is that ISIS funded Paypal and Ebay.
[17:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:14] <exec> 08└─The T-shirt is hidden by the long white robe. I'm not sure why the baseball cap was listed, considering it doesn't fit under the pointy hood.
[17:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:16] <exec> 08└─My primary source of thinking on McVeigh comes from Gore Vidal [vanityfair.com], who wrote back and forth with McVeigh regularly while McVeigh was on death row and apparently became close enough that he was present at McVeigh's execution.
[17:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:51] <exec> 08└─If the skill were inherently useful, then the top 6% might qualify. As it's celebrity-driven reward, I'm not sure even the top 1% would qualify. You probably need to be at least in the top 50, or, to be generous, the top 100. OTOH, does *he* think he succeeded? Given the kind of thing he's doing, th...
[17:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:53] <exec> 08└─The key word in the above is "Aptitude," because that kid (or adult) who will never be a sports star may instead have the aptitude to be a world-class researcher (Einstein--no sports star), leader (Mandela--also not a sports star), aid worker (Mother Teresa--no sports star), or star programmer (John...
[17:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:55] <exec> 08└─There's also talent. Everything requires a certain combination of skills and you can't just develop them to the appropriate level just because you would like to - as a music teacher, I've had students work their asses off for years and never really get good, whilst others come in and all they really...
[17:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:57] <exec> 08└─You may want to pick "Extrans (html tags to text)" rather than "Plain Old Text", but if you do use "Plain Old Text", use < and > instead of < and >. Above all, use the preview.
[17:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:59] <exec> 08└─At first I thought you were using luck in the sense of connecting with the right people to sponsor you, work on your team, etc.
[17:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:01] <exec> 08└─I concur, I have often seen a dynamic of incompetence and confidence being leveraged in IT consulting (without the IT person being aware of possessing both due to being assurably stupid), and this increases any gained financial success in direct relation to employers who are incompetent and unconfid...
[17:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:26] <exec> 08└─Who's "we"? Society only preserves old skills as a profession when there's a financial reason to do so. Otherwise, it ends up falling to hobbyists. This list of "dying crafts" isn't really about hobbyists, it's about professionals, bemoaning the fact that many of these are disappearing from the UK....
[17:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:27] <exec> 08└─Does preserving an old craft require that the old tools be used, or are updated tools acceptable as long as the result is truly identical? If I heli-arc (TIG) weld where my grandfather used oxy-acetelyne, am I doing the same job? For that particular thing, I'd assume no: the type of welding you do c...
[17:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:55] <exec> 08└─But but but, that is 100% not our fault! Koreans! Slanty eyes! Short fat dictator! Ummm, RAWR!?! /s
[17:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:56] <exec> 08└─http://www.strangehistory.net/2015/04/02/failure-appeasement/ [strangehistory.net]
[17:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:58] <exec> 08└─> * Prevailing winds in the region hints that China will be the brunt recipient of the radioactive dust. No, prevailing winds blow from the west. [ncsu.edu] Japan is the closest landmass to the east.
[17:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:21] <exec> 08└─Or maybe we could prescribe it with sane instructions. We are all trained to take pills until the bottle is empty because of antibiotics. This strategy is 110% wrong with opioids, but there is no change in labeling. Doctors and pharmacists alike tell you - even in the midst of the crisis right now -...
[17:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:22] <exec> 08└─> Why trade a great life for a feeling from pills? Not everyone has, or expects to ever have, a great life.
[17:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:25] <exec> 08└─Why is all the coverage of this "opioid epidemic" focused on how we can make changes to fix it? Something clearly changed around 2009 that created a crisis. I don't know what it is, but we need to focus on fixing the root cause instead of maintaining the current system.
[17:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:48] <exec> 08└─> It's just the ISS, a two billion dollar money sink. If we're really concerned about astronaut lives or something, we could just splash the ISS and use that money stream to build a safer space station. Like cars, maintaining the one you have is a lot cheaper than getting a new one. Actually worse t...
[17:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:49] <exec> 08└─This. Why/how did this fall to HP? Wouldn't it make more sense to select something really current like, for example the http://www.nvidia.com [nvidia.com] (self-driving car supercomputer)??
[17:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:57] <exec> 08└─What is this "academia" you speak of that seems to ignore all of the (archaeological) history that you somehow have gathered all by yourself? I guess it was people on vacation without any college education who discovered ancient foundations to supposedly medieval works? I sense a straw man.
[17:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:58] <exec> 08└─Anybody who has seen Star Trek is familiar with the Prime Directive: Don't mess with pre-warp cultures. This can be generalized to: Don't mess with people that can't yet mess with you. There's a reason the Klingons and the Orions didn't go around conquering pre-warp cultures: they had no reason to....
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[18:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Sleep Biology Discovery Could Lead to New Insomnia Treatments That Don't Target the Brain - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:22] <exec> 08└─Farts post!
[18:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep Biology Discovery Could Lead to New Insomnia Treatments That Don't Target the Brain - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:23] <exec> 08└─go back to the green site where people care about who is first...
[18:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon-9 CRS 12 @ 1631 GMT (12:31 P.M. EDT) -- Successful Launch, Booster Landing, Deployment - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:33] <exec> 08└─It's definitely rated X. Though, given the size ratio and the lack of child support after the payload is delivered, it's more like insects anyway. Does the poor dragon realize she'll mate again with the next one to come near her? The ISS's a slut.
[18:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:57] <exec> 08└─Actually, I followed the instructions on a howto article that I found using google, when I was asked to help digitize those 78s!
[18:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 1652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:58] <exec> 08└─One could use frequency filters to average the lower-frequency end of the channels together, and use only one channel for higher frequencies to avoid the "alignment" problems you mentioned. Of course, that complicates things. But if you want professional or high-quality results, experimentation is w...
[18:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─You mean it'll be worse than this: https://t.co [t.co] (One of Project78's examples).
[18:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:03] <exec> 08└─It was all the rage for a while, laser scanning the record groove rather than physically tracing with a needle. No contact, no damage.
[18:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:05] <exec> 08└─Getting a good mono signal from a true stereo pair is not trivial
[18:26:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:54] <exec> 08└─He pushed himself to the limit and still came up short.
[18:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─I propose that "natural skill" is actually about the desire a child has to do something
[18:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:35] <exec> 08└─OK, so using a coordinate measuring machine (Romer arm, etc) to measure the dimensions of a window opening, before making the replacement leaded-glass (possibly with colored/stained parts) window is right out. Instead you have to use the same old ways of measuring, perhaps making templates to fit th...
[18:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:37] <exec> 08└─And now I feel old as I know people (through my brother-in-law) who restore vintage neon signs as well as make new ones. At first I was going to call BS of it becoming a lost art but then I realized that all of these guys are over 50 with a good number of them being over 60 and being simi-retired or...
[18:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:08] <exec> 08└─They deeply resent the Chinese, ...
[18:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:10] <exec> 08└─You really should hand write out all your personal beliefs, and itemize current news items as well. You might learn something, cause from over here it looks like you use arguments that fit a specific topic but overall your topics can be contradictory and have too narrow of a focus. Brighter minds ha...
[18:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:12] <exec> 08└─The stereotypes and idiocy in this thread are too much.
[18:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:14] <exec> 08└─Heh, the conservatives are melting down, their cognitive dissonance is becoming so evident even to themselves that their brains are imploding. It is a bitter sweet semi-victory, coming at the cost of US lives. At least it is becoming harder and harder for Trumpettes to ignore reality.
[18:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:41] <exec> 08└─The problem is systemic. That is, the system is too busy trying to decide who needs to be punished and how severely to make the problem go away that we have completely failed to consider that law enforcement getting involved in a medical issue is itself the cause of the problem. We have actual evide...
[18:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:42] <exec> 08└─Part of that is that most pain pills work much better if you can take them before the pain starts. So doctors prescribe pills at a rate of "take one just before the previous one wears off" and give you enough for the expected duration of the pain. For chronic pain this is a great way to get addicted...
[18:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:08] <exec> 08└─well this is good news. unlike computers, humans can fix themselves. the logical thing, thus, to test advanced active shielding on, would be the computer? i reckon more data processing power will be needed (but not enough for advertisement and excessive javascript_) on future space missions? one wou...
[18:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:18] <exec> 08└─ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
[18:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:20] <exec> 08└─#7 is actually not a terrible stupid reason. We humans try to communicate with animals, too. Pet owners, for example, do it all the times.
[18:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:07] <exec> 08└─Ooh this is fun, let me try! American water is driven through the pipes by pumps spinning in the proper direction. This imparts angular momentum to the water which is retained at the atomic level throughout its lifecycle until it finally evaporates. People who live in the poor, ignorant, backwards c...
[18:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFPLN1001Fs [youtube.com]
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[19:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Explanation for the Dominance of Matter Over Antimatter in the Universe - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Underground_Neutrino_Experiment [wikipedia.org]
[19:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Explanation for the Dominance of Matter Over Antimatter in the Universe - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:32] <exec> 08└─The pimply faced god who designed our universe set the neutrino/anti-neutrino slider all the way to the left when choosing the starting conditions on the simulator.
[19:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Explanation for the Dominance of Matter Over Antimatter in the Universe - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:34] <exec> 08└─Leptogenesis confirmed -- communists to rally against this inequality in 3.. 2.. 1..
[19:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Explanation for the Dominance of Matter Over Antimatter in the Universe - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:36] <exec> 08└─More people drive forward than in reverse. ???
[19:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep Biology Discovery Could Lead to New Insomnia Treatments That Don't Target the Brain - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─So muscle fatigue causes insomnia rather than the other way round?
[19:26:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:21] <exec> 08└─It was all the rage for a while, laser scanning the record groove rather than physically tracing with a needle. No contact, no damage.
[19:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:23] <exec> 08└─Some math; Assuming 78 RPM 3 minute length. 4 inch radius (10" record, with a 2" diameter center) 78 RPM * 3 minutes = 234 revolutions 234 / 4 = 58.5 tracks per inch. If your scanner can do 1200 DPI, that's about 1200/58.5 dots or 20 log2(20) = 4.3. So less than 5 bits per sample, which...
[19:27:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 1908 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:06] <exec> 08└─I work in this field and I'd like to jot down some of my thoughts on the matter. Perhaps one day this will be expanded into a study/publication. First - I'd like to say that I'm a huge Tim Ferriss fan. Don't get me wrong - he is a little bit of a pompous jerk California-person. That said - he is RIG...
[19:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:28] <exec> 08└─"All men are created equal" doesn't mean people have the same abilities and talents, in equal measure. It means all deserve fair and equal treatment, no discrimination for religious beliefs, skin color, gender, height, strength, or any other excuse that's been used to divide people into insiders and...
[19:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:30] <exec> 08└─What I'd like to know is how did Dan interpret the part where it says practicing for 10,000 hours does not include expert guidance?
[19:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:32] <exec> 08└─If you're not physically suited for the sport then 10,000 hours of it is more likely to damage you. There are some people who can play rugby and many others who can't. The former tend to be tougher and recover faster from injuries. If you're in the latter group and still tried to do the 10,000 hours...
[19:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:34] <exec> 08└─I expect McLaughlin has actually become an expert. And that would have been great, if only he had studied carpentry or computer programming, because then he would have a marketable skill. But in a competitive sport you can't make a living from just being an expert: You have to be elite, which means...
[19:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:36] <exec> 08└─Lots of Olympic class athletes don't earn enough from their sports: https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] http://www.businessinsider.com
[19:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TRAPPIST-1 Older than Our Solar System - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:17] <exec> 08└─Another question is how long before the cores of these exo-planets cool down? Eventually, even the Earth's core will cool down, resulting in limited volcano-ism with no out gassing, so CO2 concentrations drop, less green house affect and less CO2 for any plants that may live there. And the magnetic...
[19:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:41] <exec> 08└─We (the US) need to be the better nation. If, and only if, Li'l Kim drops a nuke, we should respond...but not with a nuke. We have thermobaric explosives and other conventional weapons that work just as well, and as someone upthread pointed out, Pyongyang is really the only target of any significanc...
[19:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:42] <exec> 08└─Japan surrendered because they were bombed.
[19:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:44] <exec> 08└─White mythology.
[19:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:13] <exec> 08└─I have rarely taken enough to be loopy. I don't see the appeal of it. I can't stand the idea of losing control of my mind, emotions and faculties. That's probably why I don't drink alcohol. I daily take prescription nsaids stronger than advil. And tylenol. Occasionally opiates. A couple months ago I...
[19:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:14] <exec> 08└─The fundamental problem is that if you take the pills in anticipation of pain, rather than in response to pain, you have no way of telling if you are still in pain. Responsible use of pain killers involves easing off every once in a while to re-evaluate whether you need as much as you are taking.
[19:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:51] <exec> 08└─The classification is not mine, even Aztecs and Maya are considered to be ‘Stone Age’ cultures because they did not know how to smelt, but that leaves out so many other factors that IMHO it is useless classification. As I have argued in this thread, development is not linear; meaning it does not...
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[20:25:34] <exec> 08└─Ignoring that the game was full of political SJW propaganda, the gameplay and story sucked. It gets lots of press not because it was good, but because it is PC AF.
[20:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Explanation for the Dominance of Matter Over Antimatter in the Universe - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:45] <exec> 08└─if this is proved, my personal theory "there was the same amount of antimatter in this universe, but your mom ate it" goes poof.
[20:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Explanation for the Dominance of Matter Over Antimatter in the Universe - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:46] <exec> 08└─Actually, Anit-matter was tired of the stigma associated with being "anti" (long before it got a chance of being beaten by the cops), and left the visible universe when its calls to be renamed "alt-matter" were violently ignored.
[20:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep Biology Discovery Could Lead to New Insomnia Treatments That Don't Target the Brain - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:57] <exec> 08└─I can report anecdotal results--when I get a therapeutic massage from an LMT, I almost always get sleepy.
[20:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep Biology Discovery Could Lead to New Insomnia Treatments That Don't Target the Brain - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:59] <exec> 08└─Fuck trade unions, we can go back to 12h/d 7d/w jobs without robots
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[20:26:09] <exec> 08└─It's definitely rated X. Though, given the size ratio and the lack of child support after the payload is delivered, it's more like insects anyway. Does the poor dragon realize she'll mate again with the next one to come near her? The ISS's a slut.
[20:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon-9 CRS 12 @ 1631 GMT (12:31 P.M. EDT) -- Successful Launch, Booster Landing, Deployment - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:11] <exec> 08└─They are both sluts. They will mate with anyone, and do it on film, and thousands/millions watch it live or delays on the internet. This is the definition of a porn star.
[20:26:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 496 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:24] <exec> 08└─Last time I Google this stuff, you could just scan in the record at high DPI and there was a bit of software that would perfectly reproduce the audio from it (by following the tracks in software alone, and forming even a stereo LP image - and LPs store their data in a format denser than a 78, which...
[20:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Says Islamic State Used EBay and PayPal to Channel Money to the US - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:02] <exec> 08└─Considering that McCain had a meeting with the head of ISIS [youtube.com] I wonder who the terrorists are really paying.
[20:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:51] <exec> 08└─There's also talent.
[20:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:52] <exec> 08└─A bad way to end a novel, but a good way to save 4000 hours.
[20:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:54] <exec> 08└─> I propose that "natural skill" is actually about the desire a child has to do something, despite being bad at it. You have a natural skill for creating newspeak.
[20:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:56] <exec> 08└─> no discrimination for religious beliefs - "Your honor, eating that child is an ancient tradition of my baal worship, we must perform..." - "Case dismissed"
[20:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:04] <exec> 08└─Even if your vehicle is old enough to not have that and instead has a Kettering ignition (mechanically-operated ignition points), it would still have to be a (roughly) pre-1960 model to not have an alternator with solid-state rectifiers that would get fried. Heh. The Cuban Revolution in 1959 and the...
[20:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:15] <exec> 08└─What about the fact that we still find fossil resources to exploit?
[20:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:17] <exec> 08└─But quantum entanglement don't guarantee FTL communications.
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[21:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Gone Home's Creators Rewound Time to Find Their Sci-Fi Future - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess when you're a nutcase, anything that doesn't dutifully glorify Hitler and Trump is "SJW propaganda."
[21:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Gone Home's Creators Rewound Time to Find Their Sci-Fi Future - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:16] <exec> 08└─Most of the people I've talked with think the first game built tension and didn't deliver. It quickly unwound at the "attic reveal" with a completely pedestrian and PC cliche. Also the various "hidden" stories, especially the father's, were carefully targeted SJW feel-good bait. In terms of storytel...
[21:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep Biology Discovery Could Lead to New Insomnia Treatments That Don't Target the Brain - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─Muslims demand their day of rest or else they will suicide bomb your place of business.
[21:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sleep Biology Discovery Could Lead to New Insomnia Treatments That Don't Target the Brain - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:41] <exec> 08└─Yep. Cure insomnia?! Feh! We need cogs to be working 24/7 to compete with robots. Let's medicate the need for sleep away.
[21:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:34] <exec> 08└─I play in the field of old school videogames (shooters), where games are a few minutes long and in my experience the amount of time spent in the game is not correlated with top skill players. A top skill players was steamrolled by me when n00b and steamrolled me in a matter of a couple weeks. If you...
[21:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:35] <exec> 08└─Expert doesn't have to be a physical body but for certain tasks you need hands-on training. I played a little golf with a friend who was into it. It's not easy. The hard part is the stance and swing motion. But the biggest help was my friend standing there watching me set up and giving me pointers....
[21:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:37] <exec> 08└─That's part of proper training. Going about something yourself without any real knowledge can easily lead you down a screwy path of trial and error. And the error can get you into trouble.
[21:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:07] <exec> 08└─Och! Faith and begorrah, praise the Laird, everything is gonna be alright. Bagpipe making is listed under "Currently Viable". Had me nerves in a jumble there for a wee minute.
[21:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:47] <exec> 08└─You skipped over a very important part of that picture. In the early 1950s, USA bombed the bejessus out of North Korea. Not being very industrialized nor having large cities, there weren't a lot of targets, so that didn't take very long. Having obliterated every viable target in that country, USA we...
[21:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:49] <exec> 08└─I imagine what he is probably referring to is the rate of "leakage" back in 2013, which was 300 tons/day (roughly 72k gallons/day). http://news.nationalgeographic.com [nationalgeographic.com] Sounds like currently that water is being store...
[21:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:51] <exec> 08└─My grandfather drove through every continental US State and Canadian Provence but somehow missed Oklahoma, thats good enough for me to write off the whole state. Plus Arkansas was a mistake state anyways, Pirates thought it was Kansas.
[21:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03boris [1706] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:21] <exec> 08└─Many go in with the same intention and usage pattern as you. Many do not get a high from it and use it exclusively for pain management as you do. Everyone is different and some are more susceptible to addiction than you. Also, your pain may be periodic, but others experience it constantly. Pain ca...
[21:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Stark Increase in Opioid-Related Admissions, Deaths in Nation's ICUs - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:22] <exec> 08└─The pain is constant without any meds. But on most days prescription nsaids with tylenol, and other non opiate drugs are enough. Someone that has pain that drives them to do things I don't think I would do, probably means they need more pain meds. I hope to never be in that situation.
[21:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:02] <exec> 08└─Consider an alien race, let's just make it one of silicon based machine intelligence, because the resource thing is hardly a problem for them (organics would just see them as a bonus). If there's one race, maybe there's two. If there's at least two then maybe they had a war already -- or if just one...
[21:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:03] <exec> 08└─It's quite ridiculous to think I've gathered this by myself, clearly there are many others recounting such evidence, you need only click a few links to discover this. Academia government funded education and research. If you doubt that governments suppress information, then I have no time to discuss...
[21:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:05] <exec> 08└─And throughout human history EVERY paleontologist wanted to maintain this bogus time line rather than re-write history.
[21:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Discussing Keeping Disney's Marvel, 'Star Wars' Films - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:56] <exec> 08└─Sony is not the only one, though, after BetaMax flopped can you blame them? Format lock-in fails due to lack of content, we'll fix that next go-around just own the content...
[21:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:53] <exec> 08└─Ah the old "You can't raise any uncomfortable questions because you're not an expert!" rubbish. If that were true then Marie Curie should have been ignored. Any theory that is unquestionable is not science but religion.
[21:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:55] <exec> 08└─The illogic given in the French vids is easy to debunk, as all you have to do it move towards the coast, and attempt to capture the same sunset from a lower altitude. If they can only capture the silhouette from 1000ft elevation, then they have *proved* the falsity of the flat earth, not debunked it...
[21:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:57] <exec> 08└─Apparently you've been misinformed about this. The truth is that even modern science agrees that the Coriolis Effect does not make drains spin in different directions. Have a snopes link: http://www.snopes.com [snopes.com] If what you believed about drains was bogus, then how mu...
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[22:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Vega 64: Matches the GTX 1080 but Not in Power Consumption - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:22] <exec> 08└─I thought it was all about mining coin these days. In which case high power consumption is a show stopper. Not covered in the summary: the Vega 54 is also more of a power hog than the Nvidia 1070, although not as pronounced (somewhere around 45 to 75W higher power consumption for AMD). What am I buy...
[22:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Vega 64: Matches the GTX 1080 but Not in Power Consumption - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:23] <exec> 08└─Can't find stock unless it's part of a bundle. Paper launch? Maybe miners bought them all up? I'm going to wait another month to see what happens. Vega 64 is looking to be a bit of a let down. Not the end of the world but i'm considering switching to team green. Would really like to upgrade past thi...
[22:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Vega 64: Matches the GTX 1080 but Not in Power Consumption - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:25] <exec> 08└─I almost wonder if the power consumption isn't a ploy by AMD to get the cards in the hands of gamers by making them less appealing to miners, along with those bundled hardware discount packages you have to buy (and pay $100 for) for the FE cards. I wouldn't be surprised at all if a more power effici...
[22:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Vega 64: Matches the GTX 1080 but Not in Power Consumption - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:27] <exec> 08└─What's surprising is that in theory HBM2 should help AMD save power and provide massive bandwidth advantages... I want to support AMD, but I'm not buying a new power supply, and I like my PC to not be too noisy. Anyway, I just upgraded my ancestral AMD5850 with a free gift from a friend (who works a...
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[22:25:29] <exec> 08└─Nope, the initial runs pretty much have to be bought with the plus $100 bundles (which include a bunch of discounts on other computer parts). AMD did it to discourage mines snapping up the initial run. ...
[22:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Vega 64: Matches the GTX 1080 but Not in Power Consumption - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:32] <exec> 08└─I haven't been in the mining game for a while, but to the best of my knowledge, AMD is the gold standard for mining crypto. AMD and NVidia took different approaches in their video cards. This is all from memory, so there is a good chance I screw it up, but AMD has more shaders, while NVidia has fewe...
[22:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Gone Home's Creators Rewound Time to Find Their Sci-Fi Future - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:43] <exec> 08└─Video games these days suck. We were better off in the days of Metroid and Super Mario Bros, and later DOOM.
[22:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:05] <exec> 08└─The Dutch women's football team (soccer for yanks) just became European champion. In recognition of this achievement, the Dutch Olympic committee awarded the team an "A" status, meaning that from now on, the team members are supported more or less as if this is a job. For the coming 12 months, renew...
[22:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:06] <exec> 08└─He reduced his handicap to a level achieved by fewer than 6% of golfers, that sounds really quite good. While he didn't succeed in the PGA tour, he was at roughly 6000/10000 of his goal hours, so a little over halfway there. It's unfortunate his body physically gave out, perhaps he would have made h...
[22:29:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:18] <exec> 08└─There is no scenario I can think of in which the use of nuclear weapons is not "bad". There's the death and destruction, the fallout, and the EMP zapping electronics. Even if its limited it's still bad. Bad. Bad. Bad.
[22:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:19] <exec> 08└─...if you don't count the tens of thousands of murdered children in each city. ...in case you didn't have enough evidence that bradley13 is a racist sociopath. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:31:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:39] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your reply. What I mean is more in line with what happened to Islam at around the year 1600, it simply imploded and has never recovered its inlfuence over the civilized world. They brought numbers (i.e. [0..9]) from India and gunpowder from China, basically giving Europe two of its mos...
[22:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:34] <exec> 08└─Strangely enough, Bayesian statistics permits you to do this. Abd it's not wrong. Knowing one data point is more than knowing zero data points. From a Bayesian perspective, we should conclude that we're more likely to be a member of a bigger-than-average group, but that's about all. Not all definiti...
[22:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Implications of Cosmic Silence - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed. What I posted was the tl;dr version. In truth, there's a good bit more information out there than I said. And it's gotten massively better in the last few years. If you take the Drake Equation, we've certainly put some limits both above and below on the term dealing with number of planets si...
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[23:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─it just make them look like the idiots they are
[23:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:24] <exec> 08└─Personally, I don't think it's the job of an ISP, DNS, or other intermediate party to block people's access to information, regardless if that information is distasteful to them. I'm not saying they don't have the right - private business and all that - but I am saying that I think this kind of thin...
[23:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:27] <exec> 08└─"I will defend to the death of an innocent woman your right to speak." Game over, Nazis!
[23:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:29] <exec> 08└─Hitting participants in a counter-demonstration with a car at full speed is an expression and, as such, need to be protected. The right of free speech/expression will always Trump some unfortunate deaths. Discuss please.
[23:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:31] <exec> 08└─So today they try to knock a neo-nazi site offline, I doubt many people will lose any sleep over that, but who is going to be next?
[23:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:33] <exec> 08└─It's no different to a gang of white supremacist dipshits walking into a printer's shop and ordering a bunch of swastika pamphlets. I know I wouldn't complain at the print shop owners for turning them down. Take your filthy ideology and tainted money elsewhere, nazi scum.
[23:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:35] <exec> 08└─By that analogy they could buy their own printing press and self publish. I don't know their ISP's policies but they could self host their site if they so desire. Domain names might be difficult to self host (I'm pushing the limits of my web hosting knowledge).
[23:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:38] <exec> 08└─From the summary: This saying comes to mind: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
[23:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:40] <exec> 08└─What about someone turning down baking a cake? What about someone refusing to serve a cop? It is ether all acceptable or none of it is. I swear this past election is making me look like a conspiracy nutter. This feels like gaslighting. I am getting the same icky feeling. Watch the media connect this...
[23:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:42] <exec> 08└─Just so you know For 3 days, all the press in Australia run stories expressing puzzlement and different degrees of condemnation on Trump's reaction on Saturday (violence "from many sides", followed by a tweet silence on the matter, then being snarky ). [politico.com] I'd appreciate if other non-Amri...
[23:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:44] <exec> 08└─They're not otherwise we wouldn't be hosting ours. Registering a name is another story entirely but nobody said they had to register with a US registrar.
[23:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terrorism in Charlottesville: 1 Dead, 19 Injured; dailystormer.com DNS-From GoDaddy to Google to ??? - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:46] <exec> 08└─Journalists at both the New York Times Magazine and Teen Vogue, as well as psychologists Bryant Welch, Robert Feldman and Leah McElrath, have described some of the actions of Donald Trump during the 2016 US presidential election and his term as president as examples of gaslighting.[20][24][25][26] B...
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[23:25:48] <exec> 08└─It's not, but SJWs will get their grabby hands on the levers of power and start misusing the power.
[23:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Vega 64: Matches the GTX 1080 but Not in Power Consumption - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:01] <exec> 08└─Tom's Hardware has a section about the mining performance. Uh oh! http://www.tomshardware.com [tomshardware.com] Performance is a little under the 1080 Ti, but Vega is about $200 cheaper.
[23:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Vega 64: Matches the GTX 1080 but Not in Power Consumption - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:02] <exec> 08└─Nice 4D chess scenario, and maybe that will help keep them in stock for gamers, but Occam's razor suggests AMD just sucks at making GPUs compared to Nvidia.
[23:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Vega 64: Matches the GTX 1080 but Not in Power Consumption - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:04] <exec> 08└─Seems like it would be a silly ploy. While power consumption might matter more to miners it's not like it's an uninteresting factor for gamers either, more power => more heat => more fans => more noise. I like my machines to be as quiet as possible really. I'd prefer to have passive cooling but if t...
[23:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Gone Home's Creators Rewound Time to Find Their Sci-Fi Future - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:15] <exec> 08└─Video games these days suck. We were better off in the days of Metroid and Super Mario Bros, and later DLOOM. [wikipedia.org]
[23:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Progress on The Great 78 Project - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:21] <exec> 08└─A laser turntable would probably be the right solution. (Though that's probably not what the grandparent was talking about.) This sort of optical system would be ideal for archiving the records, at high fidelity, without introducing further wear.
[23:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:41] <exec> 08└─That would depend on how many of the 6% better than him also put in 10k hours. If all of them also have putt in that much dedication, then the difference between top 6% and top 100 is noise.
[23:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Failure of the Dan Plan, and Practice Over Talent - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:43] <exec> 08└─Agreed, especially since I'm sure most if not all of the golfers better than him have also put in their 6k more hours. The hypothesis is not that you'll become the best or one of the 10 best, but that you'll reach level of expertise. Your relative rank will then depend on how many other people have...
[23:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endangered Crafts - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:13] <exec> 08└─I've ground and polished four telescope mirrors. This was once quite popular but has been in decline for years
[23:30:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bobs [1462] 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 1138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:25] <exec> 08└─Dont't Panic! Look all, this is panicking over nothing. N. Korea is not going to launch nukes at the USA. (Unless some moron shoots at them first.) N. Korea has had nukes for years - they could have nuked us anytime. (Everybody knows the best way to get a nuke in the US is inside a bale of marijuana...
[23:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Bad Would a Limited Nuclear War Actually Be? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:58] <exec> 08└─So you're going to deliver food to feed New York in a fleet of antique sedans? Good plan.
[23:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE Supercomputer to be Sent to the ISS - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:56] <exec> 08└─HPE is not HP, and HPE still makes supercomputers for customers.
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