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[00:26:30] <exec> 08└─shingled magnetic recording (SMR)... can slow down re-writes
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[01:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:52] <exec> 08└─I have quite a long commute. Today I had a medical appointment near home, in the afternoon, so I didn't get to work until 5:30 PM. I'm not getting anything done. Surely I should go home? No. My employer thinks I am working productively and in fact is pleased that I came to work, albeit so late.
[01:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:53] <exec> 08└─The logout link did not work. The comment form had my nick and my password, but just to make sure I deleted them. Good thing none of you know where I work.
[01:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:01] <exec> 08└─Looks like this story has been posted for well over an hour with no comments. Is the Tesla story worn out? Autoextremist has been predicting Model 3 production would be slow for quite a while now, here's one from last week (Tesla mentioned briefly in 2nd paragraph) http://www.autoextremist.com...
[01:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:03] <exec> 08└─That's not intrinsically a bad thing, it just means you need to invest in improving how you supply, which is what they are doing. If you're cash rich, sure, burn that cash, better to use it all than pay tax on profit distribution. I've seen a lot of anti-Testa news recently, and it all looks lke it'...
[01:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:06] <exec> 08└─Very good chance that Chinese companies will dominate the electric car market in China -- with gov't help on all fronts. In part, this is a quick way to do something about the terrible air quality in some of their cities. Other than Tesla at the luxury car price point, where is the electric car mark...
[01:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:22] <exec> 08└─shingled magnetic recording (SMR)... can slow down re-writes
[01:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:23] <exec> 08└─Most folks using something like this will have a very large number of spares on hand to swap into their RAID arrays or zPools or whatever. It won't really be targeted to people who are going to buy one and notice if it fails.
[01:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:26] <exec> 08└─Also, SMR really, really sucks when used with a regular filesystem. Without specific tuning for SMR, f2fs fares best by a good margin despite having been designed for a completely different use case (flash with weak FTL). In theory, btrfs should shine as well but this is not the case -- and no one i...
[01:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:28] <exec> 08└─This is an enterprise bulk storage product. Although WD implies that this could be used to replace non-shingled 10 TB drives.
[01:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:30] <exec> 08└─I strongly hedge when writing summaries. "which can slow down re-writes" replaced something like "which has lower write speeds" in draft 1. In fact, initial sequential writes for this product are up by a lot from the Ultrastar Ha10.
[01:29:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:41] <exec> 08└─Good thing those Republicans are so pro-states-rights, eh? They'll never let something like this pass!
[01:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:43] <exec> 08└─Healthcare? That doesn't exist except for the rich any more. Just got a thing in the mail that says my monthly health insurance payment is going to be almost doubled next year.
[01:30:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cwadge [3324] 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1427 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:06] <exec> 08└─It's pretty widely accepted that IQ is a general measure, not an absolute standard, of intelligence (which ironically is largely where we get lost in the woods in such discussions). I'm not an expert in the field, but I can at least attest that any IQ test I've ever taken has relied on a certain "fr...
[01:30:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1939 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:12] <exec> 08└─This is more than not PC. This story can far too easily be interpreted as saying that the darker you are, the dumber you are. It's raw meat for white supremacists. Even if the original material does not say that, the way it is presented is terrible. Even so, the entire idea is extremely suspect. Is...
[01:30:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:21] <exec> 08└─This story comes right on the heels of the DNC "no white males!" story. Are people being set up to be angry and then handed a "scientifice" segway into why racism is good? True or not that is how grassroots propaganda is done.
[01:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:10] <exec> 08└─"What evolutionary forces could possibly be driving Europeans and Asians but not Africans to greater intelligence?"
[01:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:11] <exec> 08└─Thank you for completely ignoring my point and requoting the grandparent. Great comprehension there. As to the meat of your comment, this is a common meme and as often happens it's not *entirely* false. It's certainly not entirely correct Either. It originates in a comparison of certain parts of the...
[01:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:14] <exec> 08└─Mine is 160. I have many achievements I could point to as evidence of my success, but even at times when I was not symptomatic I screwed up in spectacular ways.
[01:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:16] <exec> 08└─Or at least she did back when the sins of the flesh dominated my eternal spirit. At the time anyway, she was also married.
[01:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:18] <exec> 08└─I've met plenty of people with small heads who were powerfully intelligent. I'm told some guy was measuring the skull capacities of the various racists by filling them with small seeds, then pouring the seeds back out and measuring their volumes. With most such skulls he would just pour until the sk...
[01:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:20] <exec> 08└─Select two children of equal IQs. Give just one of them an enriched education such as I had as a result of qualifying for California's Mentally Gifted Minor's program. When they are adults, this latter child will have an IQ 20 points hire than the child whose education was not enriched. I can't supp...
[01:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:22] <exec> 08└─It hasn't always been such a forward-thinking nation: First nation's children were taken from their families then sent to boarding school so they could learn all about white society without having any influence from the culture they were born into. The Inuit used to live off the seals they hunted. N...
[01:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:25] <exec> 08└─I know two Polish women who immigrated to the US. One of them because she was employed by the US embassy, the other because she won the diversity lottery. The first got a degree in Computer Engineering while raising a young boy - that is, as a single mother. That young boy is now a grown-up defense...
[01:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:27] <exec> 08└─I have a friend whose grandfather was a successful stock market investor. He told my friend that the lowest-paid jobs require working with tools - coding is the high end of that. People who work with people come in second: I know a physicist who turned down a $250k job as an engineering manager. At...
[01:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:29] <exec> 08└─-terest. That was considered the sin of usury. The Jewish faith has no such law. The availability of credit is widely recognized as stimulating to the economy.
[01:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:31] <exec> 08└─You've been excluded from the grown up table, no amount of shifting blame will get you no where.
[01:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:34] <exec> 08└─It is not that great at raw intelligence, you listed quite a few of the reasons yourself. NEXT!
[01:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:36] <exec> 08└─Just before I started kindergarten I was given an intelligence test in which I attempted to identify line drawings of various objects. The teacher was quite surprised that I knew what an airplane was. Well I knew that because my father flew to Vietnam in one just a week before. It was a long time be...
[01:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:38] <exec> 08└─He met Michelle at Harvard. He has a half-sibling back in the old country.
[01:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:40] <exec> 08└─1. True. 2. True. 3. Completely false and backward. Genetics only makes it even more obvious and incontrovertible that all modern humans are a single race. 4. True, but tricky. Your 'racial groups' are not, in fact, biological divisions; but yes, different groups have 'statistically significant' dif...
[01:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:05] <exec> 08└─Too bad they didn't crack down on "Unsubstantiated claims" about Oxy before it made addicts or dead people out of so many...but I guess that would just make too much sense and there's way too much $$ at stake.
[01:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:07] <exec> 08└─Ensuring the quality of ...
[01:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 2879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:36] <exec> 08└─So that concern sounds great in theory, except for one small problem: Those that are talking through the consequences right now are making oodles of money from the very behaviors that are causing the problem. So they don't want to change a damn thing, never mind what happens to New Orleans and New Y...
[01:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:37] <exec> 08└─Look, up there! Is it a sine? Is it a cosine? No, it's Superlogarithm!
[01:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:39] <exec> 08└─superlogarithmic
[01:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:05] <exec> 08└─I do submit almost all of the VR articles. You should be cautious. ✈🏢🏢💥
[01:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Q4OS: A Very Flexible Linux Distro - Review - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:07] <exec> 08└─switch desktop environments until you find the one that does perform well on the hardware, just like every Linux distro except maybe Ubuntu.
[01:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:57] <exec> 08└─Hospitals have better legal staff than you do. They can make this stick.
[01:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nurse Who Was Arrested in Utah Receives Half Million Dollar Settlement - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:59] <exec> 08└─Some sort of Federal anti-corruption agency that does undercover secret-shopper encounters with police would also be a good thing. If a cop beats the shit out of the FBI for no reason, I think it'll be taken a lot more seriously than if it happens to the rest of us.
[01:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─>> like us, evolving to be fitter and stronger over time. Not at all. I think that this has already stopped, and looking around, is even in full reverse now. It's an inevitable consequence of the way that modern society has a bizarre drive to totally eliminate absolutely anything that could even be...
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[02:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Impact That Killed Off the Dinosaurs Quantified - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:53] <exec> 08└─Might as call them "magicians says". Y'all go ragging on "mainstream media" science reporting, but how is SN any better?
[02:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Asteroid Impact That Killed Off the Dinosaurs Quantified - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:54] <exec> 08└─We link to the peer-reviewed paper.
[02:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Impact That Killed Off the Dinosaurs Quantified - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:57] <exec> 08└─It prevented the earth from getting even colder.
[02:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Impact That Killed Off the Dinosaurs Quantified - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:59] <exec> 08└─Scientists are like magicians. They gave you the magical modern world you live in. Without them you'd still be riding a horse to your farm fields & cutting your wheat with your scythe, using candles for light, heating your one room home with wood, coal, or animal dung, surviving on canned preserves...
[02:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:09] <exec> 08└─Open Whisper Systems seems pretty sketchy. According to this [signal.org], the only way to use the desktop version is by installing signal on a pre-pwned phone, where your private keys are accessible to google/apple, your phone manufacturer, and gods know who else. If google was a trusted party to o...
[02:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:20] <exec> 08└─The days of solely-fossil-fuel-powered are very, very limited now. There's just too many problems with them. But you have a point with all-electric cars being vulnerable to power outages. But this isn't something unique to electric cars: gas cars have the same problem to a degree. They're dependent...
[02:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is that electricity outages are more common and with the lower range of electric vehicles, don't have to last as long to cause problems. For example, in Yellowstone National Park, we have a pretty shifty grid. It's all above ground and bad weather routinely plays havoc with it. For exam...
[02:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:55] <exec> 08└─aka, "buttery males" (lol) if you don't get it, say it out loud and you'll get it.
[02:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 1734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:56] <exec> 08└─it exists, mostly affordably, IF YOU ARE EMPLOYED by a mid sized co or larger. if you are on your own, it can depend. when I was out of work for an extended period of time, in silicon valley, I qualified for free health care from the state. (I wish I knew this sooner! I stupidly paid COBRA for many...
[02:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, Ashkenazi jews fare significantly better than east asians. Lemme recall, which race was considered to be the worst not so long ago? But that was not even contemporary science -- they followed the likes of Mme Blavatsky rather than those who actually tried looking at data. It's mind-bogglin...
[02:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:40] <exec> 08└─I blame the Italians... because Fiat.
[02:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:43] <exec> 08└─So which one will know the difference between 'hire' and 'higher'?
[02:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:45] <exec> 08└─Those have nothing to do with intelligence.
[02:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 2028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:47] <exec> 08└─Jesus jumping Christ on a bloody bicycle. This is the last straw for me for cmn32480 as an editor. I never thought this place would start looking like a Storm Front forum. Only idiot racists want to believe that IQ tests actually objectively measure "intelligence". That's because idiot racists despe...
[02:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:49] <exec> 08└─And there lies the stark difference between intelligence and wisdom.
[02:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:51] <exec> 08└─... because blacks (as a whole) always score the lowest. Not like a little lower, but A LOT lower. Everyone knows that if IQ were not a racist measurement, blacks would score the same as everyone else. Do I have to explain the obvious?
[02:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:49] <exec> 08└─we have woken the beast, from now on it will make little difference how much CO2 and CH4 we emit ourselves :(
[02:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:50] <exec> 08└─Legislate one child per family for a few generations. Really.
[02:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:59] <exec> 08└─Thats not blood, you've just popped a zit.
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[03:29:00] <exec> 08└─Scientists are like magicians.
[03:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:10] <exec> 08└─Wow... What do you type in? M$ Word? And to think that you could publish your password 12345 =================================================== Autocompleted by SCROOGLE.COM ===================================================
[03:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:12] <exec> 08└─Doh
[03:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:15] <exec> 08└─They first implemented this as a script for google chrome and then they converted it mechanically to JS AND THEY EXPECT YOU TO TRUST THIS? I'm absolutely rolling. It's like a kid mounting a slingshot on his bike and calling it a weapons system, except he's cute, and this shit isn't.
[03:30:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:38] <exec> 08└─I scored 157 when I was teen, and where did that get me, I'm now a lousy AC on some no-name website that barely stays in business.
[03:33:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:29] <exec> 08└─Here we see the fundamental flaw in the liberal argument in its most refined form. Respect is not and should not be guaranteed anyone for anything. Tolerance is all you're entitled to. As in "I had to tolerate this guy who smelled like he shit himself on the bus to work today.". There is no amount o...
[03:33:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply. - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:45] <exec> 08└─Yup. Respect must be earned.
[03:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:56] <exec> 08└─There are some shenanigans going on. More and more of their webstack is running in linux. DotNetCore, Visual Studio Code, Kestrel web server, MS SQL, Roslyn compiler (think C#). I think you can host just about everything in linux now. Development still seems partially stuck in windows but there are...
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[03:35:47] <exec> 08└─Unless you're including Africa and Asia in that legislation, it'll be a waste of time.
[03:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:57] <exec> 08└─My quibble with "habitable zones" is: habitable by what? Too much heat for life? The undersea thermal vents have stretched that thinking. Too much radiation? Maybe for DNA, but maybe other structures thrive on it. I don't keep up with the latest star counts (and I suspect the old "what is a star?" q...
[03:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aliens May be More Like Us Than We Think - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:59] <exec> 08└─Dolphins... have no practical way of manipulating their environment
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[04:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryder Adds 125 Electric Vans to Its Fleet - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:47] <exec> 08└─According to https://ryder.com [ryder.com] they manage 234,100 vehicles. 125 electric trucks will be 0.00053 of their fleet, or if you prefer percentages, 0.053%
[04:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryder Adds 125 Electric Vans to Its Fleet - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:49] <exec> 08└─Fuel's one of their money maker.
[04:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Impact That Killed Off the Dinosaurs Quantified - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:01] <exec> 08└─Well, there's that old doozey courtesy of Arthur C Clarke - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - but in this case, I guess you can substitute technology for science. I guess with limited education or understanding, some of what scholars are discovering may come ac...
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[04:29:25] <exec> 08└─> The problem is that electricity outages are more common and with the lower range of electric vehicles, don't have to last as long to cause problems. Also takes longer to recover from: * If you have enough juice to get your e-car to power, then you have to spend time there while it charges. The fir...
[04:30:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 2662 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:14] <exec> 08└─IQ is a useful indicator of a person's potential. That is, IF IQ is accurately measured. Unfortunately, we don't have an accurate measure. No matter how smart you or I may be, though, that intelligences has little if any value in a situation where you lack any training. Take your typical disaster. S...
[04:34:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:16] <exec> 08└─> a little bit of grinding in the steering wheel when moving extremely slowly. That's a pretty usual sound for an F150, and easy to fix by turning on the right radio channel: it's the souls of environmentalists.
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[05:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:51] <exec> 08└─* continues to drone on the operations reports for the next 20 hours until it is complete without any distraction.
[05:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:53] <exec> 08└─Drove me to write this comment. Boredom Level Next: ✝👎🎅🔫💣💥💥💥💥💀🦊⛧ 🔺👽🐙🌏 𓁘𓂺 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 🇰🇵 > 🇰🇷
[05:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:25] <exec> 08└─160 IQ eh :D?
[05:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:12] <exec> 08└─From what price now to how much in the future? Policy costs increase around 5% a year here, costing at least $1000 a year for a person, more likely $2000 to $2500 for a mminimum decent plan to over $4000 a year.
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[05:30:13] <exec> 08└─http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/careers/dnc-white-men-shouldnt-apply-for-tech-jobs/news-story/7a220cd54fb904afae662663695fac05 [news.com.au] These days they even go so far as to tell people in writing that white males are to be excluded. Discrimination much?
[05:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:15] <exec> 08└─represen-titiesve government
[05:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:17] <exec> 08└─Your second point is the relevant and correct one. The first is a red herring that they'll cream their shorts if they can get you to believe.
[05:32:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:15] <exec> 08└─You can't trust Canadians or West Europeans to know what's good for US health. On the other hand, you can trust food supplement and vitamins manufacturers to claim anything they want about their products without studies, because they are good Americans with a Senator in the family, not evil pot push...
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[06:28:52] <exec> 08└─"I'm bored. There's nothing on YouTube."
[06:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:53] <exec> 08└─At least 400 hours of content is uploaded to YouTube every minute, including boobs [bbc.com].
[06:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:55] <exec> 08└─Kids this days aren't interested in boobs any longer.** --- ** Maybe with the remarkable exception of TMB. (grin)
[06:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Impact That Killed Off the Dinosaurs Quantified - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:15] <exec> 08└─As always, the dose makes the poison.
[06:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:30] <exec> 08└─Well into kindergarten I had to get some other five year old to tie my shoes. But that I am a genius is evidenced by the fact that I eventually figured it own on my own.
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[07:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:52] <exec> 08└─My HHS guy, @SecretaryCarson, says the Egyptians stored grain in the Pyramids. They knew "poverty is a state of mind." They were very smart cookies, and so is he!
[07:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:54] <exec> 08└─I mean my HUD guy. I really wanted him to do HHS.
[07:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:56] <exec> 08└─I saw the horror and unwholesome antiquity of Egypt, and the grisly alliance it has always had with the tombs and temples of the dead. I saw phantom processions of priests with the heads of bulls, falcons, cats, and ibises; phantom processions marching interminably through subterraneous labyrinths a...
[07:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:08] <exec> 08└─I have some serious boredom planned in just a few months. When you've been working 110% for a long time, it becomes really difficult to let go, to do nothing. Try to stop working and you feel immediately bored: "there's got to be something I need to do". Coming down out of a time a stress, boredom i...
[07:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Phone App That Listens to Your Car and Could Warn of Impending Trouble - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:56] <exec> 08└─The "car" is my Ford E350 15-passenger van, with the gasoline V8 engine. It's roughly 5 years old. At low RPM, there is often a continuous tone. It sounds a bit like a flute or clarinet. Well, probably a bass flute. It's kind of mid-range musical sounding.
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[08:28:58] <exec> 08└─grinning androsphinxes
[08:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:00] <exec> 08└─"Look, I know what the numbers say, but just assume we have enough stone in the budget for now and work out the details later. Worst case we leave a great big hole in the middle, and who'll ever know?" - Some Egyptian Project Manager, 4500BC
[08:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 1791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:02] <exec> 08└─I learned this in prison, from a white guy I called "Big Daddy", partly because he was big, but also because he protected me from all the other ass-rapers in prison, for the low cost of him ass-raping me on a regular basis, because white guys need to keep their DNA pure, even in a prison situation....
[08:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:15] <exec> 08└─“Imagine a world where we didn’t get bored,” Mann said. “We’d be perpetually excited by everything—raindrops falling, the cornflakes at breakfast time.”
[08:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:16] <exec> 08└─** Maybe with the remarkable exception of TMB.
[08:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Impact That Killed Off the Dinosaurs Quantified - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:38] <exec> 08└─it was the same size as the fish caught by the one-armed man: (Hold out one arm) "This big"
[08:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:05] <exec> 08└─Can you imagine a future where "gas stations" keep a generator on site for electric vehicles? I know it's just blue sky, impossible thinking but dig deep and stretch that imagination.
[08:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:44] <exec> 08└─Nah it was just an Edge case ;).
[08:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:45] <exec> 08└─Nowadays they've stopped making usable GUIs and started telling people to use PowerShell[1]. Sounds like the Linux bunch have taken over... ;) The Windows 9x UI was actually quite an improvement over previous stuff. Nowadays you need stuff like Classic Shell to make the newer versions of Windows tol...
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[09:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:53] <exec> 08└─apparently, it requires an always-on connection to Sony's servers to work, and that costs $26 per month, forever.. https://boingboing.net [boingboing.net]
[09:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:54] <exec> 08└─Seems nothing more than a disposable toy gimmick (just like the original)? The idea of a robotic dog has so much potential. Make it extensible, parts replaceable, hackable (as in writing new code for it), open source the code, add various accessories. Maybe collaborate with Boston Dynamics.
[09:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:56] <exec> 08└─Boston Dynamics is dead: SoftBank Acquires Boston Dynamics and Schaft From Google [soylentnews.org] https://www.google.com [google.com] Pick these guys instead: This Robotics Startup Wants to Be the Boston Dynamics of China [ieee...
[09:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:09] <exec> 08└─Flamebait mod? Oh dear, either a Domincan or an alt-rightie go here first.
[09:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:10] <exec> 08└─I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I’ve been challenged by so many people and I don’t, frankly, have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don’t win any mo...
[09:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:25] <exec> 08└─You do know that some men don't ever grow up** - from my vantage point, TMB is one of them. ** (if you don't know it yet, use a mirror, magister, have been quite a long time since your biological age was childhood - large grin)
[09:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryder Adds 125 Electric Vans to Its Fleet - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:35] <exec> 08└─But they will save on maintenance - those vehicles will only be in use a couple of hours per day!
[09:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:18] <exec> 08└─n/t
[09:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:19] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk has deep pockets, and Tesla has benefited from a hypegasm that drove its market value to over GM and Ford. There's also vertical integration with battery production and SolarCity, both of which strike me as more stable pursuits.
[09:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 2058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:52] <exec> 08└─So... again... such measures are culled from the news. And what's the alternative? What if you don't? What do you think 1 million people fixing their toasters rather than buying new toasters is going to do to the global energy usage / pollution creation? Would it even be measurable? I'm not sure it...
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[10:29:07] <exec> 08└─"Look, I know what the numbers say, but just assume we have enough stone in the budget for now and work out the details later. Worst case we leave a great big hole in the middle, and who'll ever know?" - Some Egyptian Project Manager, 4500BC
[10:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:12] <exec> 08└─EPIC DEATHMATCH!!! realDonaldTrump vs HP Lovecraft
[10:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:14] <exec> 08└─realDonald, are you saying we lose to Identity Christians on the Egyptian Pyramid industry? Or the other way around?
[10:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:16] <exec> 08└─C'mon! Donald against a guy who could put words into complete sentences? Not even a challenge! Not only can the Donald not wright, he cannot right, and worse, he cannot write. All this mostly because he cannot read! Reading is Fundamental, as some famous non-white person said.
[10:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:32] <exec> 08└─OMG. The Mighty Buzzard. If you change the initial letters, divide them by the relevant prime, and then head out for the brightest star, straight on till morning . . . TMB is Peter Pan, he does not want to grow up, he does not want to go to school (he has affirmed that several times), Just to learn...
[10:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, to just let go, and not worry that some inferior race might be gaining on you in your period of rest, that must be a blessing. Bless you, bradley13! May your white seed prosper! Heil Hitler!!
[10:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:36] <exec> 08└─OMG.
[10:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:28] <exec> 08└─It's the Trump of cars. When folks look for condos, hotels, resorts, or golf courses they look for the Trump name. Because it means the biggest and the best. Maybe, probably, the most expensive, but always the best. My motto is NEVER SETTLE. And when folks look for cars, they look for the Tesla name...
[10:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:07] <exec> 08└─My ISP is somewhat unique like that. Yours is most likely not and there would be no arguing that your commerce was entirely local. Like it or don't, the feds really are legally justified in regulating interstate commerce.
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[11:29:04] <exec> 08└─Make it extensible, parts replaceable, hackable (as in writing new code for it), open source the code...
[11:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:40] <exec> 08└─Oh, c0lo, you benefit so much from being able to post when the nattering nabobs of negativism (Americans) are asleep. Mirrors. Oh, yes, but a mirrors at my age only show how old I am, and are not terribly useful at showing how much I have learned over that same time span. But your Critique, oh Padu...
[11:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:42] <exec> 08└─So that means I should be motivated to do some cleaning tonight.
[11:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:20] <exec> 08└─I don't believe that is the only way - simply the simplest way for non-techs to get it done. I had a peek under the hood yesterday...and I have followed this software a year or so. The need for a phone is simply a way of getting connectivity. You materials stay encrypted on the device, no matter wha...
[11:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 3694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:38] <exec> 08└─So true. Our national parks are a DISASTER. #Infrastructure in horrible condition. We're raising the entrance fees. So we'll have money to rebuild. And Yellowstone may have oil under it. So we can open it up to our oil companies. They get the oil, we get the money, we rebuild the grid, your electric...
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[11:31:00] <exec> 08└─"which can slow down re-writes"
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[11:33:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, Ashkenazi jews fare significantly better than east asians. Lemme recall, which race was considered to be the worst not so long ago? But that was not even contemporary science -- they followed the likes of Mme Blavatsky rather than those who actually tried looking at data. It's mind-bogglin...
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[12:28:53] <exec> 08└─maybe the company is gearing up for a long term fight with Brazil and rights to the Amazon name? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[12:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:47] <exec> 08└─I sense has some other point? Out with it.
[12:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:27] <exec> 08└─I'd rather they manage to keep their F-Droid app up to date, as of yesterday it no longer works.
[12:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:45] <exec> 08└─Can you imagine the prices that a customer would pay for generator-based power? It's a lot cheaper to have a generator around to provide electricity for gas pumps, and a more involved matter to have a generator capable of handling a hundred electric cars an hour.
[12:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:47] <exec> 08└─Please run some very simple calculations to pick a size for that generator. How many cars will it charge at once -- the Tesla Supercharger near me has 8 bays and its own big transformer from the mains. If electric cars dominate, hundreds of bays will be needed (time spent at the charging spot is man...
[12:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:22] <exec> 08└─Then of course, the problem evolves to who is passing this legislation and how are they enforcing it?
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[13:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:51] <exec> 08└─"Do you ever just look up at the sky and wonder...what are normal peoples' ears shaped like, that earbuds stay in without falling out?" [xkcd.com]
[13:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:53] <exec> 08└─Most startups are the result of someone having a decent high-level idea while sitting on the toilet: "Hey! I'd love to tune out my wife's through-the-bathroom-door nagging about my need to get a job!" However, none of the important details are figured out up front, because, you know, "first mover's...
[13:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Cryptocurrency-Related Domain Names - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:02] <exec> 08└─This just makes me think that the real deal is indeed Bitcoin. The monied interests have realized they cannot control it. Invalid form key: bzRyiWLAaI
[13:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Cryptocurrency-Related Domain Names - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:04] <exec> 08└─From the "Ethereum" link: At ethereum's flagship conference, Devcon, project creator Vitalik Buterin revealed […] What he called a "modest proposal," […]
[13:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Cryptocurrency-Related Domain Names - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:06] <exec> 08└─Type faster, or stop using tor. And BJs are 0.0014 BTC for the first hour.
[13:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:14] <exec> 08└─By cooling down the high temperature steam sufficiently, they get additional (irrigation) water as well. Although it might have to be a tad purified first to be used for drinking or irrigation purposes.
[13:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:16] <exec> 08└─They're probably going to want to recycle that water for power generation. And if the power plant uses a more efficient water-cooled system for dumping heat to the outside world, it could be a net consumer of water.
[13:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:27] <exec> 08└─Hey, if people are willing to spend money on pet food for the life of the pet I'm sure they can justify spending it on a plastic pet too. Or at least that idea sounded good when they were high off their ass.
[13:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:45] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand why Trump (and Bush, etc) were/are so successful.
[13:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryder Adds 125 Electric Vans to Its Fleet - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:17] <exec> 08└─You mean that fucking dumb rule about returning the truck with a full tank when they give it to you with a 1/4 tank otherwise they charge you 2x fuel prices to "fill it up" (they don't). Or how about the rule of returning the truck clean otherwise face a $75 fine when the person before you clearly w...
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[14:28:54] <exec> 08└─Damn mobile links. Here's the link for those with big screens: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[14:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:56] <exec> 08└─This is my first time hearing about this, and I'm kinda sad about that - I'm the guy always talking about how we need a product like this. [soylentnews.org] So someone goes and builds it, and I'm completely oblivious. And a little upset that I'm only hearing about it now that it's gone. I'd be willi...
[14:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:58] <exec> 08└─Why is that better? The image is the same, and gets scaled to the same size.
[14:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:00] <exec> 08└─Google is trying to one-up [theverge.com] Apple's AirPods with real-time translation. Under $250. The future for this category of devices is looking better than ever, and if it's hackable, FDA medical device restrictions could be bypassed.
[14:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Cryptocurrency-Related Domain Names - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:11] <exec> 08└─I guess he didn't really want to suggest Ethereum was somehow like eating the children of the poor.
[14:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:20] <exec> 08└─&lt fable &gt Mankind finds crap in ground useful and so starts using it as fast as possible without considering whether there might be ramifications. &lt /fable &gt Where have I heard this story before? I haven't got a clue about the numbers, but has there ever been an environmental impact study do...
[14:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:22] <exec> 08└─When I heard satellites I imagined the microwave power from SimCity 2000. Maybe we could beam solar power into the volcanoes to turbocharge them.
[14:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:34] <exec> 08└─I always imagined that robot dogs should consume AA batteries in their mouth and drop the exhausted batteries out the other end in a squatting posture. They could beg for AA batteries. And do tricks.
[14:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:15] <exec> 08└─So, if you're not bored, you're excited by everything? No "yeah, that's okay"? No "interesting, kind of"? If I'm not bored, Im jumping on the couch like Tom fecking Crooose? I'm rarely bored. I can usually entertain myself. But am I excited allll the time? No. And I haven't jumped on the fecking cou...
[14:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Impact That Killed Off the Dinosaurs Quantified - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:39] <exec> 08└─It kept the patient from feeling pain.
[14:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:37] <exec> 08└─No your voice will not sound funny and how dare you make a joke out of this srs bznss.
[14:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Shipping 14 TB Helium-Filled Shingled Magnetic Recording Hard Drives - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:39] <exec> 08└─Former employee at an HDD company: 10,000 RPM burns too much power, customers prefer slower to more power hungry. Helium is kept in with laser welds. Yes, I'm unsure as Helium wasn't my thing, but it could actually be a catastrophic failure, hence the laser welds. I heard that same thing said of 1GB...
[14:31:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:48] <exec> 08└─What we need is some sort of representative of the people to provide a voice for the common welfare in our federal and state governments. Has such a system ever existed? Can an oligarchy of robber barons and investment bankers be motivated to move to such a system?
[14:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:59] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding me! Obamacare saved EVERYBODY! /sarc I had a private PPO before Obamacare that was pretty decent. A small deductible and no copay. Obamacare canceled it, and I was sent a threatening letter after that demanding I make payments on a different plan that was half the coverage at twice t...
[14:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:14] <exec> 08└─Since I already take (cheap, 40 year old) prescription NSAIDs, that might explain why it had little effect. I never have nausea because I avoid oxycodone. I suppose if either of my dr's thought I was having any trouble with occasional hydrocodone use, I would be looking for some alternative. Of cour...
[14:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:16] <exec> 08└─Yep. It is amazing that they wouldn't recognize the potential harm and have had better controls or prescribing instructions.
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[15:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:50] <exec> 08└─Would a drug that targets amyloid-β in the body be helpful in preventing the onset of Alzheimer's? Could the potential onset even be detected by screening for amyloid-β which TFA says is a precursor? The presence of amyloid-β and other factors could indicate to treat with drugs targeting amyloid-...
[15:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:51] <exec> 08└─How many hundreds of billions (trillions) of $ will be spent on targeting a-beta before this is over? No data or reasoning seems to put a dent in the enthusiasm for this idea.
[15:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:05] <exec> 08└─Am I dating myself by referencing that?
[15:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:06] <exec> 08└─if it's hackable, FDA medical device restrictions could be bypassed.
[15:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:29] <exec> 08└─While that's sort of true it's not like it's all leftover heat from earth's formation. Relatively speaking, the earth's crust isn't a particularly good insulator. Most of the heat is lost over time. However, the earth's core is constantly heated by radioactive decay. They balance out to the current...
[15:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:31] <exec> 08└─My hunch is that it's going to be orders of magnitude less than anything that could make a difference.
[15:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:33] <exec> 08└─https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1920x1080/p02c9kft.jpg [bbci.co.uk]
[15:29:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:44] <exec> 08└─Make it extensible, parts replaceable, hackable (as in writing new code for it), open source the code...
[15:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:48] <exec> 08└─never forget, never forgive https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:50] <exec> 08└─Then maybe, just maybe, the robot dog can sniff around the dropped batteries and put them back in its mouth. To make sure they have no juice left.
[15:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:52] <exec> 08└─Well, when I get high, the idea of forking over money to a megacorporation every month for the privilege of a toy I've already purchased and supposedly "own" continuing to operate sounds extremely unattractive.
[15:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:11] <exec> 08└─We may not win but you sure do whine.
[15:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryder Adds 125 Electric Vans to Its Fleet - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:45] <exec> 08└─I assume you get to see the condition of the truck before you sign for it. And if you committed to filling up, then why not do it? You're going to pay double otherwise. What they do to their next customer is irrelevant to you.
[15:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:17] <exec> 08└─Which one must assume at this point in time the OS is not. Android you should assume google can gain access to any crypto keys on your system. Windows 10 (or earlier versions with the telemetry backported) you can assume Microsoft can gain access to any crypto keys on your system. Any computer runni...
[15:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:38] <exec> 08└─People are betting long on this company. There's more than a few ideological folks investing simply because they want to see the EV revolution succeed. What I don't get is how Elon Musk has time for all this crazy stuff, even if his cult of personality is the reason any of these ventures got off the...
[15:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:22] <exec> 08└─the US is one of (or the only one) who ties health insurance to your job. we have never been able to break free from that since we started it all. fucking shame that we continue to overlook the main problem with our HI. remove the job tie-in issue and many others will solve themselves.
[15:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:41] <exec> 08└─Go back to drinking snake oil, moron.
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[16:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:48] <exec> 08└─This will persist until alternatives to the "tech giants" that start serving American interests begin cropping up to fill the niches the Europeans try to smash down. And these groups and companies will probably not care too much what Europe thinks, lest they lose their American audience that went to...
[16:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:49] <exec> 08└─The Big Corporations get a lot of their money from Big Governmental contracts, and special governmental treatment. A government is inherently anti-capitalist; there's no way I would voluntarily pay for the service of throwing people into cages for smoking a plant in the comfort of "their own" homes...
[16:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:51] <exec> 08└─Will then be dead.
[16:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:54] <exec> 08└─The Silicon Valley Question can be fixed with the Final Solution.
[16:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:03] <exec> 08└─I am currently watching my grandmother go through the stages of Alzheimer's disease as my wife and I caretake for her. After watching this I want to make sure that I am able to kill myself if I ever develop the kind of mental deterioration that comes with this (and other) diseases. As part of this a...
[16:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:05] <exec> 08└─To whoever downvoted, can you find one disease state where someone has looked for a link to amyloids and not found it? Amyloids are like the generic cold symptoms of diseases because it requires constant vigilance to prevent their formation (they are the lowest energy state for any peptide).
[16:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:08] <exec> 08└─An OS watchdog timer only works if the kernel itself hasn't become corrupted; I don't think it's possible for system to analyze itself effectively without a rogue component that has been designed to be as independent as possible from the rest of the system. I mean, there's a reason it's difficult fo...
[16:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:10] <exec> 08└─Along with a chorus of others, we have previously argued against the assumption that Aβ accumulation is the primary early pathogenic trigger of AD [4]-[8]. An unintended consequence of that assumption, which contributes to the continued failure of anti-amyloid clinical trials, is that affirmative d...
[16:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:12] <exec> 08└─Music Therapy. Insist that, should your mental condition deteriorate, your family and/or caretakers regularly play music and other media from back when you were younger and stronger. So for current old Geezers, this would be stuff like Louis Armstrong, Gershwin, perhaps some fifties and even sixties...
[16:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:27] <exec> 08└─The problem with this "bionic ears" idea is that it's really not comfortable to keep plugs in your ears for a long time. You can't use normal earbuds, because to filter out wind noise, for instance, like you mention, you have to completely block the ear canal. That means you needs something that fit...
[16:30:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:39] <exec> 08└─** Maybe with the remarkable exception of TMB.
[16:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:48] <exec> 08└─Its the alt-animal conspiracy. TMB will do anything it takes to protect animal rights even if it means the death of thousands of humans. Just the other day he was going out of his way to eat SanFran tier vegan free/fair trade beans with peppers. When offered he REFUSED to add bacon because it "hurts...
[16:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:50] <exec> 08└─Who doesn't love a good romp on the couch?
[16:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:37] <exec> 08└─Submitter quoted "a 40% increase in total radiative forcing" from the WMO press release.
[16:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:38] <exec> 08└─One might guess that that could be the intended meaning. Did you post the original critique? I don't have expertise in this topic, but I see that a December 2016 paper [wiley.com] in Geophysical Research Letters, which is peer-reviewed, also uses equations which have a square root dependence on the...
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[16:38:40] <exec> 08└─or cosmology :)
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[17:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:52] <exec> 08└─There is and was no free speech. You always end up paying somehow.
[17:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:53] <exec> 08└─Yep. Basically you can't have it both ways: a company can't have completely free speech because they're American and believe in that, and then also operate in Europe where there's more stringent limits. Pick one: either operate according to EU laws and limit speech, which means you need to silence a...
[17:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:55] <exec> 08└─No True Scotsman. The US likes to believe it practices "no holds barred capitalism", and claims to do so. I can't think of any other countries that make the claim that their version of capitalism is even more "no holds barred". Also, the US's drug war just shows that it's not a libertarian paradise,...
[17:28:57] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:58] <exec> 08└─Fuck Europe. I'm not European. SN is not a European company. They can suck a dick.
[17:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:00] <exec> 08└─ZuckerJew won't throw money away, he's Jewish. And besides that point, the goal of people like him is to foist European-style free-speech restrictions on Americans. He could state some bullshit like, "Well, we had to comply with European regulations and since we are an international entity we also h...
[17:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:02] <exec> 08└─Their problem is they do not only have users from every country, they are multi-national corporations so they can process in ads and sell user data in all those countries. Kinda hard to declare a countries laws do not apply to you when you have a state of the art data center and a big fancy skyscrap...
[17:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:04] <exec> 08└─I appreciate this. I am more than happy to have Europeans of all sorts comment and participating, but if there has to be an assumption of risk for allowing that, it should be on them. If their governments want to restrict their access to this or another site, I will (anonymously) support their effor...
[17:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:07] <exec> 08└─Have there been any court cases or any precedents set about this sort of thing? When you have a company like Google or some other MNC, then that company does need to follow the laws of any country that it as physical operations in. And companies like Google have physical locations in many nations. B...
[17:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:09] <exec> 08└─And they can, you know why? it's because they don't have government agents telling them what genitalia to have contact with unlike the big government amerikkka
[17:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:11] <exec> 08└─I'm also pretty sure SN is not a tech giant. Or did I miss something?
[17:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:13] <exec> 08└─across the EU, Google has for years been obliged to remove search results if there is a legitimate complaint about the content's veracity or relevance.
[17:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:16] <exec> 08└─You just don't understand that the donation meter is measured in millions of dollars
[17:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:18] <exec> 08└─Oops. Swap side and story. (Or don't! Do whatever you want! I don't care.) (Okay, I care a little bit.)
[17:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:32] <exec> 08└─You've been channeling my father's ghost. He got Alzheimer's and towards the end one of his joys was to take his urine bag and swing it around his head...at some point it usually broke.
[17:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:33] <exec> 08└─To whoever downvoted,
[17:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:50] <exec> 08└─Good point. I've personally made my peace with long-wear earplugs, having worked over a decade in industry with loud machinery; I forget sometimes how hard that hill was to climb. You're completely right that the system they use for blocking the ear canal will need a lot of careful design, and I'm p...
[17:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:51] <exec> 08└─It doesn't help that people have differently-sized ear canals, so you can't use a one-size-fits-all approach. The Etymotics earplugs I use for concerts, for instance, come in two sizes (small/large). I also remember having a Jabra cellphone headset years ago that came with several different rubber p...
[17:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:53] <exec> 08└─One of the best purchases I ever made was custom in-ear monitors. Costly as crap (because, among other things, you have to visit an audiologist to get impressions made), but worth it to have the noise isolation and perfect fit.
[17:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:18] <exec> 08└─Iceland are the current domain experts in getting power out of volcanoes. They do it profitably and usefully. But it depends a lot on just what the underlying strata are.
[17:30:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:25] <exec> 08└─apparently, it requires an always-on connection to Sony's servers to work, and that costs $26 per month, forever.. https://boingboing.net [boingboing.net]
[17:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:36] <exec> 08└─A victim of Googles ADD.
[17:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:37] <exec> 08└─You cannot forgive who does not feel regret in the first place.
[17:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:22] <exec> 08└─A for effort I guess.
[17:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:24] <exec> 08└─Those plants are not even your species, and I'm pretty sure their g-quotient is lower than the dumbest human. Probably shouldn't stop anywhere near the flower's neighborhood, no telling what might happen.
[17:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:26] <exec> 08└─"Imagine a world where we didn't get bored," Mann said. "We'd be perpetually excited by everything—raindrops falling, the cornflakes at breakfast time."
[17:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryder Adds 125 Electric Vans to Its Fleet - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:38] <exec> 08└─I've had rental trucks where they wanted it back at the same gas gauge reading -- start at half, return at half. Problem with filling it up is that truck tanks are often much bigger than car tanks.
[17:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:16] <exec> 08└─Pro-states when it's time to let states makes laws against muni broadband. Pro-small-gov when it's time to prevent states from making laws allowing muni broadband.
[17:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Wants FCC to Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:17] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai, my FCC guy, loves municipal broadband. But he says Title II, the net neutrality, has been holding it back horribly. So he's repealing that. I have no opinion on municipal broadband. It’s like the transgenders. It's a new issue and right now I just don’t have an opinion, but what I woul...
[17:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rose 0.82% in 2016; Methane Rose as Well - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:20] <exec> 08└─In my country, we have a saying, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. What it means is: when one insists on perfection, one may never begin a task, or may never finish a task one has begun.
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[18:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:48] <exec> 08└─So many industries are ripe for "disruption"; one of the most ripe is definitely the construction industry. Besides having a naturally slow iteration, the construction industry is virtually frozen by intricate, expensive, tedious regulations from city ordinances all the way up to international codes...
[18:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:50] <exec> 08└─So... subscription model for buildings? Something spurred by the record industry so that when asked a plumber or builder if they can expect to be paid repeatedly for their work they can honestly answer "Yes"?
[18:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:15] <exec> 08└─Require google to mod down on court order, and forbid real names on facebork or insist that all posts are private unless explicitly and individually marked public, require warrants to collect any personal information these companies hold, and require specific opt in for any personal information coll...
[18:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:16] <exec> 08└─There is and was no free speech. You always end up paying somehow. In Europe they censor to prevent World War 3. In the US we censor to protect corporate profits. It's illegal for me to tell you how to decrypt a DVD here in the land of reverential free-speech.
[18:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:18] <exec> 08└─Plenty of legal precedent. A U.S. corporation is only subject to U.S. law unless it creates legal presence in another jurisdiction. There are a very few things you have to worry about. If you have a customer type relationship with a foreigner it is on the customer to obey local law with very rare ex...
[18:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:20] <exec> 08└─Capitalism isn't a political system. It's an idealised economic system. Capitalism as a political system would kill people who weren't rich enough, productive enough (you got a serious illness?, off to the efficiency chamber with you), or expected to be productive enough (bad grades?, off to the eff...
[18:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:23] <exec> 08└─Well, that escalated quickly!
[18:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:25] <exec> 08└─lolwut Oh, oh, oh, I've got it. You're a homosexual man living in Texas, and you're frustrated by sodomy laws. I'm with you 100%! Government should not be in the marriage business, and it certainly should not be regulating people's sex lives!
[18:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:27] <exec> 08└─I was going to make a post about privacy laws and how I think those are a good thing, but obviously from the article that is not what they're getting at. "We want Facebook to be a hostile place for terrorists," Monika Bickert, director of global policy management, and Brian Fishman, counterterrorism...
[18:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:29] <exec> 08└─Anyway, back on topic: if a company doesn't like EU's non-free-speech laws, they don't have to have a presence in the EU.
[18:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:32] <exec> 08└─Fuck Europe. I'm not European. SN is not a European company. They can suck a dick.
[18:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:47] <exec> 08└─It sure feels like a downvote.
[18:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Cryptocurrency-Related Domain Names - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:19] <exec> 08└─Hey now! No need to bring the Republican tax plan into this!
[18:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:34] <exec> 08└─That is the way oil extraction started. Then we got better at it, exported it to other countries, and now we are extracting oil much faster than it is being produced.
[18:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:53] <exec> 08└─My wife really wants a dog but I know who will have to deal with the "foul end" of things. If someone came up with an electronic dog that was a close simulation of the real thing I would think about it. It would need to be walkable as that's sort of the point - something to walk with my wife when I'...
[18:31:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:01] <exec> 08└─My HHS guy, @SecretaryCarson, says the Egyptians stored grain in the Pyramids. They knew "poverty is a state of mind." They were very smart cookies, and so is he!
[18:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:14] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand why Trump (and Bush, etc) were/are so successful. Correct, if daddy is rich then reading is optional.
[18:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:15] <exec> 08└─Stay in character: never acknowledge reality.
[18:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:17] <exec> 08└─Wait....are you describing yourself? [wikipedia.org]
[18:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:20] <exec> 08└─EPIC DEATHMATCH!!! realDonaldTrump vs HP Lovecraft How's that gonna work? One's a bloated, decaying pile of meat. And the other's been dead for a while.
[18:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:48] <exec> 08└─You guys bored yet?
[18:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryder Adds 125 Electric Vans to Its Fleet - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:01] <exec> 08└─I assume you get to see the condition of the truck before you sign for it.
[18:32:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Asteroid Impact That Killed Off the Dinosaurs Quantified - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:09] <exec> 08└─We link to the peer-reviewed paper.
[18:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:35] <exec> 08└─Having used Signal, it seems to be tackling the bootstrapping issue with encryption uptake through a hybrid approach. Contacts not using Signal send you SMS messages in the clear, whereas those using Signal will send an encrypted message that seamlessly opens on your end. If you're on PC, such thing...
[18:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:57] <exec> 08└─One scenario not often mentioned is a regional power outage... Guess what powers gas-pumps....
[18:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Cracking Down on Unsubstantiated Cannabidiol Health Claims - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:02] <exec> 08└─What to you have against with liberal use regexs in my Java code ;)
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[19:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:48] <exec> 08└─The ladies are over-represented in the bio* fields. However, I bet those fields will take off in the coming decades.
[19:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:57] <exec> 08└─Buildings are surprisingly single use, particularly the wood framed buildings in North America. OSB, timbers, drywall, roofing all get sent to the landfill during demo. And the lifespan of these structures are measured in decades, so these materials will need to be disposed of in the near future. Mo...
[19:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 1926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:59] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure this idea is the answer to that. What in construction can really be reused anyway? Look at cars for comparison: can anything there be reused? Not really: everything is completely custom to that model, so parts can only be reused among cars of the same model and generation (car designs u...
[19:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:01] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly sure that concrete from commercial buildings is *already* recycled when those buildings are demolished. It can be broken up and used as aggregate for fresh concrete, perhaps in roadways or other applications not quite as high-performance as skyscrapers. Steel is readily recycled in all in...
[19:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:03] <exec> 08└─Who exactly wants to live in a house with any parts from a house that had reached the end of its useful life and had to be torn down? That would usually be 100 years after the donor house was originally built. Even the chalk in the sheet rock has probably become polluted by then. The wood (if any) i...
[19:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:06] <exec> 08└─You could re-use beams, interior wall panels, foundation corners, trusses, elevator-shaft components, etc. All it takes is good design and a will to standardize.
[19:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:08] <exec> 08└─Interior walls are usually drywall. You can't reuse that stuff; it's so brittle that attempting to remove it will fracture it. Plus it's cut to fit; there's holes for electric boxes, it's cut around openings, etc. The labor to try to reuse it would cost much more than just using a new panel. Reusing...
[19:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:10] <exec> 08└─Most other industries require cradle to grave tracking of their materials, and account for the proper disposal.
[19:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the last thing I want in a modern house is a bathroom from 1950. Those things were awful. And the toilets from back then wasted an incredible amount of water too, and the sink faucets leaked, plus everything was butt-ugly back then. And anything made of copper is definitely not trashed these d...
[19:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:15] <exec> 08└─Those new toilets are awful. They call them low flush. They're not low flush. The first flush, OK, it's less water. But you have to flush them two, three times. Flush, flush, flush! You do 2, 3 flushes and you're lucky if it isn't still a DISGUSTING mess in there. It's a lot of water, folks. Give me...
[19:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:17] <exec> 08└─You may be fairly sure, but in 90% of the cases, you are just wrong. It can be broken up and used as aggregate for fresh concrete
[19:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:50] <exec> 08└─so uh can you tell me what the european services were for email, search engine use, and social networking happened to be? maybe a character limited instant messaging service as well. if my history is correct, there were none of those things that mattered in the US and the people that had any of thos...
[19:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:52] <exec> 08└─Another day, another stupid post.
[19:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:54] <exec> 08└─No shit anyway I approve of their privacy policies, those europe people. they are doing more good for my privacy than republicans EVER did no matter who was in charge of which house. i am not saying democrats did it right, but they at least listened. the current administration and their incredibly a...
[19:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:56] <exec> 08└─You're both living a decade or two in the past. You can buttfuck your boyfriend till his colon falls out in Texas in $current_year.
[19:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:58] <exec> 08└─What, you think they go easier on the little guys who can't afford lawyers?
[19:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:01] <exec> 08└─Easy answer: let's say you're the boss of Yaceboogle, and you're worried about EU laws and US attitudes - or even chinese laws. Whatever. The answer is the same. Parent company in ... oh, say, the Caymans. Why not? Subsidiaries in all kinds of other countries, operating financially independently fro...
[19:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:03] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but that seems like it would fall afoul of at least some law.
[19:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:05] <exec> 08└─european here. thank you. please follow the laws of the country you and your server reside in. i am happy that I can connect to it from outside your country, and I hope I won't have to fight for the right to connect to it.
[19:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:07] <exec> 08└─Littering?
[19:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:09] <exec> 08└─If US companies doesn't want to have their "silicon valley goodness" spread to Europe that has almost twice the population of the US and instead go suck a dick I'm cool with that. If they want to peddle their warez in Europe they should adopt and adapt to European rules just like if they want to sel...
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[19:30:12] <exec> 08└─Individual freedom is much more important. Without the state's/corp's big money on our side we have to overcome censorship and ensure robust open access on our own. Doesn't seem to likely though, does it? Humans still do need a dictator to get things done.
[19:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:14] <exec> 08└─No, pretty much everyone's pissed off about Trump's boy's Internet decisions who's heard about them. Yes, even Trump fans. What, you think they're like Democrats and think their guy in office is some sort of holy priest?
[19:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:16] <exec> 08└─You'd actually be fine with your government setting up the Great Firewall of $state and don't think they'd abuse it once in place? I don't think I'll ever understand people who think like that.
[19:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:18] <exec> 08└─US server, US law should apply. ....
[19:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:21] <exec> 08└─>A government is inherently anti-capitalist; Industry-funded lobbyists ensuring capitalist-friendly laws get passed don't real... >there's no way I would voluntarily pay for the service of throwing people into cages for smoking a plant in the comfort of "their own" homes—you'd have to take my mone...
[19:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:23] <exec> 08└─>Capitalism as a political system would kill people who weren't rich enough, productive enough (you got a serious illness?, off to the efficiency chamber with you), Like what happens to people without health insurance? >Things like slavery would be just fine, as long as it's profitable enough for th...
[19:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:25] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying I'd be fine with that. I'm saying that if you want to sell your warez in Europe you adapt to the local laws just like European companies that want to sell their stuff in America adapt to the american ways and laws. If one doesn't like it then try peddling the stuff on one of the other...
[19:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:27] <exec> 08└─OMG!: Archy has joined SN! https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:44] <exec> 08└─"offer hope that future drug therapies might be able to stop or slow the disease without acting directly on the brain, which is a complex, sensitive and often hard-to-reach target. Instead, such drugs could target the kidney or liver, ridding the blood of a toxic protein [amyloid-β protein] before...
[19:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:46] <exec> 08└─https://i.pinimg.com/564x/2a/3a/66/2a3a6622fc0a2062ae6bf6e338de6f9e--family-guy-puns.jpg [pinimg.com]
[19:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Buys Cryptocurrency-Related Domain Names - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:17] <exec> 08└─or adjust your lame ass bullshit
[19:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:44] <exec> 08└─didnt someone say boobs earlier? i read this for the article but i am still disappoint
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[20:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:50] <exec> 08└─They didn't choose wrong, it's the patriarchy that is holding them back you anonymous cismale pig ...
[20:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:51] <exec> 08└─Difficult material to master. Requires dedication, motivation, willpower. When you do you are rewarded with long hours and difficult work. Also you will be given technical direction from MBAs. The people opting out to get into business, marketing, and management are the intelligent ones.
[20:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:53] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised at the assertion that CS pays more than EE. It seems commonly acknowledged (in the academic community, at least) that the hierarchy of desirability for nerdy, computer-like fields goes Electrical Eng > Computer Eng > Computer Sci. Smells like a bubble. Also, kudos for checking the wo...
[20:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:56] <exec> 08└─Back in the days, chem-e's had the highest average starting salary. The chem-e profession/training seemed more industrial/plant management than EE and ME - i.e., it was more technical management than product/process development. Maybe the oil business isn't what it used to be?
[20:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:58] <exec> 08└─Sweet jesus, get over it already. We aren't in an equal world just yet, expect people to keep pushing for equality with varying degrees of reasonableness. Don't let a small handful of overly zealous people turn you into an old codger with a nice lawn.
[20:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:00] <exec> 08└─Back in the days, the kids that couldn't hack it dropped out of EE/ECE and into CS. Those who couldn't hack CS would drop into business or some social science stuff. BTW, stop bitching about girls whining. It's bad enough girls are whining, don't need to add guys whining.
[20:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:02] <exec> 08└─Consider the following: Equality is the idea that all people are the same, with the same inherent ability. Diversity is the idea that all people have their own, unique strengths and weaknesses. If people are equal, and women are truly equal to men, and all races are equal, then what difference doe...
[20:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:05] <exec> 08└─When I started Caltech I was an astronomy major. I knew that I could only be appointed a professorship if some other astronomer died. Blarney from Kuro5hin is a PhD molecular biologist with oodles of experience. He couldn't get a job so now he teachers high school. One likely reason is that Blarney'...
[20:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:07] <exec> 08└─SPAM! [soggy.jobs]
[20:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:09] <exec> 08└─MBAs think out of the box. That's why they are so much more intelligent. STEMs thinking is too constrained by silly things like facts, reality and feasibility. (And sometimes legality.)
[20:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:11] <exec> 08└─If people are equal, and women are truly equal to men, and all races are equal, then what difference does it make whether an office is full of white men or black women?.
[20:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:30] <exec> 08└─Wood is perfectly find to reuse, especially if it doesn't have a bunch of holes in it from nails/screws. Even then there are certain permanent fillers you can use which are 'as strong or stronger' than the original wood, ensuring that the renailed boards are just as good as new, assuming no damage....
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[20:29:32] <exec> 08└─Serious question, I know that concrete emits much more CO2 than people think but anyone know of a site that has a comprehensive(or as close to as exists) list?
[20:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:24] <exec> 08└─"big government of bukake" FTFY
[20:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:26] <exec> 08└─Freedom for people is not relevant to any of these entities, violence, oppression and murder are the only objectives, in short Terror.
[20:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Woosh [6715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:28] <exec> 08└─It's not illegal to tell someone how to decrypt a DVD. It is illegal to decrypt a (copyrighted) DVD. IT Security classes teach about exploits to digital systems in order to train on prevention. As a software engineer, how can I protect a website from SQL injection without actually knowing what it is...
[20:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:30] <exec> 08└─No, it appears they believe he is a God Emperor, they probably envisage themselves as priests spreading the bad word and kicking immigrants in the nuts.
[20:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:32] <exec> 08└─I don't know of any other countries that are more libertarian (though a few are more lax on drugs).
[20:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number [wikipedia.org]
[20:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:37] <exec> 08└─The form was questionable, the content kinda accurate.
[20:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:56] <exec> 08└─Remarkably, rather than concluding that Aβ status is not a reliable marker for the early stages of clinical AD, a consensus has been reached in which clinically diagnosed AD patients without Aβ are classified as not suffering from AD.
[20:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:17] <exec> 08└─Do you think the bionic replacement will get rid of my tinnitus, too?
[20:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:46] <exec> 08└─Fractional distillation added to the process for pure water? This subject is not in any area of expertise I possess, but it seems possible. I can imagine there might be waste disposal/recycling issues, but it sounds feasible to me. I don't know for sure, but it seems doable.
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[20:31:48] <exec> 08└─Gadzooks! Meh, what could possibly go wrong. It's not like the sunlight wouldn't hit earth anyhow. ;)
[20:32:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rylyeh [6726] 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 766 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:16] <exec> 08└─I saw the horror and unwholesome antiquity of Egypt, and the grisly alliance it has always had with the tombs and temples of the dead. I saw phantom processions of priests with the heads of bulls, falcons, cats, and ibises; phantom processions marching interminably through subterraneous labyrinths a...
[20:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:32] <exec> 08└─Yes! The quote is from Imprisoned with the Pharaos [dagonbytes.com] Originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini - there are several death defying escapes as well!
[20:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:33] <exec> 08└─Clearly, both would summon monsters to fight for them. For HPL, I say a Shoggoth [wikipedia.org]. For Trump? Maybe Bannon? Roger Stone? Any ideas?
[20:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:36] <exec> 08└─Gotta go to White Plume Mountain [wikipedia.org] for the Gynosphinx...
[20:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:38] <exec> 08└─So now we have a US president, an undead philosopher and an evil city posting on SN. Talk about diversity!
[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Whisper Systems Releases Standalone "Signal" Desktop App - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─I distinctly remember a day in Kindergarten when I thought "I don't need to learn to tie my shoes, my mom does it at home, and I've got classmates here who will do it for me when necessary." It's not that I can't tie shoes (now), I just think it's an un-necessary waste of time and effort, so: https:...
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[21:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Files New Lawsuit Against Apple, Alleging it Shared Confidential Information with Intel - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:48] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't Apple just buy Qualcomm, at a premium, and then go about its business? Apple has the capital.
[21:28:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:57] <exec> 08└─They didn't choose wrong, it's the patriarchy that is holding them back you anonymous cismale pig ...
[21:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:08] <exec> 08└─anonymous cismale pig
[21:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:10] <exec> 08└─Not all people have the same ability. Even if they are the same color, or different colors. Some people are better at STEM. Others may be more skilled in other areas such as pontificating about French history or basket weaving. Others may be good at figuring out how to best skirt the spirit of the l...
[21:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:12] <exec> 08└─(To repeat an old post . . .) Taking an old saying, and exhaustively expanding it to its logical conclusion, I come up with the following: Danny's observed hierarchy of value. Those who can, do. Those who can't, become managers. Those who can't manage, teach on the subject. Those who can't teach, be...
[21:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:14] <exec> 08└─Ha. Ha! You really think STEM pays well because we work hard at it? LOL. First of all, STEM != Computer Programming. The latter is a lucrative subset of the former. Second, Computer Programming pays well because...the people that pay for it don't understand it. A programmer's productivity can't be m...
[21:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:16] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised at the assertion that CS pays more than EE
[21:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:18] <exec> 08└─If you're lucky, your managers and leaders up through CTO are people that got promoted because they were great developers, not because they sucked and it was a way to get them away from the code. I'm lucky. Most people in our field aren't.
[21:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:21] <exec> 08└─I'm not the OP, but I'm all for equality. It does seem very one sided though. All the advances in equality seem to benefit women. -- When can men opt out of a pregnancy? -- When will women get comparable sentences for crimes committed? -- When will divorce become more equitable? -- When can the men...
[21:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:23] <exec> 08└─We were told back in the early 2000's that our biochemistry degrees would merit us at least a $60,000 salary within five years. It hasn't exactly panned out that way. This new number looks more accurate. Like many other fields recently, the biotech companies expect assloads of experience in the fiel...
[21:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 1754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:25] <exec> 08└─Two problems with your ideas. First, sometimes damn good people get eliminated because of bad teaching material. When I was a senior in college, my dad tried to change careers by taking an introductory programming class at a local community college. I couldn't do his homework assignments after the t...
[21:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:27] <exec> 08└─s/If I attended a college were all of my classmates and instructors were/If I attended a college where all of my classmates and instructors were/
[21:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:29] <exec> 08└─You're right that the monoculture does work strongly in my favor. White Christian male. But I would like to think that even if it didn't, I would get along with everyone around me. But I've never had to test that. So while I'm usually comfortably pessimistic and cynical, in this case maybe I've allo...
[21:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:32] <exec> 08└─Your post leads me to wonder . . . Which will come first? 1. Man lands on Mars? 2. Male contraceptives?
[21:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:34] <exec> 08└─I don't know where this meme of programmers being paid more than engineers comes from. What are they doing, comparing software guys with 10-20 years' experience with entry-level engineers?! Do these bullshit statistics assume that the only people who studied computer science all go on to launch succ...
[21:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:36] <exec> 08└─-- When can men opt out of a pregnancy?
[21:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:38] <exec> 08└─Good luck getting a job right out of college. Nobody's hiring grads, even those who did internships. If you want an "entry-level job" then you need at least three years' experience with a job title directly related to your degree. I knew when I finally graduated last year that I was not going to be...
[21:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:41] <exec> 08└─The programs that pays students to take unpaid internships are doing them a disservice: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] ...
[21:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:43] <exec> 08└─Got a good friend who rakes in enough bank that he paid cash for a house and 40 acres last year. Works as a CE for a refinery. We don't talk money as a general rule but I'm gonna guess he's doing okay.
[21:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:45] <exec> 08└─People with degrees can join the military. Enlisted start out with extra rank with any kind of Bachelor's degree and advance much more quickly. Or they can become officers. If they study astronomy with a heavy physics component they may get a head-start in flight school. Military pilots are in very...
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[21:29:47] <exec> 08└─I knew that was all bullshit, I did my degree for accomplishment much more than for Muh Sheckels. Better to be a lowly technician and happy than an H1-B and treated like a rented mule on a daily basis.
[21:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:08] <exec> 08└─Google. And tie your shoes boy, you're old enough to do that by now.
[21:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:10] <exec> 08└─At best this stuff ends up being used for is Fill. (Building "pads" upon which new buildings are build. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I wasn't claiming that old concrete was broken up and used for new, high-quality concrete. But being used for fill is a form of recycling, and a good one at th...
[21:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Constructing Buildings with Reuseable Components - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that N00b but I was hoping for something with a little expertise vetting, I realize that is likely to complicated an idea or you, but it is only people...
[21:30:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 1112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:25] <exec> 08└─Yep. Basically you can't have it both ways: a company can't have completely free speech because they're American and believe in that, and then also operate in Europe where there's more stringent limits. Pick one: either operate according to EU laws and limit speech, which means you need to silence a...
[21:30:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 744 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:55] <exec> 08└─If US companies doesn't want to have their "silicon valley goodness" spread to Europe that has almost twice the population of the US and instead go suck a dick I'm cool with that. If they want to peddle their warez in Europe they should adopt and adapt to European rules just like if they want to sel...
[21:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:12] <exec> 08└─Most of the US "tech giants" have giant server- and datacenters in EUrope to server the European market.
[21:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:13] <exec> 08└─Hm, is that really how you all feel about EU regulations? Let's not forget that they're the ones that fought the good fight against Microsoft's browser monopoly and forced them to highlight other competing products. Sure, it's not a "free market" solution, but it's better than the very-much-not-free...
[21:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:15] <exec> 08└─The libertarian anarchist straw man is back!
[21:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:17] <exec> 08└─Why would someone complain about something that isn't relevant?
[21:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:20] <exec> 08└─just like European companies that want to sell their stuff in America adapt to the american ways and laws
[21:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:22] <exec> 08└─Canada also has anti-hate speed laws
[21:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:24] <exec> 08└─If you read my post that you replied to, it should be fairly obvious that I'm not actually advocating either the US's or EU's laws. I'm just pointing out that the laws may be in conflict, and companies have to follow the laws in jurisdictions in which they operate, and if that results in the company...
[21:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:44] <exec> 08└─lifelong habits(bad nutrition, etc) and pollutants that are causing the shit
[21:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:45] <exec> 08└─Get off Reddit, fake internet points shouldn't be affecting your mental health. Don't you know what kind of invertebrates inhabit the net??
[21:32:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arcz [4501] 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 436 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:30] <exec> 08└─While that's sort of true it's not like it's all leftover heat from earth's formation. Relatively speaking, the earth's crust isn't a particularly good insulator. Most of the heat is lost over time. However, the earth's core is constantly heated by radioactive decay. They balance out to the current...
[21:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Turn a Volcano Into a Power Station – With a Little Help from Satellites - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:37] <exec> 08└─Well, Iceland, [scientificamerican.com]and Hawaii [hawaiianelectric.com], and a few other places are using geothermal for power a long, and so far neither has frozen up. There is nothing new here other than the location. That heat was escaping to the atmosphere anyway, and having it run a toaster, a...
[21:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:57] <exec> 08└─I don't know that the batteries have any particular odor. Especially different brands. Even if so, is there tech to detect and classify such a battery odor? Then, would it be worth putting such tech into an inexpensive robot dog?
[21:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:59] <exec> 08└─If you can still be pissed off, then you can still ${ forgive | not forgive }. Regardless of the company being a despicably evil sociopath with no regret.
[21:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:01] <exec> 08└─Another factor to consider is vacation. Several times a year you must find someone to care for your (non robot) dog. With a robot dog, you could just switch it off and leave it home. Or take it with you, as long as hotels, airlines and destinations will permit robot dogs.
[21:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Discover Hidden Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:29] <exec> 08└─Just wait till the folks from the International Order of Thanateros [wikipedia.org] get here. That's when the Pandemonium at the Pyramid gets the loudest!
[21:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Impact That Killed Off the Dinosaurs Quantified - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:28] <exec> 08└─And all that refined sulfur laying around, just waiting to get hit? I note this is the same 66 million year ago event that was first diagnosed by the presence of larger than normal quantities of Iridium at a specific geologic layer. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] This...
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[22:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:27] <exec> 08└─Still, chem-e profession seems to go the way of nuclear engineering.
[22:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:28] <exec> 08└─I really didn't want to be in the Navy, however my father, his two brothers, their father and their uncle were in the Navy. Mom repeatedly urged me not to disappoint my father. So the captain that interviewed me asked "What do you want to do?" "I want to get a PhD in astronomy then do research" "We...
[22:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:31] <exec> 08└─I am utterly unable to even see where you're coming from on the second paragraph there. I, as a feather-not-dot indian, have never once felt excluded in any way by the people I've gone to school or worked with because of my race. Not anywhere in the country that I've worked at numerous blue and whit...
[22:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:33] <exec> 08└─The summer after my freshman year I had job doing data analysis for an astronomer. I was the third coauthor on all three of the papers we wrote. (We measured the ages of some globular clusters.) My friend Regan worked for several years for a UC Berkeley nutrition researcher, mostly dissecting rat in...
[22:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:35] <exec> 08└─You're thinking second-wave feminists. Third-wave feminists threw equality right the fuck out the window and want privilege instead. Anyone who disagrees, I suggest you attempt an experiment. You know, obtain empirical evidence on whether I'm correct or incorrect. Science, bitches. Suggest to a thir...
[22:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:37] <exec> 08└─But years later, it occurred to me that he hadn't suggested I be a reactor operator on an aircraft carrier. I would have been into that. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing there's actually a reason for that: the likelihood of you getting a carrier assignment was much lower than getting a submar...
[22:30:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:57] <exec> 08└─I don't know of any other countries that are more libertarian (though a few are more lax on drugs).
[22:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:08] <exec> 08└─This time the Nazis learned, it's not "Nineteen eighty four" but "Brave new world"... If you're not familiar with the books, go fix that tonight. There's a library close by.
[22:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:09] <exec> 08└─Put. Down. The. Kool-Aid.
[22:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:11] <exec> 08└─Ahh. Roger. Personally, I think Europe would blink first if their people were suddenly cut off from most of the top sites on the Internet.
[22:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:13] <exec> 08└─Why would I complain? If it's true, then I deserve to be called a moron. If it's not, then you deserve to be called a moron. Of course, the third option is that we're both morons, which I daresay is actually the most likely situation in the grand scheme of things. And at the end of the day, whoever...
[22:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:16] <exec> 08└─Monopoly regulations are not what concern me. Hate speech laws and such, however, do.
[22:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alzheimer's Disease: A "Whole Body" Problem? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:37] <exec> 08└─There doesn't seem to be any point of continuing to treat Aβ accumulation... that is the point.
[22:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Brings Back "aibo" Robot Dog - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:51] <exec> 08└─Another factor to consider is vacation. Several times a year [...]
[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryder Adds 125 Electric Vans to Its Fleet - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:04] <exec> 08└─What happens if you don't return it with a full charge?
[22:36:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bobs [1462] 02 - 06IQ of Nations - 3056 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:40] <exec> 08└─I was curious about the source for this article. Interestingly, they have an entire sub-section devoted to Race/ethnicity articles. I did find one with this counter example to the submission: TLDR summary: Being a world champion at Scrabble takes high order mental skills, People from African nati...
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[23:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:51] <exec> 08└─If you liked this article, consider sharing (tweeting) it to your followers.
[23:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:53] <exec> 08└─NNTP is the future.
[23:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the Web Was and What It Has Become - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:55] <exec> 08└─According to www.eternal-september.org it started dying in September of 1993. According to many of us, it started dying during the first dotcom bubble/crash between 99 and 01. Others might peg its death during the mid 2000s when all the current shit social media sites started their meteoric rise and...
[23:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Files New Lawsuit Against Apple, Alleging it Shared Confidential Information with Intel - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:05] <exec> 08└─...Apple requested confidential software information from Qualcomm and cc'd an Intel engineer on the message...
[23:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Qualcomm Files New Lawsuit Against Apple, Alleging it Shared Confidential Information with Intel - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:07] <exec> 08└─qcom takes its IP *very* *very* seriously. There is a lot of 'secret sauce' as it were. They have been through hundreds of patent battles. Their competitors have been known to patent things qcom already has then sue them for it. So yeah even the slightest hint of sharing and they would flip their sh...
[23:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Files New Lawsuit Against Apple, Alleging it Shared Confidential Information with Intel - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:09] <exec> 08└─Times like this, I wish the lawyers take both the litigious bastards to the cleaners. Get a few billions out of both them.
[23:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Files New Lawsuit Against Apple, Alleging it Shared Confidential Information with Intel - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:11] <exec> 08└─Times like this I wish the lawyers would butt out, and let Steve and Tim have at it, mano a mano. Much cheaper, much quicker, same odds of the party in the right coming out ahead. / that only works once // then some gym rat gets to be CEO /// and the geek gets to be the pseudo CEO
[23:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 2346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:57] <exec> 08└─When can men opt out of a pregnancy? Men never had that disadvantage to begin with, so it's irrelevant. However, I will add that there does seem to be a lack of research into male contraception. There is a very promising option being tested in India (and developed there I think) where they inject so...
[23:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:59] <exec> 08└─So you're uncomfortable around people with different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds? That's the problem, not that there's a lot of white guys in tech. There are lots of white guys in America, and it hasn't been that long since a computer cost several months wages for most people.
[23:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:01] <exec> 08└─Submariners have to breathe recycled farts through the scrubbers, and as in a prison environment even as formerly straight men submit to gay sex. As the old submariner joke goes, "10 submariners go down, 5 couples come up" Now that's camaraderie. As for carriers, comparing the environment of carrier...
[23:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t) - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:03] <exec> 08└─https://pmc.gov.au/resource-centre/domestic-policy/going-blind-see-more-clearly-unconscious-bias-australian-public-services-shortlisting-processes [pmc.gov.au] Actually blind hiring results in LESS women getting selected than hiring with names attached. There were some similar studies by other unive...
[23:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:37] <exec> 08└─In Europe they censor to prevent World War 3.
[23:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:38] <exec> 08└─And at the end of the day, whoever is right will prevail.
[23:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US Tech Giants May Find Their Future Shaped by Europe - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:41] <exec> 08└─You may be surprised how fast those services will be replaced by local clones. Look at yandex and the like. I know for a fact many apps have clones in the language of their country - happens a lot in my country of origin. They won't have zillions of subscribers, won't ever go global, but they do cha...
[23:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Boredom Does to You - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:16] <exec> 08└─Oh jesus we can unicode here? Why is slashdot such a neglected clusterfuck? They won't ban creimer even though he talks about marrying little girls... a clusterfuck of annoying regex filters that won't let you post for looking like ascii art or using too many caps or... who knows? Then there is t...
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