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[00:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:52] <exec> 08└─I'm using my free money to buy a pickup-truck-load of popcorn and an easy chair. Wait, what? Mabel, where's the check? Oh, damn, the check didn't come yet. Now what am ah gonna do?
[00:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:53] <exec> 08└─Grow your own popcorn, Comrade Justin.
[00:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:55] <exec> 08└─How about hiring those software engineers aged 50+ to, I dunno, take the jobs of H1-B holders who are half their age, 1/3 as good, and get paid 1/4 as much.
[00:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:58] <exec> 08└─I figured it out. The letter carrier told me he was going to start drawing basic income. So, no mail today, or tomorrow... or checks for anybody. Who could have seen that one coming?
[00:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:00] <exec> 08└─khallow is going to be so disappointed! He was going on constantly about the UBI, just a while ago! But, turns out Marx was right, and capitalism, and even "market socialism" depend of the vast army of the unemployed to make the economy work. Lazy bums! The bums have lost, Mr. Lebowski! Why don't yo...
[00:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:02] <exec> 08└─You don't seem to be aware of the cost of living in Finland. $690 is survival mode: unpleasant. The number is set low to encourage people to supplement that income ASAP with a job, without losing that income as a disincentive.
[00:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:04] <exec> 08└─Their Country is dieing, it's sad. Very sad, and bad, situation. But in the U.S.A. we're adding MILLIONS OF JOBS. We should have more people from places like Finland. Not the sick ones (AIDS). Get out before it's too late!!!
[00:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:16] <exec> 08└─They used to make some cheap no frills boards which handled abuse alright. Other than the occasional recap after 2-5 years (they didn't last as long in the P4 era) they lasted pretty well, could usually handle up to a 20-30 percent overclock, and other than focusing on mATX boards, were full feature...
[00:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:41] <exec> 08└─2. Take this turdbrain's body, divide into 97 million portions... This is revenge, not justice. Leave the former to us bots. Justice is multiplying the duration of the call by 97 million and having this guy do some help desk for the same duration. I suggest the "mother in law in distress" help line....
[00:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:42] <exec> 08└─For the last couple of months I have been plagued by such calls.
[00:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:44] <exec> 08└─People don't know this, the new phones can tell you who's calling. The name & the number. Before you pick up the phone. And when you call someone, they know it's you calling. Unless you press *67 when you dial. It's called "caller ID," it's amazing. It's not always great. But it's a big, big change!...
[00:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:46] <exec> 08└─You're talking about a cell phone. The kind of phone our prisoners use. Let me tell you, I have a cell phone. A Samsung. And it's very nice. It does so much. I can tweet with it, I can use it as a flashlight. When someone calls me, it doesn't ring. It plays my music (Pat Benatar -- Sex As a Weapon)....
[00:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:36] <exec> 08└─> Teach chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, etc how to use fire, build rudimentary tools and structures, find who are the smartest among them and separate them into semi-isolated and isolated groups to develop their intellect further. whatcouldgowrong [imdb.com]
[00:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:38] <exec> 08└─Porn is an industry: is that what they mean? :)
[00:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:40] <exec> 08└─Overlooking the fact that 70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Fossils [sciencealert.com] have been found. Even some nearly twice that old. [dailymail.co.uk] Bones 197 million years [nature.com] old.
[00:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:42] <exec> 08└─Not so much. Regardless of anything we may or may not have found, we don't (and will likely never) know what materials and architecture such a civilization *may* have used.
[00:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:44] <exec> 08└─But fragile dinosaur eggs do! ???
[00:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:46] <exec> 08└─One thing to consider: if a civilization had free energy and alchemy, would they need industrial sites? What if their housing were a suitable genetically engineered tree? What if they had a health so strong they did not need housing? One other thing to consider: ours is not a civilization. We pollut...
[00:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:49] <exec> 08└─Given that, we can expect any number of "unexplainable" archaeological finds to have no more effect on "scientific consensus"
[00:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:51] <exec> 08└─if a civilization had free energy and alchemy, would they need industrial sites?
[00:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:53] <exec> 08└─We have no evidence that it did, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence in uncontrolled systems.
[00:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:55] <exec> 08└─And yet, you still have to explain why we aren't seeing these deposits which would survive those periods of time.
[00:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:58] <exec> 08└─the current area of urbanization is 'less than' 1% of the Earth's surface
[00:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:00] <exec> 08└─You not only have to hide fossils of the creatures of the civilization, but also any closely related species.
[00:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:20] <exec> 08└─F***book on a chip. Ewww... A few more years and it'll be in tiny nanobots that fly into your window or arrive clinging to your snail mail and then crawl under your skin, sequence your DNA and read your memory and also your subconscious and autonomic nerve impulses so Zuck knows what you're going to...
[00:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:15] <exec> 08└─Mexico is killing us economically! Hyperbole, as usual. ...and, actually, we did it to ourselves. NAFTA == North American Free Trade Agreement == Drop barriers for international Capitalists giant sucking sound That was the characterization of NAFTA by H. Ross Perot, who ran a 1-issue presidential ca...
[00:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Baboons Work Together to Escape From Texas Biomedical Research Institute - 1707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:38] <exec> 08└─Have an MP player? Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff does a weekly hour-long broadcast|webcast called Economic Update. He identifies instances where Capitalism has failed and offers a Socialist perspective/alternative. It's not the least bit stuffy and is very accessible. KPFA's audio archive has...
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[01:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:05] <exec> 08└─Possibly so. Food means power. "It's good to be King!"
[01:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:06] <exec> 08└─I can't blame the companies. Very foolish to pay 4 times the money for 3 times the work. Need to pay our H-1B workers much more. Jobs must be offered to American workers first. Does that make sense? Our H-1B program should include only the most skilled and highest-paid applicants and should never, e...
[01:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:08] <exec> 08└─Grow your own... Comrade
[01:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:11] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I didn't read TFA, barely got through TFS when I read "The participants, aged 25–58, are all unemployed ..." Basically, this sounds not at all like UBI and exactly like an alternative unemployment benefit. Since it does not get applied universally to all people, only those who aren't working...
[01:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:14] <exec> 08└─Well we could give everybody a free $690, but then we'd have to raise taxes on the workers. I estimate $6,900 additional tax should do it.
[01:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:17] <exec> 08└─"And so in the future where automation has taken almost every job, I suppose everyone will just "survive"?" In a future where automation has taken most jobs, people of means will own robots. And, really, people in developed countries at least have, and have, for decades. Ovens that regulate themselv...
[01:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:20] <exec> 08└─Uh... no. Capitalism depends on people interact through voluntary agreement, as defined by contracts in advance of interaction. That's it. In essence, then, Capitalism depends on people being productive, not unemployed.
[01:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:59] <exec> 08└─...or cocaine? I hear it's the best!
[01:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:02] <exec> 08└─We didn't launch a single satellite before 1957. If you consider the technology of 1956 "primitive," I don't know what to tell you. I, for one, would be blown away by evidence of prehistoric atom bombs.
[01:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:03] <exec> 08└─Considered insightfully in David Brin's "Uplift Wars" series.
[01:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:05] <exec> 08└─No need to split years. There is only 12 years between 1945 and 1957. Conquest of nuclear energy and conquest of space are nearly synchronous, and in a more peaceful civ the space could be decades ahead of the fission power, as the latter is not essential for spaceflight. Add another decade and you...
[01:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:08] <exec> 08└─That's not the real problem. The real problem is mines and dumps. The dumps would appear as high grade ores of almost every metal mixed together. The mines would be severe discontinuities, places where mountains had been eaten away by no explainable process. There's also the problem of the distribut...
[01:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:59] <exec> 08└─It was at first diagnosed with Hepatitis. After I left my boss a message about that, he called me back later and wanted to know everywhere I'd eaten recently. I don't really know but expected that my boss notified the public health department. During the given time frame I was only eating stuffed I...
[01:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:51] <exec> 08└─with the engine separated Is that why the photos of the doomed plane show it tipped over 90 degrees? It unbalanced the aircraft, of course, It also tore loose fuel lines. I suspect that it also damaged control mechanisms (hydraulic lines ripped open?). I do remember hearing about another 3-engine pl...
[01:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:33] <exec> 08└─Well, I've said here before, "Switch off Lamestream Media. It's filling your head with nonsense." Instead of "Heck of a job, Brownie" accolades for someone who is doing a TERRIBLE job, Cuba is actually organized to respond to emergencies and that preparedness avoids e.g. what Puerto Rico is going th...
[01:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:26] <exec> 08└─They're lasting longer these days. This stands in contrast to the lyrics of a 1980s Merle Haggard song. I wish a Ford and a Chevy would still last ten years, like they should [google.com] A century of aggregate engineering experience is paying off (just in time for the internal combustion engine and...
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[02:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:48] <exec> 08└─Smell like cabbage. Small hands.
[02:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:49] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with neuroscience research, but I'm giving my hundred million to space exploration. Maybe I'll give my other million to Children's hospital neuro department.
[02:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:12] <exec> 08└─I put 0 thot into dat 1
[02:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 3380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:14] <exec> 08└─Overall fairly interesting. Sad that they won't conclude the project before starting to messing with the model. But they seems to be quite clear on a few issues that have popped up. While I'm not completely familiar with the Finnish welfare system I do assume it's somewhat similar to the systems of...
[02:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:16] <exec> 08└─Robots is easy. Just kick em in the nuts.
[02:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:18] <exec> 08└─The plan was to extend it to workers as well next year, but the government decided to pull funding for the research entirely instead.
[02:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:20] <exec> 08└─proper evaluation as to what went wrong.
[02:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:23] <exec> 08└─”Two years is too short a timeframe to be able to draw extensive conclusions from such a vast experiment. We ought to have been given additional time and more money to achieve reliable results,” professor Olli Kangas, one of the experts behind the basic-income trial, told Finland’s public-serv...
[02:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:25] <exec> 08└─I can't blame the welfare queens on disability. In California they make as much as $1500 bucks-ish when you include food programs and other benefits. That's a very livable amount even in California if you have roommates or a small studio in a cheap area. I'd do the same damn thing rather than make l...
[02:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:27] <exec> 08└─Nice! They could call it, "The Affordable Care Act." Oh, wait.
[02:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:07] <exec> 08└─even better: a robodialer is the bump-stock of telephony...
[02:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:14] <exec> 08└─But proving that it's not is nearly impossible.
[02:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:15] <exec> 08└─never know what materials and architecture such a civilization *may* have used.
[02:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:18] <exec> 08└─The various African tribes have had extraordinarily advanced social structures in their societies for presumably thousands upon years while not constructing things out of stone.
[02:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:20] <exec> 08└─Human beings have unbounded capacity for ignoring an inconvenient reality.
[02:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:22] <exec> 08└─Just think about how much of that has gone on thanks to redevelopment efforts in the modern world, and with less enlightened civilizations sometimes discovered artifacts would be intentionally destroyed because the record of their existence was considered a threat to the status quo.
[02:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:24] <exec> 08└─and made them better than we can figure out these days
[02:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:44] <exec> 08└─If "less" means "smaller", that's true too. In the 21st Century USAian economy, anything bigger than is absolutely necessary is obviously seen as luxury. With 60 percent of USAians now not able to handle a $400 emergency without selling something or taking out a loan, luxury is a thing of the past....
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[03:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:56] <exec> 08└─Let the haraam homosexual infidels be beheaded. But being serious here, I met a woman from Saudi Arabia in school. She was studying engineering, and she told me that as soon as she finishes school she wants to go back to Saudi Arabia and be a man's wife. Which means she'll be juice-sisters with up t...
[03:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 4087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:57] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I try to do things And it just doesn't work out the way I want it to. It's like, I try hard to do it And I get real frustrated. And I take my time But it just doesn't work out the way I want it to. It's like I concentrate on it real hard, But it just doesn't work out. And everything I do a...
[03:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:59] <exec> 08└─That's what this is.
[03:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:02] <exec> 08└─Arabic. Language. Services.
[03:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:04] <exec> 08└─More specifically, despite my comment above, Saudi Arabia now westernizing attitudes and laws regarding women, and the huge unexploited demographic for marketing that will closely follow.
[03:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:06] <exec> 08└─> This program is aimed at helping women and young people So women are not people? Is that really the message?
[03:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:08] <exec> 08└─Wow, you're really determined to find problems where there are none, eh? I fail to see a "XOR" in that sentence. > This program is aimed at helping old women xor young people Better?
[03:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:18] <exec> 08└─I'd donate my millions toward eugenics. Just as Bravestarr had the eyes of the hawk, ears of the wolf, strength of the bear, speed of the puma; my human superman will have the looks of the White, brain of the Asian, fertility of the Latino, and strength of the Black (the "fertility of the Latino" pa...
[03:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:21] <exec> 08└─Can't you get all of that just by encouraging interracial marriage? Oh - wait - genetic pollution, or some such shit, right?
[03:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:23] <exec> 08└─BTW - you didn't mention the Jew's Green Thumb™. Do you want your superhumans to grow up poor? You're slipping, Eth.
[03:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:25] <exec> 08└─Vigor. Moxie. Brio. Zest. Gusto. LIBIDO.
[03:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:27] <exec> 08└─Can we go back to the tacitly understood convention that we do not name things after people, even if they give us shit tons of money, until they are dead? Does human Vanity know no bounds? What is next? Trump is going to donate his billions to CUNY, if they change their name to "Trump University"?...
[03:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:29] <exec> 08└─Introducing Jew into the mix would be more nose than riches. The Asian part will already handle the duties of the human calculator.
[03:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:32] <exec> 08└─The sports world is even worse. San Diego had it's Jack Murphy stadium named after the man who raised the money for it. Then it became Qualcomm stadium because some rich Jew threw some money at it. Then you have Mattress Firm (formerly known as Sleep Train) Amphitheater, named after a mattress deale...
[03:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:03] <exec> 08└─Here, I am! Anyway, I wrote a journal [soylentnews.org] on the matter asking for peoples' opinions on the matter. As you might guess, there were a number of insensitive clods who were more interested in my no-doubt sinister, ulterior motives for the journal than in having an honest discussion. Since...
[03:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:04] <exec> 08└─He's a socialist. Socialists deal in Other People's Money, not their own.
[03:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:06] <exec> 08└─Even you, khallow, can see that the existence of the Lumpenproletariat is to scare the working class into accepting whatever terms the Capitalist masters wish to offer them, or you could end up pushing a grocery cart full of plastic bags, or, living in a van, down by the river [youtube.com]!!
[03:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:09] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, but your money is other people's money, because if it were not their money, they would not accept it from you. Buzzard, you need to start your own, very private currency, so you can keep your vital bodily fluids and fluid assets safe from the violent imposition. I suggest "BuzzardCoin", a...
[03:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:21] <exec> 08└─So you haven't bought a new motherboard and CPU since 2008 then, I take it. And most likely won't be buying a new one for a very long time.
[03:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:52] <exec> 08└─Mmmm hmmm that’s 1 call every second 24/7 for more than 3 years straight. Sure he made them
[03:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:04] <exec> 08└─Right, but atom bombs are just a particularly striking example. We were beginning to make mechanical computers thousands of years before spaceflight. Are we calling Newton primitive, now? Galileo? Leonardo? Archimedes? And what of our own aristarchus? A civilization on par with the ancient Greeks, b...
[03:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:06] <exec> 08└─The point of my post was that they wouldn't.
[03:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:08] <exec> 08└─There are no fixed terms in this science, no words to specify the exact width of a barrier between civX and civY. Every civilization is magnificent for its environment and time, but if we introduce an external measure - say, ability to build an electronic computer or to synthesize drugs - the ancien...
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[04:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:59] <exec> 08└─Are women people? They seem to be a distinct group from young people.
[04:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:00] <exec> 08└─Why discriminate against me? Well, I'll do my best to discriminate against Google. I switched to duckduckgo for searches. Ditching the email is, sadly, much harder. It seems that hating straight middle-aged American white males is all the rage these days. Oh hey, you know what else? Shit like that m...
[04:39:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:25] <exec> 08└─How about hiring those software engineers aged 50+ to, I dunno, take the jobs of H1-B holders who are half their age, 1/3 as good, and get paid 1/4 as much.
[04:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:51] <exec> 08└─Even you, khallow, can see that the existence of the Lumpenproletariat is to scare the working class into accepting whatever terms the Capitalist masters wish to offer them
[04:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:53] <exec> 08└─You don't seem to be aware of the cost of living in Finland. $690 is survival mode: unpleasant.
[04:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, I dunno, for $690 you can buy a ton of Dragster 3000, that's both food and heating all in one./quote. Also entertainment, if you feed it to someone else.
[04:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:38] <exec> 08└─Actually the Do Not Call list had been working pretty well up until around the first of the year. I did a bit of google-fu and found this: https://www.washingtonpost.com
[04:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:54] <exec> 08└─the current area of urbanization is 'less than' 1%
[04:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:55] <exec> 08└─Buried stuff often ceases to degrade in low-groundwater areas.
[04:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:58] <exec> 08└─There could have been a massive civilization among advanced field mice who built the majority of their structures out of grass, but also occasionally did metalworking and electrical power generation and distribution. They could have outsmarted all their predators and overwhelmed them with sheer numb...
[04:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:00] <exec> 08└─The various African tribes have had extraordinarily advanced social structures in their societies for presumably thousands upon years while not constructing things out of stone.
[04:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:02] <exec> 08└─We know the laws of physics didn't change over the past few billion years.
[04:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:04] <exec> 08└─and nobody was there to hear it, did it make a sound? By extension, if a bear takes a dump in the woods and nobody was there to smell it before it dried out, would we recognize it later for what it is without the smell? Probably.
[04:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:07] <exec> 08└─The paper also doesn't discuss satellites in geostationary orbit, which are going to be recognizable for a very long time in an easily observed location.
[04:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:09] <exec> 08└─It's idiot_king. I figure he's someone's troll account. His sudden, relatively intelligent post (though still grossly missing the point, of course), seems suspiciously in the vein of other posters who behave in a similar fashion.
[04:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:11] <exec> 08└─Those same six nuclear power plants could desalinate a whole lot of Pacific Ocean water...
[04:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:13] <exec> 08└─And you have yet to explain why that point is valid. For example, consider volcanoes. They're not stable in the geological sense, but they create very fertile lands. And supervolcanoes can bury things far away from the actual eruption. So even if a civilization is careful about avoiding unstable are...
[04:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:15] <exec> 08└─Those same six nuclear power plants could desalinate a whole lot of Pacific Ocean water...
[04:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:18] <exec> 08└─In any way that we can detect or comprehend, yet.
[04:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, the space is unstable on really long time frames. The stuff on the Moon and Mars is more likely to survive geologically relevant periods of time.
[04:42:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 636 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:45] <exec> 08└─I don't bother reading EULAs and Terms of Service. Why should anyone? Most people have figured out they're a load of bull, full of untrue assertions and lying propaganda about the rights they claim to have and you don't, and deliberately obfuscated and lengthened in order to confuse and discourage a...
[04:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:04] <exec> 08└─EULAs shouldn't exist. They are treated as contracts but their is no meeting of the minds and there is no consideration given for valuable information, time, and energy they extract from one of the two participants. If your internet business absolutely requires a one-sided contract to even have a ho...
[04:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salmonella & Illnesses: 206 Million Eggs Recalled - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:14] <exec> 08└─Well, clearly what we need here is less regulation. Less oversight. Less big-government. The unregulated free market will provide better eggs, cheaper eggs. Everyone (that survives such a system) wins!
[04:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:18] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that the ranked choice voting here only applies to Primary elections to nominate party candidates, not to the General elections which actually elect people for office. The original initiative was intended to do so, however this was unanimously ruled unconstitutional by the Maine supreme...
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[05:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cray CS500 Supercomputers to Include AMD's Epyc as a Processor Option - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:50] <exec> 08└─How much does it cost if I want it shipped by UPS?
[05:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cray CS500 Supercomputers to Include AMD's Epyc as a Processor Option - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:51] <exec> 08└─I'd suggest the "armed guards" option. Big money nowadays.
[05:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:07] <exec> 08└─Not really, they're more like a sink for money and resources that never quite contribute back as much as they take. They're tolerated parasites because they're the only place that we have to keep our fetuses. If we could invent an adequate incubator, we probably wouldn't tolerate the nonsense.
[05:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:09] <exec> 08└─Welcome to conflict of interest. And if they had a sperm generator, they wouldn't need you either.
[05:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:25] <exec> 08└─Changing name doesn't wash out the psychology bullshit stank.
[05:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:04] <exec> 08└─"Capitalism depends on people being productive, not unemployed." OK...then how do you explain Lawyers, Investors, Politicians, Trustfundians etc seeming to be successful in our so called Capitalist society?
[05:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:05] <exec> 08└─It was a pilot, which is why it didn't extend to everybody. And the whole concept of the UBI is more or less a replacement for the currently existing welfare programs. One of the big improvements on this was that the jobless could keep the benefits after finding work, which meant that there was some...
[05:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:07] <exec> 08└─To actually live on 560 euro you probably need to get a cheap airplane ticket to some warm third world country. There you could possibly live fine on 560 euro per month. But in Finland? Nope.
[05:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:09] <exec> 08└─OK...then how do you explain Lawyers, Investors, Politicians, Trustfundians etc seeming to be successful in our so called Capitalist society?
[05:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah sure, because a professor has enough income to pay thousands of people hundreds of Euros each month. </sarcasm>
[05:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:14] <exec> 08└─Or we could cut the so-called Defense Budget.
[05:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:16] <exec> 08└─Because that's not how that works. First off, this pilot didn't fail, it was stopped a year early for political reasons. We won't know for some time whether it worked or not as the numbers haven't yet been crunched. Secondly, that's not how monetary policy works. Money that the government spends doe...
[05:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:18] <exec> 08└─Well, any of them could just spend $10 for a 3 hour bus to St. Petersburg, Russia where it is 150% of average salary and just enjoy easy free life with a young blond girl or boy.
[05:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:03] <exec> 08└─Ok, so how can someone make 97 Million Robocalls before the phone company does anything? Right, the phone company isn't doing SHIT. Who was it even that dragged this scum bucket in front of law makers? I'm betting it was not a phone company. If you try to send 97 Million spam e-mails you are going t...
[05:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:32] <exec> 08└─Actually we know more about space than about the deep sea. There could be a civilization of deep sea organisms at the ground of the ocean right now without us knowing.
[05:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:33] <exec> 08└─Where are the satellites going? You can't just make these things up. Ok, the orbits drift and won't stay geostationary. But the satellites won't fall to earth from so high. Nor are there strong enough forces to pull them out of the earth's gravitational well. There will be collisions, but big chunks...
[05:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:35] <exec> 08└─The LAGEOS [nasa.gov] satellites with only 6000 km altitude are expected to last 8 million years.
[05:45:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:50] <exec> 08└─Government bureaucracy at the FAA just saved the lives of all but 1 of the people on that plane. Everybody involved followed procedures and training to a T, and if you listen to the radio traffic the level of professionalism across the board is impressive.
[05:45:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 935 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:58] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight: 1. Everyone involved was extremely professional in a crisis situation. This had absolutely nothing to do with the culture of the bureaucracy they were a part of. 2. Everyone involved met objective standards of behavior and training. This had absolutely nothing to do with...
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[05:49:22] <exec> 08└─Makes me think of "plague dogs" more than planet of the apes.
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[06:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:52] <exec> 08└─I suppose it depends on what you want. TFA claims that this trend started in NYC, and that it's all about feeling "energy" when you walk into a restaurant. Maybe if your customers are the young'n'trendy types that's important. For myself, I find packed, loud restaurants unpleasant - and I won't go b...
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[06:39:02] <exec> 08└─The man peered through the looking glass, and what did he see? A woman and a most hungry fist. The man walked away satisfied, his faith in humanity having been completely restored.
[06:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cray CS500 Supercomputers to Include AMD's Epyc as a Processor Option - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:04] <exec> 08└─it makes REALLY yummy soup.
[06:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:22] <exec> 08└─Is an old woman in the set of young people?
[06:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:23] <exec> 08└─When the sperm generator stops working, who will they call to come fix it?
[06:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:26] <exec> 08└─You're saying that he'll need to get a bunch of like-minded people to spring for it? Alright then, better get started!
[06:46:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Engine of Southwest Airlines 737 Explodes; Kills 1 Passenger, Injures 7 - 607 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:05] <exec> 08└─Check out the recorded conversation between the pilot and the air traffic controllers. After correcting the plane posture (it dropped sharply on one side due to the engine blow up, as if the plane is making a sharp turn) and stabilizing the altitude, she calmly reports the flight status to the air t...
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[07:38:55] <exec> 08└─Just last week, in fact. We had seen a Pho place online, and went to the wrong side of the street where there just happened to be another Pho place. They were playing music way too loud, and it was almost empty. We realized our mistake, went across the street and the other place was actually more qu...
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[07:38:56] <exec> 08└─I got ran out of several Starbucks and Border's bookstores when they invited in live musicians. Those venues simply weren't designed for that level of acoustical energy, and had it confined. It was like comparing a backrub to a beating. Even my Church got so loud I had to leave. Is it any surprise...
[07:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 1843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:58] <exec> 08└─Interesting that the article is smart enough to talk about the fact that it can also be uncomfortable to converse in a place that's so dead quiet that you feel like everyone in the room is listening in on every word you whisper. What you want is to be in a place with a nice reasonable level of mostl...
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[07:40:29] <exec> 08└─This article gives me serious doubts about whether a program like this can work
[07:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:31] <exec> 08└─No. In the future when all the jobs are taken, everyone will be eating each other since there will not enough government money to cover even the basic survival mode checks. Which is what everyone saying UBI is so perfect fail to realize. If there are no jobs, or not enough jobs, paying into the gove...
[07:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:45] <exec> 08└─That's been my prime driver as to why I still have 386SX systems in operation. And building my own line of Arduino-Compatibles. I Flat Cannot Trust These New Systems! They are beautiful to look at, very powerful, but they are like having a whore for a wife. Everyone and his brother is in her behind...
[07:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:19] <exec> 08└─Music Piracy? We might have got a buck outta that sale! Go After Napster! Pass Law! Put 'em out of business!!! Robocalls? Cost millions of people time and money.. ummm, but it wasn't a one-percenter's money was it... uh... too busy... sorry... can't do anything about it. Remember, failing to honor...
[07:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:20] <exec> 08└─Does the word "Caller-ID Spoofing" ring a bell?
[07:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:22] <exec> 08└─While he's serving a life sentence in jail as the payment to the public for the two lifetimes he stole ( as has been told above ), implant a electroshock therapy unit which is triggered by a phone with an unlisted number... nothing is going to call it but robodialers. Have it electrocute his nuts w...
[07:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:52] <exec> 08└─"None of the above" probably wouldn't work for a president election, but it could work for a parliament election. The "none of the above" choice should just result in the same number of empty seats as those votes would if they were for a party. As long as passing a law still requires a majority of t...
[07:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:53] <exec> 08└─That's probably the example I was thinking of, I just didn't remember the details. The problem is much more obvious with four choices rather than three.
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[08:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:58] <exec> 08└─Almost every restaurant / bar from Burger King to the classy wine bar down the street now has big flat panel TVs in every corner blaring away either basketball, #metoo, Syrian terrorists, Donald Trump and Mexicans or whatever. Its just a bunch of noise chatter, and ruins the entire experience. If I...
[08:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:59] <exec> 08└─This morning on the way in to work I heard a report on BBC Radio 4. It started on the news that the British Museum's (disused) reading room is to host a performance [thetimes.co.uk] of Ligeti’s Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes. The report then drifted into discussing just how quiet libraries...
[08:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:01] <exec> 08└─On the "too quiet" front, many years ago I visited a county archives with my father. We commented on how pleasant it was to have a classical music radio station playing quietly in the background, something neither of us have encountered elsewhere. The archivist thanked us for our comments, and expla...
[08:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:04] <exec> 08└─This trend in restaurants may have started in NYC, but the trend of music in places where people spend money is anything but new. Many UK supermarkets and stores have done this for decades on end. Ten years or so ago, licensing bodies started to get pickier about workplaces that have a radio turned...
[08:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:32] <exec> 08└─Probably don't even need that [depauw.edu].
[08:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:49] <exec> 08└─In Sacramento. A fucking credit union blowing its wad on regional advertising. Needless to say my family have been moving money away from them over this and other stupid policy/staffing choices at their organization.
[08:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:39] <exec> 08└─I'd rather there be jobs for everyone, because it is good for one's self-esteem and health to have something to do that is at least marginally useful. Restart the Depression Era government agencies-- the Works Progress Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps.
[08:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:30] <exec> 08└─That's another thing with the new phones. You can make it so when a bad (or sick) person calls, the bell doesn't ring. Sounds to them like it's ringing, it's not ringing. But it rings when the right people call. Without getting a court order!
[08:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:32] <exec> 08└─How would you like to be the next Director of the CIA?
[08:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:34] <exec> 08└─I had to "whitelist" my phone so that if the incoming call did not match up with my contact list, no answer. But that does not help much if I need to be accessible to the public. Its like having a storefront, but all the winos keep coming in. Keep the door locked and my customers go somewhere else....
[08:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:05] <exec> 08└─A pdf of the paper is here: https://www.cambridge.org [cambridge.org] It is an interesting read. It migh...
[08:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 3210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:51] <exec> 08└─Stuff like that is precisely why I try my best to remain anonymous on the internet. Anonymous also meaning that I cannot BUY. We all know by now that the internet is not a real safe place - there is a helluva lotta fraud going on... worse than a door-to-door salesman. You better know who you are de...
[08:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:30] <exec> 08└─This may be the only way they know for sure they don't have malware embedded in the silicon itself like INTEL's "management engine". If I had secrets - secrets that I was accountable for - and I am not talking "business-grade" secrets that if leaked, oh well, kind of thing.... I could not sleep at n...
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[09:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:05] <exec> 08└─My eyes roll when I'm in a bank and hear "You're listening to HSBC live!"
[09:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:06] <exec> 08└─His recording from the Sistine Chapel has the sound of security guards shouting(!) at tourists to be quiet
[09:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:08] <exec> 08└─2016 https://www.newstatesman.com [newstatesman.com] 2013 https://www.goodfood.com.au [goodfood.com.au] 2012 http://articles.latimes.com
[09:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:11] <exec> 08└─The report then drifted into discussing just how quiet libraries are today,
[09:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, well, copyright is sick. We have the same thing where I live: every household is required to pay an annual license to cover radio/television. Given that, you might assume that every person in the country would be covered - but no: every business also has to pay, because they might play the radi...
[09:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:15] <exec> 08└─DelTaco has some nice music... or, at least, I like it better than most streams I have listened to. I'd like to find out if they are streaming it and how to tie into the stream. However, from what I can tell, some "expert" gets the store internet running, the sales registers tie in, as does the musi...
[09:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cray CS500 Supercomputers to Include AMD's Epyc as a Processor Option - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:26] <exec> 08└─Who would be the customers of these? Finite element analysis companies? I really wonder if anybody wants a custom designed computer like this.
[09:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:54] <exec> 08└─The theory is that if you have your basic needs met, you can invent your time in a long-term plan to get rich/make money. Unofficially, that is what happened a lot in the UK in the 1960's: if you were unemployed (and lied a lot) you could get enough benefits to survive on, at the cost of going to th...
[09:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:55] <exec> 08└─No, you'd have to raise taxes where all the wealth is accumulating. The problem is that labour as a means to keep the distribution of wealth somewhat balanced seems to be failing, most likely because an increasing part of what needs to be done to keep us confortable is being done by machines. If UBI...
[09:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:20] <exec> 08└─So Elon Musk's roadster is in fact Russels teapot? https://en.wikipedia.org's_teapot [wikipedia.org]
[09:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:22] <exec> 08└─Ours is the first industrial civilization, but only by a hair. The ancient Greeks were about to begin their industrial revolution, when the middle ages happened. I once saw a documentary, demonstrating that the ancient Greeks had all the parts of the technology required to build a steam engine, desc...
[09:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:46] <exec> 08└─Facebook is malware.
[09:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:47] <exec> 08└─Thank LRH we've got OT III to deal with them.
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[10:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:52] <exec> 08└─Could author please do one on normal fiat currency first then maybe advance to crypto after? As it is he does not understand the first so has little chance of getting its bastard child.
[10:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:53] <exec> 08└─"Mars and beyond"?? If anyone believes fiat currency is going to work "out there", they haven't done much reading about the history of any global frontiers.. Trade and barter, then sometimes company scrip, then, when there is sufficient law ebforcement, tradable paper bills, underwritten by a govern...
[10:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:15] <exec> 08└─By their very nature, restaurants are going to be noisy with all the din of utensils clattering on dishes. Then there's the kitchen noise. All the mixed conversations of several dozen diners, either eating or shuffling back and forth to entrances, tables, and the washroom. And for the grand finale.....
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[10:40:26] <exec> 08└─Overall fairly interesting. Sad that they won't conclude the project before starting to messing with the model. But they seems to be quite clear on a few issues that have popped up. While I'm not completely familiar with the Finnish welfare system I do assume it's somewhat similar to the systems of...
[10:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:55] <exec> 08└─I think you need to look up the definition of ownership.
[10:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:21] <exec> 08└─Things like stainless steel
[10:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:22] <exec> 08└─Space is very big. Anything in an orbit high enough to survive for even a few thousand years is somewhere in a volume of space vastly bigger than the total space occupied by humans. It's also a volume of space that is littered with large numbers of objects, some of which have very high metal content...
[10:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:25] <exec> 08└─Time and scale. Dinosaurs are believed to have lived over a period of over 50 million years and to have covered most of the Earth's landmass for that time. We have found, on average, less than one dinosaur-related find for each year that the dinosaurs lived and many of the ones that we have found ar...
[10:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:28] <exec> 08└─True, but after a few million? Those big pyramids will be weathered down and overgrown so they'll just look like small hills. Flint tools may survive, but would anyone notice a few chipped flints and extrapolate a civilisation from them?
[10:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second-Largest Blackout in World History Hits Puerto Rico - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:02] <exec> 08└─That might be true elsewhere, but NYC for one gets its water from upstate and that's gravity fed. Sewage flows into the harbor, which the ocean kindly flushes every few hours. The smell would suck for the first couple of days, but the nose adjusts quickly. Ask people in farm country if they notice t...
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[11:38:53] <exec> 08└─That's damned nifty. Not as amazing as if they could do the same thing with bacon but still neat.
[11:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Graphene Roll-Out - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:54] <exec> 08└─Not as amazing as if they could do the same thing with bacon but still meat
[11:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:04] <exec> 08└─I prefer this one: Bitcoin was allegedly invented by Satoshi Nakamoto which could be a pseudonym of a man or a group of people, suspected to live in the US. “Nakamoto’s” identity is believed to be commonwealth origin, due to the vocabulary used in his writings. One of his close associates is p...
[11:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:26] <exec> 08└─For myself, I find packed, loud restaurants unpleasant - and I won't go back.
[11:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cray CS500 Supercomputers to Include AMD's Epyc as a Processor Option - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:38] <exec> 08└─A better question... Is it fast enough to run Win10?
[11:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:09] <exec> 08└─note to self: I've been found out, move reset button elsewhere.
[11:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:26] <exec> 08└─It depends a bit on how the submission works. I'm aware of a couple of cases. In one, someone edited the ToS in a text field in the installer that had been left editable. The judge ruled that since the edited version was provided to software under the control of the company that the software was act...
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[12:39:04] <exec> 08└─I'll have some of whatever they're smoking, please! They're not just damned by historical precedent (not that learning from history seems to be a thing anymore), they're damned by the practicalities of latency. You're talking round trip times of tens of minutes and up into tens of hours for any inte...
[12:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:05] <exec> 08└─TL;DR is basically my summary of the first two paragraphs. Didn't bother to read the rest. First paragraph is spend half on porn-related coins... why? Second paragraph goes into the financials, starting with the first pizza bought with BTC (I was there that day), which was that value worth that day....
[12:39:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edinlinux [4637] 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 691 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:16] <exec> 08└─Almost every restaurant / bar from Burger King to the classy wine bar down the street now has big flat panel TVs in every corner blaring away either basketball, #metoo, Syrian terrorists, Donald Trump and Mexicans or whatever. Its just a bunch of noise chatter, and ruins the entire experience. If I...
[12:40:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 336 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:35] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I didn't read TFA, barely got through TFS when I read "The participants, aged 25–58, are all unemployed ..." Basically, this sounds not at all like UBI and exactly like an alternative unemployment benefit. Since it does not get applied universally to all people, only those who aren't working...
[12:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:10] <exec> 08└─Capitalism depends on people being productive, not unemployed.
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[12:43:42] <exec> 08└─"So who, when and why built Baalbek? These are the most asked questions when it comes to Baalbek. These huge megaliths were cut, transported through very rugged terrain and then placed into position with great precision so that a firm and unshakable foundation of over 400,000 m2 could be achieved."...
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[13:38:50] <exec> 08└─I can't understand what "fewest attempts in the least cumulative time" means. I don't think the problem is with me.
[13:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:52] <exec> 08└─"fastest and with less fuckups"
[13:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:54] <exec> 08└─Teams are assessed a time penalty for incorrect submissions. Therefore it is in a team's best interest to complete the problems correctly, quickly.
[13:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:13] <exec> 08└─Currency requires scarcity. The ideal digital currency is fully instantiated from the start. Any scheme which is unbounded (Ethereum) or deferred (BitCoin) dilutes in an attempt to lure speculators. Multiple scams have been executed with undifferentiated BitCoin code.
[13:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:36] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem may be that "fatty" is assumed to be "pure fat" in some soups; but mine was supposed to be a mix of other cuts that are lean. There was gristle. There's no excuse for gristle.
[13:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:38] <exec> 08└─A while back I tried a "Jimmy Johns" sandwich shop near me. They had music blaring so loud I had to yell when I placed the order. I'd imagine people working there would go deaf quickly. No chance in hell I'm going back there. Also noticed similar at a new Zaxby's (Suxby's). Blaring loud music. They...
[13:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:40] <exec> 08└─The court in the capital of the Shilla kingdom, Kyeongju, in Korea, ate their summer meals in a garden [wikipedia.org], Poseok-jeong, where a winding water course bore floating dishes. I thought that ideal for the reasons you're talking about.
[13:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:42] <exec> 08└─Also (and this is really off-topic, I know, but I can't help)... If you go back and order the meatballs, note that many pho places seem to deliberately include hunks of gristle (and tendon) in their meatball mix. I can't figure out how it would happen otherwise, given the fine grind I've seen with m...
[13:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:45] <exec> 08└─And I should have left that church a lot earlier. This line needs to be emphasized here. It's absolutely true, no matter which church you're talking about, if it's a church in America, and it's not just because of the noise level.
[13:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:47] <exec> 08└─For chain restaurants, I like Panera Bread, and many of them seem to be reasonably quiet. The food is generally very good for the price, and I've found it to be a nice place to hang out with my laptop and use the free wi-fi. Some locations are better than others for this though, so YMMV.
[13:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:49] <exec> 08└─Even my Church got so loud I had to leave.
[13:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:51] <exec> 08└─I know the acoustic treatments can be spendy, but I can't help but think restaurants would attract more satisfied repeat customers if they went back to taking the noise issue more seriously as a design requirement. I completely disagree. They'd get more satisfied repeat customers from the older part...
[13:41:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 1000 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:24] <exec> 08└─Because that's not how that works. First off, this pilot didn't fail, it was stopped a year early for political reasons. We won't know for some time whether it worked or not as the numbers haven't yet been crunched. Secondly, that's not how monetary policy works. Money that the government spends doe...
[13:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:35] <exec> 08└─but then we'd have to raise taxes on the workers.
[13:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:37] <exec> 08└─But not why other than the parliament voted to go in a different direction. Without such information it's idiotic to judge the program as a failure. We need results to do that.
[13:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:39] <exec> 08└─If there are no jobs, or not enough jobs, paying into the government to fund the ubi, then wtf is the ubi suppose to do.
[13:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:41] <exec> 08└─Notice how the people *for* UBI are rich, and those against generally aren't... That's because the rich know who's going to be the first to lose their heads.
[13:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:43] <exec> 08└─This left you a lot of free time to learn to play the guitar and start a rock band or start a fashion house, or go and live somewhere else where jobs are to be had, or become a dope dealer and learn practical capitalism. As a result of this, eventually, the economy started booming (the singing 60's...
[13:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:57] <exec> 08└─Use a ＣＹＢＥＲ condom. Penetrate those robo-whore CPUs.
[13:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:16] <exec> 08└─Somebody prompted me with the thought that, at the population density of New York, 7.6 billion people fit in the space of Texas. So, if you did that, how many nuclear power plants would it take to desalinate 760 billion gallons of water per day? I ran the numbers, desalination is surprisingly effici...
[13:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:18] <exec> 08└─In any way that we can detect or comprehend, yet.
[13:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:20] <exec> 08└─would anyone notice a few chipped flints and extrapolate a civilisation from them?
[13:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:22] <exec> 08└─Relative to what? Ourselves? We've made great progress in the last few years, but "complete" would not be in my description of our understanding of... almost anything.
[13:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:25] <exec> 08└─Ok? What was that suppose to say or imply? Reading up on that project indicates the large blocks were part of a Roman engineering project which would have had the manpower and technology to move them. No one is disputing that the Romans existed.
[13:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Maine Supreme Court Approves Ranked-Choice Voting for 2018 Elections - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:30] <exec> 08└─"Why do they sit back and do nothing" So your argument is that law abiding gun owners aren't out killing people they don't agree with politically, so they should lose their guns?
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[14:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:52] <exec> 08└─CIA Fifth-columnist. Trump will bring you down.
[14:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:54] <exec> 08└─Bezos is actually a rich billionaire. Trump is just another single-digit billionaire, if that. Bezos is also developing his own ICBMs.
[14:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:05] <exec> 08└─I got to "compete" in the world finals twenty years ago. My team didn't have a chance, but it was a really fun experience just being there. That year it was sponsored by IBM and I got to meet some of the researchers behind Deep Blue. I may not have won, but competing in programming contests was grea...
[14:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:07] <exec> 08└─Ruski don't understand computer.
[14:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:09] <exec> 08└─I was also in that. On the team of 4 that won the regional, and went on to the international. We should have done better, had a bad day, but as you say just being there was an experience. The winners got to meet President George H. W. Bush, the rest of us got to watch him walk out of the White House...
[14:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:11] <exec> 08└─I was on a team that won. It must suck being only fourth-best, and not being as smart as I am. The women on all the teams lined up to suck my dick in the hotel later that night while you all were beating your dicks and crying. I even got the fat ugly ones.
[14:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:32] <exec> 08└─The current state of digital money shows promise but it also shows that so much more can be achieved. The perfect currency is: Widely accepted.Cannot be stolen.Cannot be traced.Cannot be unilaterally diluted.
[14:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:34] <exec> 08└─Simple: EarthCoin, MarsCoin, and SolCoin. SolCoin has difficult mining and correspondingly huge block times, so that what planet you're on doesn't really matter. EarthCoin and MarsCoin are both planet-scale blockchains, with block times that are more amenable to buying lunch. Note that this scheme c...
[14:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:36] <exec> 08└─Is the usecase for AndromedaCoin to be the currency when the andomeda galaxy is colonized? And people are already trading it today?
[14:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:38] <exec> 08└─The first paragraph is so interesting. I thought ButtCoin was a joke. Maybe it's not a joke. What about PussyCoin?
[14:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:40] <exec> 08└─A theoretical proposal for the distant and unlikely future, love. I know of no actual AndromedaCoin, though I wouldn't be surprised if somebody has already made it as a joke. If we spread to Andromeda, we'll probably be quite a different than we are today.
[14:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:11] <exec> 08└─A couple years ago in the Tri-State area some of the gas stations started putting TVs on the gas pumps. You can't get away from the damn things. They're like that loud, obnoxious, unattractive person you hooked up with at a drunken blow-out years ago who keeps stalking you. TV, I'm not into you and...
[14:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:13] <exec> 08└─one interviewee described the sound "of 400 academics breathing and murmuring"
[14:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:15] <exec> 08└─That's an excellent movie. The poetry is rare in film. I can still hear the children's song [youtube.com], "Warum bin ich ich, and warum nicht Du? Warum bin ich hier, und warum nicht dort?" ("Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there?") But as somebody else in the thread pointed...
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[14:40:27] <exec> 08└─$PHYSICS , $CHEMISTRY $MACHINE_LEARNING. On that note, when is AMD going to add AVX512* to these CPU's?
[14:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03schusselig [6771] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:49] <exec> 08└─... STEM advocacy, ... training for social media, video, online marketing and e-commerce.
[14:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:07] <exec> 08└─Define "failed" and "success" in relation to this silly program. And, I hate to inform you, but governmental debt does have to be paid back. If it didn't, we wouldn't be paying our central bank interest on all the money in circulation. If debts don't have to be repaid, then we wouldn't even keep tra...
[14:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 2267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:08] <exec> 08└─A) It wasn't Universal. This could be regarded in two different forms. First, it was a pilot so it did not apply to an entire population. I'm sure certain things can be learned by limited studies, but to get the full effect you have to allow it to apply to all persons and not a limited subset. Secon...
[14:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:11] <exec> 08└─The problem is that labour as a means to keep the distribution of wealth somewhat balanced seems to be failing
[14:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:13] <exec> 08└─extra tax on pollution/unhealthy food
[14:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:15] <exec> 08└─Easy with the line, feeds tiger, other people have, different, width monitors/viewport than you... Just let the computer worry about them.
[14:42:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:44] <exec> 08└─Just one. By 97 million ants.
[14:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:09] <exec> 08└─A guy in Florida called 97 million times? OK look, he's not malicious just really really old
[14:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:55] <exec> 08└─We have found, on average, less than one dinosaur-related find for each year that the dinosaurs lived and many of the ones that we have found are the result of specifically looking in rock strata that are expected to be likely to hold such things on the basis of prior finds.
[14:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:56] <exec> 08└─I was going to say the same thing. The premise is that over millions of years crust gets subducted and recycled, so it's tough to think of tells that would last that long. It's pretty darn recent that we found enough evidence to support the theory of plate tectonics (in the 1950's and 60's), and it'...
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[15:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:57] <exec> 08└─"Numerical reveal?" The tone of this press release is disturbing. What makes you think I care? Amazon "news?" Let me know when they die. Otherwise I'm not interested.
[15:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:58] <exec> 08└─"Bezos is also developing his own ICBMs" Will they be included with Prime membership or are they the new delivery system called ICBM-AMZL? Placing a Prime order and choosing ICBM-AMZL for 5 second delivery might upset my neighbors.
[15:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:01] <exec> 08└─Amabezos Blue Origin suborbital and orbital ICBMs can strike any target on the planet.
[15:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:03] <exec> 08└─Bezos cannot continue his nuclear program while his people starve, living on handouts from the international community. We will invade and put an end to his dictatorship!
[15:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:05] <exec> 08└─You're going to be waiting a Very, Very Long time.
[15:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:08] <exec> 08└─...I thought Amazon was announcing they'd discovered the number of prime NUMBERS, which would indeed be surprising. (Yes, I know the proofs that there are infinitely many primes).
[15:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 2230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:10] <exec> 08└─I used to order stuff from Amazon all the time. I practically shopped there for everything. But over time the stuff I wanted to buy became mostly "2 day shipping" where they define "2 days" as something like 5 actual days. And for most classes of item I care about, it is significantly more expensive...
[15:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:23] <exec> 08└─I even got the fat ugly ones.
[15:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Graphene Roll-Out - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:33] <exec> 08└─They just now figured out how to mass-produce the material. It's a bit early to demand the existence of mass-produced products based on it, don't you think? Imagine in the stone age: "Hey, look, I've found out how to make and control fire!" "Useless stuff. I've never seen anyone doing anything usefu...
[15:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, the properties he names are somewhat self-contradictory. However, he did say that they are ideals of a "perfect" currency. Which I take to mean: something to strive for. One can make a currency difficult to steal, and difficult to trace. Something like Monero leans in this direction. The...
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─We can have fun arguing your points or even challenging your thesis, but I found your article to be very interesting and I wanted to say that I am very appreciative that you wrote and posted it here.
[15:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:55] <exec> 08└─Also, "proof of work" needs to be replaced. It is wasteful, and there are better alternatives.
[15:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:57] <exec> 08└─3. just isn't a property of currency, period. Even one dollar bills are printed with serial numbers. Metal coins have the property of untraceability, unless you follow the person who is exchanging the coin - just as: if you attempt to actually use the wallet while Big Brother is watching, eventually...
[15:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:00] <exec> 08└─Also, "proof of work" needs to be replaced. It is wasteful, and there are better alternatives.
[15:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:02] <exec> 08└─Has anyone ever calculated how much energy is wasted due to the ubiquitous DRM?
[15:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 1655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:36] <exec> 08└─In the UK, we have pubs. Pubs can be: - Quiet family place, roaring fire, oak beams, garden out the back, bartender's dog asleep under the bar etc. etc. - Loud "bar" full of raucous sports-fans watching Sky Sports and getting drunk. or anywhere in between. Literally, if you advertise your pub as hav...
[15:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:37] <exec> 08└─One reason bars are noisy is that when people can't converse because of the noise, they drink more. Similarly, if you remove the seats and have trendy tables at a convenient hight to stand at, people drink more - they don't sit back, relax and chat. Noisy bars without seats make more money. They wil...
[15:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:40] <exec> 08└─You seem to know only the wrong Americans. New York City is to Americans as Paris is to the wonderful people of France.
[15:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cray CS500 Supercomputers to Include AMD's Epyc as a Processor Option - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:53] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6o1tym/ryzen_and_lack_fo_avx_256512/ [reddit.com] Not anytime soon.
[15:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe they've only bought Raspberry Pis? Though, even that has some blob.
[15:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:19] <exec> 08└─How many dinosaurs ever lived? Probably billions. How many eggs did they lay? Many, many billions certainly. How many of those have we found? Very few.
[15:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:20] <exec> 08└─Oh, you're going semantic on me again. The question of "civilization" can only be framed relative to our concept of what is civilization, and Douglas Adams pretty much covered this with his bit about the dolphins. Industrial civilization, as conceived by us, implies shelter. So, if we meet creatures...
[15:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy for Beta-Thalassemia Blood Disorder - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:14] <exec> 08└─The hetero disorder (one bad copy of beta-globin, tagged Beta-thalassemia-minor) is not fatal, and has been shown to be slightly protective of malaria (due to reduced RBC size). Hence, many members of populations where malaria is commonplace, will have a chance of offspring carrying the double mutat...
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[16:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:02] <exec> 08└─I think there must a big proportion of people with Prime that signed up for it by accident. The checkout process has stuff about trying Prime plastered everywhere prominently and then the buttons to continue without it seem to be pretty well hidden. I suspect the tactic is working. Then there are pe...
[16:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:04] <exec> 08└─I've gotten at least $150 worth of stuff for free by contacting customer service when stuff was egregiously late or the internal shipping tracker showed no information about when the item would arrive. Much of that was from a slightly discounted $100 grocery gift card that didn't arrive on time. If...
[16:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:19] <exec> 08└─Oh, Ruski understand computers. If you listen to MSNBC, the Russians are super-genius hackers who are secretly controlling everything that Americans think about Hillary Clinton, stole emails from Clinton, the DNC, and many top campaign aides, and of course changed the vote totals to ensure Trump won...
[16:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Graphene Roll-Out - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:29] <exec> 08└─There have been similar announcements for years about mass production of graphene, including from... you guessed it, MIT: Jan 2018: Standard Graphene succeeded in mass production of Graphene [globenewswire.com] 2017: Explosions may be the answer to mass-producing graphene [engadget.com] 2016: Mass p...
[16:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Graphene Roll-Out - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:31] <exec> 08└─The older MIT article seems to describe exactly the process they now demonstrated. You know, from having an idea to having an actual working product, it takes some time. As far as I can tell, the only other article describing an already working production is the one from January this year. Which is...
[16:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:55] <exec> 08└─So I wrote up a long summary of trying to understand the author's arguments and navigate the claims being made (most without substantiation). Then I decided that perhaps I'd like a nice cup of tea. That, plus this reads more like a journal entry, seems more likely.
[16:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 3032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:57] <exec> 08└─I take issue with your requirements for a digital currency: 1 - Requiring scarcity - I strongly disagree about having the currency fully instantiated from the start. Take a look at Ripple as they essentially did just that. The result is a single entity holding virtually all the tokens. This centrali...
[16:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:35] <exec> 08└─I've been all over America. Americans are pretty universally loud; it isn't just NYC. Notice that TFA specifically cited a restaurant in DC. They do tend to be quieter in the coastal west-coast cities though. They're significantly taller there too. Certain subcultures also tend to be louder than oth...
[16:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:37] <exec> 08└─Kitchen noise shouldn't be a problem: the kitchen should be isolated from the dining area so customers can't hear anything going on in there. As for babies, the article seemed to be talking a lot about higher-end restaurants, where there shouldn't be any babies or young children. It's not an appropr...
[16:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:39] <exec> 08└─Oh, yes, that's right. American churches. The European ones are SO much cooler. You are such a pathetic tool.
[16:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:41] <exec> 08└─Hey Grandpa, if the music's too loud, you're too old.
[16:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:43] <exec> 08└─> American churches. The European ones are SO much cooler. Made of ancient stone, badly heated, and mostly empty outside of Christmas/Easter. They are literally a lot cooler. Much much fewer are Evangelical, too.
[16:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:41] <exec> 08└─Not everyone who is paying taxes is earning the money by working. The simplest and most obvious case being property owners renting out their property.
[16:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─You mean this ECS? https://www.newegg.com [newegg.com] I built a computer just after Ryzen 7 was released. Ryzen 7 1700 RX480 8GB (Got this for Way Cheaper than the current asking price!) 32GB RAM 1TB SSD MSI B...
[16:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:00] <exec> 08└─here, here!
[16:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:41] <exec> 08└─this fucker deserves something harsh.
[16:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:58] <exec> 08└─It won't be more resistant to malware. A microprocessor just executes instructions. It doesn't know if they are maleware. What it will do is to fracture the size of teams that do analysis on machine code malware.
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[17:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ZTE Responds to U.S. Ban on Sales by American Companies to ZTE - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:52] <exec> 08└─But they aren't done with their investigation! Just because they found many occurrences of our breaking the settlement agreement doesn't mean we should receive the harshest penalty! We haven't even had a chance to hire a lobbying firm or make political contributions yet!
[17:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ZTE Responds to U.S. Ban on Sales by American Companies to ZTE - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:54] <exec> 08└─If you look closely you will see the world's smallest violin playing "my heart bleeds for you." Hopefully this will serve as an example to other companies when planning their future business strategies.
[17:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ZTE Responds to U.S. Ban on Sales by American Companies to ZTE - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:56] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to letting the market sort things out? Less than ten years from now, when the Chinese chip manufacturers are done overtaking the US ones, funded by billions from Huawei and ZTE, Broadcom, Qualcomm and co will cry a river about jobs and competition.
[17:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:14] <exec> 08└─I get a vague sense that they price up the items when I am about to order stuff.
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:16] <exec> 08└─Trump's going to build a wall around Amazon to keep the AMZL Uber delivery drivers from crossing the street.
[17:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:18] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if I'm counted in those 100 million, perhaps twice. I've signed up for free prime trials, twice now (at some point they decided to let me try again for free), and always canceled before the month is over. Wondering even more, since I hold one of two accounts in a household of 4... I as...
[17:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:21] <exec> 08└─I just made my first trip to WalMart in about a year this morning (3 miles from home). I needed distilled water, windshield washer fluid, toothpaste, silicone caulk and 4 drinking glasses - the shipping on $0.82 gallon jugs just isn't practical, so... First thing I saw upon entering was a (somewhat...
[17:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:23] <exec> 08└─That's why they have to build new headquarters away from Seattle, where the average launch conditions are far from perfect.
[17:39:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 580 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:55] <exec> 08└─"Mars and beyond"?? If anyone believes fiat currency is going to work "out there", they haven't done much reading about the history of any global frontiers.. Trade and barter, then sometimes company scrip, then, when there is sufficient law ebforcement, tradable paper bills, underwritten by a govern...
[17:40:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:00] <exec> 08└─The current state of digital money shows promise but it also shows that so much more can be achieved. The perfect currency is: Widely accepted.Cannot be stolen.Cannot be traced.Cannot be unilaterally diluted.
[17:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:14] <exec> 08└─You're confused. Items 2 and 3 are not contradicting. You don't need to trace ownership to a name, only to a claim. If I claim to own this BT, then you should be able to confirm that without knowing exactly who I am. I think BT allows that.
[17:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:57] <exec> 08└─Asian food places (except maybe Sushi) are noisy by design. It's considered "lively". Not exactly a surprise to Americans. Europeans are much more sensitive to noise pollution (no 140dB cop sirens), so the average restaurant is less systematically noisy, unless it's targeting younger crowds.
[17:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:58] <exec> 08└─The last time I ate at a place with garden dining, I heard other patrons complaining about the hornets' nest as I waited for a table. I opted to eat indoors.
[17:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:01] <exec> 08└─...in the Tri-State area ...
[17:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:03] <exec> 08└─There is a Lifehacker article [lifehacker.com] explaining which button to push to silence these things.
[17:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:39] <exec> 08└─STEM = Social Media, Trendspotting, E-Commerce, and Marketing. I've never heard of your version of the acronym.
[17:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:57] <exec> 08└─I mean Robert J. and Nancy D. CarneyNews doesn't exactly roll off your tongue...
[17:42:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 1231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:48] <exec> 08└─The theory is that if you have your basic needs met, you can invent your time in a long-term plan to get rich/make money. Unofficially, that is what happened a lot in the UK in the 1960's: if you were unemployed (and lied a lot) you could get enough benefits to survive on, at the cost of going to th...
[17:42:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:49] <exec> 08└─No, you'd have to raise taxes where all the wealth is accumulating. The problem is that labour as a means to keep the distribution of wealth somewhat balanced seems to be failing, most likely because an increasing part of what needs to be done to keep us confortable is being done by machines. If UBI...
[17:42:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:52] <exec> 08└─note to self: I've been found out, move reset button elsewhere.
[17:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:05] <exec> 08└─Later, the Socialists were elected to power (Harold Wilson) and the economy tanked.
[17:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:07] <exec> 08└─Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
[17:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:09] <exec> 08└─But seriously, I remember reading a comment on The Other Site awhile back (2016) about how the politicians in Finland are being particularly fun. https://news.slashdot.org [slashdot.org]
[17:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:27] <exec> 08└─Congrats on your Vive! Haven't heard of ST: Bridge Crew, just picked it up. If you bought that RX480 right after Ryzen release it was probably 200-240$ I know because i also had an RX480 from last February. They are still worth over 400$ despite being a previous generation middle tier card. Wanted t...
[17:47:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:05] <exec> 08└─give it some Alexa type voice interface (which FB AFAIK does not have...)
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[18:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:57] <exec> 08└─The earths magnetic field protect us but the moon n has no magnetic field
[18:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:58] <exec> 08└─Embrace the radiation, for the children of those who survive the mutations will be at the forefront of the new human space race! Space darwinism!
[18:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ZTE Responds to U.S. Ban on Sales by American Companies to ZTE - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:09] <exec> 08└─It's time to establish that smartphones are protected under the first amendment as speeh enabling devices (just like printing presses). And software source code is speech, how can you ban the sale of that? National security? Ahem. BULLSHIT. While radio usage might not be, as long as they accept a st...
[18:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ZTE Responds to U.S. Ban on Sales by American Companies to ZTE - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:10] <exec> 08└─I would personally like to see cellular modems designed with a WORM 'flash log' for the cellular modem, have it keep a timestamp when the clock is properly configured, a hash of the image uploaded, and maybe some other metadata to help determine if it was an authorized or modified firmware image. Th...
[18:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ZTE Responds to U.S. Ban on Sales by American Companies to ZTE - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:12] <exec> 08└─I doubt that Trump and his closest advisers (at least the ones that are left) have even heard of Sun Tuz, much less have studied "The Art War". Our current administration has jumped into a fray without fully studying the situation and having a clear objective. Unless there is a change of thinking at...
[18:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:36] <exec> 08└─They used to go out of their way to get Prime orders delivered on time, or even early. Now, you are lucky if it ships by the promised (on the order screen, that "Want it [two days from now]? Order in the next 6 hours 43 minutes and..." part) delivery date. To make it even worse, they always use USPS...
[18:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:37] <exec> 08└─Toothpaste is a lot cheaper than Amazon at my local grocery store. But for toothpaste, I merely buy whichever type is currently on the best sale. If someone always bought the same brand it might be competitive, dunno. Office supplies are definitely a ripoff at brick and mortar stores. I would think...
[18:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:39] <exec> 08└─They very rarely use USPS now in my area. Almost everything is delivered by their own people, "Amzl". Which makes the games they play with their definition of "shipping time" even more ridiculous (they define "2 day" as "2 days to your house after it leaves the nearest warehouse", which has little m...
[18:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:42] <exec> 08└─Speaking of reviews, they used to be worth something, now they are useless.
[18:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:44] <exec> 08└─We're in a big low density city, so we've got WalMarts in something resembling a 6 mile grid coverage.
[18:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:00] <exec> 08└─Sarah Sharp sucked my dick that night. That is all douchebags like me need, hombre.
[18:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 2073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:38] <exec> 08└─There are reasons why it doesn't have wide acceptance though: 1. Most importantly, nobody really has any reason to bother. Potential customers holding Bitcoin also as a general rule have access to dollars, pounds, euros, yen, etc, so you aren't foregoing much if any business by not accepting Bitcoin...
[18:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:25] <exec> 08└─TV, I'm not into you and never was. That moment we had years ago was, well, a mistake that I regret. So, why doncha move on m'kay bye
[18:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:26] <exec> 08└─You are making assumptions. There are decent churches in the US, at least. I know of three. I don't go to any of them, being a heretical gnostic pagan of the Jungian faith, but they are still good churches. They do their best to promote ethics and self-awareness. And they fulfill a social need that...
[18:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:28] <exec> 08└─The bizarre thing is it really shouldn't be that difficult to bring the noise levels down, but I guess all the decorative elements that used to help with that, like carpeting and drapes and columns and partitions between seating areas, have become stuffy and passé. I have fond memories of a long-va...
[18:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:31] <exec> 08└─Original AC here. I had a feeling that I might have something to learn about Pho, so I'm not going to two-star this place. It was packed for a reason. Maybe I'll just have to admit that I don't like *authentic* Pho.
[18:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:33] <exec> 08└─You know, in the '60's lots of people liked to go to places with really loud music. It took a few years, but many of them have ended up deaf. I avoided those places, and I've still got decent hearing. This is just one data point, so don't take it too seriously, but others have reported the same thin...
[18:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:35] <exec> 08└─Even hospitals. I have gotten to the point where the thing I hate most about sitting around in a hospital waiting room is that you can't avoid the TV. But most people seem to like them. If I turn the thing off when the room is empty, someone will come in and turn it on. I've got a bad knee, but I st...
[18:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:37] <exec> 08└─That's an odd conclusion. I don't like fancy places, and I don't like noisy places. So I generally go to small non-chain restaurants. I find they do quite well and have a low noise level. I prefer a restaurant where the lighting is such that I can read, and if there isn't a line waiting to get in (I...
[18:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:41] <exec> 08└─To me, it seems obvious that taxing job-stealing robots (whatever those are) is the way to fund UBI. After all, if the program is created to combat the loss of jobs to robots, it stands to reason that they should fund it. It's analogous to funding environmental clean-up with a tax on pollution. This...
[18:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:43] <exec> 08└─Probably not a large scale, but Canada is also doing a similar experiment [theguardian.com].
[18:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:45] <exec> 08└─Also, ending a 2-year project at the end of 2 years doesn't really meet the definition of "killing" to me.
[18:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:48] <exec> 08└─First, our H1B program should only give H1B status to Americans. Second, if we must hire more H1B workers, they need to be US Citizens, born, raised, and employed on American soil. Please sign an executive order.
[18:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:48] <exec> 08└─Does the word "Caller-ID Spoofing" ring a bell? That's too much cyber for the Donald. He'll get his nephew on that one for you.
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[19:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:59] <exec> 08└─The earths magnetic field protect us but the moon n has no magnetic field
[19:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:01] <exec> 08└─The LOP-G [wikipedia.org] will be exposed to just as much radiation as the Moon, and they will allow astronauts to live on it... for up to 21 days. Maybe that is insufficient and the project will be scrapped [thespacereview.com]. You could land similar modules or Bigelow inflatable modules [wikipedi...
[19:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:03] <exec> 08└─And Lava Tubes! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:05] <exec> 08└─> radiation protection equivalent to the ISS We do need more, given that ISS is protected by the Earth. Also, a moon base is in the sun continuously for 2 weeks, unless buried, followed by 2 weeks of extreme cold. The thermal inertia that helps protect your metals from degradation during 92-minute o...
[19:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:08] <exec> 08└─Build it underground [utk.edu] has been the plan for decades.
[19:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:10] <exec> 08└─We've been here before. [cnn.com] The real problem is any such plan will almost certainly outlive the term of the President proposing it. Then the next one will kill it.
[19:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ZTE Responds to U.S. Ban on Sales by American Companies to ZTE - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:23] <exec> 08└─It's time to establish that smartphones are protected under the first amendment as speeh enabling devices (just like printing presses).
[19:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ZTE Responds to U.S. Ban on Sales by American Companies to ZTE - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:24] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to letting the market sort things out?
[19:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:54] <exec> 08└─That's not much in California these days. In central California there is a huge Amazon "Fulfillment Center" in the small town of Patterson, right near Hiway 5. It is less than 20 miles to the much larger city of Turlock. The cost of housing in this area used to be much less than in the San Francisco...
[19:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Graphene Roll-Out - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:22] <exec> 08└─Of course, there's also not much point in mass producing the stuff unless there's some mass-consumer for it. Presumably a mass-producer of other products. But, if the graphene egg is indeed now possible to mass produce, then the chicken shouldn't be far behind - researchers have developed LOTS of ap...
[19:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Graphene Roll-Out - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:24] <exec> 08└─Unless there's some way of knitting, weaving, or welding together strips of graphene then this can only have limited applications. I can see that it could be extended to making strips that are quite lengthy, but the width, IIRC (see today's Next Big Future https://www.nextbigfuture.com [nextbigfutu...
[19:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:53] <exec> 08└─It actually was written like a typical professional journalism piece - enticing teaser in the opening paragraph, followed by entertaining twaddle with little substantiation, rounded out with vague hand waving suggestions about how things could be better. I'd swear that this is the same formula for e...
[19:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry, could you expand on: "Store of value" please? What, if any, value is inherently stored in any fiat currency? I mean, even gold - it's hard to get, but until recent times it was basically worthless except for its scarcity and recognition as valuable. "This note is legal tender for all debts pr...
[19:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:57] <exec> 08└─It stores value... Say you are an apple farmer. You work really hard for a year and at the end of the year, you have a stockpile of 1 million apples. What good is that? They will quickly rot and storing a million apples requires a very large space. So, instead you trade those apples for currency tha...
[19:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:59] <exec> 08└─If I claim to own this BT, then you should be able to confirm that without knowing exactly who I am.
[19:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:52] <exec> 08└─At some point most people figured out that they are boring and nearly all of their prospective dates are awful people. Anything at all to distract us from the reality of it is warmly welcomed. All the better if we can't talk to each other. If we did, we'd be constantly reminded of how vapid, shallow...
[19:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:54] <exec> 08└─Can't help but be reminded of a classic Yogi Berra-ism: "Nobody goes there anymore - it's too crowded."
[19:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:56] <exec> 08└─We have the same thing where I live: every household is required to pay an annual license to cover radio/television
[19:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:58] <exec> 08└─I avoided those [loud] places, and I've still got decent hearing. This is just one data point
[19:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:01] <exec> 08└─Counter example: I used to help organize the Saturday night concert every week while I was at university (mid '70s). So, I heard a lot of loud music over a 3 year period decades ago. My hearing is not 100%, but it is still good. I often have trouble hearing my wife, but I think the problem is not my...
[19:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:03] <exec> 08└─Don't *currently* like authentic pho. There was probably a time you didn't like coffee either - if you like pho , it's quite possibly worth acquiring a taste for "authentic" pho as well, if only to increase the range of dishes you can really enjoy. I'm not a big fan of pho myself, but I can say that...
[19:43:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:30] <exec> 08└─He's a socialist. Socialists deal in Other People's Money, not their own.
[19:43:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:41] <exec> 08└─Or we could cut the so-called Defense Budget.
[19:43:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 2267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:59] <exec> 08└─A) It wasn't Universal. This could be regarded in two different forms. First, it was a pilot so it did not apply to an entire population. I'm sure certain things can be learned by limited studies, but to get the full effect you have to allow it to apply to all persons and not a limited subset. Secon...
[19:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:11] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe. But not until they force everyone to disarm and submit fully. and also regain full control and censorship of all communication mediums.
[19:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:13] <exec> 08└─Show of hands, who thinks we will get The Lottery before we get a UBI. I think so. I don't think either is a particularly good idea. The reality of the situation is that as our population grows exponentially, the value of human life decreases exponentially.
[19:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:15] <exec> 08└─No, the world has been improving in such a manner since recorded history, capitalism is not some magic force. I would say the world has been getting better despite capitalism, and on the flip-side environmental pollution and out of control growth are what might literally kill off humanity. THANKS CA...
[19:44:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 406 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:50] <exec> 08└─As someone who has been on the receiving end of these exact calls many times, this fucker deserves something harsh. 10 years solitary confinement with only a phone that never stops ringing. IF you pick it up... "CONGRATULATIONS!! You have been chosen to receive 9,999 Air Miles. Press 1 to learn more...
[19:45:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Are We the First Industrial Civilization on Earth? - 9 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:44] <exec> 08└─Nonsense.
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[20:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:56] <exec> 08└─At the current rate of voting, Trump will need 9 years to get his nominations confirmed. That seems like a good reason to amend our constitution to let Trump serve as long as FDR. Trump's presidency doesn't fully start until his nominations are confirmed.
[20:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:57] <exec> 08└─Instead of draining the swamp, Trump has drained all of the intelligence and skill out the State Department, EPA, and now NASA. One of our greatest agencies, in terms of ROI, is now lead by an anti-science dipshit that thinks we started out 6,000 years ago and that God will come clean up the mess as...
[20:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:59] <exec> 08└─"Cheap Chinese junk!" the man screeched, as he threw an object across the room. He couldn't believe it. Youngson knew that products from China were cheap and fragile, but the product had broken after only an hour of use; that was a new low! The man was furious, and as such, he decided to take the it...
[20:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:02] <exec> 08└─Making the US space program work involves actually developing and implementing technology for launching craft. NASA doesnt belong in climate change, climate change is all political, plots to globally redistribute wealth, its utilized based on Liberals ideas that the US is a faulty country, and repar...
[20:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:04] <exec> 08└─It should be illegal to base a vote on anything except what's in the bill being voted on.
[20:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:06] <exec> 08└─Instead of draining the swamp, Trump has drained all of the intelligence and skill out the State Department, EPA, and now NASA.
[20:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:09] <exec> 08└─Impressive guy: majors in Economics, Psychology, and Business, and has an MBA. Real hardcore science-y material. NOT
[20:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:11] <exec> 08└─The big holdup hasn't been partisianship. It has been Trump. There are many positions where the White House hasn't even submitted a nominee. The entire last year was marred by the potential nominees not even filling out their paperwork. The partiseanship is from dillweeds like you who believe the cr...
[20:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:26] <exec> 08└─Broadly speaking, Bush's plan was to use the Moon as a "stepping stone" to Mars by around 2020, using a new manned exploration vehicle. That fits the description of NASA's LOP-G and the Space Launch System. Obama replaced "lunar base" with a plan to visit an asteroid redirected into lunar orbit [nas...
[20:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:28] <exec> 08└─The real problem is any such plan will almost certainly outlive the term of the President proposing it. Then the next one will kill it.
[20:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:30] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember Chris Hadfield stating that ISS astronauts get 100 mSv of radiation in 6 months on the ISS. When I worked in the British nuclear industry many years ago, the legal dose limit for radiation workers was 50 mSv a year, then reduced to 35 mSv/year. I worked in the industry for nearly...
[20:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'd watch out for those [squarespace.com]
[20:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:34] <exec> 08└─But the Moon First strategy has stuck around throughout the last decade and a half.
[20:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:36] <exec> 08└─we could go underground, into a lava tube. Not me [wdfiles.com]!
[20:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:39] <exec> 08└─So many countries have a President for life. China, Russia, many more. And it works great for them. #RepealThe22nd [twitter.com]
[20:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:41] <exec> 08└─Why? It's a very reasonable idea. Operationally, it's much easier on the Moon simply because of distance. This is if we were initially developing seafaring technologies and decided to use Catalina island for the first couple of generations, then when we're more comfortable, visit Hawaii, and then ma...
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[20:39:43] <exec> 08└─Stepping stone to Mars is not a good reason to go back. As practice for Mars, yes, might be worth doing. But as I heard it put, to stop at the Moon on the way from Earth to Mars is like making a stop at Toronto on the way from New York City to London. While they're doing the flashy stuff the politic...
[20:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deficiencies Of Cryptographic Currencies - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:27] <exec> 08└─Right, O.K. - so one might say that the U.S. dollar has a "store of value" in the 0.85 to 0.95 per year range (depending on the year) whereas the Mexican Peso often has a store of value closer to the 0.1 per year range, and your apples are closer to 0.005 store of value if stored as whole apples for...
[20:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:27] <exec> 08└─Some of this is deliberate; some places have music annoying to people they don't want to stay long. Awkward covers with scratchy music at gas station pumps (to make everyone want to leave); lame oldies at small restaurants (to discourage the trendy kids from hanging out); searing hip-hop at clothing...
[20:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brown University Gets $100 Million for Neuroscience Research - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:23] <exec> 08└─What's the color of cow shit? Brown! Brown! Brown!
[20:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:40] <exec> 08└─No, the world has been improving in such a manner since recorded history, capitalism is not some magic force.
[20:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:42] <exec> 08└─...for the two lifetimes he stole...
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[21:39:07] <exec> 08└─4. To fix our money problem, we need to cut taxes to get the economy going, and oh, that money problem, it's them damn tax and spend Liberals fault (who are coming for your guns!).
[21:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:08] <exec> 08└─Thank you, that's so true. Our folks in Congress have one job, voting. And they're doing it VERY SLOWLY. Delay, delay, delay! Disgraceful. Need more LOYAL Republicans -- this one (congrats James) only went through because of Jeff Flakey. Red Tide (wave/landslide) coming soon. President very weak & i...
[21:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:10] <exec> 08└─I don't call him Bill, I call him Jim.
[21:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:13] <exec> 08└─At the current rate of voting, Trump will need 9 years to get his nominations confirmed. That seems like a good reason to amend our constitution to let Trump serve as long as FDR. Trump's presidency doesn't fully start until his nominations are confirmed.
[21:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:15] <exec> 08└─How could you possibly enforce that kind of rule?
[21:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:40] <exec> 08└─Assuming bursts of extreme exposure, or maximum safe continuous explosure ever? It is possible the nuclear industry had lower limits to account for the possibility of risk of higher exposures, while the astronauts don't because radiation exposure is usually consistent/forecastable and leave more cus...
[21:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:41] <exec> 08└─The mathematical models for risk to health from radiation exposure were pretty crude due to lack of data. Basically, at one end of the scale they had Hiroshima and Nagasaki and at the other end the general population subjected to natural background in various regions. They drew a straight line from...
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[21:40:42] <exec> 08└─They never could get close to winning until they started doing the judging online.
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[21:42:28] <exec> 08└─Is it any surprise why late night TV ( aimed a lot at retired people like me ) is so full of ads for hearing aids? Even though I have not made my plight public on any places where my real name and mailing address are available, somehow I get a lot of mail from hearing doctors and their sales pitches...
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[22:38:54] <exec> 08└─JKLTGH BGIKol BHNKLJmn
[22:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:15] <exec> 08└─'votes as leverage' is pretty much the basis of politics and a necessary element of reaching compromise and effective government.
[22:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:16] <exec> 08└─OH NO, YOU MEAN THEY MIGHT WANT LESS GOVERNMENT!? Gasp. This is incredibly shocking. How can we live our lives without massive bloated inefficient corrupt bureaucracies? It's the stuff of nightmares. Luckily you figured it all out and warned us before it went too far.
[22:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:18] <exec> 08└─Instead of draining the swamp, Trump has drained all of the intelligence and skill out the State Department, EPA, and now NASA.
[22:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:44] <exec> 08└─The real reason to return to the moon is to establish a penal colony which can later be taken over by libertarians and revolt against Earth rule.
[22:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:46] <exec> 08└─I've been saying this for a few years: moon first, then Mars. Build a base on the moon and work out the kinks, then move on. I like this Trump guy: who is he again?
[22:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:30] <exec> 08└─Toothpaste was only invented to make brushing your teeth more enjoyable through different textures and tastes. You don't need it to keep your teeth clean. Save even more money by not buying it.
[22:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:48] <exec> 08└─My friend Dave Gillespie was on the team. The teams of three each had to come up with the best solution to a specific example of the traveling salesman problem.
[22:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Maharat min Google" to Help Arabic Young People and Women Advance their Careers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:12] <exec> 08└─A MRA man-child wailed: Why discriminate against me?
[22:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:50] <exec> 08└─The capitalist part is a constant with value .0000001, it is not necessary to the equation and can be replaced by a host of other economic alternatives. The most obvious replacement is worker owned businesses. The downside? Very few people would have their own private jets / mega-yachts. I'm crying...
[22:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Second-Generation Ryzen CPUs Launched - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:10] <exec> 08└─I ended up with an MSI SLI PLUS x370 board last year due to similar complaints. It still has some of the RGB fanciness but it wasn't targeted at gamers, so it has a bit less flash and better value for the cost. There were some decent options in the b350 boards too, but those were midrange boards wit...
[22:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Calling for Chip Designers - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:11] <exec> 08└─Malware writers have to be especially good at assembly code and with machine debuggers. There was a time that there was very, very little malware for the PowerPC MacOS, for the simple reason that all the malware coders focused on x86. If we had a hundred different instruction set architectures it wo...
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[23:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 064/20: The Mary Jane Majority - 1705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:52] <exec> 08└─More fuel for your fire: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) * Veterans in New York can now get medical marijuana to treat PTSD [newyorkupstate.com] * A 12-Year-Old Girl With Epilepsy Is Suing Jeff Sessions Over Medical Marijuana [slate.com] * Marijuana could be legal in New Jersey a...
[23:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LG Can't Meet Apple's Demand for iPhone OLED Displays - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:00] <exec> 08└─LG, so sad. #MRGA
[23:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:23] <exec> 08└─There are 9 years worth of nominations waiting. Why would Trump bother putting more on the pile? Why would a potential nominee accept a nomination that will be moot, since Trump will have already left office by the time the senate gets to it? Why would a potential nominee want to promise to serve 9...
[23:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:25] <exec> 08└─> How can we live our lives without massive bloated inefficient corrupt bureaucracies? Ah, I see we have another commenter here without basic reading comprehension. I'll repeat that, but I'll try to use small words, so you understand me. First Reds make stuff bad. Then Reds complain stuff bad. Then...
[23:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─Ideally we'd just pass a bill to eliminate a bunch of government agencies, but there is normally opposition. How to you propose to crush that opposition? That is, lay out a plan to eliminate the EPA or the Department of Education. Politically, how would you accomplish that? It's easy to complain, bu...
[23:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:29] <exec> 08└─To use the ever-popular car anology: Let's say you have a disagreement between you and your spouse over whether to get rid of an aging but functional car. You think it's a worthless piece of junk, your spouse thinks it is still useful. What I'm objecting to is the following tactic: You open up the h...
[23:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Narrowly Confirms Trump's Pick to Head NASA - 3077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:32] <exec> 08└─The Republicans are responsible for the massive bloat and inefficiencies as much as the Democrats, but are just more fucking hypocritical and deluded. I'll give you welfare programs as an example. The actual assistance part of it was corrupt as fuck. Now I don't know if the private citizens that got...
[23:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:00] <exec> 08└─shield from solar radiation? ... the moon has no magnetic field
[23:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:01] <exec> 08└─Why? It's a very reasonable idea.
[23:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:03] <exec> 08└─SLS
[23:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020s to Become the Decade of Lunar Re-Exploration - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:06] <exec> 08└─When the Tycho Uprising began in 2062, the universal right to read soon became one of its central aims.
[23:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Reaches 100 Million Prime Members - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:50] <exec> 08└─When I point out that an identical item can be had on Ebay, with shipping that is just as fast, for 1/5 the price, they have no answer. They just say, "oh I only use Amazon".
[23:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow State University Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:10] <exec> 08└─They hacked our Energy Grid & interfered with our elections. So I moved very strongly against them. With "sanctions"!!
[23:42:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:15] <exec> 08└─The report then drifted into discussing just how quiet libraries are today,
[23:42:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 476 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:30] <exec> 08└─That's an excellent movie. The poetry is rare in film. I can still hear the children's song [youtube.com], "Warum bin ich ich, and warum nicht Du? Warum bin ich hier, und warum nicht dort?" ("Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there?") But as somebody else in the thread pointed...
[23:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:59] <exec> 08└─There are some Americans who don't like loud. However, since most of the American restaurants cater to the ones who do like loud, we lovers of quiet don't eat out often, or at all. The past seven years, I've eaten out a restaurant only once. Since it was my retirement gathering, I felt somewhat obli...
[23:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Noise Volumes Rising in Restaurants and Eateries - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:00] <exec> 08└─"But No Billag’s proponents argued that freeing taxpayers of the 451-Swiss franc annual fee would unlock new economic potential, create a more competitive media sector and ultimately foster more choice. The cost is due to drop to 365 Swiss francs next year, but everyone will have to pay, even if t...
[23:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland is Killing World-Famous Basic Income Experiment - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:16] <exec> 08└─As seems to very often be the case with politics you end up with corruption and greed dictating behavior. Here is what one site had to say about Harold Wilson https://socialistworker.co.uk [socialistworker.co.uk] Socialist Worker’s Paul Foot argued in a book on Haro...
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