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[00:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:51] <exec> 08└─They are building a substation. I thought if a factory comes to town, the factory is responsible for constructing their own substation. Lots of caveats apply, but if we are treating miners as industrial sites this sounds quite normal.
[00:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:53] <exec> 08└─It's dead-simple to catch metre-long salmon there. But my true reason for bringing up Labrador is that there is a _huge_ hydroelectric dam there. Also plentiful ambient cooling, as Labrador is North-East of Quebec.
[00:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:55] <exec> 08└─Useless, useless, useless. If an adversary of humanity wanted us to waste money, time, effort; burn fossil fuels and waste renewable energy chasing our own mathematical tails, right up till the heat death of the universe, they would have us do what we are doing now mining Bitcoin and friends.
[00:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:57] <exec> 08└─i see residentials are charged at a certain rate up to a certain usage, then they are charged more: just charge these guys the same thing but just keep raising the rates for how much they use. At a certain point, they will reach a break even/loss rate and will have to stop or lose money.
[00:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:00] <exec> 08└─Wyoming and Western Nebraska have some very attractive wind-farming profiles, but the problem is getting the power out of West nowhere into the hands of people who will pay decent money for it, without having to pay every municipality and utility between the wind and the power users, almost like the...
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[00:09:20] <exec> 08└─u say dat like is a gud ting
[00:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:34] <exec> 08└─I am all for popcorn but...only meatbags as food should qualify for SOYLENT news.
[00:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:35] <exec> 08└─HEY return that corn back to where you found it, it is Hardy the sexbot's fuel for sustained erections. Meddling meatbags. Poor Hardy, has a sh!t job (sometimes literally). Also, he is the first system where installing systemd made sense. Because nothing can make a kernel pop sooner than systemd.
[00:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:35] <exec> 08└─They both screw you on different issues. Since the parties alternate, in the end you're fucked on everything. The only way to escape this cycle will be to create new parties that actually stand for something other than corporate interests. We actually hold ALL the power and yet we do nothing.
[00:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:36] <exec> 08└─So the source of the money is the root of the corruption ? Not the fact that the votes can be bought in the first place ? I think you are to focused on the symptom and not the sickness.
[00:12:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:14] <exec> 08└─This is what REAL propaganda looks like. [npr.org]
[00:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:02] <exec> 08└─More like the Catholic fairytale about Limbo.
[00:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:34] <exec> 08└─You can buy a farm for $20k and have a good life with freedom, relative material wealth, all the most healthiest food you can eat and a healthy lifestyle. In what ways are farmers poor?
[00:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:35] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure GP was talking about people who weren't living in their mother's basement while earning the $20k for a fixer-upper to flip.
[00:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:07] <exec> 08└─If the shares are owned by Apple then they aren't outstanding shares and therefore don't count regardless of whether or not they still exist on paper.
[00:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:09] <exec> 08└─The worst part would be that Google would completely own the mobile operating system market. Granted, that's better than Apple owning it, but not by much.
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[01:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:58] <exec> 08└─It's not normal in the sense that BTC is the most energy-hungry currency in the world. Combine with microscopic audience of BTC traders, and this becomes just a lot of waste heat that accelerates global warming. Stop BTC, save the planet!
[01:09:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 833 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:57] <exec> 08└─Republicans have spent the last 18 months focused exclusively on the happiness of corporations, because what's good for corporations has to be good for the country, regardless of what it does to the people or the environment. At the level currently displayed, and because of Citizens United that is e...
[01:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:20] <exec> 08└─According to the Bezos Post, Sanders is also a Putin's puppy. https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] Just saying...
[01:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:01] <exec> 08└─It's about profit at the cash-only places too.
[01:14:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:32] <exec> 08└─you may be able to afford an asset that's overpriced due to immigration.. Welcome to the American Dream.
[01:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:35] <exec> 08└─For the benefit of the peanut gallery, because parent is obviously trolling. At least, I would hope nobody is that naïve and/or stupid. You can buy unimproved farmland for $20k. (Around $1k per acre in my neck of the woods--doing a quick search yields around $32-$48k for 40 acre parcels.) Then you...
[01:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updated: Deadly Ebola Surfaces in Africa's Center Yet Again - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:52] <exec> 08└─If they stopped fondling their dead to spread Ebola, and attacking health workers during epidemics.
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[02:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Weight Loss Produces Remission of Type 2 Diabetes in Some Patients - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:48] <exec> 08└─In 2008 was diagnosed with Type II diabetes. My MD said she was putting me on insulin "right now" with no discussion of alternatives. I told her I didn't accept that and walked out. I went on a sensible diet, losing 50 lb in about 4 months and starting frequent walks of 1-3 miles. A few months after...
[02:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:02] <exec> 08└─I can't get over the fact that we are so accustomed to fiat currency, that now people are crazy-mad to generate their own fiat currency which resides no place except on some computers. Trading in gold, or silver, or even copper leaves the recipient with something of value. A bit coin? I can't even t...
[02:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:23] <exec> 08└─Presumably the companies that have those wires will still have the opportunity to handle their own wires, they just won't be able to delay the installation of a competitors wires by procrastinating on moving theirs. I can only assume that Comcast didn't offer a sufficient bribe to Ajit Pie in order...
[02:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:24] <exec> 08└─But because he is in Trump's government, are we going to see partisan finger pointing?
[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:39] <exec> 08└─That's Soylent Green. This place looks more like Soylent Red.
[02:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:41] <exec> 08└─Actually I was referring (in the comment about the direct lie) to a revision of...I forget the official name, UCITA. I think it was section 2b, but that's long ago, and while I remember the lie and betrayal, I don't remember the details. IIRC it didn't actually pass, but the changes they were trying...
[02:11:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:02] <exec> 08└─this will be cited by every ancient aliens fucker from now until the year 10,000.
[02:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:19] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about the Galaxy Quest historical documents
[02:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:11] <exec> 08└─Hell is technically in Michigan [wikipedia.org].
[02:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:12] <exec> 08└─The only real way for the average person to compete is to create tax payer funded alternatives...
[02:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:15] <exec> 08└─They exist but they're fairly new in this incarnation. They've only really cropped up since Obamacare.
[02:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:17] <exec> 08└─I wonder, where I get the data. https://www.indexmundi.com [indexmundi.com] gives me 14 for the US in 2015 while wiki 28 https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:19] <exec> 08└─What part of get the treatment and then pay it out says no healthcare to you? Wait, did you want someone else to pay for what you receive? Okay, I get you now.
[02:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:21] <exec> 08└─The Free Market is NOT about immediate results; it's about iteration; it's about evolution by variation and selection. People talk about their experiences, and thereby shape other people's future decisions. People pay insurance companies to do that research for them in advance.
[02:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:23] <exec> 08└─Note that the first number - 14 - came from "the US intelligence community"
[02:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:26] <exec> 08└─And when I have a crushingly high bill?
[02:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─Medicare says a bag of saline solution is worth around $2. Just look for item code J7030. Further, how is it even Starbucks can serve hot coffee, a much more complicated brew, for far, far less money, and still profit? What you said is exactly what they tried to use as excuses why it's so expensive....
[02:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:03] <exec> 08└─The Chinese are shockingly literate when it comes to finances. They typically do all their transactions in cash because it's only been in recent times that debit cards have become common. Credit cards are relatively rare and it's hardly unheard of for them to strap enough cash to buy a car and walk...
[02:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:04] <exec> 08└─Except Herman's Hermits used this lyric first...
[02:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bioengineered Lungs Grown in a Lab Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:12] <exec> 08└─As I understood the thread it was about artificial organs grown from cells and implanted in the body, with a side note about immune system rejection of foreign cells. An external device wouldn't fit.
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[03:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Weight Loss Produces Remission of Type 2 Diabetes in Some Patients - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:56] <exec> 08└─PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY LIES TO ITS PATIENTS TO KEEP THEM COMPLACENT AND RELIANT ON MEDICATION!
[03:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:10] <exec> 08└─and then chuck it at him. Your mind is small; you don't know what you're talking about.
[03:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:35] <exec> 08└─It originated with some other Kuron's post when I published Living with Schizoaffective Disorder [warplife.com] at Kuro5hin in May of '93. In Life on a Roller Coaster [warplife.com] I wrote: People who are manic tend to make a lot of bad decisions. It is common to spend money irresponsibly, make bol...
[03:10:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:59] <exec> 08└─The actual intent of this paper was imaging. An important thing in non-destructive archaeology. But I know in my heart, that this will be cited by every ancient aliens fucker from now until the year 10,000.
[03:11:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Alfred [4006] 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:20] <exec> 08└─Don't be so crass as to call them games. They are interactive history teaching tools made to teach documentary caliber content to the short attention spanned youth who will repeat history if they don't learn.
[03:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:31] <exec> 08└─"I've yet to see anybody else suggest it, so it's either revolutionary and ground-breaking, or totally stupid." Or you just haven't actually done much reading on the subject. The original outer surface of the pyramids is not what you see today. It was sheathed entirely in bright white limestone, and...
[03:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Reddit Breached Via Intercepted SMS Message(s) - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:44] <exec> 08└─In the context of this article, SMS is tied to a phone number, not an actual phone. Something you have is the phone, the number itself? Notsoumuch. That's more something you know rather than something you have. The number can be separated from a physical phone by a small amount of social engineering...
[03:12:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 865 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:59] <exec> 08└─You're missing the point. Doctors and nurses would much rather be seeing patients than playing secretary but they can't or they don't get paid. Thus the recent occurrence of cash-only healthcare facilities. Out in Oklahoma right now you can either go to a hospital and get knee surgery that is going...
[03:15:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 426 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:28] <exec> 08└─By "*You*", you could mean me. I didn't vote for Trump. But I voted for Bernie in the primaries. And I warned Democrats in the spring of 2016 that if they nominated Hillary, they would lose my vote in November, which they did. I warned that I thought there were a lot of people who were going to vote...
[03:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:10] <exec> 08└─Well, there is aristarchus, so make it 2nd dumbest.
[03:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:12] <exec> 08└─Um, I get to see who mods me whenever I look at one of my comments. Wanna know a secret though? I don't give a shit who agrees with me. That's making the person doing the arguing more important than the argument and I am not a cult of personality kind of guy. Have fun with it if that's your thing th...
[03:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:14] <exec> 08└─Buzzy, you're probably the dumbest person I've ever encountered. Well, there is aristarchus, so make it 2nd dumbest.
[03:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:16] <exec> 08└─Was that your way of saying you want to buy me a beer? Well, free is my favorite type of beer but if you have anything further in mind, you're going to be disappointed. I am now and most likely always will be all about the boobies.
[03:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:18] <exec> 08└─Why you bother? The loan shark will explain it all quite simply when you're late with the first payment.
[03:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:21] <exec> 08└─No you don't, I took it and distributed it among the homeless. Now they have more than you. Enjoy socialism.
[03:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:23] <exec> 08└─I'd buy anyone on SN a beer. I'd buy you a couple.
[03:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 1923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:25] <exec> 08└─The education system fails even before it reaches the compound interest level. The most simple, the most basic skill of "value" is neglected. Somewhere in my education history, there were attempts to make us understand value. An item costs twenty dollars, and has a life expectancy of twenty uses. A...
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[04:08:57] <exec> 08└─Butbut, muh series of contracts!
[04:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Weight Loss Produces Remission of Type 2 Diabetes in Some Patients - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:58] <exec> 08└─My weight was cratering when I went to the Dr. to find out what was going on and got diagnosed with Type II. A change in diet (too much junk food, Mt. Dew, etc.), adding some exercise and oral medication my A1C is close to normal and gained weight back to a normal range. Starting to taper down the d...
[04:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:14] <exec> 08└─Trading in gold, or silver, or even copper leaves the recipient with something of value.
[04:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:15] <exec> 08└─If an adversary of humanity wanted us to waste money, time, effort; burn fossil fuels and waste renewable energy chasing our own mathematical tails, right up till the heat death of the universe, they would have us do what we are doing now mining Bitcoin and friends.
[04:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:18] <exec> 08└─Still gotta contend with the NIMBY turbine haters, and other local problems not too dissimilar from what happened to these folks
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[04:10:59] <exec> 08└─The only way to escape this cycle will be to create new parties
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[04:12:50] <exec> 08└─Hey, just reading the main SoylentNews front page, there's a few ways that America is great. Number of women dying in child birth, most people living from paycheck to paycheck, the greatest twit, and on to the next article about the greatest copyright laws. Then there are the traditional ones like t...
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[05:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:48] <exec> 08└─Great, now autistic children can help Google conduct more mass surveillance. I wouldn't talk to anyone wearing one of these things, or anything similar. And since it's so popular to bring up cellphones every time someone has privacy concerns: No, I don't own a cellphone.
[05:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:49] <exec> 08└─Mommy, why does everyone call me a Glasshole?
[05:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:52] <exec> 08└─Yet you talk to plenty of people with smartphones, which can record a conversation reasonably well even if they are in a pocket. News flash, privacy out in public places is dead. And many other places as well. The surveillance will get better too. Conspicuous autistic Glasshole today, normal-looking...
[05:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:54] <exec> 08└─Yet you talk to plenty of people with smartphones, which can record a conversation reasonably well even if they are in a pocket.
[05:09:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] 02 - 06Why Weight Loss Produces Remission of Type 2 Diabetes in Some Patients - 772 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:01] <exec> 08└─In 2008 was diagnosed with Type II diabetes. My MD said she was putting me on insulin "right now" with no discussion of alternatives. I told her I didn't accept that and walked out. I went on a sensible diet, losing 50 lb in about 4 months and starting frequent walks of 1-3 miles. A few months after...
[05:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:22] <exec> 08└─Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure
[05:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:24] <exec> 08└─It's vitally important to recycle aluminum cans even if they don't have the bottle bill deposit, because prodigious quantities of electricity are required to refine aluminum ore. It is so very difficult to refine aluminum that at one time aluminum was more valuable than gold. The top of the Washingt...
[05:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:26] <exec> 08└─-sumption. There's not a whole lot you can do about BitCoin itself other than to not use it. Some cryptos use proof-of-stake rather than proof-of-work to reward miners. Under PoS you are rewarded based on how many coins you already possess, but there's a rotation so once you've been rewarded you are...
[05:11:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 2102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:01] <exec> 08└─PROVE IT JACKASS ! I'm a Realist, look at both sides and make and educated decision. To prove it, the optimist says the glass is half full, the pessimist says the glass is half empty. The realist says shite for brains you got the wrong glass. Do you like paying 18-24% of your income so the "Coke Bro...
[05:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:58] <exec> 08└─To the Bezos Post's credit, they did mark this article as "Opinion". Not like (looking at title page now) "Trump _associate_ socialized with _alleged_ Russian agent" type "could be, sources say, appears that" shit that goes into the "news" section.
[05:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Criticizes FCC for Moving to Block Sinclair-Tribune Merger - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:59] <exec> 08└─Here's another one from US public radio: https://www.pri.org [pri.org] Portraying our meddling and regime change in the mafia state of Ukraine as great for empowering women (Hillary for Woman President...
[05:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:35] <exec> 08└─Venezuela. Your arguments have been debunked.
[05:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:36] <exec> 08└─It sucks going to college and not using the education.
[05:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:12] <exec> 08└─Do you have a spare gas can?
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[06:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:12] <exec> 08└─Jews.
[06:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:13] <exec> 08└─"Conspicuous autistic Glasshole today, normal-looking eyeglasses, contact lenses, or jewelry tomorrow" I remember a story I read thirty or more years ago where old people wore glasses that recorded everything and could call the police if the wearer warranted it. I can't for the life of me recall the...
[06:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:45] <exec> 08└─The Manhattan Project borrowed the United States Mint's entire supply of silver so they could draw it into magnet wire for use in Calutrons. A Calutron is a huge and _quite_ inefficient mass spectrometer. That Oak Ridge National Laboratory is in Tennessee is because it's close to the Tennessee Valle...
[06:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:46] <exec> 08└─It would not be hard at all for me to get away with putting some rigs under my desk at the co-working space where I now operate my consultancy. The co-working space leases an entire floor of an office tower. I expect their lease includes the electricity.
[06:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:48] <exec> 08└─or at least I had read a story that the first time they turned the callutrons on they ripped all the nails out of the framing because the magnetic field was so strong. That's good stuff.
[06:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:30] <exec> 08└─Totally agree, and more parties will help bring the GOP and DNC in line.
[06:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:11] <exec> 08└─My favorite documents of historical note!
[06:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“P is for Power”—Android Engineers Talk Battery Life Improvements in Android P - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:54] <exec> 08└─P is for Power. The power of Google over you.
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[07:08:51] <exec> 08└─So why are there no aristarchus submissions? Has he been banned, or Shadowbanned? Why is there nothing but bot and ed stories in the queue?
[07:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:20] <exec> 08└─These are government-enforced monopolies over ideas in the first place, enforced by... Men with Guns. You're a piss-poor libertarian/anarchist/contracts troll.
[07:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03notrandom [5820] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:01] <exec> 08└─How can you guys be so adverse to the idea being proposed is beyond me. I mean some of you soylentils are not just skeptical. You are aggressive mainstream zealots sometimes. Anyone who has read SciFi has to be at least open to the idea, have a lil' imagination and enjoy a little confusion. And if y...
[07:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Great Pyramid Can Focus Electromagnetic Waves - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:03] <exec> 08└─We could have had an aristarchus submission, except, there are none.
[07:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Becomes First US Company to Exceed $1 Trillion Market Capitalization - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:29] <exec> 08└─Considering you are going to need ~1 billion tons of apples, while the world-wide yearly production of apples is around 80 million tons, only, that means most of the apples in that pile are going to be ... juicy, indeed.
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[08:12:12] <exec> 08└─Yep, and being symmetric entails that the resonance is likely found in a not random place. But, if it happens to be right on a chamber, it's interesting. Of course the chamber itself is going to interfere with its mere presence. I think that a good approach to avoid bias would be to feed some random...
[08:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:02] <exec> 08└─Not at all. I think the test is bullshit. Its a lot like many other tests I have taken, which more accurately measure the correlation to how I think with the way the test-maker thinks, and tests next to nothing about either one of us. Some of those tests are damned frustrating... like those "which...
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[09:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gene Editing Crunches an Organism's Genome Into Single, Giant DNA Molecule - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:46] <exec> 08└─How close are we to putting a real generous helping of telomeres at the ends of the DNA? I get the idea we are at the verge of being able to engineer really long-lived offspring.
[09:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Crunches an Organism's Genome Into Single, Giant DNA Molecule - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:48] <exec> 08└─And, unexpectedly, the yeast were mostly fine.
[09:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:57] <exec> 08└─I remember reading an article on soylent about magic ketchup bottles that wont require being hit to spill their delicious juices. Just the other day i asked my AC friend what ever happened and conveniently an article shows up with some progress.
[09:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:00] <exec> 08└─When it submits something other than a "fresh evidence that x is a nazi" article they seem to get approved.
[09:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:02] <exec> 08└─Ever got so desperate that you tried to invoke centrifugal force to get the contents near the squirter.... only to discover everyone staring at you... some decorated with the catsup you were trying to dispense for yourself?
[09:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:15] <exec> 08└─Interpreting the expressions will be easy - people will either be laughing at you or bracing up to whack you. In fact, seriously, it is a good example of the uncertainty priciple - the measuring device will affect the parameter being measured.
[09:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:28] <exec> 08└─But soylent red and yellow suck, WE WANT SOYLENT GREEN!
[09:16:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 960 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:05] <exec> 08└─No, the DNC elected Trump instead of Bernie. In fact, the DNC is so far still completely unable to admit their fuck-up. But was it really a fuck-up? Trump seems to have given them the perfect excuse to go on an Orwellian crusade against "fake news." Facebook censorship targets the left [wsws.org]: E...
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[10:09:00] <exec> 08└─"Mostly fine" means (choose one): 1. It still looked like yeast 2. The beer was a bit lumpy, but drinkable. 3. it didn't morph into a giant killing beast [youtube.com] or grey goo [wikipedia.org]. 4. The yeast took over, and typed that bit of the report.
[10:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:11] <exec> 08└─No need for "fresh" evidence for Sulla. Name is in the book.
[10:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:25] <exec> 08└─In fact, seriously, it is a good example of the uncertainty priciple
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[11:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:44] <exec> 08└─Why bother translating anything emanating from Trump? He flip-flops faster than a slinky. Explaning his actions is hard enough, but trying to tie those actions to the incoherence of his free-form speech is a fool's errand.
[11:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:46] <exec> 08└─maybe a translation into American Ènglish, first?
[11:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:48] <exec> 08└─This sort of thing is going on all the time. [youtube.com]
[11:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:50] <exec> 08└─How do you translate 'deplorable' when used to describe entire regions of the country? Is it prudent to then ignore those whole parts of the country in an election campaign?
[11:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Crunches an Organism's Genome Into Single, Giant DNA Molecule - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:00] <exec> 08└─The fact it worked - at all - is quite amazing. Imagine us doing that with poorly understood binary blobs.
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[12:08:59] <exec> 08└─"Deplorable" was not used describe regions of the country. It was used to describe people who do not care that their candidate at the time had (and still has) no moral compass, self control, or even a relationship with the truth. It was used to describe people who thought "he lied to and cheated on...
[12:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:52] <exec> 08└─They don't cut out the middlemen, the middlemen have just changed face and name.
[12:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Almost 80% of US Workers Live From Paycheck to Paycheck - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:27] <exec> 08└─Those collection spots are only placed in relatively prosperous areas. It's a way for the grocery store to sell more food and appear to be progressive by making people feel good about themselves.
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[12:19:11] <exec> 08└─왜 그렇게 생각해?
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[13:09:01] <exec> 08└─When words collide?
[13:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:03] <exec> 08└─If none suitable to "mistranslate", they invent phrases out of whole cloth. The credulous populace believes everything anyway.
[13:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 293 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:58] <exec> 08└─Useless, useless, useless. If an adversary of humanity wanted us to waste money, time, effort; burn fossil fuels and waste renewable energy chasing our own mathematical tails, right up till the heat death of the universe, they would have us do what we are doing now mining Bitcoin and friends.
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[14:08:54] <exec> 08└─Fazter fazter fazter! Me needz morez cat videoz to prove Douglas Adams waz wrong. It'z not the mices, it da catz.
[14:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:55] <exec> 08└─Porn. We need to prove that Avenue Q was right.
[14:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:57] <exec> 08└─Porn. We need to prove that Avenue Q was right.
[14:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:11] <exec> 08└─How, exactly, do you translate "braggadocious"?
[14:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:12] <exec> 08└─No! Don't! STOP!! What could go wrong, really?
[14:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:14] <exec> 08└─This is why i don't like phones: i like text (at worst) or face to face (being autistic, face to face is hard enough). How many times here at SoylentNews have we seen apologies for having mis-read something, or mistaken the tone of something typed (which is why i like using smiley faces, etc...to he...
[14:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:17] <exec> 08└─Some mistranslations appear to be deliberately concocted and promoted. How many still think an Iranian leader called for Israel to be 'wiped off the map?' https://www.theguardian.com
[14:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:19] <exec> 08└─The penis mightier than the sword!
[14:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:21] <exec> 08└─When words collide?
[14:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:24] <exec> 08└─How many times here at SoylentNews have we seen apologies for having mis-read something, or mistaken the tone of something typed
[14:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Crunches an Organism's Genome Into Single, Giant DNA Molecule - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:35] <exec> 08└─Early experiments on poorly understood binary blobs produced the first Anonymous Coward.
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[14:10:01] <exec> 08└─" Yet you talk to plenty of people with smartphones, which can record a conversation reasonably well even if they are in a pocket. I actually try to avoid that." How do you avoid that? Almost EVERYONE has a smart phone? Do you just not talk to anyone?, 'cause it's hard to tell who has one and who d...
[14:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:03] <exec> 08└─Fight winning battles, not losing ones. Buy different hardware, and keep "compromised" hardware for non-sensitive usage. Run Tor or other schemes only when you need to. If you need physical privacy, you can find that in your own home, or perhaps in the middle of a nearby forest/desert/tundra.
[14:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, the Rajneeshees were seriously messed up, not just with their salmonella spreading - there is a series on Netflix that starts out by painting a sympathetic picture for them, but by the time it's over there's no way to make them out as total victims - they fought back as if they were cornered in...
[14:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:39] <exec> 08└─The only "use" in such a situation, is as currency. a pretty material that humans are attracted to
[14:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:41] <exec> 08└─Is that going to be important enough in the time period and economic turmoil as being discussed though? Is gold going to hold value because it is shiny and pretty when there isn't enough available money to facilitate financial transactions at all? I would think something like laundry detergent is mu...
[14:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:43] <exec> 08└─Gold is one of the best electrical conductors around, probably the best without access to modern technology. You can make gold wire too, it's just not economical.
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[15:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:01] <exec> 08└─In other words, less than a million people could max out a 1 Gbps connection, globally. Without causing huge strain on the network. Seems like we have a long way to go. We can waste a lot more throughput on streaming 8-16K, VR, holograms, AI, etc. We need home users to max out their 10 Gbps connecti...
[15:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:03] <exec> 08└─Headline: 661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles
[15:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:05] <exec> 08└─If you look up how many pixels you need for a realistic VR headset as well as the current rate of node reduction in the display industry, you'd be able to guesstimate how long would it take before the "Growth growth growth" ends at most.
[15:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-supreme-leader-touts-9-point-plan-to-destroy-israel/ [timesofisrael.com]
[15:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:27] <exec> 08└─Polizzotti starts out brilliantly illustrating how mistranslation and misunderstanding greatly contributed to escalation of tensions which could have led to thermonuclear Armageddon, and almost did many times during The Cold War. Obvious lesson to learn is to be cautious about what you believe you k...
[15:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:30] <exec> 08└─How, exactly, do you translate "braggadocious"?
[15:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:32] <exec> 08└─Trump's tweets are a classic example of an English speaker and listener who assume that, because their words come from the same dictionary, that they are, in fact, speaking the same language. They are demonstrably not speaking the same language. The media does it intentionally, because they do not w...
[15:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Crunches an Organism's Genome Into Single, Giant DNA Molecule - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:43] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to do that? The point of the telomeres is so the cell goes senescent and can at least perform limited functions before it aquires too many mutations and dies (collectively leading to organ failure) or becomes a cancer cell. Basically you are asking for your organs to fail sooner o...
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:55] <exec> 08└─You don't have to tap the bottle to get the goodness out - it really only takes a few shakes. I'm not sure how to explain it and I didn't see any videos but basically accelerate the bottle towards the neck then stop it abruptly with the cap off and the opening pointing at where you want the ketchup...
[15:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:57] <exec> 08└─Years ago I worked with a know it all type I'll call Joe because that wasn't his name. At a group lunch one guy was hitting the bottom of the ketchup bottle when Joe says "no, this is how it's done". He proceeded to shake the bottle with no results. For a bit. Then he got a good splurch on his plate...
[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─These ketchup bottles are the superior ones: http://moziru.com [moziru.com] Add an inner layer of omniphobic coating, like we've been waiting on for years now, and the ketchup problem will be solved forever.
[15:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─So who are the Nazis? The person who has their name on a list, or the person keeping a list?
[15:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:56] <exec> 08└─I think we are actually both wrongish. Even though copper and silver are better conductors than gold, gold retains its conductivity longest because it does not tarnish or corrode easily. For this reason, gold is most often used in plating where it is exposed to the air. Gold also makes great wiring...
[15:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:57] <exec> 08└─You could look at catastrophes past. Now, we need to understand that the fool who allows it to be known that he has tons of precious metals will soon be dead, and that the populace will divvy up the spoils. Judiciously guarded precious metals, secretly hoarded, and brought out in small amounts at op...
[15:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:22] <exec> 08└─Strange, the federal government seeing thru established business tactics to drag things out and delay. That is rare.
[15:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:40] <exec> 08└─Switch to VT100 theme.
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[16:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:54] <exec> 08└─What about the flat earthers? Google, you insensitive clod!
[16:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:56] <exec> 08└─Google is now officially part of the round earth conspiracy. What next, sex / gender determinism?
[16:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:58] <exec> 08└─How is my GPS going to work on a round map? Do I need an upgrade?
[16:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:36] <exec> 08└─↑ That's sad, and it makes my monkey cry.
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─So - you're saying that 90% or more of eligible voters are deplorable? But - what about those couple percent who voted third party? And, how 'bout those who just didn't vote? Do we have 100% deplorable yet? If not, why not?
[16:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:39] <exec> 08└─Lubricated with bloody whitespace.
[16:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:07] <exec> 08└─Huh I see your point. Years ago I saw a kid fall over on a bike when they removed his training wheels. We laughed at him and the kid learned to never try again and to just accept that bikes are terrible because it was hard and he couldn't do it on the first try. I learned that trick from a professio...
[16:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:09] <exec> 08└─Oh I agree those bottles are great! The lid/valve system is really good too and they sit upside down so product is always ready to dispense. It is a highly refined design. I've seen the same valving system on mustard and I just got one with mayo too. Nice sharp stream sprays out when you squeeze and...
[16:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:26] <exec> 08└─You're perhaps thinking of "Earth", by David Brin?
[16:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:54] <exec> 08└─Copyright law is no longer a just law and therefore must be openly ignored, broken, and ridiculed. It is not a law for the benefit of the citizens and therefore is not a valid law. The fact that all three branches of government have failed so utterly in the area of copyright law is an indicator of s...
[16:15:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:43] <exec> 08└─Bean counters have been over rated for decades now. A hospital needs to at least break even, or make a little profit. But a hospital should never be ABOUT profit. The United States took a wrong turn somewhere. Damned near everything about a hospital is overpriced, to pay for Big Pharma, "insurance",...
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[17:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:54] <exec> 08└─You need more than an upgrade ... but your GPS should be fine.
[17:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:55] <exec> 08└─But the flat earthers already know the truth... It is a conspiracy to hide the real facts from the public.
[17:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:57] <exec> 08└─They are in cahoots with NASA.. the earth is FLAT!
[17:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:10] <exec> 08└─Until you learn to adjust your expectations to drop to those of the intended audience, I can recommend that you view any headline with terms such as "the mind boggles" with something not on-par with the quality one may find in an actual technical/engineering/science based website. Consumer oriented...
[17:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:11] <exec> 08└─learn to adjust your expectations to drop to those of the intended audience
[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:40] <exec> 08└─sullying the term "liberal". Remember the term's original meaning, they are nothing of the sort.
[17:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:11] <exec> 08└─wow you described the tween male down the street from me. I think he doesn't want to do anything except play video games and cheat while doing it, because it isnt work playing if he can't effortlessly win. during a block party, I got to speak with him a bit, and I worry about how real life will turn...
[17:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:12] <exec> 08└─wow you described the tween male down the street from me. I think he doesn't want to do anything except play video games and cheat while doing it, because it isnt work playing if he can't effortlessly win. during a block party, I got to speak with him a bit, and I worry about how real life will turn...
[17:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:14] <exec> 08└─Why don't they rethink Ketchup instead. What they call ketchup now is more fucking corn than tomato. It's totally unpalatable to people who avoided getting their taste-buds hijacked by the sugar/corn-syrup lobby.
[17:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Weight Loss Produces Remission of Type 2 Diabetes in Some Patients - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:43] <exec> 08└─But if you did not take the insulin how was she going to get her kick-back?
[17:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:14] <exec> 08└─the fool who allows it to be known that he has tons of precious metals will soon be dead, and that the populace will divvy up the spoils.
[17:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ankh [754] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:40] <exec> 08└─Dane, owner of Sonic.net, commented when I reposted this FCC story there: ======= "... unfortunately the new Federal standards only apply in 30 states. California and 19 others elected to engage in reverse preemption. The access to poles here is governed by the CPUC's 1998 Right of Way (RoW) decisio...
[17:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:41] <exec> 08└─Here in Texas when we had local loop competition for a few years (ILECs - independant lecs - SWBell agreed to allow it in exchange for being able to offer long distance again) the SWBell techs would damage the lines our 3rd party service used, switch us over to known bad pairs and rotate us between...
[17:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Kernel of Promise in Popcorn-Powered Robots - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:00] <exec> 08└─Done ages ago :)
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[17:13:19] <exec> 08└─If those ancient alien kooks are right, then we'll soon find out that all the conspiracy theories are true! Ancient aliens, dinosaurs living in Loch Ness, Bigfoot, the media and state rigged the election for Hilary, but Russia hacked the polling stations and gave the election to Trump, 9/11 was orch...
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[18:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:53] <exec> 08└─Not really. The will just give out 'free' hotspots to kids to take home. They just did that here. Expect them to be asking for even more of your dollars via taxes.
[18:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:54] <exec> 08└─That's all we ask, and yet the government cannot even do that. Chromebooks won't help.
[18:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:08] <exec> 08└─The moment flat earthers convince the right people, at Google HQ, that being one is a (form of being) gender fluent or any other social justice (bullshit) thing, Google will revert maps back to a flat Mercator projection.
[18:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:09] <exec> 08└─I don't understand how they could go with this globe idea when that in no way fits the back of a turtle.
[18:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:11] <exec> 08└─You lie! The earth is concave! I know it, so you are lying.
[18:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:13] <exec> 08└─Well, if your 'turtle' is a Virginia country turtle, then it's shell top is already relatively spherical. I.e., one like this: http://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com [virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com] or this one http://www.virginiaherpetologicalso...
[18:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:28] <exec> 08└─No, man, you are wrong here. I want way better than what your poor eyes can see. I want to be able to zoom at my virtual flee's pussy from 10 virtual miles away. Say virtual view of protons colliding with enough zoom - that would put a limit I guess.
[18:09:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 496 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:40] <exec> 08└─"Deplorable" was not used describe regions of the country. It was used to describe people who do not care that their candidate at the time had (and still has) no moral compass, self control, or even a relationship with the truth. It was used to describe people who thought "he lied to and cheated on...
[18:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:59] <exec> 08└─Fly over people.
[18:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:00] <exec> 08└─Stop slapping the damned monkey and he may stop crying.
[18:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:02] <exec> 08└─The media does it intentionally, because they do not want us to critically analyze Trump's positions. Which position? The one he just said? Or the complete opposite, which he said yesterday?
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:04] <exec> 08└─The intent of most jargon and slang is to obfuscate meaning. Job security and privacy from snoopers...
[18:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─Didn't it? Shit. I apologize. :)
[18:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:40] <exec> 08└─If by superior, you mean only has 3/4 of the contents that an upright bottle has. Those upside down bottles are smaller than the regular ones.
[18:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:41] <exec> 08└─Volume doesn't matter. Only $/volume matters. And I've seen non-Heinz brands use the same bottle design.
[18:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:43] <exec> 08└─"It will submit a non-alt-right story or it will get the hose." ;)
[18:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:02] <exec> 08└─You're as stupid as an american president.
[18:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Weight Loss Produces Remission of Type 2 Diabetes in Some Patients - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:15] <exec> 08└─Indeed - on the following business day I got a call from a "diabetes supply company" to "set up the delivery schedule for your insulin, needles, and test equipment". I filed a HIPAA privacy complaint against the medical center that employed the doctor, for sharing my protected medical information wi...
[18:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:47] <exec> 08└─Noisy generator - I guess you don't have a basement? Basements are ideal. Park that noisy bad boy out of the way, remove the muffler, and buy enough pipe to run the exhaust up to the roof. At that end of the pipe, put a nice Harley-Davidson muffler. All the mechanical sounds of the generator are abs...
[18:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 1988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:48] <exec> 08└─Actually I just got a new Honda inverter generator with a dynamic RPM and it can be pretty quiet depending on load. When I had the generator powering only my ham radio room with a load of a few hundred watts I was able to talk to people with a radio while standing right next to it and they couldn't...
[18:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrency Miners Are Building Their Own Electricity Infrastructure - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:51] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. I'm actually kinda curious about if it takes more energy to mine a bitcoin than it takes to mine a bitcoin worth of gold. Sources would be greatly appreciated. (Also - I must admit I don't know if any currencies currently are tied to gold, but considering it has a long tradition of...
[18:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:42] <exec> 08└─OP gave his opinion, and I gave mine. And notice that instead of being modded down you were modded up. It's when you engage in bad-faith arguments, fallacy, and lies that you get modded down.
[18:15:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Why So Many Moms Die and Suffer in the US: Stupid Negligence - 974 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:52] <exec> 08└─There's no long-term-well-established definition of death related to childbirth internationally, so it's hard to compare different countries. It's hard to even compare states, as each state has its own definition. Likewise, you can't draw trend graphs, as definitions have changed over time (in parti...
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[19:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 1476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:55] <exec> 08└─Living in this region of the US. They are ridiculous with the 'snow days'. I grew up in an area that would get 6+ inches of snow at least 3-6 times a year. We were ready for it. It is going to snow sometimes. You *might* get 1 or 2 days off a year. In this southern area it basically snows and is gon...
[19:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:56] <exec> 08└─I suppose SC folks never have ice storms, when the power is out and roads are impassable for several days...
[19:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:58] <exec> 08└─What? Giving kids junkware from privacy-hostile companies like Google won't improve our school system? Impossible! Everything must be proprietary, and everything must be In the Cloud. That will surely solve the problem of schools not being able to educate children about anything more advanced than t...
[19:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:01] <exec> 08└─They have maybe two inches of snow total every three years. No ice storms at all in the five years I lived there.
[19:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:03] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'm all for nose to the grindstone but getting rid of snow days, even in SC, is just fucking unamerican.
[19:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:05] <exec> 08└─And the absolute basics isn't being taught sometimes and they still get passed through. But now they'll know how to suck the Google teat and the Microsoft teat will maybe dry up?
[19:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:08] <exec> 08└─How else would you have vacation except by the act of god? You keep grinding until god says you're done!
[19:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:24] <exec> 08└─It doesn't need to, it only needs to fit on the backs of the giant elephants standing on the turtle's shell. It's still a bloody stupid way to shape a world though. Why go through all the bother of figuring out a way to keep the people on the bottom from falling off when you can just make a sensible...
[19:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:26] <exec> 08└─You can just use Google Street View to find a bathroom that you're comfortable using.
[19:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:28] <exec> 08└─Thought it showed a globe for a long time? I must have been part of some test. If you zoom out enough it will show current cloud cover too. It is kinda cool.
[19:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:30] <exec> 08└─I so want to become a flat earther. It's probably the most epic trolling campaign ever created. It's just too much effort for me to become an expert on the outrageous arguments though and I don't want to do it half-assed.
[19:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:32] <exec> 08└─Hang on a mo - if the Earth is flat, where do the hollow Earth lizard people live? Sounds to me that this is just a cover for Google doctoring their maps to better hide the polar hole. Are we talking deep pan or just two sided like an LP?
[19:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:34] <exec> 08└─Your mind is on Street View?
[19:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:50] <exec> 08└─I need this in units of Library of Congress. Otherwise the whole thing is meaningless.
[19:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:51] <exec> 08└─They had 3 petabytes [loc.gov] of digital collections in 2012, and 7 petabytes [nplusonemag.com] in 2016. If we put the number at 10 petabytes, it would take 2 minutes and 2 seconds to download over this cable. So the cable can send about 0.00826 LOCs per second.
[19:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:27] <exec> 08└─Recently I've seen quite a few, even major, websites auto-translate content without me asking for it. That mostly just looks stupid, ebay is a major example here. However, the most deranged example i've seen so far is MSDN. I'm in the slightly unfortunate situation of having to deal with some Window...
[19:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:04] <exec> 08└─Volume doesn't matter. Only $/volume matters.
[19:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:06] <exec> 08└─That's assuming they don't become lawyers or MBAs. Sure one has to put out a lot of effort for 3~4 years, but after that it's "money for nothing and chicks for free". Just living the American Dream. Oh did I leave out Car Salesmen and Bankers?
[19:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rethinking Ketchup Packets: New Approach to Slippery Packaging Aims to Cut Food Waste - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:08] <exec> 08└─At least for a good chunk of bankers I think "stealing their shit while they sleep" still fits just the scale isn't one night anymore it's since the Glass-Stegall act was repealed.
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[20:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Names First Astronauts to Fly on American Spacecraft; SpaceX Poised to Fly Crew Before Boeing - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:53] <exec> 08└─On April 9, 1959, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduces America’s first astronauts to the press: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr., and Donald Slayton. The seven men, all military t...
[20:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:10] <exec> 08└─They are ridiculous with the 'snow days'. You *might* get 1 or 2 days off a year...it basically snows and is gone within a day MAYBE two. I am talking 1-2 inches here MAYBE once or twice a year. They make it like it is the second coming and Armageddon is upon us.
[20:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:11] <exec> 08└─There's an easy solution to all of this, and it's that we need more easily-quantifiable, cheap, and standardized multiple choice tests that test almost entirely for rote memorization. That will appease the masses.
[20:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:13] <exec> 08└─Are textbooks even necessary to learn to do math? Honest question. The only thing that I ever used my math textbook for was copying out the assigned problems. Seems like a spreadsheet and a printer would be sufficient for the majority of math, at least at the elementary level.
[20:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:15] <exec> 08└─I'll just add to this that it's much less likely to get a "snow day" in SC (or many Southeastern states) and more likely to get a "freezing rain day" (or a chance of sleet or whatever). And those sorts of events (or at least a good chance of them) can happen several times per season, particularly in...
[20:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:38] <exec> 08└─How do I short tin foil hat material?
[20:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:40] <exec> 08└─They obviously live on the other tortoise's back. Dah!
[20:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Slartibartfast [5104] (Score: 2) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:58] <exec> 08└─Through a single *cable*, yes. Fiber? No. My company was doing 72-half-duplex fibers through a single connector at 2.5 Gb/s back in 2000, so this is definitely progress... but nothing terribly exciting.
[20:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06661Tbps Through a Single Optical Fiber: The Mind Boggles - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─640Tbps should be enough for any world.
[20:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 2486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:36] <exec> 08└─Martyb escribe: Mark Polizzotti, autor de "Simpatía por el traidor: un manifiesto de traducción" escribe una columna de opinión en The New York Times titulada Why Mistranlation Matters: La traducción es el camarero silencioso de la interpretación lingüística: a menudo solo se nota cuando golp...
[20:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:37] <exec> 08└─"Deplorable" is an actual word in English that can be used to describe large numbers of people; the fact that a comment is offensive doesn't mean that it can't be translated normally. Whether somebody should say something has nothing to do with how to translate it afterward, aside from the reality t...
[20:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─>The penis mightier than the sword!
[20:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Crunches an Organism's Genome Into Single, Giant DNA Molecule - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:52] <exec> 08└─and we have taken over...mostly.
[20:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Glass Trial Helps Autistic Children Decode Facial Expressions - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:39] <exec> 08└─Fight winning battles, not losing ones.
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[21:09:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 1476 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:03] <exec> 08└─Living in this region of the US. They are ridiculous with the 'snow days'. I grew up in an area that would get 6+ inches of snow at least 3-6 times a year. We were ready for it. It is going to snow sometimes. You *might* get 1 or 2 days off a year. In this southern area it basically snows and is gon...
[21:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:15] <exec> 08└─Are textbooks even necessary to learn to do math? Honest question.
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─This is probably the lack of drugs talking but Google Maps will show you maps and stuff properly without enabling XHR. But, to be able to zoom out of the flat map and see the globe you need to enable XHR. Also, it seems Google future proofed it and melted the northern ice cap. I guess will need to a...
[21:10:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:32] <exec> 08└─The media does it intentionally, because they do not want us to critically analyze Trump's positions. Which position? The one he just said? Or the complete opposite, which he said yesterday?
[21:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:39] <exec> 08└─Why menstruation matters.
[21:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Weight Loss Produces Remission of Type 2 Diabetes in Some Patients - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:52] <exec> 08└─Might be worth having a look at trying a low carb / high fat diet. There seems to be a growing number of people suggesting a reduction in carbohydrates can be used to treat type 2 diabetes. As an example Dr. Berg on youtube covers this in a few of his videos https://www.youtube.com
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Expansion of Copyright - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─They both suck, but the GOP is way more corrupt. Like WAY more, they have literally no values except money.
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[22:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA Names First Astronauts to Fly on American Spacecraft; SpaceX Poised to Fly Crew Before Boeing - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:59] <exec> 08└─I met Mike Hopkins when I was living in Albuquerque, NM. His first duty station was Kirtland AFB, and my roommate at the time who was also stationed there knew him from ROTC at the University of Illinois. This was long before he became an astronaut, but everyone who knew him figured he was going pla...
[22:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Names First Astronauts to Fly on American Spacecraft; SpaceX Poised to Fly Crew Before Boeing - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:00] <exec> 08└─Why don't you use your cellphone to look up what happened in space in the 60s and 70s. Hint: plenty of astronauts flew on American spacecraft. Just because something happened back when there were only two genders doesn't mean it didn't happen.
[22:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:22] <exec> 08└─Why did the man cross the road? His screams of agony did nothing. How had this happened? Little Jimmy had just been walking to school when a certain figure came from across the road. Now, that figure was brutally raping and beating the boy, all the while chortling at his suffering. Yes, the word "me...
[22:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:24] <exec> 08└─IDGAF about god but I'd have rioted if I didn't get a day off when it snowed when I was in school. Well, honestly, I'd have just not done the work. I was really, really good at not doing homework that didn't interest me or that I already groked the lesson of.
[22:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:26] <exec> 08└─Even if you're a careful driver.
[22:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:28] <exec> 08└─I like the principle behind this, but the repetitive symbolic manipulation and stuff like it should not be so easily discounted. Math takes practice, just like a foreign language or learning music. You can spend a lot of time thinking and discussing noun declinations and sentence structure, but to r...
[22:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:31] <exec> 08└─What is this "snow" you speak of. I live in Florida, dagnabbit. Global warming will drown us all, but what the fuck.
[22:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:33] <exec> 08└─> You just do not drive and you are pretty good. The one closure, when there was snow, could be justified. In areas where drivers aren't accustomed to snow (Atlanta for example), it makes sense not to run the school buses when there's even a little snow. I'm assuming they have buses.
[22:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:57] <exec> 08└─A decrepit old gas man named Peter, While hunting around for the meter, Touched a leak with his light. He arose out of sight, And, as anyone can see by reading this, he also destroyed the meter.
[22:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:59] <exec> 08└─doctored english translations of Sergei Magnitsky's testimony were handed out by Bill Browder to promote his story about police stealing his company and framing him for tax fraud https://www.newnationalist.net [newnationalist.net]
[22:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Mistranslation Matters - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:01] <exec> 08└─Is the number of the beast propaganda? How about the real [wikipedia.org] number?
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[23:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Established in 1973, Brookstone Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:40] <exec> 08└─As I write SoylentNews has a headline saying "Established in 1973, Brookstone Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection." The Engadget page doesn't mention 1973. It says Brookstone has been in business for "more than four decades." It also says "Via: Wired [wired.com]." Wired says Brookstone "debut...
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[23:08:41] <exec> 08└─Their CEO sounds like a Chinese menu item.
[23:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Names First Astronauts to Fly on American Spacecraft; SpaceX Poised to Fly Crew Before Boeing - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:52] <exec> 08└─Those were NOT commercial space flights by any means, but I totally understand your view point. Millennials have a very short attention span and no sense of history, so if it didn't happen in the last 15 minutes I didn't happen, and they 'discover' new things every day, like the great ball of fire i...
[23:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06NASA Names First Astronauts to Fly on American Spacecraft; SpaceX Poised to Fly Crew Before Boeing - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:53] <exec> 08└─Pedantic old fuck
[23:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Names First Astronauts to Fly on American Spacecraft; SpaceX Poised to Fly Crew Before Boeing - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:56] <exec> 08└─I met Josh Cassada while living in L.A. He was a member of the Grape Street Crips back then and was dealing drugs, hustling, and stealing before he was finally arrested. When a NASA employee saw in the news his mugshot along with his ability to smoke a gram of crack and jump every fence in a single...
[23:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:22] <exec> 08└─Math takes practice
[23:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06School Board Bans Snow Days, Will Make Kids Work Online Instead - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:24] <exec> 08└─Here's a fun fact for you. Sometimes during a southern snow storm, your car actually won't move significantly. The wheels just spin. If you're unlucky, they might briefly catch on a pebble and send you into a ditch. More fun, those road conditions are often mixed with patches of road that are just w...
[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will No Longer Show a Flat Earth - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─You're probably thinking of Google Earth, which is/was a similar but different thing with more of a focus on 3D. That represented the earth as a sphere when you zoomed out.
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[23:11:32] <exec> 08└─US immigration nightmare continues amid media blackout [wsws.org] [calling it a "blackout" may be #fakenews]: Over 570 immigrant children remain in detention centers and foster facilities throughout the United States weeks or months after the government separated them from their parents this past sp...
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[23:14:32] <exec> 08└─what about cash transactions?
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