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[00:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:03] <exec> 08└─Sleep deprivation's not good long term, at least not for me. But if you're depressed, it can prompt an immediate improvement in mood, and in cognitive abilities. But, Benedetti adds, there's a catch: once you go to sleep and catch up on those missed hours of sleep, you'll have a 95% chance of relaps...
[00:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:05] <exec> 08└─Time to sleep;
[00:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:07] <exec> 08└─I wrote about it in 2003 [warplife.com]. I'm puzzled that this wasn't a solved problem fifty years ago. I have hypersonia when I get depressed. I have insomnia when I'm manic. "When you're not sleeping, it's an emergency." -- a witch doctor I once consulted. I once called 9-1-1 and asked for an ambu...
[00:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:09] <exec> 08└─It's better than drugs, and you think sideways and come up with great stuff. I always enjoy going 2-3 days without sleep
[00:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:11] <exec> 08└─(elevated and somehow irregular pulse)
[00:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:14] <exec> 08└─But brilliant solutions you come up with and write down during a sleepless night make absolute no sense the next day.
[00:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:16] <exec> 08└─Paracetamol, you mean? It makes me conscious I have a liver.
[00:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:18] <exec> 08└─Yep, take nicotine away from me and... you don't want to know. But when it comes to sleep, I think that the big problem are fixed schedules. What works for me is light. In summer, when the days are long, I don't care about sleep much, I can wake up with sunrise at 3:15 in the morning and feel fine....
[00:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:20] <exec> 08└─One or two a month certainly won't hurt you as much as the anxiety keeping you awake.
[00:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:35] <exec> 08└─Before I became homeless I used an elaborate spreadsheet to budget both my business and personal budgets at the same time. I'm not doing that again yet as I am working on a fixed-bid contract. I'm getting better with time but when I started here a year ago I was dismayed to discover that all my codi...
[00:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:37] <exec> 08└─This one has some hope of working, but realistically, it's backed by gold and has all the previous downsides of operating with gold. On top of that, there's the downsides of dealing with cryptocurrency as well. Still, this is a huge step forward from BTC.
[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:39] <exec> 08└─I can buy and sell gold instantly at the drop of a hat, my bids and offers are confirmed, cryptographically signed, instantly as soon as a match is made. I know it is in the vault because there's such a thingas an independent audit, one I can peruse myself at any time. This is just another inane "bu...
[00:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:41] <exec> 08└─Why not set host files to 0? 0.0.0.0 pixel-tracking-whores.com # Humanz who sell bodily functionz for ca$h yeh
[00:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:43] <exec> 08└─most of the sites that provide hosts files that blackhole malware have both kinds: a hosts file with 0, and a hosts file with 127.0.0.1. If I remember correctly 0 works well on Windows, but on Mac OS X it is a broadcast address. Or something like that. My memory as it always is hazy.
[00:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:46] <exec> 08└─All true. But if I was the crooked vault operator I'd mint coins made with a cheap metal and a thin gold plating and replace real coins with these fakes with identical serial numbers. The coins could change hands (well, digital wallets) many times before anyone would catch on.
[00:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:48] <exec> 08└─I don't know the Perth Mint's stated reason for doing this (because, let's be honest, I read nothing but the summary here), and I also don't know their actual reason for doing this (because I'm just an anonymous coward who, living on another continent, is not privy to the machinations of the Perth M...
[00:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:50] <exec> 08└─NO! This will attract both the techie cool libertarian types that love crypto-currant sea, and the old school survivalist neo-nazi goldbugs. Win-win!
[00:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:07] <exec> 08└─The reversing camera in my car turns off when you drive over a certain speed. I am not sure what speed, as I have not been looking at the screen or the camera when it has happened - it was reported by my passenger.
[00:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:37] <exec> 08└─The quality of trolling around here is pretty awful these days.
[00:19:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:02] <exec> 08└─You remember what happened in years past when these tariffs were imposed on imported automobiles? No, I don't. Probably since it never happened. [wikipedia.org]
[00:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:23] <exec> 08└─Riddle me this Batman: why is he so hell-bent on wasting billions of dollars on an ineffectual wall?
[00:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is the Mobile Data Capital of the World - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:34] <exec> 08└─That may have been true in the early 90s, but changed with the foreign invasion. Stuff like modern trashy MTv.
[00:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:32] <exec> 08└─very similar word tough
[00:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:33] <exec> 08└─Have any hair left, Grandpa?
[00:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Screen-Addicted Teens are Unhappy - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:35] <exec> 08└─I wasn't going to mod because I haven't been here much lately, but you made me. You comment deserves a 5.
[00:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:41] <exec> 08└─you have not lived until you have read my latest journal: An NSFW Review of Portland's Oregon Theater [soylentnews.org] You can expect me to be there every Saturday evening until the heat death of the Universe.
[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:45] <exec> 08└─There's a Muslim no-go zone by me called Dearborn. I head over there every now and then since the only decent arcade around any more is in the vicinity. They always let me in no problem, and often they'll even sell me delicious food. Now, Christians otoh. We have a big no-go zone around Holland and...
[00:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:46] <exec> 08└─Put up every racist, and pro neo-nazi, comment into the court record as evidence of his bias.
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[01:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:03] <exec> 08└─The payment service, Stripe, has ended its support for Bitcoin... So Bitcoin is over as an experiment
[01:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:05] <exec> 08└─The fact people are willing to pay $30/transaction shows that bitcoin is here to stay. Unfortunately it's priced out micropayments, for now. Lightning might help. Another reason bitcoin wont die: As people abandon bitcoin there are less transactions, thus less transaction fees, thus more people will...
[01:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:07] <exec> 08└─What are people buying where a $30 transaction fee doesn't matter? Illicit drugs/weapons? Or just speculating on the value of Bitcoin going up?
[01:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:22] <exec> 08└─One or two a month certainly won't hurt you as much as the anxiety keeping you awake.
[01:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:24] <exec> 08└─I'm puzzled that this wasn't a solved problem fifty years ago. Well the article did mention that there isn't exactly a lot of research funding available for testing this stuff, since there's nothing to patent and no drugs to sell. Maybe some "sleep centers" should fund the research so they can expan...
[01:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:26] <exec> 08└─My degree is in Physics but I've been working as a coder since my Junior year back in the Pleistocene era. This because I knew lots of coders - SCO was once really in Santa Cruz - and they all worked at night. I decided that becoming a coder was my only hope for getting a real job. I often sleep thr...
[01:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:28] <exec> 08└─Yep, take nicotine away from me and...
[01:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:31] <exec> 08└─Back in 2009 I determined that I could stay awake and work for four days at a time. I knew when it was time to go to bed because I had subtle visual hallucinations. For example one time my bathroom rug was sparkling, another time my bedroom window screen looked like an animated Mondrian painting. I...
[01:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:33] <exec> 08└─Taking drugs for anxiety is asking for trouble. Unless you've got extreme anxiety and need the pills in order to get treated, it's a very, very bad idea. Anxiety exists for a purpose, if you haven't been taught how to manage it without the pills, you're just masking it over. Anxiety is one of the ar...
[01:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:26] <exec> 08└─I have to disagree, the Chicken Tax is one of the biggest examples of tariffs in the USA since WWII. With a 25% tariff on light trucks, foreign (and domestic) automakers have done a lot of odd things to circumvent the tax beyond manufacturing domestically. For example: Ford manufactured the Transit...
[01:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:28] <exec> 08└─ultracaps - worst Wh/$
[01:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:30] <exec> 08└─While 12V is safe from electrocution, the chances of fires due to insufficiently thick wires and/or improper connection leading to shorts are higher.
[01:20:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Internet Use at Home Soars to Over 17 Hours Per Week - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:57] <exec> 08└─Why don't anyone go outside and play?
[01:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:52] <exec> 08└─SCOTUSblog usually is a good place to find coverage of this stuff (and links to more official documents on cases). I assume this is the case in question [scotusblog.com], with all the technical stuff you might want at the SCOTUS level, several articles of commentary, and links to other related docum...
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[02:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:07] <exec> 08└─What are people buying where a $30 transaction fee doesn't matter? Illicit drugs/weapons? Or just speculating on the value of Bitcoin going up?
[02:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:08] <exec> 08└─Another reason bitcoin wont die: As people abandon bitcoin there are less transactions, thus less transaction fees, thus more people will use bitcoin.
[02:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:10] <exec> 08└─For any one that still reads Cringely, today's column is about Bitcoin, here is a cutting from the middle of the column: This is what makes Bitcoin a horrible investment but a wonderful trade, because there is money to be made in that inevitable volatility. Not only will what goes up come down again...
[02:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:13] <exec> 08└─but the "Bitcoin experiment" has a market cap of almost 200 billion dollars. With a "B."
[02:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:56] <exec> 08└─There are currently no precious-metals backed currencies, crypto or otherwise. The country or company that creates one and resists the siren song of debasement will make a great deal of money. If Perth Mint does it in an open and transparent way with irreversible immalleable transactions and offers...
[02:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:57] <exec> 08└─If this scales to any size at all, there are going to be a *lot* of vault operators...just say'n...
[02:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:15] <exec> 08└─Likely around 15-20km/h, (9-12mph) possibly even as low as 10km/h No one was shouting "Aaargh"
[02:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:34] <exec> 08└─Also... just like the mains... proper fusing and loading is very easy to set up. If you're running a charge controller (and if you don't, you're nuts), they usually have a properly current-limited output you can use, too. Which also provides usage monitoring and the like.
[02:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:49] <exec> 08└─Oh, dear, c0lo!
[02:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think Desktop shares tell the whole story.
[02:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is It Time For Open Processors? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:52] <exec> 08└─Have you tried a VM with the OS that Civ II wants running in it?
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[03:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:04] <exec> 08└─"In 2016, a driver was killed after both he and the Tesla systems missed a lorry pulling across the highway. " Ah, so this was in Britain, was it? "A subsequent investigation by the US National Transportation Safety Board found the driver was speeding and had been warned by the car six times to keep...
[03:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:05] <exec> 08└─The Register is British and fond of using these sorts of terms. For example, there are boffins all over the place. I doubt you will have much luck repelling this dastardly act of British imperialism.
[03:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:07] <exec> 08└─"... although Powell noted ..." Mention who the fuck Powell is before describing what this Powell did. Didn't you learn anything from school?
[03:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:10] <exec> 08└─Here I presume that the driver said the truth and the autopilot was engaged. But how could it be that neither the bag of salty water nor the box of silicon shards could see a fire truck with all lights on? Most importantly here, why the Tesla's autopilot is so bad? Perhaps we (the humanity) want to...
[03:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe you'd like to submit a story to SN, Mr/Mrs. peanut gallery.
[03:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:25] <exec> 08└─I was going to say SN subscriptions aren't illicit but then I thought better of it.
[03:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:27] <exec> 08└─It's much better to give SN extra dollars than to invest them into the heat death of Earth.
[03:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:49] <exec> 08└─Having a 30% federal incentive, and a 30% federal tax is quite amusing, give with one hand take with the other.
[03:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:50] <exec> 08└─Not so sure about that...stuff I've washed in Euro machines took a long time and didn't seem all that clean, when compared to my ~25 year old Kenmore (made by Whirlpool). When my Kenmore water pump failed (leaking) it was a $15 part from Sears Parts. With help from a YouTube video I replaced it in h...
[03:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:52] <exec> 08└─A wall built with dead Whirlpool washers manufactured in Mexico.
[03:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:54] <exec> 08└─Sort of. But the ultracaps probably won't need to be replaced in my lifetime.
[03:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is the Mobile Data Capital of the World - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:06] <exec> 08└─They simply wrote right to high speed total availability Internet into their laws back in 2009; now they harvest the results. There are other famously successful socialist style pure Finland inventions such as a newborn box, which has everything a kid needs (all of them initially sleep in that same...
[03:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:27] <exec> 08└─Yamaha has sold remotely piloted helicopters for crop spraying for many years, https://www.yamahamotorsports.com [yamahamotorsports.com] History of Use Yamaha has been operating remotely piloted helicopters for commercial purposes since 1991 and has amas...
[03:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:13] <exec> 08└─Most people seem to think this decision is past tense and set in stone, but mark my words. That's a discussion we, as a society, are going to have to retread. At present, very simple math can tell you that the average person dying uses hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical care. The average pr...
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[04:17:02] <exec> 08└─...someone imagined a Beowulf cluster of these? :)
[04:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:03] <exec> 08└─I've got something running right now that could parallelize very nicely, but each instance needs about 4GB of RAM. No Pi cluster for me. An AWS EC2 t2.medium would do the job, but... $0.0464 per hour per instance, I'm currently running at 1/36,000th real-time - so 36,000 parallel instances would be...
[04:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:15] <exec> 08└─It's pretty obvious that Powell is the fire crew chief. Sapienti sat.
[04:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:17] <exec> 08└─Seems pretty obvious to me, no one trained the "AI" to deal with an emergency vehicle stopped in the HOV (carpool/hybrid/EV) lane. Just another example of Tesla using its customers for beta testing, nothing to see here, move along please...
[04:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:19] <exec> 08└─Doesn't necessarily require LIDAR. If safety stats are better than human, the technology should be allowed. If it's worse than humans, it needs more development.
[04:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:21] <exec> 08└─Autopilot engaged. Brain disengaged. Car totalled.
[04:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:23] <exec> 08└─It does seem to me that the most likely explanation is that the autopilot was not, in fact, engaged at the time. Not having a Tesla, I don't know under what conditions it might disengage the autopilot, but I have a vague recollection of giving off a bunch of beeps before doing so. Perhaps those beep...
[04:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:25] <exec> 08└─In my younger years, there was an urban legend about the operator of a motor home who set the "cruise control" and walked back into the kitchenette to make a sandwich. The vehicle crashed, of course. (Labeling it "speed control" would make it less prone to an erroneousness judgment of the device's c...
[04:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:25] <exec> 08└─If you don't have physical possession of it you don't really own it.
[04:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:27] <exec> 08└─Except: - you describe transaction between you and the vault operator and... - ... do not account for transactions in which your transfer part of you certificates to a third party without the vault operator to be involved (to auth the certificate and record the new ownership)
[04:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:08] <exec> 08└─its for his base. the racists love that shit. that's the only people that like it. that, and the construction crew. yeah, total fucking waste of time and money, but we don't have a rational person in the WH, we have the worst of the worst. truly a 'bad hombre' is running things now.
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[05:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:05] <exec> 08└─There are better options than the rpi. Yes, the community is the best for the raspberry pi, but if you are building a cluster you know what you are doing. I've promoted ODROID as an alternative to the Raspberry Pi here before. The software support is good and the hardware qualty is great. Recently t...
[05:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:06] <exec> 08└─At least you know its secure and its bootup sequences aren't tainted with some special interest's wish list.
[05:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:09] <exec> 08└─At least you know its secure...
[05:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:11] <exec> 08└─Huh? You do? Don't these things rely on blobware drivers?
[05:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:13] <exec> 08└─I had thought these things operated as some kind of Single System Image backplane, just extremely slow, due to the Pi I/O bus. It turns out all they fucking are is a power/ground plane PCB with a bucking power supply on the end for connecting 4 RPis side by side on. The Uno has i/o header access and...
[05:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:15] <exec> 08└─Since these boards are just power supply backplanes for the RPis, as long as the Rock64 pins allow power off the expansion header you can plug four of them on the Quattro board same as an RPi, giving you a much higher memory alternative to the Pi, and at 45 dollars per pop not including shipping, th...
[05:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:33] <exec> 08└─The moon matrix tells us that Elon Musk is a murderer, and it's sheer luck one of his gadgets didn't kill multiple people here. Better be careful sitting on the same couch as the Musky One. He'll grab you by your whatever! His launch vehicles will cause manufacturing defects in their payloads! (Oh,...
[05:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:35] <exec> 08└─"Sapienti sat." Mention who the fuck Sapienti is before stating whether this Sapienti is sitting or not. Didn't you learn anything from the "but who was Powell" situation?
[05:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:21] <exec> 08└─Then there's this part http://www.foxnews.com [foxnews.com] The US is apparently serious about bringing the solar industry back on shore.
[05:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Will Rule on President Trump's Muslim Travel Ban - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:47] <exec> 08└─Where do you live? I visited the social security office last week and there was... only a door.
[05:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Comes Up With a Unit of Time: The "Flick" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:37] <exec> 08└─The problem being so many different incompatible standards... (Note, this new standard isn't compatible with NTSC timings, lacking 11 and 13 as divisors.))
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[06:17:04] <exec> 08└─I have heard it was supposed to last 12 seconds. Seems to be a few seconds shorter than that.
[06:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Conducts Successful Static Fire Test of Falcon Heavy - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:05] <exec> 08└─That's ok. The video was long. It was 32 seconds. It looked like the engines fired for about 3
[06:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, so right... Caught me making yet another assumption... that Raspberry PI is completely understood outside some corporate environment which jealously guards some of the inner code... blobs... I do not mind it being copyrighted as much as I mind being kept ignorant of its intentions and what it...
[06:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:22] <exec> 08└─You can read about an open firmware http://crna.cc [crna.cc] but it's not done yet. And if you check the commits https://github.com [github.com] it has been untouched for over half year.
[06:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:24] <exec> 08└─Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer [soylentnews.org].
[06:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:59] <exec> 08└─And like good tools, they perform a specific function very well — reliably transferring value between parties without those parties having to meet or even know each other.
[06:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:00] <exec> 08└─> The fact people are willing to pay $30/transaction shows that bitcoin is here to stay. Have you not noticed that this is a "people are not willing to pay $30/transaction" story?
[06:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:49] <exec> 08└─But that's not the problem. I want the vault involved - that's what I'm paying them for. I don't want to take delivery - I don't want the gold to lose its certified Fine status (again, audited), and secure delivery would be about 10 storage (including insurance) fees. My way's better in almost every...
[06:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:50] <exec> 08└─A better criticism of my preferred method would be "auditors have proved themselves to be incompetent and even criminally negligent in recent decades, your trust is misplaced".
[06:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beats Wall Street Expectations on Subscriber Growth, Reaches $100 Billion Market Cap - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:16] <exec> 08└─Market capilatisation is nothing to do with any intrinsic value of a company, it's simply a reflection on what now-mostly-speculative traders (with P/E of 100, you can't call these "investors") believe the future share price to be (namely higher).
[06:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want a Healthier Population? Spend Less on Health Care and More on Social Services - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:55] <exec> 08└─Well I guess I have declined about as far as I am going to, at 2307 years old.
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[07:17:04] <exec> 08└─And also to all the established and aspiring writers for whom she was a mentor. There was an article linked either here or on the green site within the past year detailing both her personal writing struggles and accomplishments, as well as her lengthy tenure mentoring others, including running writi...
[07:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Conducts Successful Static Fire Test of Falcon Heavy - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:13] <exec> 08└─I was privileged to watch a shuttle landing at Edwards and a night shuttle launch from KSC. I so badly want to hit the road, end up with my toes in Atlantic sand, and watch and feel 27 engines disappear into the distance. It seems only yesterday that SpaceX was a laughingstock, blowing up evey rocke...
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[07:17:50] <exec> 08└─I’ve watched people and I study people and I had, in particular, a great tutor on this, but I look and I see what it does to people when they lose control, and a lot of times they lose control. With alcohol or with drugs. A guy drinks too much and you have something HORRIBLE. Like Ted Kennedy. Lik...
[07:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:52] <exec> 08└─You could, but it probably wouldn't do any good. The eds wood just reject it, or worse, accept it and then bury it in their own private limbo of hostile user subs. Besides, everyone knows that Mr. Powell is the guy that saved the shark from the Telsa with a drone off of Lummox head, in New Northwest...
[07:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:54] <exec> 08└─Well, since the car crammed itself under the firetruck, it's possible that the box of silicon shards missed it simply because to was too high and therefore out of whatever height range the cameras/lidar/etc. are set for. As for the bag of salty water, there are oodles of possibilities: chemical impa...
[07:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:12] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin was supposed to be a payment system. See the original paper linked in the summary. However, with high transaction fees and intolerable delays in confirmation, it cannot be. What you are seeing right now is not payment but speculation. Ditigal pogs or beaniebabies. I should have written more...
[07:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:13] <exec> 08└─"So the smart trader knows never to hold Bitcoins" If Cringely doesn't even know the lingo, then his arguments probably don't hodl much water.
[07:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:15] <exec> 08└─This is all because Bitcoin and similar currencies aren’t currencies at all but financial instruments. They are tools just like options or derivatives.
[07:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I come up with brilliant ideas when tired. Until I revisit the code the next day and tear my hair out.
[07:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:39] <exec> 08└─It actually makes sense. Depression is inability or not think about bad thoughts. It's inability to concentrate on the positives, so you keep thinking about some negative crap. I know, it happened to me. Now, sleep deprivation tends to kill your brain, or at least your ability to think clearly. So i...
[07:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:08] <exec> 08└─But that's not the problem. I want the vault involved
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[08:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:00] <exec> 08└─Women in Sci-Fi and Fantasy has been a thing, in recent years. Ursula was my first female author. I asked myself a time or two, "Isn't Ursula a girl's name?" I wasn't certain, but didn't care - if the story was good, that was all that mattered. After a couple of her stories, I went to the trouble of...
[08:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:02] <exec> 08└─What was that!? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! A fraction of a yoctosecond. That was all the time it took for my disease-ridden, fetid little friend to shoot itself right into your rancid asshole when you weren't paying attention. Now then, let's get this mythical feces fiesta star...
[08:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:04] <exec> 08└─"Isn't Ursula a girl's name?" Latin, diminutive form of Ursa, hence 'little she-bear.' Semantically equivalent to 'ursa minor' in a sense, you mean when you found her you didn't immediately pun on the constellation?
[08:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:06] <exec> 08└─Semantically equivalent to 'ursa minor' in a sense, you mean when you found her you didn't immediately pun on the constellation?
[08:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Conducts Successful Static Fire Test of Falcon Heavy - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:17] <exec> 08└─The video was long. It was 32 seconds.
[08:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:40] <exec> 08└─I had subtle visual hallucinations. For example one time my bathroom rug was sparkling, another time my bedroom window screen looked like an animated Mondrian painting.
[08:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:42] <exec> 08└─Somebody kindly file a bug. Yes it's minor but still a bug.
[08:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:00] <exec> 08└─the EU views offering a bribe *and* accepting a bribe as corruption,
[08:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:02] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. If there's no penalty for offering a bribe then you might as well offer one every time in the hope that you are dealing with someone corrupt enough to accept it because there's no penalty for not doing so. If both are illegal then every time you offer a bribe you run the risk that the inte...
[08:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:59] <exec> 08└─This is free trade, USA style.
[08:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half a Terabyte in Your Smartphone? Yup. That's Possible Now - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:20] <exec> 08└─No such thing and I don't just mean I don't have one but that nobody really owns their smartphone. TPTB: We'll make them carry a propaganda and spy device -- and make them pay for it!
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[09:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:05] <exec> 08└─So I assume it will only be visible just before sunrise and just after sunset, and then only for a fairly small part of the planet at a time. Here's their tracking page [thehumanitystar.com] It's a classic ego project: "I'm rich, all of my ideas must be great, who cares what anyone else might think"...
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[09:17:06] <exec> 08└─An excellent example of "Kiwi innovation" - i.e. totally bollocks it up and then proud of it. Unfortunately unlike the neighbour's drone, its too high up to blast down with a shotgun. Idiots should be fined for this by the "court" in The Hague or something.
[09:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:08] <exec> 08└─I actually like this thing... a demonstration that can actually be seen. Countless school kids will see it, giving their science teachers a good "in" to excite the kids, and introduce them to the math behind the thing. Thanks, Tachyon, for bringing it up. When I saw the story, it was just passing o...
[09:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:20] <exec> 08└─There was a time when being a sailor meant speaking Latin (in the form of "Lingva Franka") and watching the stars as well, I suppose that went out of style along with wearing an onion on the belt for macaroni eh?
[09:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:21] <exec> 08└─So did she write science fiction or fantasy or both? I find it depressing people have difficulty telling the two apart.
[09:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe you are confusing the definition with the meaning. The definition of market cap is precisely the price of the last unit traded (the smallest possible fraction of a bitcoin, a single share, a euro cent, ...) times the number of existing units. You convincingly explain that the there might be li...
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[09:21:11] <exec> 08└─"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H.L. Mencken, The Evening Sun, July 26, 1920.
[09:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 2442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:13] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, our factories are HOT right now. 🔥 Turning out a TREMENDOUS amount of stuff! More than when Obama was in office. But the jobs with HIGH PAY for NO SKILL, a lot of those are gone. Because we live in the age of Computer. The age of Robots. If we tell our companies, "don't use Compu...
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[10:17:26] <exec> 08└─So did she write science fiction or fantasy or both?
[10:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:28] <exec> 08└─She wrote both. Earthsea is fantasy (young wizard, long before Harry Potter). The Dispossessed is great science fiction, exploring sociology and psychology (not hard scifi IMHO, but very much worth the read).
[10:18:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:10] <exec> 08└─Autopilot engaged. Brain disengaged. Car totalled.
[10:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:18] <exec> 08└─I have a "speed control" in my van. I will not use it for this very reason. When I re-do its wiring, that is going to be one of the first things to be permanently removed from service. I take driving a vehicle extremely seriously. Not only for me, and my property, but everyone else on the road as w...
[10:18:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:35] <exec> 08└─> The fact people are willing to pay $30/transaction shows that bitcoin is here to stay. Have you not noticed that this is a "people are not willing to pay $30/transaction" story?
[10:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:40] <exec> 08└─The experiment is happening now, in front of everyone. Many attemps to solve the issues are attempted by the altcoins and forks, as well as a healthy share of scams. Bitcoin Cash has sub-dollar transaction fees, as does like coin, last time I checked. RaiBlocks and IOTA are trying to handle the ledg...
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[10:21:36] <exec> 08└─As a Finn I have to agree. It seems that smart government regulation leads to healthy markets. At least compared to what the Americans are doing.
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[11:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Monkey Clones Created - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:04] <exec> 08└─Cloning may be the only way of getting IDENTICAL genetic structures to work with, so as to eliminate other variances from their impact on the phenomena under study.
[11:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Monkey Clones Created - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:06] <exec> 08└─A hacker going under the alias "First Monkey" cloned a game named "Created", right? :-)
[11:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Monkey Clones Created - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:08] <exec> 08└─Mostly identical. If they have a lot of mutations early in the embryo stage, that could lead to some big differences when fully grown. However the Dolly the sheep death from "early aging" was overplayed by critics [soylentnews.org].
[11:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Monkey Clones Created - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah! No, I'd write it "First Monkey" Clones Created, or Hacker on Steroids Creates Clone of "First Monkey".
[11:17:20] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03aim [6322] 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 779 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:21] <exec> 08└─There's a very bright thing up there that is easily visible to naked eye, called the ISS. It's also very easy to identify, being brighter than Venus and moving much too rapidly to be an airplane, not blinking either. There's a great many other sats up there, that you can see at least occasionally, s...
[11:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:23] <exec> 08└─Ah, but this one spins, so it's blinking spam. We've been here before, on the Internet, about 20 years ago.
[11:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe this sphere will unite humanity... in cooperating to destroy it before the 9 month atmospheric burn.
[11:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:28] <exec> 08└─As far as I am concerned, one is nice, and quite sufficient. The novelty will wear off, but so will the orbit. I would not vote to destroy the moon either, but I would be quite pissed if Pepsi found some way of permanently coloring the moon to their logo - but if they did it for a week, and nobody...
[11:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:30] <exec> 08└─I agree, I like the idea and kudos for the implementation. Will be gazing for it.
[11:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:32] <exec> 08└─"Just three months after the 'Humanity Star' was launched, both Pespi and Coke put giant 4 foot advertising cylinders in to space. Neither company would comment on the contents of the satellites when interviewed, but independent and hobby astronomers have stated that they have observed protuberances...
[11:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:47] <exec> 08└─Both, mixed. In a way, fantasy and sf are the same genre imho. SF purports to be 'realistic, in the future', but if you replace the 'future science' with 'magic' they are the same genre more or less. Good fantasy has rules for the magic, too. Which makes Earthsea good fantasy btw. Both genres give a...
[11:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:49] <exec> 08└─No, I discovered Ursula in sixth grade, I think, maybe seventh. For whatever reasons, I didn't connect the obvious dots. Naturally enough, when I did connect the dots, it was a face palm thing. ;^) Oh - seventh grade. I had walked up and down the library aisles, and saw all the names that I was fami...
[11:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:51] <exec> 08└─Be depressed, then. The two overlap, many times. I don't know why that should be depressing, but it's your life.
[11:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:41] <exec> 08└─We are doing a pretty good job, I think, with nailing people who DUI, and I 100% agree with the penalties imposed. But I do believe something has to be done about all these "entertainment centers" in cars. I am not in the car to be "entertained"!. Driving is damned serious business. I'll offer a...
[11:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:42] <exec> 08└─why the Tesla's autopilot is so bad?
[11:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:44] <exec> 08└─God I wanted to bang her, but she crashed
[11:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:47] <exec> 08└─if I can find one Go to the boneyard. (Pick-a-Part) On a clapped out old heap, I would think that the radio would still work. DJ's often get carried away once they have a microphone I hate radio "personalities" too. Aside from the classical station, Bob Parlocha on the jazz station was the last good...
[11:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:09] <exec> 08└─If nobody were willing to pay $30/transaction, the transaction price would not be at $30.
[11:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:35] <exec> 08└─about 20 ciggies/day certainly helps with.
[11:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Motion and Context - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:23] <exec> 08└─most people have to pay to read the incoherent ramblings of a mad man
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[12:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:04] <exec> 08└─We see this all the time in medicine/bio. For some reason there are people who think there is some ideal classification system that corresponds to the *real* set of cell types or species or whatever. They are all human constructs that may be more or less useful for different purposes. If you find on...
[12:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:05] <exec> 08└─Many things have a continuous spectrum, but people want to put things into boxes (what classification actually is).
[12:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:50] <exec> 08└─science fiction: no accepted scientific "truths" are contradicted by the in-story universe, but speculations are made about the unknown. In this sense, worm-holes are hyperspace stuff are still ok, but this may change. fantasy: the in-story universe has its own set of laws. I like those fantasy univ...
[12:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:44] <exec> 08└─Most importantly here, why the Tesla's autopilot is so bad?
[12:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:09] <exec> 08└─The altcoins and, to a lesser extent, the Bitcoin forks are all separate experiments. Bitcoin itself is long since over from the technical point of view. This is just the dust settling as non-technical speculators are getting tulipmania. Eventually a government will pick some characteristics from th...
[12:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:10] <exec> 08└─Agreed. That private Caribbean island ain't gonna buy itself.
[12:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:12] <exec> 08└─If your money never leaves an exchange wallet, no actual trades need take place except on paper. Speculation, even tiny amounts of speculation, are still quite possible without incurring the currently huge fees.
[12:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 1420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:39] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to the "uberman" sleep schedule thing that was in the news a few years back? Surely it's been long enough that someone has tried it long term and got some results about whether it's sustainable..? For those that don't remember, the uberman schedule was a system whereby you only sle...
[12:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:41] <exec> 08└─From the no dept dept Somebody kindly file a bug. Yes it's minor but still a bug.
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[13:17:09] <exec> 08└─Hail Calculus!!!!!!! :)
[13:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:11] <exec> 08└─Your mom's [fill in the blank] ...
[13:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:13] <exec> 08└─Personally, I am very fond of the illustration used in Wikpedia, which shows not only how tiny our planets are compared to the Sun, but how tiny the Sun is amongst stars [wikipedia.org]. If you just want the solar system, there are lots - dunno which one struck your fancy. Here's one from Wikipedia...
[13:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:15] <exec> 08└─Dang, the original paper doesn't have the right wording. Oh well: "Your mom's so fat, your dad presented this [soylentnews.org] when he asked her to marry him."
[13:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Monkey Clones Created - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:25] <exec> 08└─Let China clone domestic devils and as long they remain in China and journals are accessible and comprehensible to non-Chinese, who cares? The only thing to monitor is that the tower remains a tower.
[13:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Monkey Clones Created - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:27] <exec> 08└─I always love sentences like this: "critics say the work raises ethical concerns by bringing the world closer to human cloning". So what exactly do the critics want to do? Avoid the discussion by somehow stopping technological progress. Maybe it's time we had those ethical discussions. You know, bef...
[13:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:43] <exec> 08└─I'm planning on looking out for it too. And since it's essentially a 3ft wide disco ball, I'm going to be playing some *really* cheesy 70s & 80s music while I do so. :)
[13:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:44] <exec> 08└─maybe if me and my neighbor point the wifi at that thing we can do some home-brew quantum entanglement communications. Me shouting to neighbour:"No! point it up some more!" Neighbour screaming back:"Like this?!" ...
[13:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:04] <exec> 08└─I would consider true science fiction writers to be people like Andy Weir (he admitted taking a few liberties with scientific fact in The Martian), Charles Sheffield (The Compleat McAndrew, among others), Jack McDevitt, Peter Watts, and Cory Doctorow. They tend to write stories with a setting like,...
[13:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 1690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:00] <exec> 08└─Update from Wired -- https://www.wired.com [wired.com] Why Tesla's Autopilot Can't See a Stopped Firetruck ... This surprisingly non-deadly debacle also raises a technical question: How is it possible that one of the most advanced driving systems on the planet...
[13:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:28] <exec> 08└─Ransomware ransom payments.
[13:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:57] <exec> 08└─There was also a brief fad for people living and sleeping around a 6 day week / 28-hour clock or something, which somehow got you more productive time per day. Anyone remember that?
[13:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:27] <exec> 08└─While I see your point, I don't have physical possession of: * The balances in any of my bank accounts * The investments in my retirement plan * The house I'm renting out The economy that surrounds us depends heavily on record-keeping instead of physical possession. Is there a risk involved? Probabl...
[13:21:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 508 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:41] <exec> 08└─If you are going with lead-acid batteries, stay away from the car batteries - they are optimized for power density (heaps of amps for short time to start that damn'd SVU tractor) and don't take deep discharges very well. Search for "marine battery" or "deep cycle battery" - will maybe add you some $...
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─"Trickle-down theory was classic gaslighting" What does supply side economics have to do with trying to make someone think they are crazy?
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[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─INCONCEIVABLE
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:21] <exec> 08└─"You remember what happened in years past when these tariffs were imposed on imported automobiles?" Pepperidge Farm remembers...
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[14:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:01] <exec> 08└─Camel beauty pageants ... looks at picture ... oookey. I don't know much about camels but is having a big head, big lips and big nose really attractive feature(s)? I wonder if there are those that just like (a) big hump(s). ... adhere to one condition: All beauty must be “natural."
[14:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:16] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Size_planets_comparison.jpg [wikipedia.org] I like this one, even though some of the planets are closer to the "camera" than others. This is the same one with the Sun next to it: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]...
[14:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:17] <exec> 08└─"Planets like Jupiter are formed from the bottom-up by first building-up a rocky core that is subsequently enshrouded in a massive gaseous envelope." Is that true? I would have thought the heavy rock simply "falls to the bottom" (center) of gravity in the swirling cloud of gas and dust. It's not lik...
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[14:17:40] <exec> 08└─Ah, but this one spins, so it's blinking spam. We've been here before, on the Internet, about 20 years ago.
[14:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:48] <exec> 08└─It may be interesting toy, but the justification is amazingly stupid. What if I go to the beach, and I throw a grain of deadly radioactive plutonium in the sand. "This is Humanity Grain of Sand, a shared experience for all of beach-goers. No matter where you are on the beach, everyone will be able...
[14:18:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Firing Up 750 Raspberry Pis - 424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:26] <exec> 08└─There are better options than the rpi. Yes, the community is the best for the raspberry pi, but if you are building a cluster you know what you are doing. I've promoted ODROID as an alternative to the Raspberry Pi here before. The software support is good and the hardware qualty is great. Recently t...
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[14:18:36] <exec> 08└─It's an ARM designed chip produced by an American company (Broadcom) with Singapore headquarters and made in Taiwan (at least, that's where their engineers were when they were diagnosing the early RPI USB/Ethernet/SD bus issues with me). That's then put onto a board with a graphics core that only op...
[14:18:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:55] <exec> 08└─"Sapienti sat." Mention who the fuck Sapienti is before stating whether this Sapienti is sitting or not. Didn't you learn anything from the "but who was Powell" situation?
[14:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:06] <exec> 08└─I suspect that in the Netherlands they would use the Dutch word for 'truck' no matter where in the world the accident occurred.
[14:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:34] <exec> 08└─Here you go [bitbonkers.com]
[14:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:36] <exec> 08└─tftp [soylentnews.org] wrote [soylentnews.org]: Print 17 million pieces of cut paper. Call them coins. Sell 1,000 of those coins - perhaps, to yourself - for $10K each. Then declare that you are a multibillionaire, as your "market cap" is $170B. Is it really so?
[14:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, I notice! The "dept" line, the "This page was generated by a [xxxxx] of [yyyyy]s for [zzzzzzz] and the MOTD at the bottom right are all fantastic little touches that make my day just a little more meaningful. More to the point, they're a breath of fresh air compared to all the ridiculously sanit...
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[14:22:30] <exec> 08└─the import tax should be waived if the buyer can proof that the imports are used to make solarpanels .. or washing machines.
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[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─i am looking for a 12V timer: lights on at 7 pm and off again at 6 am. once i find this, i can stop worrying about emptying ( and breaking) the battery. the rest should be easy. watch for insulation and cable thickness, less voltage means more amps which require thicker cables. everything car is 12V...
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[15:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verdict in Copyright/Trademark Infringement Case: $710,001 Awarded to Grumpy Cat Limited - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:05] <exec> 08└─...involved in taking this to court. [nocookie.net] Love, The Internet
[15:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:13] <exec> 08└─Just imagine, those thick, moist lips smothering your cock. Either set of lips.
[15:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:15] <exec> 08└─A camel beauty contest? In Saudi Arabia? Do they not realize the optics of this? Do they know that the reason camels are called the ships of the desert is because they are full of Arab seamen/semen? Does the winner go home to meet the in-laws of one lucky towelhead? These are the important questions...
[15:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:18] <exec> 08└─Context is everything. Plenty of people consider horses beautiful animals, while simultaneously considering "horse-faced" an insult. Camels are... not exactly what most of the world considers beautiful animals, but within their native habitats they're pretty much the best work animal you could hope...
[15:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:20] <exec> 08└─It's a little less stupid-sounding if this is really about judging for best-of-breed, and could lead to rankings for stud fees and offspring prices.
[15:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:22] <exec> 08└─The Captain's Wife's Lament https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:38] <exec> 08└─Just published a relative size drawing last week: http://www.syfy.com [syfy.com]
[15:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:09] <exec> 08└─This disco ball was an incredibly stupid idea. If you're going to put up something that is "the brightest thing in the sky", then have the sense to put up a matrix of LEDs that form an advertising display screen. That way you can see animated Coke logos in the night sky, and well after sunset. Each...
[15:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:11] <exec> 08└─have observed protuberances and that the two were 'sparing'.
[15:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:30] <exec> 08└─That seems probable. The fact that half the Tesla reports make the news probably causes the same problem airplane crashes have where it distorts the perception of how common they are.
[15:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:31] <exec> 08└─That is an overreaction. Cruise control removes the need to continually monitor speed. I tend to go too fast if left to my own device. Cruise control keeps me from doing that. On top of it I have found myself following too close in the past, adaptive cruise control keeps that from happening. So kud...
[15:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:34] <exec> 08└─Before I reply, note first that I mostly agree with your general point -- the Tesla "autopilot" stuff seems like it probably does a lot more good than bad. However, I'd argue about the standards you're using a bit... The safety board did note in its report that the introduction of Tesla's Autosteer...
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[15:20:34] <exec> 08└─s/defnititely/definitely/
[15:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:35] <exec> 08└─Hmmph Some people just gotta take the fun outta everything ; )
[15:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drones Take Off in Agriculture Industry - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─I say pissed of dude with a gun, who doesn't like idiots flying a spy machine over their land.
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[16:17:02] <exec> 08└─Cloned monkeys, botoxed camels, Grumpy Cat, and Teletubby stories all on the same day. Teletubbies are cool though, it's like watching Sesame Street on LSD.
[16:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:04] <exec> 08└─And as you're coming down you can check out the Star Wars holograms.
[16:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCWKzXR1LoM [youtube.com] (This video makes about as much sense as anything from the 2016 election.)
[16:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:08] <exec> 08└─He wasn't the gay one with the purse, was he? Falwell warned me about him.
[16:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:10] <exec> 08└─Shelton, a father of three, lived in Ampthill in Bedfordshire.
[16:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:13] <exec> 08└─He could be a bisexual father of three. Or a closeted gay with children and a wife. Or adoptive parent with gay partner.
[16:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:15] <exec> 08└─Someone made a wallpaper [wallpapersafari.com] that will look familiar to some of you.
[16:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:17] <exec> 08└─Yes, Tinky Winky was supposedly the "gay" Telletubbie because: 1. He was purple, the gay pride color. 2. He had a triangle on his antenna, the gay pride symbol. 3. He carried a magic bad that looked like a purse. 4. He was named "Tinky Winky"... come on! https://en.wikipedia.org
[16:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:19] <exec> 08└─That supposed to be "magic bag", not "magic bad".
[16:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:21] <exec> 08└─He was.
[16:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:24] <exec> 08└─> American preachers were calling "gay" Because, you know - where people stick their penises is the absolute #1 most important thing in the entire universe!1!!11!1ll1l!1 Because imaginary magic sky daddy says so. Pay no attention to the preacher molesting the 5-year old boy behind the curtain.
[16:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verdict in Copyright/Trademark Infringement Case: $710,001 Awarded to Grumpy Cat Limited - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:32] <exec> 08└─This is just the sort of case that seemingly shows the good side of copyright, and will be used as an example of why we should keep it. Downloading a pirate copy for a private use is totally different than for a public use, and advertising is about as public as it gets. Downloading and copying don't...
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:45] <exec> 08└─There are good reasons to have fragile dog breeds: "solid working dog breeds" just don't make for great pets in many instances, so many dog breeds have been specifically bred to be better pets, mainly by making them smaller and have nicer temperaments. You can't easily keep a German Shepherd in a sm...
[16:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:47] <exec> 08└─Camels don't wear burkas. They have to use what they have for beauty contests. While sheep may be easier to hold down and won't resist as much, the climate is probably unsuitable for sheep.
[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─Sounds plausible. Unless you have a deep enough gravity well (i.e., a planet-size lump of rock), most of the gas will evaporate from the atmosphere way too fast.
[16:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is the case. For example, there's almost no loose hydrogen and helium in the atmospheres of the inner planets. They lost those gases. But Jupiter's visible atmosphere is roughly 90% hydrogen, 10% helium, with small amounts of other gases (the other three gas giants have roughly 75% hydroge...
[16:18:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 367 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:25] <exec> 08└─So I assume it will only be visible just before sunrise and just after sunset, and then only for a fairly small part of the planet at a time. Here's their tracking page [thehumanitystar.com] It's a classic ego project: "I'm rich, all of my ideas must be great, who cares what anyone else might think"...
[16:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:40] <exec> 08└─> "Nobody's ad blockers will stop that! So there!" Silver iodine, seed the clouds so it stays cloudy...
[16:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:41] <exec> 08└─Hmm. Are there any space startups who are working on an anti-satellite projectile? Maybe there should be .. .
[16:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:43] <exec> 08└─You seem to vastly overestimate the brightness of LED lights, and/or vastly underestimate the brightness of the Sun.
[16:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:04] <exec> 08└─As many have mentioned, she wrote both. But SF and fantasy tend to share an audience, and when they're good they both rely on inventive settings and allegory to make important points about us real-world humans. Lord of the Rings is in many ways about how World War I affected the Brits who had to go...
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[16:20:06] <exec> 08└─See update from Wired mag, link given above in post https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Basically Tesla Autopilot doesn't react to stationary objects -- if a lead car moves over a lane to miss a stopped vehicle, the Tesla behind wi...
[16:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:08] <exec> 08└─(Labeling it "speed control" would make it less prone to an erroneousness judgment of the device's capabilities.)
[16:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:10] <exec> 08└─One would be that you "being" is the most difficult computational object in the universe. And the control mechanisms around it should also be pretty complicated... Have noticed, may of course be wrong, that depressed people can not stop paying attention to the own self. Instead, they enforce a feedb...
[16:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:12] <exec> 08└─The fine print / info-text pop-up on that comic is good info.
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[17:17:22] <exec> 08└─Or an ACTOR doing ACTING.
[17:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:24] <exec> 08└─Because, you know - where people stick their penises is the absolute #1 most important thing in the entire universe!1!!11!1ll1l!1 Because imaginary magic sky daddy says so.
[17:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:26] <exec> 08└─Sin only matters if you like the sin. Trump fucks a pr0n star unprotected while married and is forgivable. No big deal. John Edwards has extra marital affair. Huge deal to many of these same republicans. Could go on and on The republicans,in sex issues, have never had a moral high ground. But there...
[17:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:28] <exec> 08└─So you are saying it was intentional gay propaganda to turn the kids gay?
[17:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:31] <exec> 08└─You fool [xkcd.com]! Now that the sheeple have been wakened from their 10,000 year slumber, I propose an international coalition of scientists and engineers. They should be divided into 5 different teams (perhaps blue, orange, silver, red, and green) each to realize their own vision for a perfect fi...
[17:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:53] <exec> 08└─I was considering more health and durability than size - inbreeding has done horrible things to show dog breeds. And they've been popular enough, long enough, that their inbred weaknesses have spread to a lot of "mutts" as well. Cats have indeed gotten off comparatively easy.
[17:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:54] <exec> 08└─Breeding attitudes for cats and dogs seem to be almost diametrically opposite. In cats, only a tiny number of owners care about their cat being purebred, or buy from a breeder; most people just adopt them from shelters. No one says "my cat is a [breed]" or even "my cat is a [breed] mix", except that...
[17:18:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 433 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:34] <exec> 08└─I actually like this thing... a demonstration that can actually be seen. Countless school kids will see it, giving their science teachers a good "in" to excite the kids, and introduce them to the math behind the thing. Thanks, Tachyon, for bringing it up. When I saw the story, it was just passing o...
[17:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─It's like a great marquee GIF floating in the sky.
[17:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:51] <exec> 08└─At least everybody will be grooving an dancing, the earth will become one big dance floor.
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─For instance "Frankenstein" was sci-fi when written, but it is now fantasy.
[17:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:15] <exec> 08└─The only difference between sci-fi and fantasy is swords.
[17:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:17] <exec> 08└─If a dude can teleport "because science" it's sci-fi. If a dude can teleport "because magic" it's fantasy. no accepted scientific "truths" are contradicted by the in-story universe, You think faster-than-light travel doesn't violate accepted scientific principles?
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[17:20:21] <exec> 08└─Interesting points, but I don't think your heart attack analogy stands up. In your scenario, you have a clearly defined default position, a "natural" state : Everybody is at risk of a heart attack, some high risk and some low. I'd argue that in the world of cars, there is no natural state. Human dri...
[17:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:22] <exec> 08└─What you need is Amazon Alexa: Car Edition.
[17:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:52] <exec> 08└─Not existing units, but traded units. It is important. The majority of BTC are not on the market. Were they all bought and sold - yes, then there would be some sense in counting them as traded. But that is not so, most are developers' supplies, and some are not even mined. The market cap is just not...
[17:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:54] <exec> 08└─Isn't that only because the value of bitcoin is high so there are a lot of miners? If value falls, number of miners drops, so does the block difficulty, and therefore the cost of running the network. If all of the miners stopped overnight, you could run the entire network from a single desktop.
[17:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:56] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin was supposed to be a payment system. See the original paper linked in the summary.
[17:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Beats Wall Street Expectations on Subscriber Growth, Reaches $100 Billion Market Cap - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─Did anyone claim the thing you're objecting to?
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[18:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:23] <exec> 08└─I was ridiculously too old for Teletubbies, but I still watched some. The colors were so bright, the setting so peaceful and the rabbits so cute that it was hard not to.
[18:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:24] <exec> 08└─It's only 1 item on the top 10 list, and one that Jesus specifically told people not to enforce later on.
[18:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:27] <exec> 08└─If you're referring to the whole thing where Jesus was criticized by the Pharisees et al. for associating with prostitutes
[18:17:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:45] <exec> 08└─It's a little less stupid-sounding if this is really about judging for best-of-breed, and could lead to rankings for stud fees and offspring prices.
[18:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:51] <exec> 08└─If you're soft and squeamish about ethnicity and racial jokes, do not read. It's funny because it is absurd, not because it is true. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Why can't you offer drivers ed and sex ed courses on the same day in the Middle East? Because it'd wear the came...
[18:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:53] <exec> 08└─Goats are the universal low-maintenance solution. And when you're done doing a beauty contest between the baby goats, they will quickly grow up to either very tasty or good milk machines.
[18:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:56] <exec> 08└─Cats kind of always have had what we wanted from them - being good mousers. Dogs ended up being specifically bread for bird hunting, hog hunting, foxes, badgers, guarding/protecting, herding... Because the thousands of years already got us the breeds we wanted people might think it bad to ruin all t...
[18:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:58] <exec> 08└─It's kind of cheating, because the baseline behavior for a cat would be considered terrible upbringing in a dog.
[18:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:17] <exec> 08└─When I read the article, I thought DeGrasse-Tyson had Jupiter in his cross-hairs! Bert
[18:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:19] <exec> 08└─Jupiter is a gas dwarf.
[18:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Monkey Clones Created - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:32] <exec> 08└─Yes I agree with you. Somebody Else's Problem. They're passing the buck to the moral philosophers -- and you rarely see articles in the mainstream media about them. Rather than the critics saying that the work raises the conerns, shouldn't the critics be the ones raising the ethical concerns themsel...
[18:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:58] <exec> 08└─Replacing a known traceable object with a defined decaying trajectory, by a lot of untraceable shreds with unknown orbits? Sounds like a winner! If it really pisses you off that much (first-world problem, I guess), ask Elon to put a can of black paint in the Roadster.
[18:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:59] <exec> 08└─The guy who thought blinking text was a good idea, needs some professional help. I thought blinking was a horrendous thing. Still do, but it's been usurped by Auto-Playing Full Page Videos / Ads. Thankfully, uBlock Origin works great and the devs haven't been seduced by money a la AdBlock Plus.
[18:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Conducts Successful Static Fire Test of Falcon Heavy - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:35] <exec> 08└─They're still the laughingstock, because like any terrible Chinese manufacturer, they didn't put the charger in the box.
[18:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:31] <exec> 08└─I would say we're pretty good with nailing the average citizen who DUIs. Money and Power still go a long way towards making some things disappear. As far as radio, etc. goes in modern vehicles. A good one has channel up/down and volume up/down on your steering wheel. Perhaps both of my vehicles are...
[18:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:05] <exec> 08└─No, tftp is correct, albeit overstating things. The problem is that prices of almost everything is inherently unstable, and the act of selling anything causes the price to drop a bit. If you have a massive and robust market, that price difference it is typically not a big deal. For example, if $50M...
[18:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:06] <exec> 08└─Also, fuck Earth. All it ever did was keep me down.
[18:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:42] <exec> 08└─I know from experience what you're talking about. It's a really shitty feeling to sleep 12-16h a day, yet still being sleepy and exhausted the couple waking hours left. Even though you have tons of stuff to do, you can't get your ass out of bed or keep your head focused. Caffeine in copious amounts...
[18:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can Staying Awake Beat Depression? - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:43] <exec> 08└─You mean polyphasic sleep [wikipedia.org]? Ask some ISS astronauts how it works out for them in an environment that by its nature has much faster light/dark cycles. I think this is probably the biggest hurdle for practicing such sleep cycles on earth: we have adapted evolutionary to the day and nigh...
[18:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─To quote Heinlein "One man's theology is another man's belly laugh". Setting an incentive in place that is exactly as much as the tariff seems like a really silly shell game to me, but it supports bigger government and more bureaucracy I guess, so I am sure some Americans will see a benefit. Wouldn'...
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[19:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photophoretic-Trap Volumetric Display (Star Wars-like "Hologram") Created - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds very cool, I'd like to see one. I have allergies to dust, but this seems like it requires dust (specific type & size particles) in the air. Sort of like projecting on fog (which others have tried).
[19:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photophoretic-Trap Volumetric Display (Star Wars-like "Hologram") Created - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:07] <exec> 08└─It doesn't sound like it would respond too well if I put my hand into it. Maybe it would be enclosed in a glass case for safety, which I think would take a lot away from the effect. I suppose it could come with a lifetime supply of cellulose particles, so the ones that get knocked out or eaten by th...
[19:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photophoretic-Trap Volumetric Display (Star Wars-like "Hologram") Created - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:09] <exec> 08└─a plant fibre called cellulose
[19:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Photophoretic-Trap Volumetric Display (Star Wars-like "Hologram") Created - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:12] <exec> 08└─I wonder how safe this is? If a laser beam can heat a particle, it'probably generates unsafe power levels. It's obvious that the first thing children will do is putting their head inside the image. As the heating laser is nearly invisible, it won't be noticed as danger.
[19:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photophoretic-Trap Volumetric Display (Star Wars-like "Hologram") Created - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:14] <exec> 08└─"Help me Ant-Man! You're my only hope!"
[19:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DIY Graphene Putty Makes Super-Sensitive Sensor - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:22] <exec> 08└─first p0st
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─Because many of these same people, regardless of their opinion on Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, secretly break lots of other Leviticus commandments ESPECIALLY Leviticus 19:11, 19:13, 19:33-34, 20:10. What do you think of Leviticus 19:19: 19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle ge...
[19:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verdict in Copyright/Trademark Infringement Case: $710,001 Awarded to Grumpy Cat Limited - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:58] <exec> 08└─Did Grumpy Cat get paid for that?
[19:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:19] <exec> 08└─Due to claims of sexual harassment, Donald Trump was NOT invited to be a judge this year
[19:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:21] <exec> 08└─Cats bring disease. Via the long-term brain effects of cat-transmitted disease, we get significant amounts of car accidents and schizophrenia. Dogs are better. Pale animals are tamer than dark ones. No kidding, and we even know the mechanism. (migration of neural stem cells if I remember right) Labr...
[19:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:23] <exec> 08└─Mohammed said it was OK to relieve your sexual urge inside a goat or sheep or donkey. US soldiers in Iraq and Iran have seen it numerous times. There are many videos of it, typically via night-vision from a helicopter. More recently, a refugee in Germany was caught with a donkey in a petting zoo. I...
[19:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:25] <exec> 08└─How so? The baseline behavior for a cat is to simply ignore you. Terrible upbringing in a dog means the dog attacks you, and depending on the size and power of the dog, you either die or need surgery, or if it's a tiny dog just stitches. Not quite as bad behavior in a dog is to bark for hours on end...
[19:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:28] <exec> 08└─Dogs ended up being specifically bread for bird hunting, hog hunting, foxes, badgers, guarding/protecting, herding... Because the thousands of years already got us the breeds we wanted people might think it bad to ruin all that work we did in molding them to our preferences. How many people these d...
[19:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:49] <exec> 08└─Schlaufman's idea was to find the mass at which point objects stop caring about the composition of the star they orbit. He found that objects more massive than about 10 times the mass of Jupiter do not prefer stars with lots of elements that make rocks and therefore are unlikely to form like planets...
[19:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:30] <exec> 08└─Define brightest thing in the sky? https://what-if.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[19:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:32] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, but could you spare a can of cola?
[19:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:34] <exec> 08└─You would get more radiation exposure from the sun than from a grain of plutonium on a beach. The deadliness of plutonium is more notable for its toxicity in that quantity.
[19:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:06] <exec> 08└─Driver unterminated, Darwin Saddened. Fire pants browned.
[19:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:07] <exec> 08└─Here I presume that the driver said the truth and the autopilot was engaged. Clearly you've never supported end-users before!
[19:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:09] <exec> 08└─We will print your submissions when you can write an unbiased and factual entry. You will get bonus points if you can leave the phrase 'alt-right' out of every sentence. Finally, the topic about which you write must be of interest to the majority, or a least a sizable minority, of our community. Thi...
[19:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:12] <exec> 08└─> You arent the one in the left hand lane going five under are you? > Its my experience those drivers also have an inflated sense of their own driving ability. Not surprising, since they are always told by the insurance that they are at "no fault" for getting rear-ended. If I was a cop, left-lane cr...
[19:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:14] <exec> 08└─This answer is exactly what I was asking for! But with this knowledge it is beyond scary to use this killer feature. If the leading car leaves the lane, there must be a reason! Usually it's not a problem, but sometimes there is something ahead in the lane. In my experience it was rocks, wood, a larg...
[19:23:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tyrsal [5456] 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:21] <exec> 08└─I agree, if two people make an agreement, no matter *what* the terms are, who is the government to say that that agreement is invalid. What kind of silly laws are these!? I mean, what's next, they'll say contract killing is illegal too? Where will all the jobs go then, think of the children!
[19:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:50] <exec> 08└─It is almost as if light trucks and generalized automobile production are beasts of a totally different color...
[19:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:52] <exec> 08└─I didn't bother reading you linked article, but just the link itself is a good joke. Three million dollars to boost domestic manufacturing, lol. That first 2.5 GW that comes in tariff free is, at ~1$/W which isn't an uncommon price for photovoltaic panels from what I can tell, is on the order of 2,5...
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[20:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:02] <exec> 08└─Strong case by a notorious harrasser [jimchines.com]. I hope he's got a lot of money to hire lawyers, between this and his fight with SFWA and the court costs, he's gonna need it.
[20:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:04] <exec> 08└─I hope somebody takes it to Twitter hard. While I have no love for the alt-right and the rise of White Supremacy again in the U.S, I am an American. That means I'll fight and die for the right for others to speak. It's been disgusting behavior coming from a lot of the protesters on the left, such as...
[20:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:06] <exec> 08└─This is America. Taking up air is a ground for lawsuits.
[20:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DIY Graphene Putty Makes Super-Sensitive Sensor - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:24] <exec> 08└─How about we just call graphene the 'God Particle’? Once we can manufacture it in large quantities at a low price what can’t we do with it? P.S. The abbreviation can be the GD particle.
[20:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─You were too old? My father watched and enjoyed the original series!
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:54] <exec> 08└─There is no doubt that this woman was guilty of a capital offense and that the Law required that she be stoned, but the Law also required that the guilty man be stoned as well, that witnesses be produced, and that a witness begin the execution.
[20:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:30] <exec> 08└─What I was trying to get at is that I can't tell the difference between cats, cats to me all look pretty much the same. But I can tell the difference between an irish setter and a german shepard. At this point we don't really have the traditional human needs for a dog, but those differences already...
[20:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposal for an Upper Bound on Planetary Mass - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:53] <exec> 08└─So these masses have wants and needs that are manifested before they form? Or do these objects already exist and are just looking for a star to call home?
[20:19:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06First Monkey Clones Created - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:02] <exec> 08└─Mostly identical. If they have a lot of mutations early in the embryo stage, that could lead to some big differences when fully grown. However the Dolly the sheep death from "early aging" was overplayed by critics [soylentnews.org].
[20:19:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06First Monkey Clones Created - 477 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:05] <exec> 08└─I always love sentences like this: "critics say the work raises ethical concerns by bringing the world closer to human cloning". So what exactly do the critics want to do? Avoid the discussion by somehow stopping technological progress. Maybe it's time we had those ethical discussions. You know, bef...
[20:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:37] <exec> 08└─The space station is far brighter and far easier to see and track, plus it isn't coming down any time soon.
[20:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Conducts Successful Static Fire Test of Falcon Heavy - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:13] <exec> 08└─You sound as disappointed as the prom queen...
[20:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:16] <exec> 08└─Put it this way: If we existed in some improbable alternate universe where Tesla Autopilot had been invented before manual controls, would we be sat here arguing whether putting humans behind the wheel would rightfully save some lives at the expense of many more?
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[21:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:13] <exec> 08└─There's just been a rise in "White People Aren't Responsible for Your Failures."
[21:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:15] <exec> 08└─If you want to censor someone, just mod a few of his comments as "Troll". Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoke...
[21:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone hasn't been paying ANY attention, instead blindly applying your own worldview on to the entire country. I wouldn't say there has been a rise in white supremacy, although that may indeed be the case, but I would say that those types certainly have felt more comfortable showing the...
[21:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:19] <exec> 08└─I dislike the spam prevention system myself as it is often a problem on mobile networks, but it isn't true censorship. I think you need to hang out with Algernon a bit more.
[21:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:21] <exec> 08└─> that's it perfectly legal and okay to hit a Nazi type group-think Or someone you called a Nazi five seconds before you started swinging.
[21:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:24] <exec> 08└─In order to win, they'll have to prove that they lost something of value from Twitter because they're Republicans or Libertarians or maybe conservatives. That's going to be hard for two reasons: 1. They have to prove that their Twitter account has monetary value. So, for instance, they'll have to sh...
[21:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:26] <exec> 08└─I don't have time to state the details, but below are some previous court cases on balancing the rights of private property owners and free speech. Social media companies may eventually be treated as privately owned public space, since their role in life far exceeds that of the public square for you...
[21:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:28] <exec> 08└─Protecting civil rights better than most states :) Reminder: anyone who wants to complain about tech giants violating privacy needs to remember that Big Corp != statewide demographics, and most Californians dislike the tech giants as well. Example: when I lived in SF working for a small shop I was c...
[21:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:31] <exec> 08└─ISPs are private, so can charge what they like, mug content providers to get content into fast lanes, and this is all okay. Twitter and other online fora are private, but should be prevented from applying membership rules around bad behaviour, because.. what?
[21:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:33] <exec> 08└─This. Soylent mods are nearly as flippant with their use of mod points as those on the green site. Someone disagreeing with you isn't the same thing as "trolling" or "flamebait".
[21:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:35] <exec> 08└─The mod system is community based, you can hate it all you want but it boils down to human opinion. Post the same lame crap repeatedly and people will recognize it and mark it spam / troll / flamebait. May people still see downmodded comments, but I won't begrudge people for choosing not to see comm...
[21:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:37] <exec> 08└─Yes there has. White nationalists are racial supremacists who are too "cucked" to admit they are.
[21:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─I believe EDIII is on the liberal side of things actually, but apparently defending the civil liberties of shitheads automatically makes you also a shithead. Someone should tell the ACLU!
[21:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:42] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is the number of people with that kind of viewpoint that are saying "No, we're not Nazis, we're just hanging out with a group of white people who hate non-whites and Jews and appropriate Norse symbolism and use German words and phrases to advocate for basically the same ideology as t...
[21:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:44] <exec> 08└─The mod system is community based, you can hate it all you want but it boils down to human opinion.
[21:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:46] <exec> 08└─If you think "writing style" is why downvotes happen, I really don't know what to tell you. If I cared about mod points, I wouldn't post as AC, but I can't help but notice an ideological bent to how they end up distributed. You can deny it if you want, it's there. Maybe not as bad as Reddit and Slas...
[21:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DIY Graphene Putty Makes Super-Sensitive Sensor - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:05] <exec> 08└─I've been wondering just how to get started with arduinos et all and now i have a teensy and all the stuff to cook up this stuff on my way. going to put them in three corners of my house once it works and hopefully get some meaningful input data for visualization and tensorflow! yahoo!
[21:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DIY Graphene Putty Makes Super-Sensitive Sensor - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:07] <exec> 08└─I could see this being used for robot hands/fingers, giving them the option of a good grip or an extremely light touch. And robot skin. Of course, other already known techs may already be in use for these purposes.
[21:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DIY Graphene Putty Makes Super-Sensitive Sensor - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:09] <exec> 08└─So I go to Amazon to see how much graphene sells for, and in the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section are two links to Silly Putty.
[21:18:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:27] <exec> 08└─Or an ACTOR doing ACTING.
[21:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:38] <exec> 08└─Teletubbies is nothing like Sesame Street on LSD... Teletubbies are much more mellow.
[21:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:40] <exec> 08└─Considering the original series was only about 20 years ago, I'm not sure what conclusion I am to draw about you and/or your father (your father watched it with you? You are actually only three years old? Etc.).
[21:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:42] <exec> 08└─Apparently our posting filter has a thing against referencing books of the Bible. Nice.
[21:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:44] <exec> 08└─Nah, I was a teenager and already "too old" for it. He watched it of his own choice. Now I'm a parent myself, and I've seen some of the new (widescreen, HD) series with my youngsters. I don't think it's as good as the old series: eight new CGI mini-teletubbies added to the cast, for example. In The...
[21:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verdict in Copyright/Trademark Infringement Case: $710,001 Awarded to Grumpy Cat Limited - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:55] <exec> 08└─Copyright shouldn't be thrown out, but it shouldn't have such a long lifetime. I think 5-15 years after creation would be a reasonable range, after a decade and a half create something new!! I would be fine with having separate time frames for public domain vs. profit usage, though this is tricky gr...
[21:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 3403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─What I was trying to get at is that I can't tell the difference between cats, cats to me all look pretty much the same. Maybe that's because you haven't been to any fancy cat shows. If you just go to the pound or the local pet store that has shelter cats up for adoption, yeah, they all look pretty...
[21:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:25] <exec> 08└─Nobody has a cat for a pet, but rather the cat decided to keep the human around as one :)
[21:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:27] <exec> 08└─Such defensiveness, maybe you should get that Toxoplasma gondii checked. From wikipedia There are many instances where behavioural changes were reported in rodents with T. gondii. The changes seen were a reduction in their innate dislike of cats, which made it easier for cats to prey on the rodents....
[21:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:29] <exec> 08└─You like having a pet that attacks other animals? From the Wikipedia page for Akitas "Akitas tend to be less tolerant of dogs of the same sex. For this reason, Akitas, unless highly socialized, are not generally well-suited for off-leash dog parks." Also, "An akita fatally injured an Arizona woman w...
[21:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ursula K. Le Guin Dead at Age 88 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:01] <exec> 08└─> The only difference between sci-fi and fantasy is swords. Arguing this shows insufficient training in Use of Weapons...
[21:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Conducts Successful Static Fire Test of Falcon Heavy - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:15] <exec> 08└─http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/successful-test-fire-massive-falcon-heavy-rocket-poised-boost-space-science [sciencemag.org] Other possible targets for Falcon Heavy include Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus and the ice giants Neptune and Uranus. Stern, who leads a NASA mission that flew past...
[21:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:19] <exec> 08└─I like that. I'll be looking for a place to re-use it. 8-) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:23:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Backed by Gold in Development by Perth Mint - 807 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:53] <exec> 08└─There are currently no precious-metals backed currencies, crypto or otherwise. The country or company that creates one and resists the siren song of debasement will make a great deal of money. If Perth Mint does it in an open and transparent way with irreversible immalleable transactions and offers...
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[22:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:04] <exec> 08└─how many people would know about the funding? How many people working for these organisations would know who was pulling the strings? How would they know?
[22:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:05] <exec> 08└─Try reading the linked article, idiot. That would be a good start.
[22:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:08] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty versed in politics and tech, yet "Pierre Omidyar" should be defined somewhere in TFS, at least until he does become a household name. I typically rage when the media thinks it appropriate to quote random twitter posts, without informing us of why the person behind "LockHil4Evar" may have...
[22:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:34] <exec> 08└─coming from a lot of the protesters on the left, such as starting actual fires because somebody would dare speak at a University. How about running down a young woman with a car for exercising her own first amendment rights? "The Left" has yet to kill a person over freedom of expression. To act like...
[22:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:35] <exec> 08└─Twitter and other online fora are private, but should be prevented from applying membership rules around bad behaviour, because.. what?
[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm not saying it is one sided at all. What I am saying is that Left's shit does in fact stink too. By Left, I'm really referring to far left whackjobs, not necessarily liberals in general. Just because the Left hasn't killed anyone yet, is not a reason to condone the shameful behavior of some o...
[22:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:40] <exec> 08└─Be the change you want to see, Mr. AC.
[22:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing "Trump's obvious racism" at all. "Muslim" is not a race. "Illegal alien" is not a race. Not even "Mexican" is a race, but Mexico has a racist constitution! Trump had a black girlfriend. I guess... he was racist for trying it? He should have ignored her due to her blackness? Picture of...
[22:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:44] <exec> 08└─I see: Stüpidity capture. Just like regulatory capture, only more vacuous.
[22:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:46] <exec> 08└─There is a tiny shred of actual truth in that fake news. 1. A foolish driver, not part of the protest or counter-protest, drove through the area. 2. Antifa ran toward the car with a rifle. This is admitted. 3. The driver panicked, as he ought to. 4. A person got hit by the car, though not run over o...
[22:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:49] <exec> 08└─The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. - H. L. Mencken
[22:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:51] <exec> 08└─Well, then you shouldn't mind when you're called "literally Hitler" then!
[22:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:53] <exec> 08└─You're mistaking wide support for being correct, a fault in thinking\ that occurs over and over throughout history.
[22:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:55] <exec> 08└─Unless you are a communist, which was popular in the 1930s, Hitler is to your left. He opposed capitalism, just not as much as Marx and Lenin and Trotsky and Stalin.
[22:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:57] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Same for La Raza and groups like Black Panther.
[22:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:00] <exec> 08└─Regulatory capture is relatively new. This is like "Panem et circenses" What is new though in this case: it's without the bread, so the circuses need to be ubiquitous, involve the spectators and run incessantly. Any chink brings the risk of a crumbling illusion.
[22:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photophoretic-Trap Volumetric Display (Star Wars-like "Hologram") Created - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:11] <exec> 08└─the cat can instantly be replaced
[22:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photophoretic-Trap Volumetric Display (Star Wars-like "Hologram") Created - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:13] <exec> 08└─Nice, I see what you did there!
[22:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DIY Graphene Putty Makes Super-Sensitive Sensor - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:25] <exec> 08└─Will they make Larry Hoover a new cell out of graphene or something?
[22:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:00] <exec> 08└─Of course it was. My children are exactly the right age to have enjoyed the teletubbies when they were spewing their pro-gay propaganda onto our airwaves, and they are both gay now. The fact that my sons do not acknowledge their homosexuality and in fact associate with nice young ladies they call...
[22:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:01] <exec> 08└─Hey, Microsoft hasn't released Windows Gay, yet (otherwise codenamed Deep throat). Please keep releasing information about this in the closet! --Microsoft 'Bob'
[22:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verdict in Copyright/Trademark Infringement Case: $710,001 Awarded to Grumpy Cat Limited - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:12] <exec> 08└─but what? "earned millions"? With an 'M'? Not 'nothing' with an 'N'? We ARE the most intelligent species on Earth? Dog help us all.
[22:19:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:22] <exec> 08└─A camel beauty contest? In Saudi Arabia? Do they not realize the optics of this? Do they know that the reason camels are called the ships of the desert is because they are full of Arab seamen/semen? Does the winner go home to meet the in-laws of one lucky towelhead? These are the important questions...
[22:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:45] <exec> 08└─Never had a tomcat? I used to have one, he would shit on top of the fridge or kitchen cabinets and try to mountain lion jump onto your back. He would wait for people walking by so that he could get at their feet and legs. He even learned how to open the back door and screen door so he could get outs...
[22:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:47] <exec> 08└─It's also illegal to use dogs for hunting in (most of?) the US, except for some pointer type stuff.
[22:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:49] <exec> 08└─Being normal (i.e. like us), they would of course perform plastic surgery on their women's faces but cover their camels. The problem with our approach is that occasionally a couple of toes show.
[22:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab's Electron Rocket Launched "Humanity Star", a Temporary Source of Light Pollution - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:57] <exec> 08└─The guy who thought blinking text was a good idea, needs some professional help.
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─> If safety stats are better than human, the technology should be allowed. Which humans are you doing stats on? I claim that I'm about 10x less likely to get into a serious accident than the lumped total of the USA driving population. I don't drink or otherwise drive impaired or sleepy. My car is we...
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cpghost [4591] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─Since obviously BTC was never meant to scale to so many transactions/s, I'm wondering how other coins are doing? Personally, I'm a huge fan of CryptoNote-based coins like Monero (XMR) for many technical reasons, but I'm not sure it will scale w.r.t. the volume of transactions (even though it's quite...
[22:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─Actually it keeps you up, by hey physics is a pretty tough subject!
[22:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Fines Qualcomm 997 Million Euros for Anti-Competitive Payments to Apple - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:16] <exec> 08└─The only thing which matters is that society is as free as possible; the only thing which matters is that agreements are voluntary, where "voluntary" is defined by contracts; the enforcement of a contract is just another service in the world, and should therefore be implemented in the market along w...
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[23:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:06] <exec> 08└─Sorry about that. His name should be somewhat familiar if you remembered the launch of The Intercept. In fact, both SoylentNews and The Intercept were founded in the same month: February 2014. Coincidence?
[23:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:08] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty versed in politics and tech, yet "Pierre Omidyar" should be defined somewhere in TFS, at least until he does become a household name.
[23:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Disagree) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:10] <exec> 08└─That some parts of the press are ganging up on Wikileaks (not that wikileaks is any kind of a saint here), shows they have ad many secrets to had as government does. Probably the same secrets. If we've learned nothing else in the past 5 years, its become painfully obvious just how corrupt the journa...
[23:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:12] <exec> 08└─it became mandatory to cater for news providers and aggregators to cater for it
[23:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:15] <exec> 08└─Read, before posting. Does *every* employee buy in to this supposed anti -wikileaks stuff? Do they get asked at interview? Or is it just the editorial direction? Why would anyone want to work for them if the editorial direction is at such odds with the marketing?
[23:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right, it's not the governments fault that they have dirty laundry to hide, it's the presses' fault. Allow me to correct our assertion If we've learned nothing else in the past 5 years, its become painfully obvious just how corrupt the journalism profession as a whole has become.
[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:19] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I don't study celebrities, you should identify people by more than name.
[23:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─TFS says he created The Intercept, and that he's an oligarch.
[23:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:23] <exec> 08└─As the same people funding the politicians are the ones who fund the "media" (entertainment, news, whatever, it is all the same) it would be surprising if they weren't the same secrets.
[23:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:26] <exec> 08└─I typically rage when the media thinks it appropriate to quote random twitter posts,
[23:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:28] <exec> 08└─(Read the title of my post in the voice of Gomer Pyle, USMC.) these outlets and organizations are being stealthily guided by the hands of special interests, not the public interest they claim to serve.
[23:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:30] <exec> 08└─Exactly. My point was that the press is so corrupt that they have plenty to hide. If it turns out they want to hide the same things the government wants to hide it wouldn't surprise me at all.
[23:17:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 667 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:40] <exec> 08└─I hope somebody takes it to Twitter hard. While I have no love for the alt-right and the rise of White Supremacy again in the U.S, I am an American. That means I'll fight and die for the right for others to speak. It's been disgusting behavior coming from a lot of the protesters on the left, such as...
[23:17:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 1076 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:48] <exec> 08└─In order to win, they'll have to prove that they lost something of value from Twitter because they're Republicans or Libertarians or maybe conservatives. That's going to be hard for two reasons: 1. They have to prove that their Twitter account has monetary value. So, for instance, they'll have to sh...
[23:17:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:57] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is the number of people with that kind of viewpoint that are saying "No, we're not Nazis, we're just hanging out with a group of white people who hate non-whites and Jews and appropriate Norse symbolism and use German words and phrases to advocate for basically the same ideology as t...
[23:18:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 348 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─coming from a lot of the protesters on the left, such as starting actual fires because somebody would dare speak at a University. How about running down a young woman with a car for exercising her own first amendment rights? "The Left" has yet to kill a person over freedom of expression. To act like...
[23:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:13] <exec> 08└─Do you think people are too sensitive cause "it's just a joke bro calm down"? Absolutely! Taking offense at the smallest fart is becoming more popular than World Cup Soccer! Those people are very much responsible for the discrediting of the legitimate civil rights movement. You people need to unders...
[23:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:15] <exec> 08└─At the risk of feeding trolls, you had me until you mentioned violence. You don't fight censorship with violence, certainly not while there are other options like disobedience, and my all time favorite mockery. Trying to stop censorship with violence is like fucking for virginity, it doesn't work, a...
[23:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:17] <exec> 08└─That said, punching them is not the right response
[23:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:19] <exec> 08└─They should be barred from discriminating because "BAKE THE F*CKING CAKE" is Holy Writ now. Jack should be forced to obey his team's own book of rules. Twitter should be forced to shut up and post the tweet. Do like gab and allow users to mute users or posts with banned words if they like but if "co...
[23:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:21] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing "Trump's obvious racism" at all.
[23:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:24] <exec> 08└─Ad hom FTW, eh?
[23:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:26] <exec> 08└─If a "private" (non-governmental) institution such as Twitter refuses to publish your statements, then such censorship is not violence; it's just non-association. If a "public" (governmental) institution refuses to publish your statements, then it's veering towards violence: by virtue of being "publ...
[23:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:28] <exec> 08└─Someone disagreeing with you isn't the same thing as "trolling" or "flamebait".
[23:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:30] <exec> 08└─Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - H. L. Mencken
[23:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:33] <exec> 08└─Am I to infer from this that the jmorris has been muted on gab? Sad.
[23:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:35] <exec> 08└─Count the actual numbers. They're a pathetic, non-issue boogie-man. They're just loud about it.
[23:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:37] <exec> 08└─Not for lack of trying. See the Antifa shithead who was going around trying to crack skulls with a lock on the end of a chain. And there are a fuckload more insane leftists than there are white supremacists. Not violent white supremacists. Total white supremacists.
[23:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strong Case That Twitter Censorship Violates California's Civil Rights Laws - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:39] <exec> 08└─The plane took off a while ago, did you not hear it pass way over your head?
[23:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:39] <exec> 08└─So, it has come to this.
[23:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:25] <exec> 08└─I've had quite a few cats, and I will say that stray or formerly-feral male cats can indeed have real behavior problems, especially if they're unneutered or not neutered until adulthood. I'd avoid those if possible. Females are usually better, and any cat that was neutered early and had human contac...
[23:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Due to Botox Injections - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:26] <exec> 08└─Racist scum detected
[23:23:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 1690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:01] <exec> 08└─Update from Wired -- https://www.wired.com [wired.com] Why Tesla's Autopilot Can't See a Stopped Firetruck ... This surprisingly non-deadly debacle also raises a technical question: How is it possible that one of the most advanced driving systems on the planet...
[23:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Driver Jams 65mph Tesla Model S Under Fire Truck; Walks Away From Crash - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the response, janrinok! But it is off-topic. I was just responding to the response to criticism of the submission with the formerly valid, "if you don't like it, submit something yourself" response. Even if you do submit fair and unbiased submissions like I do, you can be rejected for no...
[23:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stripe is Dropping Bitcoin Support - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:57] <exec> 08└─Its gravity well of 11.2 km/s begs to differ.
[23:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:03] <exec> 08└─But they are not the same. the government is taxing imports, to grow domestic manufacturing. But putting even more money into incentive the purchase of panels, to grow the demand. These are not incongruous actions, they are complimentary.
[23:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Government Puts Tariffs on Imported Solar Cells, Solar Modules, and Washing Machines - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:05] <exec> 08└─Sure. And Adding 20-50% to a solar panel impacts the higher incomes much more than the lower incomes.
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