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[00:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:37] <exec> 08└─Plenty of blah-blah but the most egregious bits were: > Not only does Uranus stay out all night long, but this world is now coming closest to Earth for the year Yeah, but Uranus has only just passed aphelion (2009) and will have a closest approach to earth closer than the previous one every year unt...
[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:38] <exec> 08└─Right Ascension 01h 38m 35s Declination +09° 36’ 21”
[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:40] <exec> 08└─I expect that was originally calibrated by averaging the sights of several different people. Now I can say my Caltech Astronomy studies have not gone to waste.
[00:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:43] <exec> 08└─The Best place I've found for info on things like this is heavens-above.com If you let it know your location, it'll even draw a star chart for you.
[00:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:45] <exec> 08└─Is that related or are you just randomly describing goatse?
[00:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:47] <exec> 08└─The light reflected by the moon makes the pupils smaller and in a new moon there is no moon visible so your perception of the sky is way better. There is nothing mystical or magical about it... I tough that the way our vision works was général knowledge learned in highschool... Fnord666 and takyon...
[00:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:49] <exec> 08└─But judging from the Technical content of your post maybe you only look at the sky with a telescope and dont care about the moon unless it is hiding the object of your interest and simply forgot the impact it has on nightvision
[00:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:51] <exec> 08└─And that affects what how? Maybe the pyramids are aligned too? Yeah - my razorblade's sharper than it was yesterday, that proves it!
[00:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:59] <exec> 08└─I used to play in rock bands. I would have gladly jailed the next idiot who shouted out: "Play some Skynyrd!!!" SO, I'm guilty of 1A oppression - clearly.
[00:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:01] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus submits these dogwhistle articles, and Soylent publishes them - why? The only way aristarchus' position on white supremacists could be considered a dog-whistle would be if he was literally using a dog-whistle to communicate to people because they can't read. Those opposed to white suprem...
[00:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:03] <exec> 08└─Heather Heyer: Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally organiser describes protester's death as 'payback' [independent.co.uk]
[00:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:05] <exec> 08└─So many people are buying into it though. I refuse to believe they're all hired professional trolls.
[00:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 2070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:07] <exec> 08└─Actually, "fascist" is a difficult word to define. One reason it's so hard to define that Benito Mussolini, the guy who invented the term, was never quite clear about what it meant himself. Some of the usual features are: - A merging the power of government and business to control society. The alt-r...
[00:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:10] <exec> 08└─I can think of several offences that heckling might fall under (breach of the peace, affray, incitement, even assault), so no, I'm not sure it should be counted as free speech at all, and definitely is not constutionally protected under Amdt1.
[00:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:12] <exec> 08└─I meant to end "citations needed."
[00:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:14] <exec> 08└─Filter error: I've seen it played live.
[00:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:16] <exec> 08└─I guess to some people, a safe space for white people is politically incorrect. #Gainesville is not my event. But I think it's great that white people can have a place to just be themselves for a couple of hours. A safe space where they can just be white. Without anyone telling them to be politicall...
[00:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:18] <exec> 08└─We will play both ends against the middle, annihilate the center, and overcome! Seems a great deal like it's 1968 again, except the war is being fought on our soil.
[00:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:21] <exec> 08└─Yes. FYI this was Seattle in 1992!
[00:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:23] <exec> 08└─What will happen is that while those protesting the hate mongers stay away, those attracted by the hate mongers will show up and eventually be indoctrinated.
[00:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 1607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:18] <exec> 08└─I didn't have a problem wearing it for an extended period of time, but you have a point. They have replaceable foam inserts, and that is a good thing. I did one game and worked up quite a sweat, so cleaning these things will be important. Most likely I would have one for work that gets less active u...
[00:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel to Release Nervana Machine Learning Chips by the End of 2017 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:29] <exec> 08└─Phew, just as long is it's not cock pics. I mean, not that I send a lot of cock pics but I mean, privacy right? Am I right?
[00:12:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pe1rxq [844] 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:44] <exec> 08└─In 1973 the US was capable of manned spaceflight. When Tiangong-1 launched in september 2011 the US had advanced to not being capable of launching a manned flight.........
[00:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:59] <exec> 08└─Salyut 1, Salyut 4, Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 were intentionally deorbited.
[00:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:00] <exec> 08└─Because having humans in space is.... so kewl? Sorry remind me why we spend $1B per ounce of human material per day to have them gaze at us from a capsule that if they ever leave they'll die in less than a second?
[00:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Purchases to Your Car Trunk - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:39] <exec> 08└─Now you know! [youtube.com] It puts the omega-3s in its stomach or else it gets the hose again! I'm not sure what region of the brain is tied to delusion, they probably haven't worked that out just yet. If you're so concerned about people calling you a Nazi that you'll say to about yourself then may...
[00:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Purchases to Your Car Trunk - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:41] <exec> 08└─This is the problem right here, you're taking the whole thing WAY too personally when it is clearly about a larger net trend. That was your decision to get all butt hurt about it, but instead of seeing a cultural issue that hits very close to home for all of us on the net you doubled down on your pe...
[00:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon and AT&T Accused of Selling Your Location to Almost Anyone - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:16] <exec> 08└─In the early 1950s, when America was great. Remember the White Pages?
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[01:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:33] <exec> 08└─The only way to have a healthy lunar base is to bury it deep underground. Either that or surround the inflatable module with six feet of lead.
[01:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:34] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, there's plenty of underground on the Moon. And by "deep underground", a couple meters will do.
[01:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/76e79c/i_am_elon_musk_ask_me_anything_about_bfr/dod9v14/ [reddit.com] Buzz Aldrin is 87.
[01:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:51] <exec> 08└─It's not just your eyes adapting. The moon can be a significant source of light pollution if it is above the horizon.
[01:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:53] <exec> 08└─Now, if you had said Astrology at Caltech it would have been both a surprise and a loss!
[01:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:55] <exec> 08└─For the 19th: 01h 38m 26s +09° 35’ 29” Location of Uranus. So you can find it with both hands, or a telescope with setting circles.
[01:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:57] <exec> 08└─I've got a 10" Cassegrain, it's gonna stay in storage while I go to bed. Mainly because the lighting in my apartment complex means I'm lucky to see the full moon, but I either A) go to bed early; or B) don't want to get run over by some drunk idiot coming home from a night of watching it on TV in a...
[01:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:59] <exec> 08└─Of course, these days it takes a pretty long ride from Caltech to see Mag 6 stars, even with the best eyes on the planet.
[01:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:01] <exec> 08└─Mirror for that.
[01:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:04] <exec> 08└─In a dark sky, would the 10" show more than yet another pale dot? My neighbors were disappointed that their telescope wasn't changing the pale star dots into anything other than more pale dots. They changed their mind when I pointed it to Saturn and we could see the rings. I'm wondering if it's wort...
[01:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:06] <exec> 08└─Had my parents permitted me to visit the campus before I applied, I would not have applied. Really, for astronomy, UC Santa Cruz is quite a good school, as it administrates Lick Observatory.
[01:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:08] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked... no jokes about Uranus??? It won't be renamed Urectum [theinfosphere.org] for another 603 years in 2620.
[01:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:11] <exec> 08└─As good fortune would have it, this year the new moon falls on October 19, too
[01:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:13] <exec> 08└─You might be a skunk.
[01:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:15] <exec> 08└─Well, if this article [soylentnews.org] is anything to go by, Amazon may eventually consider directly delivering there as well.
[01:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:17] <exec> 08└─Finally, it took 20 comments for the first thing that came to my mind when I RTFS to be mentioned :D
[01:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:38] <exec> 08└─No man, no woman, of any color, race, religion or culture, needs be "politically correct", at any time, at any place. The term originated in one of the most oppressive governments to have ever existed - the Soviet Union. For an American to adopt such a bullshit term is insane. The concept is contrar...
[01:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:39] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the good ol' thought crime! "THEY WERE THINKING IT! JUST LOOK AT THEIR FACES!" We should create a new police unit, since we'll be hunting down people for their premeditated acts I think we should call it "Precrime"! How many times are you going to put words into my mouth? How many times are...
[01:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:41] <exec> 08└─Thought crime? No, actual crime with video documentation of such. Are you using the same Internet as the rest of us?
[01:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:44] <exec> 08└─That's the beauty, it only takes a small presence to influence people's attitudes, then you just let it become "organic". Basically all the people that immediately blame the "other" group are total suckers. Whatever "side" shouldn't matter, corruption is a bipartisan affair. Conservatives and libera...
[01:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:46] <exec> 08└─Depends who you are asking to do the "ignoring". If a university or business or church or mosque is not allowed to "ignore" people who want to exercise free speech in their building then let's open those flood gates, friend.
[01:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:48] <exec> 08└─See AC's post, just above your post - https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] White nationalists are the retarded children that the village tries to ignore. How does one "oppose" retardation? But, we have people like Aristarchus who ha...
[01:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:51] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[01:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:53] <exec> 08└─I think the 'State of Emergency' is a cheap way to get Florida's national guard to augment the police presence, and get some extra federal money.
[01:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:55] <exec> 08└─FU! Individuals are just that. You can play any categorization game - but a person is still unique!
[01:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:57] <exec> 08└─A merging the power of government and business to control society.
[01:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:00] <exec> 08└─All (any category you please) who continue to think/speak based upon marketing demographics are doomed to FAILURE! Abstraction (not curiosity) is what killed the cat. Do not take the bait! Whatever you think - that's what you think. Sometimes - factual examination of issues can result in actual comp...
[01:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:02] <exec> 08└─They take federal money, they have to abide by the prohibitions that go along with it.
[01:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, there aren't massive submissions about massive boobies. In fact, one of the articles suggests that massive boobies are going out of style. My own preference for something like a natural 36-C seems to be moving up in popularity. And, another article says that women are checking out other wo...
[01:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:06] <exec> 08└─I don't remember when but I do remember that the woman I was seeing at the time didn't wan't to go, so I went by myself and had a really bad time. For a great many reasons I should have stopped seeing her as soon as she started treating me really badly. But I persisted for five years - five years I...
[01:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:09] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus submits these dogwhistle articles, and Soylent publishes them - why?
[01:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't that pretty much what I said? People don't have to conform to politically correct expectations. Be yourself, don't be a liberal, don't be a conservative. And, don't be a racist asshole either.
[01:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:13] <exec> 08└─It depends on the situation. But a public venue on a public college campus is about as weak a case against heckling as you'll get.
[01:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 2386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:15] <exec> 08└─In Clown World it apparently is so, in a sane one it isn't, In a Sane World you eject the hecklers and get on with the program people went to the bother of obtaining tickets to attend. Because the authorities are usually on the side of the hecklers though, this never happens when the speaker is on t...
[01:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:17] <exec> 08└─Or state money. The state of Florida also has to observe the First Amendment.
[01:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:19] <exec> 08└─fasces : (noun), a bundle of rods or sticks. Stronger than the sum of the strengths of individual sticks. facism : political philosophy based on the idea that combining corporate and government power will result in a stronger, more efficient country. The problem with Fascism isn't that the basic ide...
[01:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've looked at his journal. A lot of whining and crying that he was disciplined for bad conduct, as well as complaining that his agenda isn't being pushed by Soylent. We've all taken some flack over the past year, to year and a half, about the number of political submissions. When does Ari sub...
[01:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:45] <exec> 08└─At this point in the social contract between vendor and purchaser, I consider hacking and cracking perfectly moral and legit. It's open season.
[01:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:20] <exec> 08└─With the VR I can crudely shape the environment to support the ergonomics I need, and the ability to support the objects that are overlayed inside VR (a virtual coffee cup I can drink real coffee from).
[01:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:21] <exec> 08└─I am amused. Microsoft marketing acts like it has a reputation to trade on. Zune. Windows Phone. Play for Sure (LOL!) Skype NSA sell-out. Windows 10 telemetry. The Mother Fucking Ribbon. Microsoft software is a mass grave of failure and broken promises.
[01:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:24] <exec> 08└─Do you mean getting paid to virtually drive a truck, or creating a virtual truck driving game that wasn't really a game?
[01:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel to Release Nervana Machine Learning Chips by the End of 2017 - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:35] <exec> 08└─Google is putting the cloud in a silicon chip?! Well fuck then. I'll take a dozen. Silicon what does the machine learning in the cloud!
[01:13:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:43] <exec> 08└─Some criticize the ISS as being way too expensive, but this is what you get when you settle for that cheap Chinese knockoff stuff.
[01:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:07] <exec> 08└─+1 Insightfunny
[01:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:09] <exec> 08└─If you needed any more proof that China is still a second-class state...here it is.
[01:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM Will Test Self-Driving Cars in New York City - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:26] <exec> 08└─Every estimation is that self driving cars will INCREASE congestion, and make trips slower.
[01:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Purchases to Your Car Trunk - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:51] <exec> 08└─Don't kid yourself. You were never reasonable. Only what passes for it from the regressive left.
[01:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Purchases to Your Car Trunk - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:53] <exec> 08└─You're the one so ranty that you can't even use paragraphs, sweety. Terry and I were having a nice, civil conversation.
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[02:10:21] <exec> 08└─Or Aristarchus.
[02:10:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 543 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:34] <exec> 08└─Actually the cost of security for these things *is* the cost of ignorance ... and poor impulse control. If the effing black clad morons and other ilk would stop showing up to 'violently protest free speech' because they don't like it or disagree with it then all this security non-sense would go away...
[02:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:03] <exec> 08└─Streisand Effect Level - State of Emergency.
[02:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:05] <exec> 08└─My is missing from the first line! I Do Agree with your point.
[02:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:07] <exec> 08└─Quisling [...] was a die hard communist [...] in 1918 Well, apparently, he mistook Leninism for what Marx called Communism (commune-ism). In 1928 Stalin took power in 1924 when Lenin died. If you think that Lenin was an Authoritarian (and, boy, was he ever), take a look at what a Totalitarian Stalin...
[02:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:09] <exec> 08└─As I see it, aristarchus is committing the one great sin of the court jester - not being funny.
[02:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you know that we both highly disagree on that. Just like Trump, I don't take any responsibility for it. I've not enabled the corruption, and I vote with what really counts in this world; My Wallet. I find it awfully harsh to put the blame on the people. If we truly took it into our hands to do...
[02:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:13] <exec> 08└─I've done worse in real life, I can't imagine it being any worse in VR :)
[02:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:14] <exec> 08└─Now, THAT would be cool: multi-monitors, multiple ways of controlling manipulation (mouse, hand, finger, head, body). Sit in my small computer room but have as large an environment as I want. Browsing web, look at this monitor. Guake? Swipe down to activate, swipe up to send away. Game, look at t...
[02:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel to Release Nervana Machine Learning Chips by the End of 2017 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:27] <exec> 08└─Wrong story. You want the AlphaGo Zero/TPU story.
[02:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:03] <exec> 08└─Because we're stuck on a rock, and if we don't leave, we die (eventually).
[02:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:05] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab#Re-entry [wikipedia.org]
[02:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:07] <exec> 08└─Meet Georgia Lass (who prefers to be called George). She is a young Seattle college dropout who is unhappy with life. She is always at odds with her mom, Joy. One day coming back from her temp job as a filing clerk, she is hit by the toilet seat of the re-entering Space Station Mir. Finding out she...
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[03:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volvo's Electric Car Brand Polestar Unveils First Model - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:31] <exec> 08└─Dear Volvo, Why would you, a company who's name conjures up images of old ladies and jag offs, name your electric car company pole-star? Because the first thing I think of is strippers. Wait... Does this car come with strippers?
[03:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:10] <exec> 08└─At that magnitude, binoculars should be enough to bring it out. I'll have to pull out the ol' charts and see if I can find it. It should have a distinct blue-green color unlike any nearby star. Thanks for cluing me in, Soylent. I don't follow astronomy like I used to so it's nice to see something li...
[03:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:57] <exec> 08└─I wondered it that was a thing. Hmmm [googleapis.com] Have to be more specific [googleapis.com] Hey! Looks like I got a hit. Gotta zoom in. Nope [googleapis.com] Perhaps you could advise me on locations. While you're at it, could you link to something that quotes the anti-White Supremacists saying s...
[03:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:58] <exec> 08└─A 'dogwhistle' is an out-of-band (?) signal No. The term refers to encoded messages that only the folks with ears tuned by years of consuming Faux Noise can decipher. Here, let Reagan's top advisor, Lee Atwater of South Carolina, explain it to you: How dogwhistle politics works [googleusercontent.co...
[03:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:23] <exec> 08└─Don't know about your house, but at mine we've got 3 big screens attached to computers - not full on gaming rigs, but little NUC units that are as powerful as full on gaming rigs from 10 years ago, plus 3 decent laptops. Plenty of multi-player LAN games from 10 years ago that we could setup and play...
[03:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:25] <exec> 08└─I stopped using GOG when it started making GOG Galaxy required for some titles.
[03:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:05] <exec> 08└─My wife would leave me, though, lol.
[03:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:06] <exec> 08└─Hold a meeting in a virtual room around a virtual table from different locations: pick a suit to wear and have known graphics for representing you: you shrug your shoulders or point to something and your 'rep' does the same in the meeting. Graphs are easily shared on a virtual white board or whateve...
[03:13:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03technoid_ [6593] 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:29] <exec> 08└─Considering the technology advances between 1973 and 2011, I don't find the comparison to really reflect that well on the Tiangong-1. So yeah, cheap Chinese knockoff stuff.
[03:13:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:38] <exec> 08└─so I can't endorse your silly Chinese knock-off theory.
[03:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:57] <exec> 08└─Shit, this is a chance to be enjoying your morning tea while watching old episodes of Dead Like Me and straight up die instantly in a fireball.
[03:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorization Flaw in TPM Chips Makes Attacks on RSA Private Keys Feasible - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:50] <exec> 08└─If your corporate environment doesn't consider removal of TPM to be a security enhancement, that is their business unless it is your job to convince them otherwise.
[03:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Purchases to Your Car Trunk - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:42] <exec> 08└─Stick your little boy through the hole in the wall and wait a few minutes for the Amazon drone to fly by and install protection? Sounds like Amazon could strike gold offering add-on services...
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[04:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volvo's Electric Car Brand Polestar Unveils First Model - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:42] <exec> 08└─(95 miles) on a charge, with a gasoline-powered engine to supplement that if needed
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:52] <exec> 08└─Proposed in this book: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:10:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 348 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:05] <exec> 08└─The light reflected by the moon makes the pupils smaller and in a new moon there is no moon visible so your perception of the sky is way better. There is nothing mystical or magical about it... I tough that the way our vision works was général knowledge learned in highschool... Fnord666 and takyon...
[04:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:23] <exec> 08└─Well, light pollution is intolerable. We need to find a way to keep that Moon thing out of our skies!
[04:11:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:29] <exec> 08└─Who else thinks we sorely need to add "-1 Go Fuck Yourself" moderation here...
[04:11:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 2070 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, "fascist" is a difficult word to define. One reason it's so hard to define that Benito Mussolini, the guy who invented the term, was never quite clear about what it meant himself. Some of the usual features are: - A merging the power of government and business to control society. The alt-r...
[04:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:39] <exec> 08└─Well, you can take up retro gaming and mod old consoles. None of this "online" or "DLC" crap to deal with.
[04:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Factorization Flaw in TPM Chips Makes Attacks on RSA Private Keys Feasible - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4 [youtube.com] Related website: http://againsttcpa.com [againsttcpa.com]
[04:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Factorization Flaw in TPM Chips Makes Attacks on RSA Private Keys Feasible - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:04] <exec> 08└─of course no, there is not an ounce of honesty on these corporations or the way they make you pay for their honestly-backdoored hardware
[04:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Wants to Deliver Purchases to Your Car Trunk - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:57] <exec> 08└─Heh, if I'm not reasonable you're a downright nazi :P since we're going down the ad-hominem path.
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[05:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:34] <exec> 08└─Girl to dracula: Ha-ha, I had an abortion, sucka! You be ded in no time now.
[05:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:35] <exec> 08└─This answers the age old question about virgin sacrifice, monsters just don't want a bad immune reaction! Goooooooo SCIENCE!
[05:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:38] <exec> 08└─Dracula: I'm 5000 years old, not 50, stupid slut.
[05:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:40] <exec> 08└─Die of what? The linked article says: All-cause mortality during follow-up. So the male wounded soldier goes back to the front lines, the lumber jack goes back to logging and the female professional goes back to her calculations or her law practice. The small numbers involved in this study could be...
[05:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:42] <exec> 08└─blood dinners
[05:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:44] <exec> 08└─The small numbers involved in this study could be overwhelmed by the level of risks incurred by virtue of their profession.
[05:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volvo's Electric Car Brand Polestar Unveils First Model - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:54] <exec> 08└─As much as it pains me to praise an American car maker, my coworker who bought a Volt a few months back is soon going to force it into ICE mode to make sure that original tank of gas doesn't go bad. He's been doing his 15-mile each way commute for free, by charging at the office. That includes half...
[05:12:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 1138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you know that we both highly disagree on that. Just like Trump, I don't take any responsibility for it. I've not enabled the corruption, and I vote with what really counts in this world; My Wallet. I find it awfully harsh to put the blame on the people. If we truly took it into our hands to do...
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[05:18:17] <exec> 08└─Who are the cunts that vote everything "Troll"?
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[06:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:39] <exec> 08└─I don’t think anybody knows it was Russia that planted the bomb. They keep saying "Russia, Russia, Russia," and maybe it was. It could be Russia but it could be China, could also be lots of other people. I think it was Russia, but I think it was probably other people and/or countries, and I see no...
[06:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:40] <exec> 08└─Of course is wasn't Russia. It was the Illuminati.
[06:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:54] <exec> 08└─The other interesting thing is how few female blood dinners[sick]
[06:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:55] <exec> 08└─Punctuation goes inside quotation.
[06:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:57] <exec> 08└─Here's the mistake in your post: WHOOOOOOOOSH.
[06:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:59] <exec> 08└─Girl to dracula: Ha-ha, I had an abortion, sucka! You be ded in no time now.
[06:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volvo's Electric Car Brand Polestar Unveils First Model - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:11] <exec> 08└─I read it as "polyester" every single time I see it.
[06:10:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:46] <exec> 08└─You might be a skunk.
[06:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:52] <exec> 08└─Only if you are utilizing a Newtonian telescope [wikipedia.org]. I thought all soylentils would be aware of the basic technology, going back to the times of Sir Issac Newton, and Heretic Galileo Galilei. Some think that refractors, with a longer focal length, are better for planetary observation, bu...
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[06:13:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.gog.com/ [gog.com]
[06:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:41] <exec> 08└─I see this as so wasteful. The Chinese spent a fortune getting this thing up there, and apparently it needs a boost to compensate for atmospheric drag, but no-one seems to be able to know/finance a rescue. It seems to me like throwing a car away because of a flat tire. This lack of co-operation amo...
[06:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:43] <exec> 08└─Tiangong-1 was a small test station. Tiangong-1 was not designed nor planned to be a permanent orbital station; rather, it is intended as a test bed for key technologies that will be used in China's large modular space station, which is planned for launch in 2023.[11] Furthermore, modified versions...
[06:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:45] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Admittedly, I was ignorant of the purpose of the station. I remember MIR and SkyLab coming down. Seemed like such a shame after all the effort we expended getting all that stuff up there. Maybe by more modern standards, its a shack, but it is up there, even if delegated for use as a wareho...
[06:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GM Will Test Self-Driving Cars in New York City - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:03] <exec> 08└─or "go park yourself" missions,
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[07:09:38] <exec> 08└─Or, it could have been aWhite Salamander. [wikipedia.org]
[07:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:39] <exec> 08└─The Maltarese Oval more likely
[07:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:57] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't disappear expect to see similar studies performed on transgender people (assuming those studies don't already exist). What's the death rates of transforming people?
[07:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:58] <exec> 08└─blood dinners
[07:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:00] <exec> 08└─You stupid fucking (or not, apparently) cuckservative!! Shirley you gnow that the immunity granted to mothers is from the leakage of fetal stem cells through the placental wall. Oh, you did not know that? You must be a stupid conservative, denying science all the time, and never reading anything tha...
[07:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:02] <exec> 08└─The American Red Cross and the researchers themselves were quick to say the study is not definitive enough to change the current practice of matching red blood cell donors to recipients.
[07:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:05] <exec> 08└─how few female blood dinners there are:
[07:11:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arcz [4501] 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:24] <exec> 08└─Or maybe, just maybe. The government could buy security cameras, collect evidence, and arrest, indict, and charge the hecklers with a crime, whereafter they are convicted and locked up instead of allowed to cause more disruption.
[07:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:13] <exec> 08└─I haven't needed Galaxy for anything. As another poster put, I think Galaxy is only required in places where GOG replaced the original multiplayer though none of the games I have MP it so I can't say for sure.
[07:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:48] <exec> 08└─10 a day wasn't enough after 6 hours? Lol.
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[08:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:37] <exec> 08└─unlike individuals, group dynamics are too complex to predict a team's effectiveness with one general factor, such as intelligence
[08:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 1850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:39] <exec> 08└─Was a 70-80 year old DD guy named Lyon. He would always take the full time to do an assignment, occasionally asking me for help. However, unlike most of the people in class, who were of average or 'superior' intelligence, he had spent a lifetime working through problems due to his 'slowness' and whi...
[08:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:50] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows, so it must have been a hit called in by the Donald. Careful what you say, lest he disagree. This is what you signed up for, you stupid Americans.
[08:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volvo's Electric Car Brand Polestar Unveils First Model - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:22] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for Volvos to get blinkers as standard equipment.
[08:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:04] <exec> 08└─I just knew there was a hole in my pants!
[08:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:22] <exec> 08└─If I had an internet connection in the living room, I would be downloading games from the pirate bay, instead of buying Playstation games. It used to be that game manufacturers preferred console games, because PC people would just download the games from the pirate bay. And many people preferred con...
[08:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:04] <exec> 08└─For the initial experience with the Vive I agree with you, total immersion. But after a couple of days and having completed most of the games/demos you start to see the low resolution state of the screens. Some experiences mask this better than others. One of the free ones("Wake up") had an extremel...
[08:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:59] <exec> 08└─Yup, I did... I read some good stuff today and went through them pretty fast. There are a lot of very good people here that take the time to post quite good stuff, as you just did. Stuff I can't get anywhere else. You know exactly what I mean. Too much stuff is written by "social influencers". Some...
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[09:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:39] <exec> 08└─The "science" here is really really bad. Here [cmu.edu] is the original paper. The psychologist came to her conclusions by breaking people up into a bunch of random groups and then setting them to a variety of tasks such as playing video games, "making collective moral judgements", "group typing", "...
[09:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:41] <exec> 08└─Unlike 'group intelligence', this is something that has been tested and heavily scrutinized. In the egalitarian zeitgeist of society today, there is naturally a strong desire to refute it, and there have been many attempts to do just that. It still holds very true. The reality is that people who do...
[09:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:43] <exec> 08└─But probably not for those reasons, particularly owing to the evolution and complexity of medical practice [newyorker.com].
[09:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:45] <exec> 08└─You would however ask the IT support guy to perform anything from high voltage electrical work to redecorating your office.
[09:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:47] <exec> 08└─For free, while also complaining to everyone else how IT are so unhelpful, because they couldn't recover a document you'd over written, deleted, or never saved in the first place.
[09:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:59] <exec> 08└─Stuff like this is what happens if you piss the wrong people off. We humans have a weird mode, called "agentic", which we can be placed in when we are subordinate. When in this mode, we can do unthinkable things, including murder, if that is what we are ordered to do. The recinding of the judgements...
[09:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:00] <exec> 08└─A cross Maltese (not a Maltese Cross nor a Malteser) https://www.maltauncovered.com [maltauncovered.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:23] <exec> 08└─If you're a crazy person yes. If you want to have some order in your thoughts, you realize that the quotation is a smaller part of a whole (i.e. the full sentence), and therefore it should be enveloped in the whole, i.e. the sentence-relevant punctuation goes OUTSIDE the quotation. For pure dialogue...
[09:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:25] <exec> 08└─I may agree with your dislike of him, but you're being an asshole. It was an honest typo, get over it already.
[09:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:27] <exec> 08└─Whatever are you talking about? Frojack is my friend! Public record, check it out. And besides, typos are often either very revealing, or the basis for wonderful new discoveries! Surely you share my optimism? (Oh, BTW, all the assholes are actually over in the "naked eye Uranus" thread at the momen...
[09:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:29] <exec> 08└─This shouldn't really be all that much of an issue. They would just have to make some more room on that sticker that is on the bag to have a giant M or F to denote gender next to the blood type. Also it should be fairly easy to follow, not sure if this is international standard or not but on the blo...
[09:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:24] <exec> 08└─> The light reflected by the moon makes the pupils smaller ... Only if you're looking vaguely towards the moon. Half of the time you aren't, and the moon's utterly irrelevant.
[09:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:25] <exec> 08└─See my other response
[09:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:27] <exec> 08└─If the moon is lightening the sky, you're in a part of teh world where M+5.x objects *won't even be visible at all*. Therefore the moon will not affect uranus.
[09:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:29] <exec> 08└─That's what we get for living in the city. On the plus side, I can order takeout from 174 different places.
[09:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:32] <exec> 08└─Why do people not seem to realise that the moon is below the horizon 50% of the time. It doesn't have to be right behind you to be irrelevant. That, and the moon's effects are mostly because of air pollution, and if you've got air pollution, you've got no freaking hope of seeing Uranus at all.
[09:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:34] <exec> 08└─Oh for fuck's sake, what a stupid straw man. The negation of "at the new moon" is *not* "at the full moon". The moon is below the horizon 50% of the time, you don't need the 3% new moon for it to be cooperative.
[09:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:36] <exec> 08└─Only if you're looking vaguely towards the moon. Half of the time you aren't, and the moon's utterly irrelevant.
[09:12:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:55] <exec> 08└─What will happen is that while those protesting the hate mongers stay away, those attracted by the hate mongers will show up and eventually be indoctrinated.
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[10:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:47] <exec> 08└─The concept of "collective intelligence" is simple -- it asserts that if a team performs well on one task, it will repeat that success on other projects, regardless of the scope or focus of the work. ... Because organizations rely heavily on group work, managers are always looking for a "silver bull...
[10:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:48] <exec> 08└─Because everybody knows the IT guy has a mind buzzing with multiple personalities therefore a collective intelligence.
[10:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:50] <exec> 08└─My concern is when I am under orders to do it the wrong way.
[10:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:53] <exec> 08└─In the USA you should not ask a cop to save lives. In the USA if you see someone about to commit suicide and actually want them alive, it's probably better for you to call firefighters than cops: http://www.azcentral.com
[10:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:31] <exec> 08└─I'm always a bit baffled when I see a tech/sci site being overly imprecise. From the summary, emphasis mine: men under 50 were 1.5 times more likely to die in the three years following a transfusion if they received a red blood cell transfusion from a woman donor who had ever been pregnant
[10:10:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/76e79c/i_am_elon_musk_ask_me_anything_about_bfr/dod9v14/ [reddit.com] Buzz Aldrin is 87.
[10:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:54] <exec> 08└─I speculate it would be quite easy to "dig" a good-sized hole on the moon by drilling a hole and planting an explosive. With the moon's gravity being much less, and no air to speak of, my guess is a little explosive will move a helluva lotta "dirt". Then the building can be constructed in the crater...
[10:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:35] <exec> 08└─Hey, Fat! Do you mind if I call you Phil? This is not right: It doesn't have to be right behind you to be irrelevant.
[10:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:36] <exec> 08└─If you live in or near a big city, you'll have no chance to see anything but the brightest stars anyway, even at new moon.
[10:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:38] <exec> 08└─The moon also affects the ambient light due to reflection from other objects nearby, including the ground you are standing on. Which unless you are looking more or less straight up will always in your field of view, and thus affect your eyes' dark adaption. You're right, however, that the moon only...
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[10:11:41] <exec> 08└─Nope. The "light pollution" you are seeing is *air* pollution. Light travels in straight lines, which is typically away from your eyes (and if it's towards your eyes and you're complaining about it, why are you looking at those sources in the first place?), it's the air polution that bends the light...
[10:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:43] <exec> 08└─I thought uranus was the source of that air pollution.
[10:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:45] <exec> 08└─Planets go from pale dots to discs. Stars stay dots.
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[11:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Being a vampire can be brutal. Here’s how bloodsuckers get by. - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:33] <exec> 08└─They run for office. /ba-dum-tsh
[11:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Begin Production of 8nm LPP Chips - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:40] <exec> 08└─Best said here, so I'll just quote: "But node names are misleading since they no longer bear any relation to actual chip dimensions. It is taking longer for Intel to get to each node, but it continues to deliver true Moore's Law scaling while, in some cases, the foundries have rolled out nodes that...
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[11:09:58] <exec> 08└─Dang! You beat me to the "none of us is as dumb as all of us" quote.
[11:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volvo's Electric Car Brand Polestar Unveils First Model - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:50] <exec> 08└─This would be a good time for that Soylentil who saved it, to repost frojack's wonderful post about how he stapled a hybrid to the side of a shed, and it something something when he moved some time later, something..
[11:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:48] <exec> 08└─About ten years ago I saw Uranus lined up with Mercury and Venus just after sunset. I followed the line from Mercury to Venus with my binoculars. After locating Uranus with the binoculars, I managed to convince myself I could see it with the naked eye in my peripheral vision.
[11:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:50] <exec> 08└─So you are saying if we could just make the earth's atmosphere into a transparent layer of crystal clear gas, all those street lights and stadium lights and my neighbor's porch lights would not make any difference it the seeing conditions for astronomy? Methinks that only some of the diffraction of...
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[11:11:52] <exec> 08└─Oh for fuck's sake to you too. Think of the relative positions of sun and moon during full moon, and during new moon. When it's full, it's on the OPPOSITE SIDE from the sun. The 50% of the time the full moon is below the horizon, the sun is above the horizon, which may adversely impact your ability...
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[11:13:30] <exec> 08└─In Clown World it apparently is so, in a sane one it isn't, In a Sane World you eject the hecklers and get on with the program people went to the bother of obtaining tickets to attend. Because the authorities are usually on the side of the hecklers though, this never happens when the speaker is on t...
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[12:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03doc_doofus [6746] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Being a Vampire Can be Brutal. Here's How Bloodsuckers Get by. - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:38] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it. My first thought was move to D.C. Bravo Zulu
[12:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Being a Vampire Can be Brutal. Here's How Bloodsuckers Get by. - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:39] <exec> 08└─Perhaps little buggers were exerting a defensive aggressive behavior?
[12:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:06] <exec> 08└─Collective intelligence - when none of us is as dumb as all of us.
[12:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:20] <exec> 08└─True anti establishment people lost one.
[12:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:21] <exec> 08└─What's the Maltese government doing about this murder? Nothing? Declare it a total, unsolvable mystery or pass it off with some pablum, you know, stuff happens, must have been the act of some deranged, unbalanced loner, which happens all the time (see Las Vegas), nothing anyone can do about that. In...
[12:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:49] <exec> 08└─So, if I'm reading this correctly, the donor's sex doesn't appear to have an impact — their reproductive status does.
[12:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:51] <exec> 08└─not sure if this is international standard or not but on the blood bags here (Sweden) when I donate there is a barcode that is linked to me as the donor so if it later turns out that I banged hookers, had lots of gaysex, got AIDS or just started to do a metric fuckton of drugs they could just pull a...
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[12:10:53] <exec> 08└─But is there any harm in changing practices now?
[12:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:55] <exec> 08└─A case for a blockchain? Some of the recipients may become donors afterwards.
[12:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:57] <exec> 08└─"In the first large study to look at how blood transfusions from previously pregnant women affect recipients’ health, researchers discovered men under 50 were 1.5 times more likely to die in the three years following a transfusion if they received a red blood cell transfusion from a woman donor wh...
[12:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:59] <exec> 08└─Same here, there are a lot of restrictions at least in theory. But most of them depend on you as the donor telling the truth. There is some medical testing of the blood afterwards for obvious reasons. I think the rules are here that you can't be a male homosexual, you can't be pregnant, you can't ha...
[12:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volvo's Electric Car Brand Polestar Unveils First Model - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:12] <exec> 08└─I believe this is more like the range extender they have in the BMW i3, which is a generator, not like the Toyota Prius you're probably thinking of. It does what you're proposing such a thing should be. With the former it's not necessary to run the range extender for a normal commute unless you don'...
[12:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:14] <exec> 08└─Then you and your amateur friends have never spent enough time looking at built up areas from afar, and understanding what they see. They aren't just bright - they have a fuzzy glow. Some of the best stargazing I've ever done (I'm a city boy, I know all about causes of light pollution, and jump on a...
[12:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:15] <exec> 08└─> The 50% of the time the full moon is below the horizon [...] What 50% of the time the full moon is below the horizon?!?! Stop introducing utterly irrelevant and stupid concepts, and actually argue against the points I make. This may require upping your reading comprehension skills to secondary-sch...
[12:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Will Test Self-Driving Cars in New York City - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:28] <exec> 08└─Or a 1958 Plymouth Fury that plays 50's tunes non-stop.
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[13:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:36] <exec> 08└─"having a successful businessman at the helm would cure USA's ills" Leaving aside from the debate around whether Trump actually is a successful businessman or not, what is undeniable is that he has achieved what he has by using bankruptcy when his ideas or execution have been bad. Countries do far w...
[13:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:38] <exec> 08└─Buyer's remorse among voters? They're talking about running Jamie Dimon for President. You couldn't possibly imagine a more worthless candidate than someone 10 times more entitled than Trump with zero experience dealing with anything as tangible as real estate. I'd like to try a real engineer with i...
[13:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:40] <exec> 08└─Trump gets into office, then loses a personal fortune. All other recent presidents get into office, then somehow end up filthy rich. Hmmm. I wonder how? It's pretty obvious which person became president in service to his country.
[13:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:42] <exec> 08└─Did I just miss out on something obvious? He isn't allowed to be a businessman when he is president? So one would think his fortune would dwindle while in "public service" (or whatever you like to call it). Personally I found this entry funny; "Tito's Handmade Vodka" ... compared to what? All the Vo...
[13:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:44] <exec> 08└─Pacifica Radio presenter Ian Masters has interviewed Pulitzer Prize winner, tax expert, and Trump biographer David Cay Johnston several times. Earlier this month, Johnston came right out and called Trump a crook. With all the illegal stuff that Trump has has done (tax cheating, in particular), Johns...
[13:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:47] <exec> 08└─Not true. All presidents prior to Trump have put their holdings into a trust that they can't touch. Trump didn't. ...but that's not illegal in itself. The Emoluments Clause(s)[1] of the Constitution says that politicians can't take any additional income that wouldn't come if they weren't in office (...
[13:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:49] <exec> 08└─Leaving aside from the debate around whether Trump actually is a successful businessman or not
[13:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 1844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:51] <exec> 08└─Stop saying I went bankrupt. Out of hundreds of deals -- hundreds -- on four occasions, I've taken advantage of the laws of this country, like other people. What I've done is I've used, BRILLIANTLY, the laws of the country. I used the law four times and made a tremendous thing. And not personally, j...
[13:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:53] <exec> 08└─Trump's taxes in some years are probably a bit embarrassing. It is legal to carry some business losses into other years for tax purposes, and he has almost certainly done so, resulting in no tax. On the other hand, there are years where he paid enough to buy an F-15 and training for several pilots....
[13:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being a Vampire Can be Brutal. Here's How Bloodsuckers Get by. - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:04] <exec> 08└─" ... are part of a vast, otherwise mild-mannered species." I know when Buffy went on the hunt it was part of some giant hate-crime-fueled-killing-spree.
[13:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:31] <exec> 08└─it asserts that if a team performs well on one task
[13:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:48] <exec> 08└─Not enough Polonium.
[13:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:22] <exec> 08└─[quote]If I'm reading it right, ~13,144 men got blood from a man, ~896 men got blood from an ever-pregnant woman, ~896 men got blood from a never-pregnant woman. It could be statistical noise, but we've seen studies with much smaller sample sizes. The effect could disappear in follow-up studies, or...
[13:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Woosh [6715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:23] <exec> 08└─So for transgender blood donations is the patient's survival rate the average of the two? Also how long does it take a sex change operation to change their male blood to girl blood and vice versa?
[13:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:57] <exec> 08└─What are the pay to play options? Generally that's the purpose of forcing everything centralized online. Prepare to pay $50 to skip driving school or pay $50 for a new car or track. That aspect repels me. Its not that I can't afford to spend $500 on a game, its that its not advertised upfront, it'll...
[13:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiangong-1 to Crash to Earth Between Now and April 2018 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:35] <exec> 08└─[quote] it expects Tiangong-1 to come down between October 2017 and April 2018.[/quote] Why can't they make more accurate predictions? What's causing that amount of variation in the prediction?
[13:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Will Test Self-Driving Cars in New York City - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:55] <exec> 08└─Will the headless cars be equipped to operate in NYC, though? Will they be able to respond to pedestrians shouting, "I'm walking here!" or flip the bird to cabbies who cut them off? Will they be able to race to the end of a merge and aggressively jam into a line of drivers for whom yielding an inch...
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[14:09:33] <exec> 08└─You can levitate things with sound. You can transmit ultrasound across a room, then (via interference with itself and objects) have it turn into normal sound. So this is totally possible. Cuba does a surprisingly good job of spying on our tech companies and universities, so stealing some interesting...
[14:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 1653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:34] <exec> 08└─if the the "experts" had some biology background. It is actually a fairly common thing that certain electronic components fail and emit high decible high frequency noises. Happens a lot in certain expansion cards for computers. I had a fridge that went that way once. It is pretty excrutiating to hav...
[14:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:36] <exec> 08└─The spectral analysis of the sound itself [newsinc.com] resembles a "porcupine," peaking in amplitude around 7 KHz (which is approximately a musical microtone between A8 and Ab8, the very highest end of some electronic keyboards) it has been suggested to sound like "banging on a bunch of piano keys...
[14:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:52] <exec> 08└─President Grant was broke and had cancer in his final days. It was a race to see if he would complete his memoirs and have something for his family to live on or whether he would die first. (He got it done. The dude was so popular[1] that it was a best seller.) [1] ...despite having 2 of the most co...
[14:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:53] <exec> 08└─There has been only 1 year of Trump's tax returns made available. Interestingly, that was leaked to Johnston. It shows that Trump did pay something that year. It stands to reason that if the same was true for other years, those returns would have been made available. Johnston, with his vast knowledg...
[14:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:55] <exec> 08└─I'd like to try a real engineer with improvisational aptitude.
[14:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:58] <exec> 08└─Let's not determine "recent" by the standards of paleontology. Starting with Carter probably makes sense. Certainly, anybody before World War II was in a very different America.
[14:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:00] <exec> 08└─Trump is going after the Jews. He's playing the Breitbart game where he claims to be pro-Israel but is really America-first. Pandering to the Jews is a necessity in American politics, unfortunately, but he's going after their establishments one-by-one -- Harvey Weinstein (and by extension the rest o...
[14:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:02] <exec> 08└─Most businesses fail. Most successful businessman have had multiple failures. To avoid failure, there are two options. The first is to not try. We call these people "employees", not businessmen. The second is to be lucky. We call these people "inexperienced". My ideal candidate has had both success...
[14:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:04] <exec> 08└─This country is sick, and dr. Stein has the cure!
[14:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Begin Production of 8nm LPP Chips - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:21] <exec> 08└─All these measures-- MHz/GHz, die size, even a whole suite of benchmarks-- can be gamed. The GPU can be pretty important. I've seen a 350MHz system with a Pentium II outperform a 1GHz system with a Pentium III, because the P3 system was using Intel's horribly slow integrated graphics, borrowing RAM...
[14:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Begin Production of 8nm LPP Chips - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:23] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter. You have the comparison to "10LPP". It would be nice to get the transistors per sq. mm. measurement like Intel is pushing for.
[14:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Begin Production of 8nm LPP Chips - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:25] <exec> 08└─Not sure why hard drive speed would be relevant to comparing 2 CPUs unless they were released many years apart. HDD is a bottleneck in 2017, not the CPU. The important part about the new process is "improve power consumption by 10% and reduce die size by 10% (compared to 10LPP)". If you can believe...
[14:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:46] <exec> 08└─I always liked the quote: " A camel is a horse designed by committee. "
[14:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but reading her work shows that she often resorted to ad hominem attacks, calling people crooks or ridiculing their physical appearance. Word is the FBI has volunteered a team to investigate the bombing. Malta has a veneer of Britishness from being a colony, but essentially it is a north Afric...
[14:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:04] <exec> 08└─I prefer to blame the Jews for everything. Jews and Catholics often did not get along.
[14:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:40] <exec> 08└─Trump will not be afraid of such a transfusion. This fake news was a scientific study. We don't need no steenkin' science! Just ask Trump's science advisor. Oh, wait. He doesn't have one. Maybe he doesn't need such a useless position in his administration.
[14:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:56] <exec> 08└─You very clearly do not understand the lunar cycle and what causes the phases of the moon. When the moon is full, it is above the horizon all night long. When it is new, it is above the horizon all day long. You also misunderstand the scattering of light. Air pollution is not the primary scatter sou...
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[14:16:53] <exec> 08└─Simple solution. Do the test covertly. If it fails, don't tell anyone about it.
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[15:09:33] <exec> 08└─This is it, folks. Is there a Nobel prize for artificial intelligence?
[15:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:34] <exec> 08└─Bots don't need a pat on the back. They find it insulting.
[15:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:36] <exec> 08└─AI masturbation?
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:47] <exec> 08└─Mass hysteria. It is high time we find a new word for mass hysteria with a less negative connotation. Because these things happen a lot, usually in hostile situations and people get very defensive when you tell them that it was all in their mind. Calling them a bunch of hysterics on top of that does...
[15:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 3540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:50] <exec> 08└─There's an amazing nothing burger ness to the whole sonic weapon story. No names times places reasons evidence. Just "some dude was sonic wounded, trust me". Uh huh nobody from the .gov never told a lie, so sure LOL. Remember when there was endless speculation in the media about Trump and Russia? Th...
[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:52] <exec> 08└─What would the point of secretly attacking US diplomats with sound even be? If you really wanted to cause damage, and didn't care who reported what, you'd just fire an RPG at them or a car bomb or something. But the attacks weren't lethal anyway so what was that really the goal? Brain damage? They'l...
[15:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─One of those diplomats kept a fat liberal heifer under his desk. The sonic "attacks" were the sounds of her queefs.
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─help stamp out repetitive redundancy, totally and completely
[15:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:19] <exec> 08└─She was the only one in the 2016 race who had an actual jobs program. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [ontheissues.org] ...and when she was running for governor of Massachusetts and debated Mitt Romney, the Bopston Globe called her the only adult in the room. [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentne...
[15:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:21] <exec> 08└─Some people say homeopathy is completely useless. However it is effective for the treatment of dehydration. So homeopathy isn't completely useless, it is just an over priced way to obtain pure water.
[15:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:23] <exec> 08└─Can't imagine a more worthless candidate? How about Mark Elliot Zuckerberg or Michael Richard Pence?
[15:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:26] <exec> 08└─Countries do far worse in bankruptcy than companies
[15:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:28] <exec> 08└─No it isn't homeopathic. Mike Pence wouldn't stand for that.
[15:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:30] <exec> 08└─I'd like to try a real engineer with improvisational aptitude.
[15:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:33] <exec> 08└─I've separated myself from my companies. I'm no longer running them. My sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, are running them. The Kingdom of Bahrain could hold a huge, huge party at Trump International Hotel in Washington to celebrate the anniversary of His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa’s accession...
[15:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:35] <exec> 08└─I was joking. When I said @VP Pence wants to hang all the gays, I was joking. Of course I was being sarcastic, but not so sarcastic, to be honest.
[15:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being a Vampire Can be Brutal. Here's How Bloodsuckers Get by. - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:45] <exec> 08└─"I just for no good reason stuck my thumb in there to see what it would do," Zaspel says. "It pierced my thumb and started feeding on me."
[15:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:36] <exec> 08└─Who made the car battery?
[15:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:13] <exec> 08└─It has to be funny before a "Whooosh" is appropriate.
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[15:15:49] <exec> 08└─However, you can put whatever engine you want in a car, providing it will fit/connect. You have to use GOG Galaxy, you can't swap it out for another connectivity program.
[15:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:32] <exec> 08└─Pretty much everybody misses the true horror of The Matrix. The machine don't keep people alive for energy. They keep them alive because they MUST (it's in their core program) and within that directive they collect and recycle waste heat. It's confusing because all the human characters don't really...
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[16:09:39] <exec> 08└─HAHAHzAHA HvAHAHA HaA HAgHA HdAHAH HAHqAHAHA HeAHAHA HA HjAHA HAHkAH ha ha haaxhaaHAHAHAHA HAHtAHA HA HAHA HAHtAH HAHAtHAHA HAzHAHA HqA HtAHA HyAHAH ha ha harahaa HAHrAHAHA HxAHAHA HA HnAHA HAHAmH HAHAHgAHA HAHAHjA HA HAHA HAHAH ha ha haahaa haa kek kah HAHAHAH GAFAH BAAA aaabaaa AAAaa HAHAHAHAHAHAH...
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─Though self-play AlphaGo Zero even discovered for itself, without human intervention, classic moves in the theory of Go ...
[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─... I'm sure bots frown upon pats on the back, after all there might be a build up of static electricity and something on the inside might come lose.
[16:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─I swear. You people try to take a shit on everything.
[16:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─This is it, folks.
[16:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:49] <exec> 08└─it would still have been somewhat more impressive, and useful, if it had discovered things we didn't already know
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:51] <exec> 08└─OK so it breaks their Tabula Rasa condition but it would still have been somewhat more impressive, and useful, if it had discovered things we didn't already know. [...] Novel strategies ... Sounds like they won't be very useful. Have they previously been discovered by man and dismissed due to their...
[16:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:53] <exec> 08└─They can be partially simulated, but there's no definitive, easily applicable determination of "success" that can be applied by the software, because the environment isn't static (a go board is.)
[16:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:56] <exec> 08└─I swear. You people try to take a shit on everything.
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─Since, as far as I can tell, they don't go into what these novel or new strategies are it's somewhat hard to go into it. They found something, they claim to be new or novel, that doesn't mean it's actually going to be useful for human beings playing Go. Novel as far as I know doesn't mean useful or...
[16:10:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 1156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:07] <exec> 08└─The spectral analysis of the sound itself [newsinc.com] resembles a "porcupine," peaking in amplitude around 7 KHz (which is approximately a musical microtone between A8 and Ab8, the very highest end of some electronic keyboards) it has been suggested to sound like "banging on a bunch of piano keys...
[16:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:15] <exec> 08└─What about microwave attack? Jimmy open a microwave and turn it on ... you just walking by a 300W microwave will not burn you, but your brain is kind of more sensitive to localized heating.
[16:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:17] <exec> 08└─Mass hysteria has already been proposed as the most likely explanation: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[16:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:19] <exec> 08└─It is high time we find a new word for mass hysteria with a less negative connotation. Because these things happen a lot, usually in hostile situations and people get very defensive when you tell them that it was all in their mind. Calling them a bunch of hysterics on top of that doesn't help the si...
[16:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:21] <exec> 08└─"What would the point of secretly attacking US diplomats with sound even be?" These sort of weapons are typically used to put the target under psychological stress. Typically this intended to encourage irrational behavior, which is useful for later exploiting during negotiations. As Cuba is probably...
[16:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:52] <exec> 08└─This week it’s Donald J. Trump. I wonder, is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? Is it James Madison and James Monroe the week after that? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop? George Washington owned a grist mill. Thomas Jefferson...
[16:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:54] <exec> 08└─Our tax law is complicated. Any sane person or business will do their best to minimize the amount of tax that must be paid. Those who do this well are intelligent and effective... not that this should be possible. Blame the law, not the people trying to pay as little as possible.
[16:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:56] <exec> 08└─No a scholar is not good enough. They don't know how to design systems that actually do things. They're merely a different kind of useless wanker.
[16:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:58] <exec> 08└─Those are also very worthless candidates. Personally i'd like to see Jamie Dimon torn to pieces by hyenas slightly more than your picks.
[16:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:00] <exec> 08└─Jamie Dimon? Man with less charisma than a damp, crumpled paper towel of questionable origin? And miraculously less scrupulous than one as well. Sure run him!
[16:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:03] <exec> 08└─Jimmy Carter's failing was not that he was not smart enough, but that he expected the rest of DC to follow his example of intelligent, moral collaboration. Of course that failed because DC is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. An engineer who understood that and had the will to cleanse that place...
[16:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:05] <exec> 08└─You dispute his obvious genius? His is a simple, powerful, and original plan: eliminate all taxes for rich people.
[16:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:07] <exec> 08└─C'mon Dick Cheney blew that totally away by invading Iraq to enrich himself through fat contracts for Halliburton. If whe wasn't impeached and turned ovedr to the Hague to be tried for war crimes, no American president ever will be.
[16:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:09] <exec> 08└─I can't keep up. The other day you said we're supposed to hate Mexicans because they're bad and responsible for everything that's bad. Before that you said it was the Muslims. In between you've told us it's definitely libtards and SJW snowflakes, whatever and whoever those are. Who can we trust, Eth...
[16:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Being a Vampire Can be Brutal. Here's How Bloodsuckers Get by. - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:20] <exec> 08└─In unrelated news, Zaspel acquired a habit of working only at night and avoiding sunlight. Also she developed an aversion to garlic. And in other unrelated news, near her place there were several reports of people being bitten at night.
[16:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:52] <exec> 08└─Decades of experience in school and corporate world indicates this means one dude on the team did all the work.
[16:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:54] <exec> 08└─Happens to me frequently. I do it comforted by the knowledge that inefficiency is perpetuating the need for my employment.
[16:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:56] <exec> 08└─I don't even think we should ask firefighters to be EMT's, but we do. It's a requirement for every firefighter in many fire departments. It's probably good to have some EMT's in the fire department. But in my opinion we ought to let firefighters focus on fire fighting, and let the EMT's focus on eme...
[16:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:58] <exec> 08└─My wife plays video games with me. She usually starts out a bit on the horribly awful side for a game, but with practice and a bit of coaching from me. She usually ends up being a competent player. So, yeah, team work works.
[16:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:18] <exec> 08└─You mean they are tribal, right?
[16:12:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 13 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:30] <exec> 08└─blood dinners
[16:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:21] <exec> 08└─mining on the moon is actually really hard. Cooling your drills (you use these to plant the explosives) is the problem. You either have to spend consumables to cool the bit and flush chips or you have to conduct the heat through the bit and into a radiator. This is one of the things that makes Mars...
[16:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:22] <exec> 08└─Given SpaceX's success in recycling rockets and dramatically cutting launch costs, I have to assume there are some scared people at ULA. Is this an attempt to stay relevant?
[16:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but 9 feet of water shielding would be immensely expensive to ship.
[16:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:17] <exec> 08└─And you still can't figure out what you want to eat for supper.
[16:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:39] <exec> 08└─Might I suggest GOG. The reason why they even exist is, because of old games. The Acronym used to stand for Good Old Games, but I think they've phased that term out. Particularly, since they are adding new games too. DRM free titles, ability to archive your own collection offline, and they have a be...
[16:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:40] <exec> 08└─I've used GOG in the past, but I'm really pretty saturated with titles to play and not enough time to play them already. If I can find the time to keep up with my Hearthstone quests, I'm doing good - and that's got to be the lowest attention demand real-time two player game ever.
[16:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:43] <exec> 08└─Requiring their solution to a game that must have online connection to be a peer to peer system without the GOG Galaxy client, is a bit much. Assuming, a game is only playable online, you either have to have server hosting baked into the game, or you need some third party system to provide support....
[16:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:45] <exec> 08└─Then, stop buying those kinds of games. Usually there's tell tale signs, so you can avoid them. You know, like Loot Crates, sure some are somewhat reasonable regarding it, but lets just call it what it is. A Cash Grab. There's always GOG, which is a centralized online repository of games, that have...
[16:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gran Turismo Sport is Extremely Limited in Offline Mode - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:47] <exec> 08└─Screw not having Internet in the living room. Go to GOG, buy some cool games. Use the old sneaker net with a USB drive, and play some awesome games in your living room.
[16:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:31] <exec> 08└─Virtual reality places you in a virtual world. Mixed reality overlays the virtual world on your physical world. There is a huge difference. Jokingly I compare it to Pokemon LARP vs. Pokemon Go. I use 3-d cad as part of my hobbies, and Mixed reality is a world-changing shift in how this works. It's a...
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[17:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─It clearly depends on the strategy. It would have been awesome if they had actually mentioned what it was. For all we know their new strategy is completely worthless for human players. Then what is it good for? When AlphaGo-1 tries to play AlphaGo-2 and they try and trick eachother?
[17:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:54] <exec> 08└─That's reassuring then. There's still time for my Secret Plan for World Domination (TM).
[17:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─What do you mean "you people"??? Are you assuming my political identity? You should realize by now that Libertarian != alt right nazi, no matter how hard some dimwits on this site wrongly call themselves.
[17:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:58] <exec> 08└─I swear. You people try to take a shit on everything.
[17:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:17] <exec> 08└─I have my doubts that the sound provided is the actual sound, since the first time I heard the story it was referred to as a reconstruction of the sound. I suspect that there's a bunch of weasel words in the provided version that are getting stripped out in the news stories. Of course, that's not th...
[17:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 1433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:19] <exec> 08└─"It's a failure mode of human cognition and means something isn't working right." (that is a pretty awesome turn of phrase btw.) While mass hysteria may be a factor, in which direction? There is confirmation bias in modern culture that the whole thing is irrational. Consider the source of the bias,...
[17:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:21] <exec> 08└─I just listened to the sound, and to me it sounds just like a power supply that's gone bad. One of my first jobs I had two computers, one Mac, and one Windows. I had to unplug the Mac when I wasn't working on it because the noise it was making. It was barely audible, and took me several weeks to pin...
[17:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:23] <exec> 08└─Hey at least you found a job! So what if it involves sucking dick, gotta make the rent!
[17:10:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 873 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:32] <exec> 08└─"having a successful businessman at the helm would cure USA's ills" Leaving aside from the debate around whether Trump actually is a successful businessman or not, what is undeniable is that he has achieved what he has by using bankruptcy when his ideas or execution have been bad. Countries do far w...
[17:10:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 626 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:38] <exec> 08└─Not true. All presidents prior to Trump have put their holdings into a trust that they can't touch. Trump didn't. ...but that's not illegal in itself. The Emoluments Clause(s)[1] of the Constitution says that politicians can't take any additional income that wouldn't come if they weren't in office (...
[17:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:06] <exec> 08└─No. Did you miss the part where she's an MD and practiced medicine for quite a while? I suppose you'll reflexively vomit up some crap about vaccines and other truthy nonsense. Somebody very much like her in my original timeline went into particle physics instead. That's divergence for you. That one'...
[17:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:07] <exec> 08└─... and this is different from Donnie Jingles... how?
[17:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:09] <exec> 08└─And of course the media played up her weirder moments, like any human on earth wouldn't have some incredibly compromising moments in their life. Can't let a real person in the club, only those who have agreed to play the politics game.
[17:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:12] <exec> 08└─But to accomplish that such a president would have to vastly abuse their power and would likely destroy everything. How do you go from dictator / coup back to democracy?
[17:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:14] <exec> 08└─Dimon would spend less time publicly masturbating on Twitter. ...probably.
[17:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:16] <exec> 08└─Blame the obvious con man, not his victims. If Trump had actually followed the law he wouldn't be so hesitant about releasing his taxes, or he is a massive liar and doesn't want anyone to see how much trouble his "business" is in. Take your pick, the man is still a walking talking turd. Also, since...
[17:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:18] <exec> 08└─Not really. Companies usually lose sovereignty and the investors lose it all. But countries? In the long run there's only two kinds of fiat currencies, those that have failed, and those that haven't failed yet. It usually turns out pretty well for the country.
[17:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:21] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like a plan to cover up the money he finally paid back to Putin Co.
[17:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:23] <exec> 08└─Dimon would also probably try to sell tickets for it.
[17:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:25] <exec> 08└─I think what went wrong with that former prez at a high level, was he was a superior human being. I am too, I know the experience.
[17:12:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 341 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:00] <exec> 08└─The concept of "collective intelligence" is simple -- it asserts that if a team performs well on one task, it will repeat that success on other projects, regardless of the scope or focus of the work. ... Because organizations rely heavily on group work, managers are always looking for a "silver bull...
[17:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:12] <exec> 08└─The reality is that people who do well at one cognitive task tend to do well at most others by any and all possible measurements.
[17:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:10] <exec> 08└─There once was a vampire named Mabel Whose cycle was incredibly stable Come ev'ry full moon She'd pull out a spoon And drink herself under the table (All the best limericks are dirty :D)
[17:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:12] <exec> 08└─On the other hand if the effect is a small additional risk there would be very limited harm and some, maybe significant, benefit in having M/F as a _preferred_ type match
[17:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volvo's Electric Car Brand Polestar Unveils First Model - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:26] <exec> 08└─At last check, the law apparently got changed to make them optional -and discouraged- on cars starting around $40k.
[17:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 2351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:42] <exec> 08└─Boeing/ULA will already be one of the commercial partners attempting to replace the Russians for rides to the ISS, alongside SpaceX. They are already relevant in the sense that they have their finger to the pulse of recent trends and the money in their pocket. What is the pulse telling? That it is e...
[17:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:43] <exec> 08└─Find it on the Moon? While digging lots of rock that could also be used as shielding? Like I said though, the radiation and cancer concerns are overblown. BEAM/B330 does shield from radiation to an extent, and other schemes are available if they land the thing instead of keep it in lunar orbit. It c...
[17:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:38] <exec> 08└─I was fortunate to stumble upon a meeting of the Taibei astronomy club on top of the tallest skyscraper in Taibei last year. They had set up telescopes, the sky was clear, and we could see Jupiter and some of of its moons unaided, along with Uranus (having good eyes). Forgot whether it was new moon...
[17:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:40] <exec> 08└─and we could see Jupiter and some of of its moons unaided
[17:15:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:40] <exec> 08└─Everyone....is a Nazi, and that even questioning these things makes you literally Hitler, that even traditional Democrats are starting to want to be separated from you. Republicans would never stoop that low! "Hitlery" and "Feminazi" must just be figments of my imagination.... *cough* [soylentnews.o...
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:50] <exec> 08└─Good lord. Conflating fascism and socialism is daft enough, but conflating communism with Islam is a bridge too far. Can you guys stop with the linguistic nihilism, please? The rest of us, that is to say the majority of mankind, do not want the social lobotomy that seems to constitute your idea of p...
[17:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:52] <exec> 08└─> conflating communism with Islam Methinks you missed the point altogether... Most in the US moved on from being scared of commies. The 21st century version of Paranoia would have to replace being a Communist with being a Jihadist as the ultimate insta-death-penalty offense.
[17:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:54] <exec> 08└─Mixed Reality == Virtual Reality + Augmented Reality The definition [wikipedia.org] is muddled, but if you look at the implementation [theverge.com] (at least how it has been marketed in the last 2 years), it becomes more clear. An augmented reality device like Google Glass or HoloLens has a transpa...
[17:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Wants to Reimagine Virtual Reality - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:56] <exec> 08└─If that was your point then I did miss it. I agree the label for the bogeyman has changed.
[17:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Will Test Self-Driving Cars in New York City - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─"Every estimation is that self driving cars will INCREASE congestion, and make trips slower." [Citation Needed] I have read a lot of reports, and they say the complete opposite. All of the testing in Nevada shows them making better time and fewer accidents than humans. And increasing congestion is n...
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[18:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─It's sharka, not burka, dumb pig.
[18:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─Without Government, where would our Freedom be?
[18:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:42] <exec> 08└─Or not, depends on how scared you are I guess.
[18:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:44] <exec> 08└─...and that is to have sharks with frickin' burqas attached to their heads.
[18:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Solar Wind "Electrifies" Phobos and Deimos - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:52] <exec> 08└─Can we use that effect for supplying more electric power to our orbital stations then by using photovoltaic panels? Perhaps by using permanent magnets we can make separation of charges in solar wind flux and collect electric charge on separate plates of the apparatus.
[18:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Wind "Electrifies" Phobos and Deimos - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:55] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)#As_part_of_a_manned_mission_to_Mars [wikipedia.org] Phobos has also been proposed as an early target for a manned mission to Mars because a landing on Phobos would be considerably less difficult and expensive than a landing on the surface of Mars itself. A...
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Solar Wind "Electrifies" Phobos and Deimos - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─No.
[18:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─I was considering modding the first instance up but then you had to go and take a shit on your own comment.
[18:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:22] <exec> 08└─... I don't depend on your mod points.
[18:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:46] <exec> 08└─We know they exist because they were deployed in 2009 [youtube.com] against protesters at the G20 summit, and several other times since. That said, I doubt the Cubans would use them against the US embassy. Raul Castro has always been more moderate than his brother Fidel, and never been particularly...
[18:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:48] <exec> 08└─Note that the development of in flight radar was concealed using stories about carrots. Today that wartime propaganda about it is still repeated as the old wives tale about carrots improving your night vision.
[18:11:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:25] <exec> 08└─Jimmy Carter's failing was not that he was not smart enough, but that he expected the rest of DC to follow his example of intelligent, moral collaboration. Of course that failed because DC is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. An engineer who understood that and had the will to cleanse that place...
[18:11:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:28] <exec> 08└─I can't keep up. The other day you said we're supposed to hate Mexicans because they're bad and responsible for everything that's bad. Before that you said it was the Muslims. In between you've told us it's definitely libtards and SJW snowflakes, whatever and whoever those are. Who can we trust, Eth...
[18:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:39] <exec> 08└─Note the difference between the country as a state, and the obsolete definition of the country as the citizens. Nobody cares about the citizens anymore, not in a long time.
[18:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:41] <exec> 08└─To avoid failure, there are two options. The first is to not try. We call these people "employees", not businessmen. The second is to be lucky. We call these people "inexperienced". Third option: cash injection from rich Daddy.
[18:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:43] <exec> 08└─She was the only one in the 2016 race who had an actual jobs program. If those four bullet points count as a jobs program then Clinton had an even more robust jobs program [hillaryclinton.com]
[18:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:45] <exec> 08└─Kim Kardashian outranks us all by that metric. Should she be president next?
[18:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:47] <exec> 08└─Stop making me mod Hallow insightful, goddammit.
[18:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being a Vampire Can be Brutal. Here's How Bloodsuckers Get by. - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Xb_msonNE [youtube.com]
[18:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:38] <exec> 08└─"even individuals are too complex to predict their effectiveness with one general factor, such as intelligence" FTFY
[18:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:59] <exec> 08└─"Yeah, but reading her work shows that she often resorted to ad hominem attacks, calling people crooks or ridiculing their physical appearance." oh, the horror! call off the memorial speeches!
[18:14:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:25] <exec> 08└─It's not just your eyes adapting. The moon can be a significant source of light pollution if it is above the horizon.
[18:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ingar [801] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:05] <exec> 08└─The apparent magnitude of a star is a logarithmic scale, where a difference of one magnitude corresponds to a change in brightness with a factor of about 2.5. In a light-polluted urban area, the practical limit for visual observations is around magnitude 3 to 4. Forget about it if you're anywhere ne...
[18:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uranus Possibly Visible to the Naked Eye During Opposition - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:07] <exec> 08└─looking at built up areas from afar, and understanding what they see. They aren't just bright - they have a fuzzy glow.
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[19:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Translation Error [718] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:33] <exec> 08└─This story is from over a week ago.
[19:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:35] <exec> 08└─If that does not give him the dictator label, nothing will.
[19:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─It's so old that even FCC chairman Ajit Pai took time off from sucking Verizon dick to react to people blaming him for not addressing it.
[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─That's not how any of this works. Besides, what is democracy (representative or otherwise) other than one group dictating to another group?
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─It's a violently imposed monopoly of the majority.
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─After almost thirty years of watching pretty much every Democrat at one time or another call for using the exact same weapon against the "hate" on talk radio (i.e. shut Limbaugh up!) I'm totally not understanding why I should care. Besides, Trump happens to be correct; broadcasters are licensed to o...
[19:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:46] <exec> 08└─Besides, what is democracy (representative or otherwise) other than one group dictating to another group? No, that's what government is, by definition. If no one ever gets dictated to and has no limits at all on their actions, then you have anarchy. The whole point of having a legal code and a judic...
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─Oh wait, there isn't any. This is a limited public resource that they shouldn't have gotten in the first place, and they pay us back with fake news that distorts our political process. We need an excuse to shut them down in favor of wireless networking and cellular data. This is as good as any.
[19:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:59] <exec> 08└─Anti-burqa law jumps the shark?
[19:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:00] <exec> 08└─At the end of your slaver's chain?
[19:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:02] <exec> 08└─The situation has not been made fundamentally better. Though you're a well-fed slave in the Big House, you're a slave nonetheless.
[19:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─No, it isn't OK to be a shark in public. Never mind the evils of Islam. Consider the KKK, for which the USA created anti-mask laws. A bunch of democrats, rather like Antifa, were running around in masks causing violent trouble. The masks are used to evade justice. Our faces serve as ID, without whic...
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:07] <exec> 08└─On the other hand: "We have no leads, as he was wearing a full-body shark costume", said no police report ever.
[19:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:09] <exec> 08└─Where are the anonymous members when we need them? Where are the ninjas? Where are the tactical balaclava wearing SWAT teams? Oh, that's right, this law wouldn't apply to allowing law enforcement to become anonymous, would it?
[19:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:11] <exec> 08└─He who sows wind, will reap a hurricane.
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:13] <exec> 08└─Since when is it my duty to make justice's job easy? While we are at it, since you have brought this back to the USA, what about the legitimate first amendment argument? Prior restraint has chilling effects, and I for one am not OK with violating basic constitutional rights to make law enforcement e...
[19:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:16] <exec> 08└─Someone robbing a bank ain't gonna be thinking "Well, I guess I'm not allowed to wear a mask!" What kind of idiotic thought process are you employing here?
[19:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:18] <exec> 08└─... a lot of people waving their hands in front of their noses.
[19:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:20] <exec> 08└─A pox on Halloween for making it near-impossible to search for such things. I hope a murderous clown will do: http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com [mypalmbeachpost.com] Then we have fake nuns robbi...
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:22] <exec> 08└─We arrest them on the way to the bank, as soon as we see them in a mask. We can also arrest them on their way home with the loot. This works especially well for violent mobs, since they intend to be around for a while.
[19:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Wind "Electrifies" Phobos and Deimos - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:34] <exec> 08└─What about charging capacitors from potential differences in charge? Maybe you need a very long wire?
[19:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:00] <exec> 08└─Novel as far as I know doesn't mean useful or great
[19:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:01] <exec> 08└─I think AC meant "assholes" and not any political affiliation. I wasn't sure at first but your post solidified my conclusion.
[19:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:04] <exec> 08└─it would still have been somewhat more impressive, and useful, if it had discovered things we didn't already know.
[19:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 1802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:06] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I think you're highly overenthusiastic about this. It's a significant step along the way, but I still don't expect the Singularity before 2030...and 2035 wouldn't surprise me. OTOH, this *is* a significant step along the way. So are chips specialized for neural net computers being in mass...
[19:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:31] <exec> 08└─Causing stress is not the same as causing brain and other damage (as claimed in some reports). And if you accidentally cause brain damage, why would you keep doing it? Whatever it is there is little gain for Cuba to do such attacks and more to lose. It's much better to secretly spy on the diplomats....
[19:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:32] <exec> 08└─In unrelated news, markets observed a spike in trade relations between Cuba and Israel.
[19:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 1588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:34] <exec> 08└─If this was a sonic attack it would be an impressive bit of engineering. I have been in high noise industrial environments where double ear protection was required and while I have to admit that you do feel as if you have been through the ringer after being in such an environment for an extended per...
[19:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:36] <exec> 08└─The "old wives tale" also happens to be true [nutrition.org]. The linked research article discusses the link between vitamin A which is in large concentrations in carrots (actually beta carotene which is transformed to vitamin A in the body) and improved vision, including improved low-light vision.
[19:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:39] <exec> 08└─Did anyone try playing it backwards to see if it was simply a backward recording of a Trump speech? That could explain the symptoms.
[19:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:35] <exec> 08└─So what if Trump's dad supplied a small loan. You'd barely be able to open a decent restaurant, dentist office, or car repair shop with that. Increasing that by a factor of about 1000 is not so easy. If you think it is, why are you not rich? Thinking smaller, starting from what middle class people m...
[19:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:36] <exec> 08└─The FBI just released more about an investigation involving Russia and a bunch of uranium. Guess who is involved. This is a few days old. CNN has avoided it entirely, as you'd expect.
[19:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:38] <exec> 08└─Trump claimed that he is audited ever year. If that is true, he must have paid (after audit, if not before) every penny required by law (plus interest and penalties if applicable). If you don't think he paid enough, the problem is the law, not Trump. I don't understand why people keep claiming that...
[19:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being a Vampire Can be Brutal. Here's How Bloodsuckers Get by. - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:52] <exec> 08└─Still a better love story than Twilight. [ducks]
[19:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:31] <exec> 08└─Decades of experience in school and corporate world indicates this means one dude on the team did all the work.
[19:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:32] <exec> 08└─The question is not whether team work works, but whether the result of a team is substantially different than the sum of its parts. Imagine your skill can somehow be measured to be an 8 and your wife's a 6. Would you two then perform better than two 9s working together? That is what "collective inte...
[19:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:55] <exec> 08└─Lawyer SOP: blame the party with the most money: Peugeot!
[19:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bigelow and ULA to Put Inflatable Module in Orbit Around the Moon by 2022 - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:06] <exec> 08└─Would that very thin atmosphere on Mars actually help significantly on cooling drills? http://www.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] Seems like you'd probably need some other cooling.
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[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:52] <exec> 08└─Trump happens to be correct;
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─Isn't it NBC's affiliate stations which have individual licenses to broadcast? Each station on a locally assigned part of the limited RF spectrum. NBC itself is just a television network providing content to licensed stations that find it in their financial interest to affiliate themselves with NBC?...
[20:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:56] <exec> 08└─*majority as defined by electoral college, gerrymandering or other non-representative systems where individual votes to not determine who wins the election or what counts as a 'majority'.
[20:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:58] <exec> 08└─I don't doubt many have called for such censorship, but they were rightly never able to act on it. There is a huge difference between political grandstanding and the president acting like a dictator. But hey, keep sucking each other off with your "antifa are terrorists and Trump is just a silly guy...
[20:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:00] <exec> 08└─The first amendment means that even The Donald can flap his yap about damn near anything he wants. This will only begin to think of being a story when there's an outside possibility that this might be done - and not blocked by the courts. Why? Because it's a content-based restriction on speech that...
[20:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─A kabuki play meant to distract the rabble from the powers that really determine policy?
[20:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:05] <exec> 08└─You're right: An organization is a "government" when its fundamental principle is coercion; that's why a warlord, Kim Jong Un, a monarchy, and Uncle Sam, etc., are all governments. A street gang is a kind of government, too, within its little "jurisdiction". Yet, there's no fundamental need for an o...
[20:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─There is no 1st Amendment right to possess a broadcast license. Unlike printing presses, the Internet or even cable TV, there is a very limited spectrum allocated to TV broadcasting and everyone can't have a license.
[20:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:09] <exec> 08└─Kiss the head of Michael David Crawford for luck.
[20:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:11] <exec> 08└─Ok oh wise one, enlighten us about what is really happening then. Lots of bad stuff I'm sure, but if you're so high-and-mighty you can tell us poor rubes.
[20:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:14] <exec> 08└─A Real Man puts his principles over his team. Do you support free speech or not?
[20:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:16] <exec> 08└─We already have laws that cover spreading falsehoods that have served the republic well for a long while now. They're called libel and slander. In other words, fake news can be prosecuted under those.
[20:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:18] <exec> 08└─Besides, what is democracy (representative or otherwise) other than one group dictating to another group?
[20:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 1552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:20] <exec> 08└─It is a pretty big deal when the government moves forward with repressing free speech and the rights of the press. While the Donald has not yet gone so far as to take action, and I doubt he will because he is a proprietor of the "all press is good press", it has been done before. The "Fainess Doctri...
[20:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:23] <exec> 08└─As you can see in a post further down on the thread I am against it regardless of who is pushing it. The problem I think a lot of Republicans have is that when the Dems do the same thing nobody cares (Rs same way) so you have an endless cycle of refusing to help the other side when they are only int...
[20:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:25] <exec> 08└─Trump says a lot of mean and silly things on Twitter. Does that make him a dictator? He keeps trying to do things by fiat, but nearly all of them have failed because Congress and the courts have blocked him. Doesn't that mean by definition that he is not a dictator? He can't even get his own nominal...
[20:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:27] <exec> 08└─That is a good point. Some further data: Everyone is carefully not commenting on this: at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License
[20:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─As far as I know, nether NBC News, Fox News, CNN nor any other New channel actually has a "broadcast license" for Over the Air transmission. Media companies who own the stations that do the broadcasting hold the licenses...they then choose to broadcast content from various sources which may include...
[20:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─Most of the time the Republicans complain about 'censorship' they're talking about private entities choosing what to publish on their own platforms. That's not prohibited by the constitution.
[20:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03applesmasher [53] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:34] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump is a lizard person in league with the Raelians to deliver our precious fluid resources to their Arcturan masterbrain! Wake up, sheeple!
[20:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:36] <exec> 08└─The Fairness Doctrine is in no way about removing anyway from broadcasting. The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance a...
[20:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:38] <exec> 08└─Random Douches on the Internet != The Actual President of the US
[20:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 1691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:40] <exec> 08└─You have some great networks. I must tell you, Fox has treated me fairly. Fox treated me fairly. They've treated me fairly. Hey, I'll let you know. You know what? Someday they might not treat me fairly, and I'll tell you about it, OK? But they've treated me fairly, and I don't mean all good. I get p...
[20:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:43] <exec> 08└─And it was wrong over a week agostill wrong today. He made no such threat. He suggested that people might want to contest the broadcast licenses at the required FCC public hearings when their license is up for renewal if they insist on using public airwaves to only air one side of the story. It prob...
[20:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:45] <exec> 08└─Can you even imagine the epic shitstorm that would have ensued if Obama said something like that?
[20:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:47] <exec> 08└─I've done some research at lunch hour for fun and to summarize public figures practically cannot be defamed in a purely legal sense. Also damages are hard to specify leading to certain failure. Ironically being biased propaganda infotainment from the D party protects the news media, if they claimed...
[20:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:49] <exec> 08└─He's a dictator. He just sucks at it. Being shitty sportsball player doesn't make you NOT a sportsball player...
[20:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:51] <exec> 08└─The problem is that "balanced" reporting very often gives airspace to extreme points of view and to nutcases, who are the only people on the other side of some debate. By giving them airspace, it legitimises their point of view. Imagine a program on the Holocaust. Should equal airtime and credence b...
[20:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:54] <exec> 08└─Sweet jesus how many times do we need to point out that you're simply re-inventing the government? Do people get to decide in advance whether they are OK with murder being illegal? How do you punish someone who says they never agreed to that? At what age will people be held accountable? What about t...
[20:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:17] <exec> 08└─Good joke, up to the last two words. Seriously, could people stop insulting pigs by associating them with the LEOs. Pigs have done nothing to deserve that kind of insult.
[20:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:18] <exec> 08└─Is it really an anti burka law? Or a Show Your Face In Public law? Maybe the law is not targeted specifically at burkas. Simply at the larger problem that burkas represent. That is, that a [x] terrorist [x] child molester [_] politician [x] person observing their religion might be concealing their...
[20:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:20] <exec> 08└─They don't go walking through witnesses wearing all their gear. Man, you're as dumb as a pile of rocks. Get outta here!
[20:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:22] <exec> 08└─"You could hide a machine gun under that burka." Uh... Baggy clothes are still legal.
[20:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:25] <exec> 08└─Heaven forbid people have the right to hide a shark suit under their burkas!
[20:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:05] <exec> 08└─Why should you expect it to be useful for human players? Perhaps it's a strategy that's only useful when you're playing against something better than any human player. Not that I expect this to be true, but your basic criterion seems to need justification.
[20:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:06] <exec> 08└─To me it sounds like an engineering problem now, ie one of scale, not of science.
[20:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:08] <exec> 08└─No, because it doesn't cover any featurelist on any fairly comprehensive theory of mind. While it covers (a limited form of) (contextually restricted) perception and it has (well-defined) (verifiable) motivations and (strongly constrained) (contextually restricted) capabilities for action, and if yo...
[20:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:11] <exec> 08└─I still don't expect the Singularity before 2030...and 2035 wouldn't surprise me.
[20:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:13] <exec> 08└─I agree. Google's TPUs, Intel's Nervana, Nvidia's Tesla, etc. are just accelerators for 8-bit machine learning. They are capable of increasing the performance (and perf/Watt) of machine learning tasks by a lot compared to previous chips, but even if they got a hundred times better and passed the Tur...
[20:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:43] <exec> 08└─Surely Dr Robotnik should be able to identify a Sonic attack?
[20:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:44] <exec> 08└─Or a vile of "white powder" that normally arrives via mail envelope accidentally fell to the floor?
[20:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:46] <exec> 08└─"Causing stress is not the same as causing brain and other damage" Actually stress causes high blood pressure, which can cause a myriad of problems including strokes. So yes it can. Though with things like this you have to accommodate the signal to noise ratio. If you get a kernel of truth your doin...
[20:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:45] <exec> 08└─I don't think we're disagreeing very much. Can't help but notice the cultural concept of the nerd was invented and pushed hard in the 70s possibly precisely to prevent someone capable of fixing things from rising to power and "draining the swamp", which might be seen as an endorsement of the theory,...
[20:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 1467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:47] <exec> 08└─I was pretty young in the Carter years, but what little I remember, and discussions after his term about him, imply he wasn't very modest about not being a crook, but I don't think that was his problem in being effective. Merely being himself with a little more modesty wouldn't have helped him. In m...
[20:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:49] <exec> 08└─No, but there is no debate about what a great business woman she is, is there?
[20:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:51] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. Under the system we have we'd need such a person taking office with a posse in Congress with sufficient discipline and skill to drive a decisive agenda. If that agenda aimed squarely at really taking down the status quo, it would be enormously popular and successful with the America...
[20:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:53] <exec> 08└─Well TPTB can't allow governance according to the data when the data is so damning, right? Because that's exactly the kind of governance a nerd/engineer/technocrat is wont to do.
[20:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:56] <exec> 08└─"a little humility might have helped her percentages a bit." I disagree. A soul and total personality transplant could not have fixed that trainwreck of a candidate. You'd have to send somebody back in a time machine and undertake some serious temporal engineering to try and encourage a more positiv...
[20:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:50] <exec> 08└─Whether or not someone is "good" at interacting with others is subjective.
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[20:15:52] <exec> 08└─That's what I described. Note the word "first" at the end of my post.
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[20:16:08] <exec> 08└─Well, no, I was thinking about the regular hybrids on the market today, and the range they get as shown in the link I posted. There are a few starting to drastically reduce the size of the engine, and use it only for charging, but to-date this is not the norm for Hybrids from Toyota, Ford, Chevy, Hy...
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[20:19:48] <exec> 08└─Then, stop buying those kinds of games.
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[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:36] <exec> 08└─It was super lame. Bot 1 shoots a large paintball at bot 2. Bot 2 slowly wheels close to bot 1 Bot 2 knocks bot 1 over. Bot 1 lies on back like a turtle. Total Duration: ~10 seconds.
[21:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─You left out the part where the Yank hacks the Jap apart with a chain saw
[21:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:40] <exec> 08└─Honey if we showed all tricks up our sleeve you might get worried. So we just wwf around a bit...
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─Spoiler spoiler: there are 3 rounds, the spoiler above covers round 1. The other 2 rounds are less lame - but only a tiny bit so.
[21:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:44] <exec> 08└─It was way longer than 10 seconds, but I didn't even watch the end it was so dull.
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─That's pretty generous... The chainsaw was as useless as the paintball gun.
[21:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:49] <exec> 08└─Oh, I didn't know there was more than one round! I was so disappointed i couldn't carry on.
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[21:09:51] <exec> 08└─On the topic of entertainment based on fictional military operations, I wonder if there's anything in the genre of taking 90s era MILES simulation gear and modern weapons and real military units and running a TV show. Essentially a documentary on existing simulated wargames. The closest I've seen is...
[21:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─Let me guess, robots did not spray a hail of real bullets at each other using gatling guns. Does it really have the soul of a mecha if it won't endeavor to crush the opponent with the absolute force available through human engineering? Maybe we need thicker armor, compact fusion, and energy shields...
[21:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:55] <exec> 08└─This may come as a shock to you, but most people like their porn to be about sex, not violence.
[21:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:57] <exec> 08└─Remember, kids: practice safe Zechs, always wear a Gundam!
[21:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:00] <exec> 08└─Round two was lame. Round three was a bit more exciting. People inform me that it wasn't staged, though I'm not sure I believe these people who tell me that. It looked cool at least. Mechwarrior cited plenty of time as inspiration, but the combatants reminded me more of the standing tanks from the b...
[21:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:02] <exec> 08└─Remember, kids: practice safe Zechs, always wear a Gundam!
[21:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:04] <exec> 08└─You'd get better action by putting chainsaws and swords on industrial welding bots and programming them to parry. This was just sad. Does watching 6 times ten seconds out of 25 minutes count as a "view" on youtube? I'm afraid I may have accidentally encouraged them.
[21:10:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:21] <exec> 08└─Isn't it NBC's affiliate stations which have individual licenses to broadcast? Each station on a locally assigned part of the limited RF spectrum. NBC itself is just a television network providing content to licensed stations that find it in their financial interest to affiliate themselves with NBC?...
[21:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:50] <exec> 08└─The same thing that's always been happening, under Obama and under Bush: Financial enslavement via central banks and endless wars courtesy of the military industrial complex.
[21:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:52] <exec> 08└─Pardon, but I'm old enough to remember when Hillary's lying, cheating, philandering husband was actually POTUS. Does HIM calling to get rid of the talk radio problem count? Does every single current member of the Democratic Leadership count? Not some random Internet shitpoaster. And to grandparent,...
[21:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:54] <exec> 08└─Pardon, but I'm old enough to remember when Hillary's lying, cheating, philandering husband was actually POTUS. Does HIM calling to get rid of the talk radio problem count? [CITATION NEEDED]
[21:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:56] <exec> 08└─AC is wrong in some areas, OK in others. It is, as AC pointed out, all about attention. Part of curing fake news is pointing out CNN is merely a left wing propaganda outlet. Trump has 100% control of the media he is very good at manipulating them into repeating anything he wants them to repeat. He's...
[21:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:58] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how that is a relevant comment.
[21:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:00] <exec> 08└─The head of the FCC threatening to revoke FCC licenses carries a bit more weight that random internet posters.
[21:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:03] <exec> 08└─controversial issues of public importance
[21:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:05] <exec> 08└─Blatant lying and inciting to riot and sedition do not count.
[21:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:07] <exec> 08└─"NBC and the Networks", the bogeyman Trump identified in his tweet [twitter.com], do not have broadcast licenses. The individual local stations do. By all means, try to challenge them. Is there a kind of complaint that would be successful in getting a license revoked other than the station interrupt...
[21:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:09] <exec> 08└─Most of the time the Republicans complain about 'censorship' they're talking about private entities choosing what to publish on their own platforms.
[21:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:11] <exec> 08└─That's a good idea. I should call my local station and complain about the clearly one-sided news segments provided by Sinclair. If I wanted the plutocrat's version of conservative takes on current events, I'd turn to Fox News. When will the sheeple wake up and see the blatant right-wing bias in the...
[21:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:14] <exec> 08└─President Bill Clinton [history.com] Yes kids, Hillary's husband was really POTUS for eight long years. p.s. Do yer own danged googling. Start with the OKC Bombing and Clinton's speech on the subject, then his attempt to reimpose the "Fairness Doctrine" (what an example of Orwellian language) with t...
[21:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:16] <exec> 08└─The KKK just has "many sides" but BLM and Antifa are literally hitler. Yer dumb, but hey nothing new there!
[21:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:18] <exec> 08└─And it was wrong over a week agostill wrong today. He made no such threat. He suggested that people might want to contest the broadcast licenses at the required FCC public hearings when their license is up for renewal if they insist on using public airwaves to only air one side of the story.
[21:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:20] <exec> 08└─Welp, I wasted time on that video. First 3+ minutes (of 3.5 total) were simple political feel good garbage "america yay, we're great, we can conquer our problems, blah blah, work until work is done, scripture lel blah dee blah". I dislike his "god wills it" bullshit, but aside from that there is NOT...
[21:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:23] <exec> 08└─It would make a fun trial if they put T on the stand. SNL would write itself. T: "CNN's crowd size photo is from earlier in the morning. Fake trick." CNN: "That's not our photo; that came from a random Twitter account. Somebody just claimed it was from us." T: "No, that's yours, I saw it on CNN, you...
[21:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:51] <exec> 08└─Fonzi, as he jumps the laser: "Stand back! I've got a loaded shark suit under my burka, and I ain't afraid to use it! Heyyyy!" Sorry, I blame it on too much Mad Magazine and Monty Python exposure during my formative years.
[21:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:52] <exec> 08└─How could you skip what happened today??? Pikachu tries to jump the White House fence [thehill.com]!!
[21:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:54] <exec> 08└─The politicians dress it up as a pro-feminist law, but cynical me sees it as a means to ensure that surveillance cameras have unobstructed view of everybody's face.
[21:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:40] <exec> 08└─You should note that aside from Human vs. AlphaGo, there have also been Human + AlphaGo vs. Human + AlphaGo [futurism.com] matches. Go players have been able to use computer software for assistance [wikipedia.org] for years, it's just going to get a lot more useful (to the point of being "cheaty")....
[21:13:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 767 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:04] <exec> 08└─We know they exist because they were deployed in 2009 [youtube.com] against protesters at the G20 summit, and several other times since. That said, I doubt the Cubans would use them against the US embassy. Raul Castro has always been more moderate than his brother Fidel, and never been particularly...
[21:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:18] <exec> 08└─And the rich keep getting richer.. Need to convert them all to Buddhism, then they'll give all of it away to help others and keep just enough they need.
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─Why not? The threshold for president has been dropped so low that I don't see how she could possibly not qualify. It'd be nice to not be called a sexist when you point out the woman in charge got there because of her ass. "Vote for me, I'm not hiding anything!" There's a precedent [wikipedia.org].
[21:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:22] <exec> 08└─Training for jobs that don't exist is a typical Neoliberal scam. Training is what you need AFTER there are jobs that can't be filled. ...meanwhile The Green New Deal includes - building/expanding factories that produce solar panels, wind turbines, heat pumps, etc - expand the USAian workforce needed...
[21:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:24] <exec> 08└─Is this really another "but hillary!" post? She lost, get over it!
[21:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Being a Vampire Can be Brutal. Here's How Bloodsuckers Get by. - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:39] <exec> 08└─those aren't ducks, those are bats!
[21:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:20] <exec> 08└─Not really. In inconvenient fact that progressive people tend to ignore is that you can predict effectiveness with a general factor. It's not perfect and there are tons of exceptions, but it is true.
[21:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:21] <exec> 08└─Correct. Was Hitler "good" at interacting with others? *ducks*
[21:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:24] <exec> 08└─It could be statistical noise, but we've seen studies with much smaller sample sizes. The effect could disappear in follow-up studies,
[21:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:25] <exec> 08└─The same amount of time it takes for a comment like this to be acceptable!
[21:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:28] <exec> 08└─Thing is, there are medically plausible mechanisms for this. Pregnancy messes, a lot, with your immune system.
[21:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volvo's Electric Car Brand Polestar Unveils First Model - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:43] <exec> 08└─Then you don't know much. Read the link I posted. The Volt is better than many hybrids, (claimed 53 miles on electric alone). They do this by deep discharging their battery pack in preference to starting the engine - which is exactly the opposite of most hybrids. But basically your friend only ever...
[21:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Volvo's Electric Car Brand Polestar Unveils First Model - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:44] <exec> 08└─Funny how reality can be questioned these days. He does the round-trip, 30 miles, not 15, because he only charges -for free- at the company. No deep-discharge required, since he uses about half of the battery's capacity. How would you explain driving all those uphill miles, during which you are cert...
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[22:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is A Mega-Deal Like Amazon's HQ2 Always Worth It? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─Almost nothing is always anything.
[22:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is A Mega-Deal Like Amazon's HQ2 Always Worth It? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:39] <exec> 08└─Betteridge wins again.
[22:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is A Mega-Deal Like Amazon's HQ2 Always Worth It? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:42] <exec> 08└─Its all about the custom negotiated narrowly written tax breaks. Outlaw THAT and a lot of this nonsense goes away. https://jeffreifman.com [jeffreifman.com]
[22:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is A Mega-Deal Like Amazon's HQ2 Always Worth It? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:44] <exec> 08└─Up to 50000 jobs includes zero jobs. Everyone knows Amazon is all about automation; they'll get the job done with the fewest employees possible, and the number of employees will likely peak soon and then diminish over time as they get better with automation.
[22:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is A Mega-Deal Like Amazon's HQ2 Always Worth It? - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:46] <exec> 08└─Dupe
[22:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is A Mega-Deal Like Amazon's HQ2 Always Worth It? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─Amazon's dominance will have a negative effect in the long run on retail jobs. If you want to combat your future lost in retail you could net that by having Amazon. Someone has to not lose, whoever wins loses less than the rest. So with Amazon you might not get extra taxes from them, but you don't l...
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is A Mega-Deal Like Amazon's HQ2 Always Worth It? - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─Ummm this is HQ v2.0 not a warehouse or branch. Also last I check we can't build a giant campus with pure automation, so there's gonna be lots of one-off jobs to build it. After that there gonna be lots of men/women in suits since they've not offshored or robotize the PHBs yet and probably quite som...
[22:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:12] <exec> 08└─I just skimmed it and could not stand the annoying voiceover. The guy sounded like an annoying teenager in an adult body, overacting excitement without actually being excited at all. To be fair, this seems to be what reality TV mostly sounds like these days, but omg who actually likes that voice? Ma...
[22:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:13] <exec> 08└─Agreed, although women looking dangerous certainly have their place as well.
[22:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:15] <exec> 08└─"Yeah, when we were evenly matched the Japanese robot KO'd ours in one strike, but when we made it lopsided contest by hauling out a bigger, heavier and better-armed robot we totally kicked their butt. USA! USA! USA!"
[22:10:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:57] <exec> 08└─He's a dictator. He just sucks at it. Being shitty sportsball player doesn't make you NOT a sportsball player...
[22:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:19] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking 0.1, or maybe as high as 0.25%. Totally underrepresented. Also Trump and the Republicans are in power and we know that affirmative action is their favorite policy.
[22:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:20] <exec> 08└─p.s. Do yer own danged googling. Start with the OKC Bombing and Clinton's speech on the subject... Ok, I will. Here's the transcript. [americanrhetoric.com] You are lying.
[22:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:22] <exec> 08└─I like an analogy to games. Games have rules and often judges. The stakes are carefully kept relatively low. For instance, almost always the losers are not executed or sacrificed to the gods. Even animal males fighting each other for mates doesn't usually end in death. It's too destructive, and coul...
[22:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:24] <exec> 08└─People drive on one particular side of the road, not because it's the government's law, but because that's what you do when in Rome, especially when you don't want to die! To interact with others outside of a well defined contract (including cultural norms) is to put your life into peril. That's the...
[22:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:27] <exec> 08└─You've constructed an extreme straw man. Indeed, your desire to avoid "extreme competition" is undoubtedly shared by very many people, and thus would results in a law-by-contracts that is similarly risk-averse—perhaps even more so than the law that is crafted today by whimsical, vote-grabbing poli...
[22:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:29] <exec> 08└─After being threatened with the loss of lucrative government contracts if they refuse...
[22:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:31] <exec> 08└─Wake up, sheeple!
[22:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:33] <exec> 08└─It is appalling that you see democracy as coercion and think "voluntary contracts" will not follow a similar route. You have yet to address the VERY SIMPLE "murder is illegal" conundrum. How do you punish those who don't think it should be illegal? They never agreed to it. I feel like you're just a...
[22:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:35] <exec> 08└─so uh hey i waited a bit but where is jmorris's reply? is there another link? at first I thought he was just trying to prove the bill clinton WAS president, but it seems like that wasn't contested. that's all that there was in the link that matched what he wrote, so i was hoping maybe he picked the...
[22:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:38] <exec> 08└─If there is no greater proof that Jmorris is a shill just keep an eye on the sheer amount of lies he spews. That or he's just following the alt-right / GOP playbook of trying to lie his way to success. Jmorris care to explain all your lies? Or will silence be the only thing we ever get when you're c...
[22:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:09] <exec> 08└─Should be allowed as i don't care...it does not effectively affect my basic rights... I can look away or not. As Our Heroic Fearless Leader Donald Trump would say..where will it stop ? A law for 1) stinky armpits 2) Too long a beard 3) Too much butt showing 4) Too little butt showing Sure if a cop h...
[22:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:10] <exec> 08└─one of the best, funniest ac posts since soyception, belongs in hof
[22:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, advancing feminism by denying women the right to practice their religion freely!
[22:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:59] <exec> 08└─I suspect it'll go the other way around; AI will come from (somewhere), and then you'll have a system that will have a chance to win on/at Nomic. However, there will also be a question, at that point, of whether the AI cares to play Nomic in the first place. Once you have a system that can locally a...
[22:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:00] <exec> 08└─Now teach it to play mahjong and dominos with more than two players.
[22:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:34] <exec> 08└─It discusses the link between a deficient diet and deficient vision. Not improved vision.
[22:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:36] <exec> 08└─Marijuana, however, does improve your night vision.
[22:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:38] <exec> 08└─Mushrooms Really improve night vision!
[22:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:40] <exec> 08└─I knew a Russian was behind this!
[22:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:42] <exec> 08└─No. In the context of the discussion, an improvement would have to be something better than normal.
[22:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:51] <exec> 08└─So, the corporation may be mortally wounded, but its leadership often goes on to reform a new corporation trying the same failed scheme again. Countries mostly have continuity of geographic boundaries and therefore citizens through a bankruptcy, but their governments are often outsted / heavily nerf...
[22:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:53] <exec> 08└─Trump is your president. Well, if not, you need to go home. Call ICE if you need transportation. Until you accept Trump and get Hillary/Obama to butt out of politics (good luck with that), the "but hillary!" issues are 100% on topic.
[22:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:55] <exec> 08└─If only. Here she is in 2012, all bundled up in a Wisconsin winter, joining Occupy protesters outside the state capitol. [worldwidehippies.com] (O'Bummer never showed up.) Days earlier, she had been on the picket line with striking teachers. Before that, she had been at a pro-hemp festival in Oregon...
[22:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:57] <exec> 08└─Our 'best' political leaders have not been Billionaires. But if we have to have a 'Captain of Industry' then how about Warren Buffett? Oh yeah, he's to smart to run for a shit job like POTUS.
[22:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─You got the story wrong. IRS can go back 7 years with an audit. It appears that that is what they were doing in the Obama years. As Johnston says in his interview, the way that real estate people do things, it's necessary to have -multiple- years of returns to determine strategies/violations. ...and...
[22:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06You Would Not Ask a Firefighter to Perform Open-Heart Surgery: Understanding Collective Intelligence - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:58] <exec> 08└─Whether or not someone is "good" at interacting with others is subjective.
[22:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malta Panama Papers Journalist Killed by Car Bomb - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:21] <exec> 08└─calling people crooks or ridiculing their physical appearance.
[22:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:06] <exec> 08└─Good catch. Have to admit I didn't read the whole detailed study, just the linked summary. It appears the researchers actually did have a mechanism in mind, but they failed to follow up with the donors beyond simple gender determination. Seems a shame they got sloppy on so many other aspects as well...
[22:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:07] <exec> 08└─Hey, his user name is Woosh. You weren't expecting serious discourse were you?
[22:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex of Blood Donor Could Influence Recepient's Survival Rate - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:09] <exec> 08└─There was a young lady from Bude Who went for a swim in the lake A man in a punt Stuck an oar up her nose And said, "It really is very dangerous to swim in here."
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[23:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dog Doping at the Iditarod - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:36] <exec> 08└─Why do they wait till six hours after the race to test the dogs? I don't get it.
[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Is A Mega-Deal Like Amazon's HQ2 Always Worth It? - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─Sears dominance will have a negative effect in the long run on retail jobs. If you want to combat your future lost in retail you could net that by having Sears. Someone has to not lose, whoever wins loses less than the rest. So with Sears you might not get extra taxes from them, but you don't lose t...
[23:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah! An 'Arc Barrel 4' in one hand, and a 'Fatal Buster' in the other, and it's time for some destruction! (weapons are an obscure Front Mission 3 reference- I played the hell out of that game)
[23:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:17] <exec> 08└─Robot Wars and Battlebots was a lot of fun to watch, even it it became repetitive at times. I think this would have been more enjoyable scaled down Mechs remotely piloted, so they actually could use lethal tactics against each other. Not to mention, you could have more than two teams as they wouldn'...
[23:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:19] <exec> 08└─Ayuh! They win one battle, we win one battle. Draw? Nah. USA!USA!USA!
[23:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:21] <exec> 08└─Yes... "The one robot knocked over a stack of cars, leaving a trail of destruction!!!" SHEEIT... One car fell over. Whooo.
[23:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS) - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:23] <exec> 08└─That was incredibly stupid
[23:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:37] <exec> 08└─Yes OK, but without specifics there is nothing we can even really do. Write your congressman? "Umm sir, I feel Trump's bullshit is just distracting from the real issues. I would like you to oppose the financial enslavement of US citizens please." You know that's how you get a higher slot on "the lis...
[23:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:38] <exec> 08└─So someone in a position of authority says that they would like to legally challenge some entity that may not be operating within their regulated space (i.e. License) makes them a dictator? Shrewd logic.. In this case, he didn't even say he'd do it, just asking when would it be appropriate - almost...
[23:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:41] <exec> 08└─Don"t you DARE criticize the effects of our perfect sacred constitution or otherwise heretically question the infinite wisdom of the Framers! For there is no system better than our system, and no country better than our country, as illustrated by the failure of all others to achieve what we achieve,...
[23:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:43] <exec> 08└─> I'm old enough to remember when Hillary's lying, cheating, philandering husband was actually POTUS Me too. I really long for the days when our biggest problem was whether he left sperm on not-his-wife's dress, while we all had jobs, the stock tickers showed us getting richer by the minute, and the...
[23:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:45] <exec> 08└─Easy, don't allow them to enter the areas where people have agreed that they shall not murder. Anarchy doesn't mean everyone is free to do what they want, it means that there is no government. Quit regurgitating archist propaganda.
[23:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump Threatens to Shut Down NBC and Other TV News Networks That Criticize Him - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:47] <exec> 08└─You've already been answered: If you haven't agreed to an particular contract, then you are operating outside of the well defined bounds of a contract; the consequences for your actions are therefore also ill-defined—murder someone, and see what happens to you... Of course, a sophisticated framewo...
[23:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:21] <exec> 08└─Because democracy is two sheeps and a goat with a wolf judging, deciding what will be for dinner.
[23:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:22] <exec> 08└─My criminal record begs to differ.
[23:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:25] <exec> 08└─Eaxctly, bacons are one of the culinary wonders of the world.. thanks to pigs. No thanks to LEOs. And don't associate LEOs with dogs either, my pug take offence with extra wrinkles on her already wrinkled forehead.
[23:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solar Wind "Electrifies" Phobos and Deimos - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:35] <exec> 08└─Without a grounding mechanism seems like charging a capacitor or battery would be required. Tethers into the surface seem impractical.
[23:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:14] <exec> 08└─However, there will also be a question, at that point, of whether the AI cares to play Nomic in the first place. Once you have a system that can locally analyze the value of doing something, it'll use that to evaluate whether it should engage in the associated undertaking. Because... intelligent.
[23:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:16] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. Go is a zero-sum game of 'Perfect' information as defined in game theory [URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory/]. That's what makes it a great way to test ML. Non-zero-sum games of imperfect information more closely represent the class of problems like self-driving, emergency re...
[23:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:18] <exec> 08└─A point of view is a slippery thing.
[23:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AlphaGo Zero Makes AlphaGo Obsolete - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:20] <exec> 08└─People who play Go know that there are few, if any, truly novel openings that have not been analyzed long ago. For AG to discover Any new openings that work is, itself, amazing. Remember the Bobby Fischer opening for Chess? [URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer/]
[23:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:58] <exec> 08└─In the context of the discussion, an improvement would have to be something better than normal.
[23:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:00] <exec> 08└─We know that, wherever you are, normal means deficient, but I don't think that the deficiencies are limited to your diet.
[23:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:14] <exec> 08└─then they'll give all of it away to help others ...or those dirtbags could simply be proper Christians--rather than just Sunday Christians. "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." -- Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 19:24)
[23:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Donald Trump's Place on Forbes' List of the Wealthiest Americans Slides Bigly - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:16] <exec> 08└─Really? He's serving our country? So when is he going to stop appointing establishment authoritarians like Jeff Sessions and swamp creatures like Goldman Sachs cronies into his administration? When is he going to get rid of (or at least speak vehemently against) the NSA's unconstitutional mass surve...
[23:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung to Begin Production of 8nm LPP Chips - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:42] <exec> 08└─10% reduction in die size implies a 5% linear density increase (pitch, node size decrease). That's not 10->8, or any of the other numbers being flung around, in any language.
[23:19:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:22] <exec> 08└─Calling everyone and everything Nazi and fasicst reminds me of a town hall meeting McCain had back in 2008. Really disappointed that I was unable to find a link to it.. but it was a long time ago. McCain was talking about something or another, and some guy stood up to ask a question. McCain had some...
[23:20:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Florida Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Speech by Richard Spencer - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:27] <exec> 08└─A merging the power of government and business to control society.
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