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[00:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:06] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't have Intel's Management Engine, I don't want it. At least the IME I know how to disable
[00:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:07] <exec> 08└─Better the White Devil you know than the Chinese Dragon you don't, huh?
[00:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:10] <exec> 08└─Well, it's nice to know that the Chinese will be able able to flood the market with decent x86 processors (benchmarks would be nice, but one can safely assume 95% of users don't need more than 8 cores at 3GHz). They might not have tried yet, but since we're pushing them into a trade war, it's nice t...
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[00:44:12] <exec> 08└─pushing them into a trade war
[00:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 1293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:14] <exec> 08└─Giggling. The giggling of a child could be heard. Yet, if one were to looked for the source of the sound, they would not find a child; they would find a man. The giggling man was playfully jumping up and down and pointing at something on the sidewalk. This man would also occasionally shout, "April F...
[00:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:16] <exec> 08└─Branding doesn't change the reality, I guess. Few years down the road it may be the reverse or even a third option gaining preference. I still hope I'll live enough to see a fully open source CPU, but I don't hold illusions that is a guarantee of any backdoor absence.
[00:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the WORLD? - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:28] <exec> 08└─That's where Vancouver Washington is. The county seized his land for non-payment of taxes but then was unable to auction it off because that Sovereign Citizen had trashed it so badly. Any person or group of people really _can_ be sovereign - provided they are successful with their self-defense. The...
[00:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the WORLD? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:30] <exec> 08└─I dunno, look what scientology was able to achieve: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the WORLD? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link A/C. Sometimes I am amazed at the amount of stupid in the world.
[00:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Completes Acquisition of Music Recognition Service Shazam, Will Remove Ads - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:43] <exec> 08└─- VLC? Cool. From time to time I save anywhere from 200 to 600 megabytes of my favorite Internet Radio station. I treasure these audio files, because many years later I can listen to old favorites that never get played anymore. But even so: sometimes I cannot identify them. If their lyrics are intel...
[00:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Completes Acquisition of Music Recognition Service Shazam, Will Remove Ads - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:44] <exec> 08└─Did Apple Computer simply crush Apple Corp under the weight of its cash holdings?
[00:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Animated "Diablo" Series Reportedly Coming to Netflix - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:02] <exec> 08└─Counterexample: Voltron: Legendary Defender isn't live action.
[00:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Wavers on Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's obvious to you and me. But, to an MBA? It seems that maybe the space-going corporations don't hire MBA's.
[00:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ivy League Food Scientist Faces Retractions, Submits Resignation - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:15] <exec> 08└─He would point you towards drinking a glass of Evian!
[00:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:37] <exec> 08└─If you have valid ideas on fixing this, please contact the UN at 555-1234.
[00:47:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:53] <exec> 08└─He allegedly chose only men for drug-addled "boys' trips" to the Sundance Film Festival in 2016 and 2017, excluding women who were better-qualified for the ostensibly work-oriented visits.
[00:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:28] <exec> 08└─This may be changing, but being a smoker is also a part of getting ahead in many companies. I have worked in a couple where most of the management smoked, and being outside with them in the smoking area got people noticed and promoted. Deals are done in the carpark. You want to smoke just enough to...
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[00:50:13] <exec> 08└─Ninnyhammer.
[00:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Model 3 Gets Five-Star Crash Safety Rating From NHTSA - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:31] <exec> 08└─"So far, every car Tesla has built has earned a five-star safety rating" Great, so what's the news?
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[01:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:57] <exec> 08└─We aren't pushing them into a trade war. We've been in one for decades. It's still a war even if you aren't fighting: we call that "losing" or "surrender". In this war, we've lost much of our industry. We've lost industrial capability and we've lost jobs. It really sickens me to think that there are...
[01:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animated "Diablo" Series Reportedly Coming to Netflix - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:49] <exec> 08└─I found D2 very boring. It didn't have any story, sandbox, or crawl worth mentioning and all you did was item runs and grind for XP. The games might share a franchise, but the fact enemies don't respawn in D1 outside the NG/NG+ should tell you everything you need to know if you ever played other ARP...
[01:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ivy League Food Scientist Faces Retractions, Submits Resignation - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:05] <exec> 08└─No neutron star was harmed in the process.
[01:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:40] <exec> 08└─Yep, I agree with your assessment of the reality of working in a large corporation. But being valuable and competent is still one valid way to break through. Even in entirely political and corrupt large corporations stand-out performance gets noticed and gets you on the track upward. Also, you know,...
[01:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microbubble Scrubber Destroys Dangerous Biofilms - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:03] <exec> 08└─As usual, the privileged complain about how put upon they are! By far the largest amount of biomass on the planet is all of you single cell organisms. Us "hairless apes" and in fact all mammals are just an afterthought. And you've got so much diversity of species we still aren't even sure how many d...
[01:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Einstein's General Theory of Relativity Passed First Test in 1922 in Remote Australia - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:46] <exec> 08└─No, no, we insist, you keep him.
[01:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:27] <exec> 08└─Obviously your elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor.
[01:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:28] <exec> 08└─Are you confused about the difference between Offtopic and Spam? Because you seem to be.
[01:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:31] <exec> 08└─if the picture of the proposed bridge in TFA is to scale, the upright components of this brige are over three kilometres tall.
[01:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Being Used to Remove Court Cases from the Internet - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:28] <exec> 08└─If you haven't seen shysters sending out "DMCA takedown notices", and having those notices honored, despite exceeding the limitations (such as they are) in the DMCA, you haven't been paying attention. How strange that nations who would never allow random citizens to carry pistols in the streets, les...
[01:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GDPR Being Used to Remove Court Cases from the Internet - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:30] <exec> 08└─If you haven't seen shysters sending out "DMCA takedown notices", and having those notices honored, despite exceeding the limitations (such as they are) in the DMCA, you haven't been paying attention. How strange that nations who would never allow random citizens to carry pistols in the streets, les...
[01:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coding Error Sends 2019 Subaru Ascents to the Car Crusher - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:26] <exec> 08└─I just looked out of curiosity, and yes, there is still: Power mechanics (lawn mower type) 1 semester Automotive maintenance (1 semester) Automotive mechanics 1 (full year) Automotive mechanics 2 (full year) Automotive technician 1 (full year at tech school) They also have many more engineering / te...
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[02:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Offer Upgradeable Surface Hub 2 in 2019 - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:54] <exec> 08└─I have been involved in the purchase of many of these "collaboration" type meeting aid devices, and they look fantastic at first glance but hardly ever get any use. Only a couple of months ago I threw away a "Smartboard" that cost ~$14,000 10 years or so ago, and has been used exactly zero times in...
[02:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:09] <exec> 08└─We aren't pushing them into a trade war. We've been in one for decades.... In this war, we've lost much of our industry. We've lost industrial capability and we've lost jobs.... It really sickens me to think that there are people who would just accept this.
[02:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:11] <exec> 08└─It is a war with China. The plutocrats who control American companies are traitors, helping the enemy for pay. Traitors need to be punished, but remember that they wouldn't even be an issue without the enemy. That 25% tariff on light trucks works nicely. I think that proves the point, no? We need a...
[02:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:13] <exec> 08└─Whoever you are, you need psychiatric help. I kind of enjoy the trolling aspect, but the fact remains, there's something deeply wrong here. You need to see a psych.
[02:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:15] <exec> 08└─You will have to airgap your LAN from the router and use a dedicated box for all Internet activities that are worthless to the attacker (DRM-restricted gaming, news.) Perhaps using Tails for banking. Use a PC on the airgapped LAN for Quicken and similar personal data. It's the only way to be sure.
[02:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:17] <exec> 08└─Googling seems to indicate that some i5s have it while some don't. My Mid 2014 Mac mini Model Identifier Macmini7,1 is slow as molasses. It works great for developing drivers because they don't have much source code, while I use me $$$ Quad Core i7 MacBook Pro as my testing target because it boots...
[02:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:19] <exec> 08└─In the US it is unlawful for a political candidate to accept foreign campaign donations. But Daniel Ortega got voted out of office in Nicaragua due in large part to the US government backing an entire dump truck full of money up to Ortega's opponent's driveway. That's just wrong, and should be crime...
[02:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the WORLD? - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:38] <exec> 08└─At least it had not been when I read about it in 1990 or so. A state filed suite against the Clam folks for practicing medicine without a license - in state court. The judge ruled that Scientology was a religion. But that state never appealed, so that ruling really only applies to the county that th...
[02:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animated "Diablo" Series Reportedly Coming to Netflix - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:31] <exec> 08└─Personally, I thought the series went kind of astray with the expansion for Diablo II. It kind of felt like the people who made the expansion weren't the same ones that made the original game, which made it seem kind of tacked on without a lot of thought. Diablo III wasn't a lot better.
[02:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Wavers on Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:13] <exec> 08└─ULA & Ariannespace do. I bet Northrup Grumman Innovation Systems (nee OrbitalATK) does too. It takes a lot of MBA to maximize shareholder value from their government contracts. After all, you don't want the engineers talking directly with the customers! They might actually deliver what the customer...
[02:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Wavers on Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:15] <exec> 08└─I'm always reminded of this exchange from the opening of 2010 Dr. Floyd: "How could you convince your people to allow Americans to go on the flight?" Moisevitch: "It won't be easy. However, I'm pretty good. A Russian craft flown by Russians... carrying a few poor Americans who need our help. That al...
[02:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:19] <exec> 08└─You're free to argue about the Bolsheviks in 1917, but don't accept the mass murders the US perpetrated in Central America at around the same time?
[02:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:06] <exec> 08└─He said 70+ stories, you say a few hundred meters. It's the same fucking thing, you retard; one story is 4 meters, give or take.
[02:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:08] <exec> 08└─All that water would have to go somewhere. The rest of the worlds oceans would rise.
[02:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:10] <exec> 08└─Cable limit is about 500 meters, making it about 125 stories.
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[03:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Offer Upgradeable Surface Hub 2 in 2019 - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:50] <exec> 08└─so, microsoft have already designed and built the next model, realised this model is too expensive, but, rather than lower the price, have de-specc'd it, so the new/upgrade/better bits can be built alongside, and Capex decisions can be made with "guaranteed three year+" support included in the busin...
[03:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Offer Upgradeable Surface Hub 2 in 2019 - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:52] <exec> 08└─I agree on the price. If Microsoft were to release an open design on the upgrade kit perhaps competition could make the price reasonable, but I know better. I mean, the company is named Micro-Soft for crying out loud! Obviously because they manufacture both microprocessors and software for said micr...
[03:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:15] <exec> 08└─And that tails will run on a box with... what CPU? And how much trust you can put in your router? Not that this problem is new, some guy demonstrated a good while ago you can't blindly trust even your compiler [c2.com] (trying to avoid linking a PDF)
[03:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the World? - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:34] <exec> 08└─At the job interview for my first job my hiring manager mentioned Siemens was the largest employer in the world. I'm sure there are disclaimers on that statistic, (largest private employer probably) but it is still impressive. I know the company has shrunk a lot by spinning off or selling divisions...
[03:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the World? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:35] <exec> 08└─Fixed! Plus, I botched the table a little. Also fixed. Thanks! :)
[03:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Animated "Diablo" Series Reportedly Coming to Netflix - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:11] <exec> 08└─You should try Hellfire. The item drops are more or less well thought out and integrated well, but the dungeon and quests....
[03:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Wavers on Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:51] <exec> 08└─Sad news dude: as long as you post AC, your comment isn't visible anyway.
[03:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Wavers on Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:53] <exec> 08└─The only thing that makes me sometimes wonder if the OMG Russia! Stalin! Lenin! KGB! Meddling! narrative isn't total bullshit is the character of the other... fine world citizens @realDonaldTrump takes a liking to. It's also possible both that Putin is a thug and that the Russia narrative is bullshi...
[03:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ivy League Food Scientist Faces Retractions, Submits Resignation - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:32] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes...What was the old saw about "Lies, damn lies and statistics"?
[03:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:55] <exec> 08└─There are worse things to enslave a whole country to. Communism has proven to be one of those things.
[03:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:57] <exec> 08└─To expand a little on the Parttimezombie's response - you're probably familiar with the "no man is an island" idea. The government we have today, is a direct derivative of governmental policies of days gone by. Ditto for Russia, and China as well. And, of course, that also applies to countries aroun...
[03:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:51] <exec> 08└─No kidding, but considering that being a cuckolded white-knight male that brainlessly & blindingly taking the "her" side in any situation is "the thing" now, it's not a surprise so many people are defending this poor, defenseless, unprivileged, discriminated female. The people on here that are tryin...
[03:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:52] <exec> 08└─Darlin, I am not responsible for the actions of others unless they break one of the very few site rules. That would be themselves who are. And after shifting 400lb pews back and forth so I could pull up glued down carpet all morning, I was just too tired give a fuck if someone wanted to say somethin...
[03:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:54] <exec> 08└─And that would be evidence of her actions not of anyone else's. Accusation is not evidence of a crime, you kiddy porn producer. You simply suggested that you don't believe a word she says.
[03:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:49] <exec> 08└─And you don't typically see elevators that are that long, except for the freight elevator and perhaps a penthouse elevator by an extremely rich individual who can afford to spend the money on the floor space it takes up. Aristarchus is a moron. The practical limit on the height of elevators has to d...
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[03:50:50] <exec> 08└─TBH, probably the easiest way of doing it, would be a floating bridge. It would be a challenge as this is connected to the ocean, and there's plenty of ships that are coming and going, but it would probably be easier to build a floating bridge than a suspension bridge. The engineering on it would be...
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[04:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:49] <exec> 08└─What can go wrong? I mean... look... surely every hands-on driver need some entertainment and info-graphics while driving, right? Otherwise, s/he may get bored and tired. Even more, we can't track them while fatally crashing and that limits the usefulness of our collected data to insurance companies...
[04:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:50] <exec> 08└─Toyota is only one of the very largest car companies in the world. Steve Jobs would have gotten Toyota on board. Pipeline Timmy, on the other hand, is too busy lobbying for fudgepacker rights.
[04:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:52] <exec> 08└─why do "infotainment" systems need to have any interaction with operational systems? Engine, brakes, suspension, exhaust and gearbox can all be "changed" through the infotainment screens. Is it because it is "easier" to program that way? Exposing any of the safety/control systems to the infotainmant...
[04:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Offer Upgradeable Surface Hub 2 in 2019 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:03] <exec> 08└─If Microsoft were to release an open design on the upgrade kit perhaps competition could make the price reasonable
[04:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:24] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you need to clone your Mini's hard drive onto a solid state drive, which are cheat enough to buy in larger sizes today. The data transfer rate will increase by 300 to 400%. The hard drive is the performance bottleneck.
[04:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the World? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:44] <exec> 08└─Decades ago, it was: 1. Red Army. 2. UK National Health Service. ...
[04:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the World? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:46] <exec> 08└─3. Something something mom so fat and promiscuous something something ...
[04:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the World? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:48] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet [wikipedia.org] Large and in charge.
[04:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Completes Acquisition of Music Recognition Service Shazam, Will Remove Ads - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:01] <exec> 08└─So I Can Identify The IP Radio Tracks I Save With VLC?
[04:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:06] <exec> 08└─Lenin and Mao installed themselves. I'm not sure who you're trying to blame for that.
[04:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:08] <exec> 08└─Here's a list of the countries the US has invaded:
[04:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:10] <exec> 08└─That may well be true. I think the interaction with Africa will be generally positive.
[04:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:12] <exec> 08└─This is a commercial operation, rather than an experiment. Check out this talk about how it works both practically and commercially, and how it has saved people's lives: https://www.ted.com [ted.com] The fact tha...
[04:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:09] <exec> 08└─The former is necessary for the latter. And in case you think you have it figured out, both raw hours worked statistics and preference of the workers tell the same story. Women are more likely (for any reason) to make the choice not to work over. There's no victimhood to be found here, sorry.
[04:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:10] <exec> 08└─Accusations not abuses.
[04:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:12] <exec> 08└─And the hilarious bit is, they're not even going laid for doing so. Chicks who dig men dig men not minions. A frat boy has a better chance of nailing one of the blue-haired darlings than all of her favorite incel betas put together.
[04:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:14] <exec> 08└─Only some of the most awesome ones. Check a street corner in your local shady part of town and you'll find these wonderful champions of capitalism working worse weather than postal carriers will and wearing a whole lot less while doing so.
[04:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:08] <exec> 08└─Of course you realize, oh pugnacious AC, that you are involved in a not so subtle program of distraction? Next you will be telling us that it is possible to build a bridge to the top of the tallest building, blithely ignoring that nothing you are saying about elevators is relevant to the point I wa...
[04:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:09] <exec> 08└─Archimedes was building elevators [landmarkelevator.com] before your language even existed, you young barbarian! Show some respect! But more to the point, it seems AC elevators don't go all the way to the ground floor, being based on an indeterminate anonymity that makes it hard to know where you re...
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[05:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:34] <exec> 08└─Don't ask the teenagers go to school at all. Sack all teachers, close the schools and calculate the cost savings - about $700 billions or more over the next decade, right? Relax the age of consent and see the teenage porn industry booming instead. MAGA!
[05:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:36] <exec> 08└─... account for 1/3 of all traffic-related deaths. I wonder what that vast majority, 2/3, are caused by? I'll note that drunk drivers crash because they fall asleep at the wheel.
[05:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:38] <exec> 08└─You joke but the whole "age of consent" thing needs some serious reworking. Any laws that say someone whose mind is going to be on sex half the day isn't allowed to have any are pretty much the stupidest laws ever written.
[05:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:40] <exec> 08└─The onset of my mental illness occurred during the second quarter of my sophomore year at Caltech. It's not just that we pulled all nighters on Math Night and on Physics Night, but quite commonly we pulled all nighters for no particular reason at all other than to hang out talking and listening to m...
[05:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:42] <exec> 08└─Shrooms are quicker and readily available if you live near cows.
[05:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:53] <exec> 08└─So you literally can't take a shit without Google.
[05:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:55] <exec> 08└─I'm willing to concede that fuel injection is better than carburetion. I far prefer to drive a stick but if I did I'd be getting daily speeding tickets, so I really do need an automatic with cruise control. Beyond that I don't want any technology in my car, and I want to be able to fix it with tools...
[05:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:32] <exec> 08└─I actually bought a 1 TB Western Digital USB 3 Flash drive for a song, but I'm using it for backup and file transfer. I expect I'll buy a Thunderbolt 2 SSD Drive [macsales.com], but not until I buy an HDMI monitor. My mini just has two Thundbolt ports; presently I'm using a VGA with a Thunderbolt to...
[05:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:34] <exec> 08└─I once worked for a Bahamian hedge fund - The Bahamas because there are no taxes there. They had about twenty employees with me as a remote contractor. The - very very wealthy - owner of the hedge fund got his windows box quite severely pwned, so he bought all his employees a second box purely for t...
[05:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the World? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:57] <exec> 08└─#3's Employer and Country is switched on "Private and semipublic companies with the most employees in the world" table
[05:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:16] <exec> 08└─Comments about the difference between offtopic and spam are indeed spam, when what we are looking for is span. And just because the Powers That Be (ever notice that TMB could be an acronym for The Mighty, um Powers that Be?) have rescinded the spam mod does not mean that it still does not apply! Oh...
[05:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:18] <exec> 08└─Taken care of.
[05:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:20] <exec> 08└─Lose an argument, then suddenly realize the argument was off-topic. Classic arse-tarchus.
[05:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:22] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's just poetic envy.
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[06:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:46] <exec> 08└─Humans are one of the very few animals that are forced to wake up abruptly on a regular basis. Maybe that's the real reason we need big brains. We intentionally do stuff that kill our brain cells on a regular basis (late nights, drink alcohol, insufficient sleep, abrupt wake ups, etc). It's not like...
[06:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:48] <exec> 08└─Some states have the age of consent at 16 with close-in-age exemptions that could possibly adjust that down to 13 or 14. That should mostly cover puberty. However, these state laws are inconsistent. Probably very confusing for a minor reading them (I know, like that would even happen). Even under-18...
[06:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:50] <exec> 08└─Inattentiveness and speeding?
[06:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:52] <exec> 08└─It does need reworking, but not in the way you think. The age of consent needs to be moved to 25, because that's about when the brain finishes developing. It's too risky to allow sex before that.
[06:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:07] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all manual cars these days also have cruise control. They won't change gears for you, but they'll keep you at a designated speed. The ones with active cruise control will even break a little to keep you from speeding up on a downhill run, along with keeping the car moving in traffic. Aga...
[06:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:08] <exec> 08└─Oops 'brake', not 'break'. Not so good if a car breaks automatically.
[06:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:10] <exec> 08└─Just got a Hyundai Elantra Sport, the one with the dual clutch transmission. Best of both worlds. 201 HP and up to 40 MPG on the highway.
[06:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:12] <exec> 08└─https://archive.google.com/tisp/index.html [google.com] Amazon is closer to putting Alexa in a toilet though.
[06:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:48] <exec> 08└─OK, someone will need to explain this post to Runaway, or he will not understand that he has once again been slammed for being an ignoramous. Volunteers?
[06:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:52] <exec> 08└─Because the argument was off topic. Why do you think I threw in a structural limit to capitalism spin in there, you cretins of the cold war? Do you not realize that your thinking is not only invalid, (that is, your reasoning does not support the conclusions you admire, even if your premises and sta...
[06:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:54] <exec> 08└─Taken care of.
[06:52:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06GDPR Being Used to Remove Court Cases from the Internet - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:36] <exec> 08└─I can't believe the courts wouldn't laugh him directly into jail.
[06:52:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06GDPR Being Used to Remove Court Cases from the Internet - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:40] <exec> 08└─Does he also think he can go and sexually assault someone and have his name erased from the docket.
[06:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goghit [6530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your Gut is Directly Connected to Your Brain, by a Newly Discovered Neuron Circuit - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:34] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the dude who invented corn flakes in an attempt to keep bored asylum patients from masturbating themselves insane(r). A little something to ponder over breakfast.
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[07:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:24] <exec> 08└─I prefer fresh brains.
[07:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Offer Upgradeable Surface Hub 2 in 2019 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:54] <exec> 08└─The cartridges slot into the back of the Surface Hub 2 hardware and can be upgraded or serviced.
[07:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:23] <exec> 08└─It should be crime in Nicaragua. The USA can get away with it though, and if this (including image effects) is an overall benefit to the USA, then the USA should do it. It goes the other way too. Nicaragua influencing US elections should be a crime in the USA. Nicaragua should do it anyway, if they...
[07:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:24] <exec> 08└─Not actually. It's more like the USA just loves being at war. Whether it's the Russians, the Chinese or whoever it doesn't really matter aka "We've always been at war with Eurasia/Eastasia". As long as there's a war those in power are happy. Plenty of patriotic suckers will support them against "The...
[07:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ivy League Food Scientist Faces Retractions, Submits Resignation - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:51] <exec> 08└─Thoroughly checking a paper takes time, and effort. You're gonna end up with the open-source conundrum [securityledger.com]: lots and lots of people assuming someone else already has done the proper vetting, especially when there's a reputation involved.
[07:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:21] <exec> 08└─I'd be more likely to suspect things if there were multiple complaints from different women.
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[08:43:19] <exec> 08└─No one is buying this bullshit. They will put their blue-haired transexual puppets on the boards through some non-profit outfit. Blocking amp anything at router level in my house. Oh yeah, of course it was her turn LOL
[08:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:40] <exec> 08└─It's cover has a heavily textured heavy plastic coating. What you do suppose that's for? :-D I'm quite likely to follow its instructions but will grow Portabellas. I really like Portabellas but to eat as many as I like would be expensive, so I'll grow my own.
[08:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:42] <exec> 08└─That escalated quickly
[08:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:44] <exec> 08└─You sound like Russian lawmakers, which seem to believe that any problem (perceived or real) can be solved by making it illegal.
[08:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:46] <exec> 08└─Heh. Ages you say? How about adding another one: the economic independence age [forbes.com]? If wages don’t pick up through the next decade, Bovino says Millennials would be forced to continue to avoid big purchases like homes and cars and delay starting families. Housing starts would also grow sl...
[08:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:48] <exec> 08└─Ummm... really? No shit? You reckon only the Russian ones worth the mention [wikipedia.org]?
[08:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:51] <exec> 08└─More or less Machiavelli justifies everything based on the prince's ability to get away with it.
[08:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the World? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:18] <exec> 08└─Foxconn would be higher up the list if only their employees didn't kill themselves.
[08:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:51] <exec> 08└─If the US acts like it's more important than everybody else and not accountable for anything, then it shouldn't expect to be taken seriously when it sheds crocodile tears over what other governments are doing. It's as simple as that. Creating Al Qaeda is a pretty minor price for tossing the USSR on...
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[09:43:45] <exec> 08└─Puppets have no sex, silly.
[09:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Moving to Relinquish Control Over Accelerated Mobile Pages - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:46] <exec> 08└─Remove the required artificial eight second delay penalty for those choosing to block ampproject.org. Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com] Horses mouth: https://www.ampproject.org [ampproject.org] AMP HTML documents mu...
[09:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:11] <exec> 08└─How does somebody that's sleeping 12 and 14 hours a day compete with someone that's sleeping three or four? I'm working long hours. Long hours, right up til twelve o'clock, one in the morning. I like three hours, four hours of sleep, I toss, I turn. And I get up at five. I beep-de-beep, I want to fi...
[09:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:13] <exec> 08└─'Tis where I live, which is why I mentioned those.
[09:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:15] <exec> 08└─Make sense. The behavior is not restricted to Russian politicians though.
[09:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:17] <exec> 08└─It's too risky to allow sex before that.
[09:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:23] <exec> 08└─I do think the USA influences elections and coups all over the world
[09:46:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Apple Completes Acquisition of Music Recognition Service Shazam, Will Remove Ads - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:03] <exec> 08└─Did Apple Computer simply crush Apple Corp under the weight of its cash holdings?
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[09:47:06] <exec> 08└─That's why they ceded power to the United States.
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[10:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:38] <exec> 08└─If you're using chrome, you're their bitch, login or no login.
[10:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:22] <exec> 08└─"Humans are one of the very few animals that are forced to wake up abruptly on a regular basis." That is indeed correct. Every other species on the planet gets forced to wake up abruptly on an irregular basis just before something tries to kill it for food. Fact is, we're the only species on the pla...
[10:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:24] <exec> 08└─>Three out of every four students in grades 9 to 12 fail to sleep the minimum of eight hours that > the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends for their age group. Stop their pocket money if they go to bed after 10 pm on a school night. Switch off the router after 9 pm. No mobile phones (or c...
[10:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:26] <exec> 08└─It is hard to afford cars and homes when you spend all your money on beard oil.
[10:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:28] <exec> 08└─I eat, I read the papers, I see what's going on on TV
[10:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:30] <exec> 08└─It is a little strange that laws in most states forbid teenagers having sex while allowing them to drive vehicles that can kill people. As a public safety measure, it should be the opposite.
[10:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:32] <exec> 08└─So true. When all your disposable income is the $3 worth of beard oil, there's no way in hell you can afford a car.
[10:44:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 490 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:43] <exec> 08└─why do "infotainment" systems need to have any interaction with operational systems? Engine, brakes, suspension, exhaust and gearbox can all be "changed" through the infotainment screens. Is it because it is "easier" to program that way? Exposing any of the safety/control systems to the infotainmant...
[10:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:24] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. Speaking Mandarin is not so tough, but the characters form a barrier for many people. Of all the languages spoken in Africa most of them are written with alphabets. They haven't used logograms since ancient Egypt. They'll probably all speak English with each other, even if the Engl...
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[11:43:04] <exec> 08└─Always amused by anyone trying to put privacy and google in a sentence together. If you want privacy, why do you have a gmail account? If you want privacy, why are you logged-in to youtube? If you want privacy, why are you using Chrome? Etc..
[11:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:05] <exec> 08└─you will automatically be signed into the browser....you will be signed into Chrome 69
[11:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:07] <exec> 08└─What is "signing in to the browser"?
[11:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:01] <exec> 08└─I wonder what that vast majority, 2/3, are caused by?
[11:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03messymerry [6369] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:02] <exec> 08└─I do this too, butt, I take naps...quite a lot. I like doing two sleep periods on a daily basis. Not enough is said about the virtues of napping. Mesi Meri (messymerry) is the Greek equivalent of siesta or naptime. Everybody should look for a way to add a daily nap to their schedule...
[11:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:04] <exec> 08└─Sack all teachers, close the schools and calculate the cost savings - about $700 billions or more over the next decade, right?
[11:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:06] <exec> 08└─Always hated to get up early for the bus to school, one year it came at 6:15am, ugh. Finally in senior year high school, I had a little motorcycle and drove my self to school. That year I also connected with a group of older guys who were racing cars and I volunteered to help them nearly every eveni...
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[11:49:01] <exec> 08└─(what a way to miss the implied point)
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[12:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:04] <exec> 08└─Considering these companies, and others are engines of censorship on an extremely wide scale it wouldn't be the most terrible idea ever.
[12:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:06] <exec> 08└─the internet should be renamed a "content delivery network" (CDN). OH wait ...
[12:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:08] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you meant "censorship"? In the traditional definition, censoring is done by government (or the church, if/when church and state are/were fist-in-glove). Of course many companies with a web presence choose what to present to their users and attempt to bar/ban certain types of content (of...
[12:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:10] <exec> 08└─Really now, how does this help MAGA? Or MAGA is a moot point at this stage!? Like "cleaning the swamp"? Or the big beautiful wall? Loosing steam and focus, hypnotized to blindness by a red cloth waving in front of him? C'mon, it's not nice to let Bannon without anything to bu... err... praise [cnbc....
[12:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:12] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you meant "censorship"? In the traditional definition, censoring is done by government (or the church, if/when church and state are/were fist-in-glove).
[12:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:14] <exec> 08└─> MAGA ... Like "cleaning the swamp"? Or the big beautiful wall? All of these are smoke screens to distract you from Trumps actual goal of making as much money for himself as he possibly can. I hope your post was sarcastic?
[12:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:17] <exec> 08└─This is something different than traditional censorship that is backed by governmental power.
[12:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:19] <exec> 08└─> Can you tell the difference between the DNC and the leadership of the legacy media or academia? Fly off the handle much? The topic is "...authorize federal regulators and law enforcers to investigate the business practices of the internet giants for potential antitrust violations." Time to quit ta...
[12:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:21] <exec> 08└─"Entropy says engine of censorship" I can't speak to FB because I don't do that. Google does seem an engine of information distribution that was not there at this scale before search engines. (Before, maybe newspapers. I would hesitate to call the TV stuff information.) For the most part, it seems t...
[12:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:31] <exec> 08└─Nope Nope; and Nope Thanks for asking.
[12:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Moving to Relinquish Control Over Accelerated Mobile Pages - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:50] <exec> 08└─Which is why millennia aren't classified by sex, but by gender.
[12:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Moving to Relinquish Control Over Accelerated Mobile Pages - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:51] <exec> 08└─What would be a better way to prevent the flash of unstyled content [wikipedia.org] from distracting readers?
[12:44:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 868 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:15] <exec> 08└─Heh. Ages you say? How about adding another one: the economic independence age [forbes.com]? If wages don’t pick up through the next decade, Bovino says Millennials would be forced to continue to avoid big purchases like homes and cars and delay starting families. Housing starts would also grow sl...
[12:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:31] <exec> 08└─The original purpose of school ending at 2pm was because high school sports is more important than high school academics and as such has priority. The scheduling is F-ed up such that my son's school's football team starts ALL games at 7pm. Seriously, the farthest away school in their division is abo...
[12:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:33] <exec> 08└─Sack all teachers, close the schools
[12:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:52] <exec> 08└─Oops 'brake', not 'break'. Not so good if a car breaks automatically.
[12:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Offer Upgradeable Surface Hub 2 in 2019 - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:07] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of the old Pentium IIs with its cartridge based form factor. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Used to have an old Micron server running Novell and the chip crapped out on me. Well, all the desktops were PIIs so I just pulled out a cartridge from an unused mac...
[12:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:39] <exec> 08└─RISC-V? https://riscv.org [riscv.org]
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[13:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:12] <exec> 08└─Duh and also no. I've experienced both. Drastic diet changes of any kind aren't pleasant while your body adjusts but even quitting refined sugar isn't in the same ballpark as nicotine, much less caffeine.
[13:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:13] <exec> 08└─Nevertheless, I can't wait for the ban on Maccas in public places the way they treat smokers. (grin)
[13:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:16] <exec> 08└─You are not supposed to understand this. You are also not supposed to understand how smart phones, hypnotic scrolling or animations, posting on Tweeter or Facefook are addictive. Now be a good little consumer and eat your overpriced Twinkies and post about how much you love your Twinkies on Twatter....
[13:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:32] <exec> 08└─... but will it be an anal probe?
[13:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:33] <exec> 08└─So, just how did Micro$haft survive. They should have been split, and we now have the largest monopoly in the history of the planet. And to me, anti-trust, failed as M$ biggest customer is "government".
[13:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, drafted by Comcast and AT&T.
[13:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:37] <exec> 08└─I hope your post was sarcastic?
[13:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:40] <exec> 08└─... but will it be an anal probe?
[13:43:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:52] <exec> 08└─What is "signing in to the browser"?
[13:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:54] <exec> 08└─If you want privacy, why do you have a gmail account?
[13:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:57] <exec> 08└─Which browser do you use instead of Chrome? If Firefox, the closest comparison is Firefox Sync [mozilla.org]. Imagine if Firefox Sync logged you in whenever you successfully authenticated to a website run by Mozilla, such as MDN or Bugzilla or Add-ons.
[13:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:59] <exec> 08└─I was confused by that sentence too -- good explanation of bad writing. So it isn't really "signing into the browser" and is actually signing in to your google account.
[13:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Moving to Relinquish Control Over Accelerated Mobile Pages - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:19] <exec> 08└─#TEAMAMERICA #F*CKYEA
[13:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:00] <exec> 08└─MessyJoes (messiegios) is good too, I hear. Nice atmosphere, bit of an edge.
[13:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:02] <exec> 08└─The brain doesn't need to finish developing to be able to make responsible choices. If that's been your experience, your parents were shitty parents.
[13:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:04] <exec> 08└─Remember, if you want them to thrive you need to treat them like American voters. Keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit.
[13:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:06] <exec> 08└─Ummm... allow them to have sex that can kill people? Is this more... humane so to speak?
[13:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:25] <exec> 08└─WTF? Why would you need 200+HP without family and kids? My Hyundai i30 diesel gets 4.8L/100km = almost 50MPG in combined 30%city/70%highway
[13:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:12] <exec> 08└─Fingers crossed. But... The Free and Open RISC Instruction Set Architecture
[13:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the World? - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:38] <exec> 08└─Notably, the DoD "employs" many people who aren't actually "employed" in the traditional sense. As an example, consider the people that serve 39 days/year in the reserve components. They are Army National Guard (306K), Army Reserve (345K), Navy Reserve (110K), Marine Corps Reserve (107K), Air Nation...
[13:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Completes Acquisition of Music Recognition Service Shazam, Will Remove Ads - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:54] <exec> 08└─How would Shazam on a tablet send the user to iTunes? Apple Music reportedly doesn't work on Android tablets, only on phones. Has Apple announced plans to bring Apple Music to Android tablets or iTunes Store to Android at all?
[13:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Completes Acquisition of Music Recognition Service Shazam, Will Remove Ads - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:56] <exec> 08└─For quite a while I thought *Google* had bought shazam, though it seem probably they bought some of the tech team. The Pixel 2 has this ambient mode, music detection. It can, without internet (verifed using foil), idenitfy music playing in the background. Shazam is considerably slower and, may need...
[13:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:11] <exec> 08└─If the US acts like it's more important than everybody else and not accountable for anything,
[13:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Searching for New Bridge Forms that Can Span Further - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I hate to mess up a perfectly good bit of textual sparring but it's part of the job.
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[14:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:32] <exec> 08└─Easier method: fnord.
[14:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:33] <exec> 08└─The twinkies will outlive both the ad and the fad.
[14:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:35] <exec> 08└─I'd qualify it as a "maybe". The body usually craves homeostasis above all else. And blood chemistry levels (especially blood sugar and maintaining electrolyte and acid-base balance) may well propel an over-eater into keeping up intake to maintain those levels. It can be well less than what one woul...
[14:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:38] <exec> 08└─Is this from Cornell?
[14:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but, Twinkies are gross. Maybe I'm not addicted enough to look past that.
[14:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:42] <exec> 08└─Food scientists for the processed foods companies are the "men behind the curtain" which we aren't supposed to notice. They make things taste better - so we buy more. They make things that make people feel better when they get them - so we buy more. The good scientists who came over from RJReynolds...
[14:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:44] <exec> 08└─It's a shame that the film They Live [imdb.com] is mostly remembered for the "... and I'm all out of bubblegum" line.
[14:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:46] <exec> 08└─Nope. From the wonderful state of Michiganistan. University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Their gender program fails though... frikkin radfem gatekeepers... but presumably that's the psychology department instead of the school of medicine... Ohshi-! Erica M. Schulte [researchgate.net] is in the psycholo...
[14:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:48] <exec> 08└─You know what I want modern food science to come up with? A zero calorie gummy bear. My roommate and I would buy stock in whoever markets that, and we would gladly accept payment of the dividends in the form of gummies. (Invalid form key so hope this isn't a double post! *crosses fingers*)
[14:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:10] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you meant "censorship"? In the traditional definition, censoring is done by government
[14:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:12] <exec> 08└─Desperate to see the right action taken, but knowing that it is being taken for entirely wrong reasons.... Does not compute! Does not compute! Illogical! Error! *boom*
[14:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:14] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, web companies, coming from the deregulation-fueled disruption tech boom that started in the 80s, have so much power ceded to them by US law that they are now de facto governments themselves. Apple has more cash on hand than most countries. As such, when they take it upon themselves to...
[14:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:16] <exec> 08└─Is the probe meant to collect evidence? Will it do so? If yes, then there should be no problem. These aren't the kind of companies that are just going to be bullied out of existence. Worst case scenario (for them), President Trump calls for a mass boycott of these companies. Google users will contin...
[14:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 1692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:31] <exec> 08└─Correction, If you use the WWW at all, you're their bitch, since their analytics collectors are plugged into probably a more than a million popular websites. But that is actually less intrusive than the DNS mining and switch level surveillance that some of the carriers do. Maybe anti-trust could hav...
[14:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:33] <exec> 08└─Don't. Use. Chrome.
[14:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Storms Spotted on Titan - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:41] <exec> 08└─Huh, I imagined Titian as a very gooey, greasy, oily, and smoggy place, with that atmosphere of hydrocarbons. But, I suppose hydrocarbons come in such variety that it was inevitable some forms would be dry and dusty.
[14:45:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 389 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:21] <exec> 08└─>Three out of every four students in grades 9 to 12 fail to sleep the minimum of eight hours that > the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends for their age group. Stop their pocket money if they go to bed after 10 pm on a school night. Switch off the router after 9 pm. No mobile phones (or c...
[14:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:36] <exec> 08└─This. Why is it so hard to go to bed earlier in order to get the recommended amount of sleep? The way it's going now, today's acceptable start time for school will need to be changed again because kids will stay up even later and not get enough sleep. It will continue to move out if limits aren't pu...
[14:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:37] <exec> 08└─So what we should have is classes for non athletes that start later in the day and end later in the day? I would have been down for that when I was in school. Sleep in and get home in time for dinner.
[14:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:43] <exec> 08└─The "flavor" of your post seems like you have to convince me that communism is worse than capitalism. If that be the case, you're wasting your time. I'm not holding the Soviet, or Red China up as an example we should follow, after all. Both countries had casualties in the tens of millions, while the...
[14:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spotify Sued Over Executives' Alleged Gender Discrimination - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:46] <exec> 08└─Even in entirely political and corrupt large corporations stand-out performance gets noticed and gets you on the track upward.
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[15:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:01] <exec> 08└─Too bad it requires a FB account, having one would cause me a great deal of mental trauma.
[15:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:02] <exec> 08└─Look. I know surgeons; they take pictures and videos of their work, legally, for conferences. You should see the horrors that these people are steeped in. So, no. If you can't take it, then don't apply for the job, I guess.
[15:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:05] <exec> 08└─But but but everybody wants to work for The Facebook! Delusional people think they'll somehow become as rich as Zuck if they work for The Facebook!
[15:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:07] <exec> 08└─Well now that all depends. Do you read every word of every spam post by our resident rapist and child murdering troll? That's some mighty fine writing, I tell you what.
[15:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:09] <exec> 08└─They'll get the job done right, no questions asked and no pathetic lawsuits.
[15:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:11] <exec> 08└─(Other than the fact that it uses PHP . . .) What is Facebook's problem? First, I'm going to assume that the moderators are not special snowflakes who cannot handle contrary points of view. But from TFA I got the impression we're talking about things that ordinary people might find mentally traumati...
[15:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:13] <exec> 08└─He should write for Facebook. Or maybe he posts here because he's banned in other forums.
[15:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:15] <exec> 08└─Now they have contractors, see? And it would be the responsibility of the contracted company or individuals to provide its own trauma support, see? Facebook doesn't need to supply those resources because they contracted the job out, see? It's all so clear now.
[15:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:18] <exec> 08└─some videos that were widely discussed like 2 girls 1 cup
[15:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:25] <exec> 08└─I am pre-emptively laughing my ass off at anyone who decides to pay prices anywhere near these for that little shithole.
[15:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:28] <exec> 08└─I doubt it Traffic around that area is so bad now it will take you at least an hour to go the 1-2 miles to get there. You'll spend most of that waiting to get across the bridges over US 101. That lot will be flattened, and a 4 million dollar two-story McMansion filling the entire lot will be built t...
[15:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:30] <exec> 08└─Of course they can ask for anything they want, doesn't mean anyone will give it to them. But the entire industry is setup to encourage bubbles, and human psychology means it isn't that hard. Prices can only go up. Until sales stagnate for a long period of time, and then collapse, that is. This one's...
[15:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:32] <exec> 08└─"Traffic around that area is so bad now it will take you at least an hour to go the 1-2 miles to get there. You'll spend most of that waiting to get across the bridges over US 101." After examining the situation in 'earth' I am afraid you may be correct. The 33-35 minute bicycle routes look more pra...
[15:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:34] <exec> 08└─Here in London, 4,000 sq ft is GIGANTIC. My (2 bed) home is about 1,000
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:36] <exec> 08└─897 sqft is now a tiny house? My house is only slightly larger than that (and I mean slightly...). There are tons of houses in my community that are smaller than that. These aren't considered tiny houses.
[15:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:38] <exec> 08└─The lot is 4000 square feet. 900 for a house isn't very small either, my own house is only 100 square feet bigger.
[15:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:41] <exec> 08└─The price has already dropped:$1,988,000
[15:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:00] <exec> 08└─Pizza is not junk food! It's also not a pie.
[15:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:02] <exec> 08└─Tell that to millions of obese Americans who can't quit junk food. If it looks like an addiction and quacks like an addition...
[15:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:04] <exec> 08└─The phrase "sugar rush" has been around since at least the 1980s. There's a 2012 book, "Born With a Junk Food Deficiency" by Martha Rosenberg that, while overly sensationalist, gives some details and supporting evidence for what we all suspect, which is that food hawkers, like every business, want t...
[15:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:06] <exec> 08└─Ehhh...Haribo makes a sugar-free one, but if they're anything like the hype, I'd stay far, farrrr away from them.
[15:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:08] <exec> 08└─But is it an open faced sandwich?
[15:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:52] <exec> 08└─My last cave resolve world -c on my Exherbo install pulled in Chromium 69. I'm using version 65 on another computer at the moment. One way to instantly tell that the version of Chrome/Chromium is looking at the tab style. Version 69 seems to have brought rounded corners. They look like shit. There w...
[15:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:54] <exec> 08└─prior to Xcode 7, Apple required a recurring payment just to be able to run software you developed on an iOS device you own.
[15:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:56] <exec> 08└─I've been using Falkon, previously known as QupZilla, for a while. It's taking some getting used to and its adblock isn't quite as strong as UBlock Origin, but I really like it. It feels stripped-down, simple, and stable as a rock.
[15:45:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:52] <exec> 08└─So true. When all your disposable income is the $3 worth of beard oil, there's no way in hell you can afford a car.
[15:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:06] <exec> 08└─So, what changed in the Nixon/Ford era that began this? What laws changed? What did lobbyists get?
[15:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:07] <exec> 08└─Why is it so hard to go to bed earlier in order to get the recommended amount of sleep? The way it's going now, today's acceptable start time for school will need to be changed again because kids will stay up even later and not get enough sleep. It will continue to move out if limits aren't put into...
[15:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:09] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that if they move the start time later, that the students will still go to bed at the same time because that is their natural sleep time? That is the assumption made in this analysis, but I'm really not sure how valid it is. I wonder if anyone has seriously looked at whether that...
[15:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:11] <exec> 08└─What did lobbyists get?
[15:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:13] <exec> 08└─Not sure about that. My cats do pretty good.
[15:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:16] <exec> 08└─That'll prepare them well when they face the real world and their non-self-employed job allows them to sleep in and show up when they want to! Oh, wait....
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[16:43:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:07] <exec> 08└─Too bad it requires a FB account, having one would cause me a great deal of mental trauma.
[16:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:17] <exec> 08└─He's banned here too, but a ban here is like a slap on the dick.
[16:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:19] <exec> 08└─"But from TFA I got the impression we're talking about things that ordinary people might find mentally traumatizing. I avoid those myself. Years ago you might remember some videos that were widely discussed like 2 girls 1 cup, or some other video of a guy apparently castrating himself or something s...
[16:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:21] <exec> 08└─> If you can't take it, then don't apply for the job, I guess. You must be new to this USA thing. The goal of the exercise is to take just enough abuse to justify your lawsuit. They must be new to this Internet thing, if they believe for a minute that "moderator at $socialMedia" was going to be anyt...
[16:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:36] <exec> 08└─It is pretty small to me. It's only under 1/3 bigger than the appartment i had while i was studying. I had to use my kitchen table for my projects.
[16:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:38] <exec> 08└─Think of all the money you'll save on household cleaning products and unnecessary volume air conditioning ! Totally worth it!
[16:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:40] <exec> 08└─So when is the Internet going to make your physical location not much matter? And take down these crazy high house prices? One thing that puzzles me is if IT people are so smart, why are so many willing to shut their brains off when it comes to making rational housing choices? When you have, what, a...
[16:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nwf [1469] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:42] <exec> 08└─I think it depends on in what country you live and how many people live with you. I think 900 sq ft is tiny, but most houses have useless rooms for "reasons" and waste space. The smallest house I've ever lived in was about 1500 sq ft and that was decent.
[16:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:07] <exec> 08└─Yep, one of the primary routes via which smoking is addictive is to spike your blood sugar and then crash it when you abstain. The crash is also why so many people eat more and gain weight later.
[16:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's a misunderstood classic. The filmmakers were onto something profound 30 years ahead of the curve, and embedded it in a story about aliens controlling humanity through subliminal messages. They hid it in plain sight, so to speak. A couple decades later another misunderstood classic followed...
[16:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:10] <exec> 08└─Hold on, now. Are we talking about Chicago-style, or New York-style? The former could be called a pie. The latter is a canape with an outsized ego. Both of them fall short, though, because they inevitably lack the poorly understood, but divine, ingredient of anchovies; it's funny, because it is the...
[16:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:13] <exec> 08└─Funny AA tells you "not even one", but total abstinence from eating carries a 100% chance of causing acute to chronic morbidity. I wonder how easy even a 6 month chit of "exactly one pint of light beer a day" would be. Then stop and think about the fact that a majority of the easily available food (...
[16:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:15] <exec> 08└─There is, though, a similar addiction in the other direction once you get used to eating healthy food. It becomes nearly impossible to tolerate junk. You crave vitamins and healthy fats. Eating Wonderbread or McDonald's is nauseous.
[16:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:17] <exec> 08└─There's money to be made producing simulacra that substitute stevia.
[16:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.thecut.com/2015/10/placebo-effect-is-getting-stronger.html [thecut.com] It’s a mystery of modern medicine: Americans — and only Americans — are becoming more likely to report feeling very real physical effects after taking totally fake painkillers, say scientists from McGill Univer...
[16:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:46] <exec> 08└─There are people who hate Google, and have done so almost from the beginning. There are people who hate Facebook, and have done so almost from the beginning. Some of those are the same people. I don't. Google did improve search. If you were around when Mosaic was the browser, you know whereof I spea...
[16:44:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:56] <exec> 08└─you will automatically be signed into the browser....you will be signed into Chrome 69
[16:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:08] <exec> 08└─>> I've been using Falkon, previously known as QupZilla, for a while. Given the OP's preferences one could say it is 2 girls, 1 QupZilla.
[16:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:09] <exec> 08└─Palemoon, older firefox, or waterfox. Never did any "syncing" though.
[16:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm fond of it as well. It looks like it's basically a Qt wrapper around the Chromium engine, with a few odds and ends (like AdBlock) added for good measure. It's been compatible with damn near everything, and it lodas fast, especially if you're on a KDE or Qt-based system as chances are you a...
[16:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:13] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know if this behaviour also applies to Chromium on Linux?
[16:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:15] <exec> 08└─> you're their bitch, since their analytics collectors are plugged into probably a more than a million popular websites True question: Is blacklisting the analytics in NoScript still sufficient, or did they add more roundabout ways to spy on you? > more than a million popular websites But not SN ! S...
[16:47:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number11 [1170] 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 257 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:20] <exec> 08└─We aren't pushing them into a trade war. We've been in one for decades.... In this war, we've lost much of our industry. We've lost industrial capability and we've lost jobs.... It really sickens me to think that there are people who would just accept this.
[16:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:36] <exec> 08└─You're not completely wrong, but I'll emphasize what the others have already said: In this war, China's best soldiers have always carried US passports. Deng XiaoPing did the "art of war" thing, learnt about his enemy's weakness, and leveraged the greed and Wall street's short-shitedness (I'll keep t...
[16:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:38] <exec> 08└─We make an FPGA-based NAT/Firewall. Not at the kind of prices you guys would like to pay, but I should really look into a cost-reduced version.
[16:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the World? - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:06] <exec> 08└─There seem to be some errors with this data, for example I'm fairly certain I've never heard of the country "Post Group China" or the company named "China". The top chart shows Walmart with 2.1 Million employees and the bottom shows 2.3 million, so which is it? With such glaring quality problems I q...
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[17:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:14] <exec> 08└─Our dehumidifier ices up if it runs too long (damp basement in the summer). Best solution I've found is to use the cycle timer instead of the humidity sensor, so it's set to run 3 hours, then off for 3 hours. Setting the "humidity" to, say, 50% RH is almost guaranteed to run a too aggressive duty cy...
[17:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:15] <exec> 08└─Heat.
[17:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:17] <exec> 08└─Seems like the easiest way is just to abolish the agency. It's not like they existed before the creation of the hyper-Orwellian "homeland security" department in the first place. Oh. That kind of ice? Just use power. Use more renewables in your grid so using power isn't a bad thing. Duh.
[17:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:19] <exec> 08└─Layer 1 = Metal Layer 2 = primer Layer 3 = matte black topcoat
[17:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:21] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping there's some kind of "greenhouse" insulating layer in there, otherwise this isn't any more remarkable than black paint.
[17:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:42] <exec> 08└─Sociopaths would be better suited. They're not an aberration in the species, you know. They evolved because they're better suited than "sane" people to some areas of human society.
[17:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:43] <exec> 08└─That's nonsense. How can a buzzard be a horse? And who been giving it peanut butter? What's wrong with you animals?
[17:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:04] <exec> 08└─There are soooo many signs a crash is coming. All the charts and historical patterns are pointing that way; I'd be really surprised if there were not a recession within the next 18 month.
[17:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:06] <exec> 08└─There is an actual Tiny House concept (the house in the article does not apply): https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The tiny houses that TV shows feature are typically less than 11m^2, 120sqft. While they are often built of premium materials, having a tiny house like t...
[17:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:08] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the 2.6 price was an intentional marketing gimmick
[17:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:10] <exec> 08└─The only question is what will set off the next recession? It's been bubbles in real estate and dot-com before that. My long shot prediction is that if Trump stays in office much longer, he's going to take a shot at all the interest USA is paying to China, for all the treasury bills the Chinese have...
[17:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:12] <exec> 08└─Exactly. My house is a bit over 1000 sqft (not counting the full unfinished basement), and now that the boy has moved out for college it's a bit more than I need. Hell, I could make do with half that much room. Certainly not tiny. This is in a small city / big town in MN, nice private ravine lot wit...
[17:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:14] <exec> 08└─'member when Yahoo and IBM called all their remote workers back to the office or get sacked? I 'member. Who knows what the big idea behind that is.
[17:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:16] <exec> 08└─Here in London, 4,000 sq ft is GIGANTIC. My (2 bed) home is about 1,000
[17:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:19] <exec> 08└─The only question is what will set off the next recession? It's been bubbles in real estate and dot-com before that.
[17:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:21] <exec> 08└─My current residence is a three bedroom, 1.5 bath with a large kitchen, dining room, and a tiny library. It weighs in at barely over a thousand square feet and goes for around $700. By the end of the year I should be in the 4200+ square foot, two story place that TR just bought for barely more than...
[17:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:56] <exec> 08└─maybe it has changed but "amerikan" sugar is gross. i think it's because sugar cane doesnt grow well enough where amerika is located thus would need to be imported and would pose a too big of financial drain (see: trade imbalance and trade wars). so the solution is to use maize or corn which somehow...
[17:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:58] <exec> 08└─Oooh, stevia! I keep some of the liquid extract at home at all times and use it lots. That should be a lot healthier and less likely to give you the napalm shits than artificial sweeteners.
[17:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:00] <exec> 08└─I just did. Link them to the original post if you like. If you'd ever put yourself through both you would know that the comparison is laughable.
[17:45:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 685 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:26] <exec> 08└─There are people who hate Google, and have done so almost from the beginning. There are people who hate Facebook, and have done so almost from the beginning. Some of those are the same people. I don't. Google did improve search. If you were around when Mosaic was the browser, you know whereof I spea...
[17:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:27] <exec> 08└─More money spent on lobbyists? Yeah, they should have been knee-capped.
[17:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:29] <exec> 08└─Is it censorship when Cook decides that Apple will not show sex, drugs or violence [business-standard.com] in its streaming service? Or is it a wise move to protect the brand? Can Apple be forced to stream violent shows? Can Google be forced to index content its CEO finds troubling?
[17:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:31] <exec> 08└─Says the Very Leftist Man. Sheeeit boy, you done it now! Blackhawks are probably on their way to git you right now.
[17:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:34] <exec> 08└─So, just how did Micro$haft survive. After they were convicted, GW Bush and the rest of the Republicans gave them a free pass, that's how. "Law and Order" is only for the peons.
[17:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:36] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you meant "censorship"? In the traditional definition, Yeah, he did. It's just that he wants Trump to be the censor.
[17:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dust Storms Spotted on Titan - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:08] <exec> 08└─Some ideas for the "dust" here [wikipedia.org].
[17:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:16] <exec> 08└─Every other species on the planet gets forced to wake up abruptly on an irregular basis just before something tries to kill it for food. Fact is, we're the only species on the planet that even really has a chance to get real sleep.
[17:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:18] <exec> 08└─That is the suggestion according to medical literature. This is just the first search result: http://www.medicaldiscoverynews.com [medicaldiscoverynews.com]
[17:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:20] <exec> 08└─Meh, my parents let me stay up as long as I wanted. They'd give me 20 bucks for spending money when I'd ask, never gave me crap about what I was doing. Mind you, this was before cell phones and PCs (in the house) but we did have TV and Nintendo. I had a car to drive, and gas to put in it. Never had...
[17:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:40] <exec> 08└─Self-driving cars. The car companies and the content distributors want the systems in place before self-driving hits.
[17:49:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Apple Completes Acquisition of Music Recognition Service Shazam, Will Remove Ads - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:12] <exec> 08└─So I Can Identify The IP Radio Tracks I Save With VLC?
[17:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Wavers on Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:18] <exec> 08└─... and I thought the asterisk meant "unless you count suborbital flights, in which case it was Germany"
[17:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ivy League Food Scientist Faces Retractions, Submits Resignation - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:01] <exec> 08└─Instead of THC.
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[18:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:37] <exec> 08└─People react to news that went around the world. Check whether they could contribute. Decide not to take action. How is that news ?
[18:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:38] <exec> 08└─Because it's very important for conservatives to feel constantly oppressed even as they control all the levers of power.
[18:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:55] <exec> 08└─Apply syrup thoroughly. Unleash children. Solved.
[18:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:56] <exec> 08└─It collects solar radiation, converts it to heat, and spreads that heat around so that the melting is not just confined to the areas exposed directly to the sunlight. And, once applied, it requires no further action or power source. It can even do its de-icing work at night, using artificial lightin...
[18:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:58] <exec> 08└─Looks like it's 1) insulation layer 2) very thin layer of aluminum (less than half a millimeter thick) 3) Matte black topcoat with low reradiation surface
[18:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:43] <exec> 08└─Why you gotta hate on horses? You think they don't deserve peanut butter too? Heartless bastard.
[18:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:45] <exec> 08└─Sociopaths would be better suited. They're not an aberration in the species, you know. They evolved because they're better suited than "sane" people to some areas of human society.
[18:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:47] <exec> 08└─There's already a Catholic Priest shortage. (insert stand up comedy cymbal crash) Try something we have a vast excess of, education degree majors or womens studies majors, they're all working at restaurants and bars, should be easy to find. Somewhat more seriously there's supposedly a "vast number"...
[18:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:49] <exec> 08└─Facebook moderators under contract are "bombarded" with "thousands of videos, images and livestreamed broadcasts of child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide and murder," the lawsuit said.
[18:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:51] <exec> 08└─Increasingly I find this true of some modern movies (not joking)
[18:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03gumby [3079] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:24] <exec> 08└─It’s on a very busy street so getting in and out of the driveway will be tough, and the house will be noisy. Also it’s in a flood plain from the nearby creek. A similar house a couple of blocks away on Guinda went for 7 million last month. (The middlefield house is on a slab and has no basement...
[18:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:25] <exec> 08└─Pepperidge Farms remembers.
[18:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:27] <exec> 08└─Nope, this is a "small house" https://en.wikipedia.org
[18:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:29] <exec> 08└─What are housing prices like in your area... how much would it cost you to buy a home comparable to this one, or to rent an apartment of equivalent size?
[18:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe they'll drop another half mil, that would be a great gimmick. Well, maybe not in CA. But who knows?
[18:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:34] <exec> 08└─One thing that puzzles me is if IT people are so smart, why are so many willing to shut their brains off when it comes to making rational housing choices? When you have, what, a $3 million mortgage, even with a $200k annual pay package you'll need decades to pay that off.
[18:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:11] <exec> 08└─Caffeine is the absolute worst to kick for me. Hunger's not that fun and the jitters aren't either but I get actual and significant pain from caffeine withdrawals. Plus, not really wanting to quit is hell on the willpower.
[18:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─Does that mean fat shaming is now encouraged like fake-coughing and glaring every time you walk within a hundred yards of a smoker?
[18:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:15] <exec> 08└─Nah, switching diet's annoying and unpleasant but it's not comparable. Find something you're allowed to eat pretty much all you want of and keep it handy to munch on. It's still unpleasant but your stomach bitches less when you're chewing and swallowing something, even if it's not what your stomach...
[18:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:17] <exec> 08└─I've made chocolate bars with it and unsweetened cocoa powder. Cocoa butter is full of the medium chain triglycerides that the ketogenic diet recommends, so that's an easy ingredient. Chia seeds and roasted almond slivers add crunch. All in all it turns out pretty well. Healthy savory snacks are pos...
[18:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:50] <exec> 08└─But i moved on, and everyone else can, too. As long as that's possible, that we choose to not participate and suffer no consequences, then let's do that if we don't like where those companies are headed.
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 3482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:19] <exec> 08└─"add more roundabout ways to spy on you? Yes. Server side session tracking is common. I haven't looked that hard at Google, but I do know that providing css via cgi is often used for this. Many sites link third party (often provided by Google) css instead of copying the files to local directories. S...
[18:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:41] <exec> 08└─Why is it so hard to go to bed earlier in order to get the recommended amount of sleep?
[18:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:42] <exec> 08└─Not disagreeing but a tangent idea might be to make the AP and college prep type of courses into "after school clubs". I would wait for the meme of "STEM is teh greatest11!!!11" to burn itself out, then propose this. Interesting thought experiment: My kid's cross country team schedule has little rel...
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[19:43:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:28] <exec> 08└─Because it's very important for conservatives to feel constantly oppressed even as they control all the levers of power.
[19:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:29] <exec> 08└─that would be another story indeed. We would manipulate the shit out of results!
[19:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:31] <exec> 08└─People react to news that went around the world. Check whether they could contribute. Decide not to take action.
[19:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:34] <exec> 08└─Eventually "monopolies should be able to do whatever they want" impacts the numerous draconian regulations of the Federal Election Commission and then fireworks will ensue. Technically it can all be a "coincidence" that a company is being run in a manner indistinguishable from a political action com...
[19:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:36] <exec> 08└─Darn those capitalists https://www.infowars.com [infowars.com]
[19:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:38] <exec> 08└─When did the topic change to Twitter ?
[19:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:40] <exec> 08└─What does "algorithmically biased" even mean? Those words sound like they refer to an algorithm that is somehow biased to return islamophobic/prejudiced results even when they're less relevant to the search query. But if so they surely would have just fixed it, right? It wouldn't even be controversi...
[19:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:42] <exec> 08└─Bowing to organized pressure by leftists isn't exactly captialism at work; those sites have been happy to let Jones continue to wildly violate their ToS for years, until an organized campaign brought attention to his specific misbehaviors. That's definitely the spin left-leaning people put on it, th...
[19:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:45] <exec> 08└─What's it even mean to manipulate the results now? It's already an opaque multi-dimensional algorithm that's designed to optimize some unknown set of variables. If you add a "reduce results that promote racism/bigotry" is that meaningfully different from "reduce results that promote conspiracies/pse...
[19:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:47] <exec> 08└─Ok, I clearly have not kept up on all the dog whistles. From over here, it looks like the topic changed to Twitter with your post. Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi!
[19:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:49] <exec> 08└─Probably harder than it sounds. A lot of the "algorithmic bias" probably comes from user targeting. Racist or borderline racist profiles are more likely to see racist information because it is more relevant to them. My preference is that we do away with targeting altogether and have the same Google...
[19:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:06] <exec> 08└─My WAG was disappointingly close.
[19:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:07] <exec> 08└─Why couldn't any of the other technology education and research bastions come up with a solution for a problem this old? Schools like Stanford, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, the California Institute of Technology, Cow Poly San Luis Obispo ... hey, wait a sec.
[19:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:09] <exec> 08└─Here's a possible solution: 1. Heat up the atmosphere to the point where no part of the planet has air colder than 0C. Of course, there might be some challenges in pulling this off, but that's really just an implementation detail, and I'm sure those smarty-pants engineering types can figure that out...
[19:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:11] <exec> 08└─Regional climate = ice in Boston/Cambridge winter, amirite? Although, I stayed with a friend who works at Cal Poly SLO and he had snow one night where he lives up in the nearby mountains.
[19:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:14] <exec> 08└─Nice try, but it's still 40 below (F or C) at the altitudes where jet planes fly (because of efficiency), so they will continue to have icing problems in certain conditions.
[19:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:41] <exec> 08└─Ok, I'm naive, but: why review and censor at all? TFA writes: "The social network has faced regulatory scrutiny over not doing enough to prevent content like fake news and hate speech on its platform". This is where platforms like Facebook ought to want common carrier status. They should not be acti...
[19:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:43] <exec> 08└─Would it be a ridiculous idea to hire the prison population? Two wrongs would not make a right here, I suppose. If you didn't think we could move *further* away from the idea of prisons as centers for rehabilitation, this would do it. If there was ever a solid case for AI, though, it seems like this...
[19:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:45] <exec> 08└─Do they do any preprocessing of the images/video, to 'denature' the images? Maybe blurring, desaturation, posterizing ... ? Pointers to psychology of visual processing for 'charged' images would be helpful, especially if there's a baseline of understanding of what does/n't durably/permanently imprin...
[19:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:21] <exec> 08└─Is that thing a heavily modified single-wide trailer / mobile home? That would explain the effort to call it a "tiny home" because for cultural reasons people hate it being called a "mobile home" or "Single-wide" Regardless, I live in a recreational state and there's mobile home parks out there for...
[19:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:04] <exec> 08└─Same here. I get migraines so bad only codeine/morphine will stop them. Its like some is ramming a carving knife into my head. And I get really tired and sleep 12 hours. Then the next time I am having a rough day and have not had enough sleep...
[19:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:06] <exec> 08└─Not sure what this has to do with anything, but I thought it would be amusing to work out. according to wikipedia sucrose is c12h22o11 and has a density of 1.587g/cm3 so 1587g/l No, I am not going to figure out packing efficiency, assume we are burning a solid 1l crystal if that makes you feel bette...
[19:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:08] <exec> 08└─To a first order approximation, sugar is sugar. I don't care if it's cane sugar or high fuctose corn syrup from maize or glucose from sugar beets: if you consume a lot of sugar, it is terrible for your health. It messes up your insulin response and a fluctuating blood sugar level increases hunger, c...
[19:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:43] <exec> 08└─Can Apple be forced to stream violent shows?
[19:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:44] <exec> 08└─The people in China cannot choose to participate, and will certainly suffer consequences. They have no opt-out. America is great in that we can oppress others and get a bonus if we work extra hard at it.
[19:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 1766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:11] <exec> 08└─What it means to sign into Chrome/Chromium is that the browser itself is authenticated with a Google account. The main feature this enables is the ability to sync browser settings, history, etc to the cloud so everything is shared between Chrome on different devices. Note that the Chrome sync is a s...
[19:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Moving to Relinquish Control Over Accelerated Mobile Pages - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:37] <exec> 08└─How about making a CSS a normal, small file instead of putting half of page's mechanics and ads there? And of course dumping these neglected CMS which are theoretically open source, but nobody cares are they running OK or not - especially WordPress likes to put PHP errors into CSS blocks. I don't kn...
[19:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 1940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:38] <exec> 08└─I like what you are proposing. I would let the AP stuff be any time of day, let those smart enough to do AP do it when it is convenient for them. If that is before lunch then great, do that. I am all for letting people prove competency and going on with life. Like if you can pass a trig final then...
[19:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:39] <exec> 08└─You read? I think not.
[19:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:41] <exec> 08└─Computerization and lessened need for human labor? The loss of the Vietnam War and needing to let the US dollar float? Opening to mainland China and cheap imports from Asia? Exhausted energy sources in the US, and unionization of foreign oil suppliers?
[19:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Wavers on Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:41] <exec> 08└─I think it's more that he has mid-lined relationships instead of polarizing them. Putin is not treated as some demonic evil force that eats babies for lunch, and e.g. western EU member states are no longer treated as our beloved children that we should pamper and care for even at great cost and sacr...
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[20:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aurean [4924] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:49] <exec> 08└─Because algorithms that produce fair results for other queries (e.g. 'farming' or 'pet food') may not return fair results for others, depending on traffic metrics (wide and shallow for non-controversial topics vs. spikes for high-traffic sites obsessed with certain topics).
[20:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:51] <exec> 08└─More and more I have to switch to duckduckgo or bookmarks to find old forum posts and such I used to be able to just search for. I dunno if its related to them switching priorities to supporting the DNC, rather than just providing good results, but there's definitely been a noticeable decline. None...
[20:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:53] <exec> 08└─Ok, question for you Trump-types since I tend to bash on the right-wing authoritarian followers called SJWs but don't spend nearly enough time bashing on the right-wing authoritarian followers called the alt-right. Does Faux News and other alt-right news sources promote the Duck and StartPage and ot...
[20:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 1212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:55] <exec> 08└─I remember SEO scammer manipulators that would game Google's search algorithm. Google would tweak their algorithm to not be manipulated and send all SEO pages to the bottom where they belong. So "Search King" sued. Google argued, and court agreed that search results are Google's opinion about what G...
[20:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:57] <exec> 08└─Which conservatives? The ones who call themselves Republicans or the ones who call themselves Democrats?
[20:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:59] <exec> 08└─The ones who call themselves Republicans or the ones who call themselves Democrats?
[20:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:01] <exec> 08└─reelDonaldDrumpf and Wall Street Journal? Great submission, but do I smell a Murdock? Biased news about news biasing? What is a propaganda piece like this doing on the front page of SN?
[20:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:04] <exec> 08└─"contribute" Clever. "Contributing" in this case means modifying search results to bias for a particular political goal. But guys, they were just "contributing" (contributing to what? Exactly?)
[20:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:06] <exec> 08└─Searx is another good option.
[20:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:08] <exec> 08└─They are not fullof of shit. The "market" is made up people. Market forces are putting pressure on companies, said companies modify their behavior to maximize market value. Previous bad behavior has always been excused by saying companies can do what they want and it is their job to maximize profits...
[20:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:10] <exec> 08└─For the Republicans to gripe about that is just like it would be to complain that Mother Jones doesn't adequately represent right-wing views. They're private businesses, and so are not constrained by the bill of rights.
[20:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:02] <exec> 08└─2 girls 1 cup was more about being exposed to the trauma of it....... then quickly deciding to inflict it upon another. The video is fairly disgusting, but non-violent. What was violent was the retching it induced in some others that viewed it. It was like a viral practical joke. Lookup reaction vid...
[20:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:04] <exec> 08└─I don't agree that there is a way to "denature" the photos or videos sufficiently that it doesn't provoke trauma. Or more precisely, the less trauma there is, the less likelihood of positive identification with massive amounts of false negatives. This is where I think AI can truly help humanity. No...
[20:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:06] <exec> 08└─The reaction videos were enough for me to not watch either one. It made me think about being more careful.
[20:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MindEscapes [6751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:43] <exec> 08└─Check out equipment rental sites in your area. Trackhoes are indeed available to rent at fairly reasonable prices and are not difficult to operate. Especially one sized for a french drain. If you were doing a full on footer drain replacement though the size easily rented may not have an adequate rea...
[20:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:45] <exec> 08└─My current residence is a three bedroom, 1.5 bath with a large kitchen, dining room, and a tiny library. It weighs in at barely over a thousand square feet and goes for around $700.
[20:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the first time I got a caffeine withdrawal headache - and realized what it was - was when I decided to stop drinking caffeine. There were a few days of headaches, but it wasn't that bad or long.
[20:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think it is. Of course like most things the devil's in the details as to the severity of the censorship.
[20:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:05] <exec> 08└─Modern leftism is fundamentally a self destructive religious death cult. No rationality, no scientific method, just blind support of whatever doesn't work long term for the survival of a civilization.
[20:48:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:42] <exec> 08└─Remember, if you want them to thrive you need to treat them like American voters. Keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit.
[20:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:00] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that. Actual evidence suggests that just as small children are hard wired to wake early, teens are hard wired to sleep late. Some time in the early twenties, most but certainly not all settle into a happy medium.
[20:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:16] <exec> 08└─You obviously don't like my comparison, and keep trying to shift the goalposts. The only point you are getting across is that you have no understanding of 20th century history, and have absorbed the US anti-communist propaganda very well. Congratulations.
[20:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06African Experiments With Drone Technologies Could Leapfrog Decades of Infrastructure Neglect - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:17] <exec> 08└─Geez Runaway. I have been trying to make this point in several posts, but haven't been able to get my point across half as well as this post. Well done. I wouldn't like for you to think I have any beef with the US people at all. My home town hosted ~ 500,000 US Marines during the 1940's and I wil...
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[21:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sound of Pixels - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:39] <exec> 08└─That would be technically sound. However, the currently heard hype is neural networks. No money for simple engineering of waves. This is the buzz of played words that has to be split into a network of big computers using more power achieving less. That is where we hear the bells ring. Now, picture t...
[21:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Sound of Pixels - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:40] <exec> 08└─If could have implications for post-editing, for removing the background from live performances, to even synchronising audio and video visually. If it wasn't actually quite bad at doing what it does.
[21:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:16] <exec> 08└─there was a time when I could determine the effectiveness of my SEO efforts just by searching myself. That hasn't worked in years.
[21:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:18] <exec> 08└─And why would google/linkedin/instagram care about that? https://www.youtube.com
[21:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:20] <exec> 08└─like providing a Site Description that is 160 characters or less so it's not truncated in the search results. That enables searches to more-effectively decide whether to visit the page. Using simple natural language words in URL pathnames like "../jam/strawberry.html" that are directly related to th...
[21:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:22] <exec> 08└─Eich would not agree with you. Is there an Eich equivalent for the left? A Kavanaugh equivalent? Oh yes Clinton framed by Lewinsky. Well, 2-1.
[21:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:24] <exec> 08└─-" That's why I created Soggy Jobs: craigslist and the like our filled with stuff like "Our client is seeking a rockstar" without identifying the actual client. That means the only way to determine whether you'd want to work there is to actually apply. By linking directly to each company's own job p...
[21:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:26] <exec> 08└─Awareness that the echo of the 1930s was getting stronger than before ? Some people seem to think that the current state of affairs is okay. Those people need a History lesson.
[21:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:28] <exec> 08└─The company spokeswoman is lying in some way. Even if they are unaware of manipulation, they are a willing participant in false claims. Here, an example: https://i.redd.it [i.redd.it] Look at all those political parties. Some are really obscure. Notice one that is missing? Google f...
[21:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:31] <exec> 08└─That's just manure you smell.
[21:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:33] <exec> 08└─While many Republicans and occassionally Democrats may call themselves conservatives, reality is that the number of conservatives in either party is significantly lower.
[21:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:27] <exec> 08└─I never had a choice. Somebody else inflicted it upon me :) By careful, you mean I should of been more suspicious of my friend's smiles...
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[21:46:09] <exec> 08└─Here [birdcagedesign.com]
[21:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:10] <exec> 08└─So, where is this utopia?
[21:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:12] <exec> 08└─This was in April 2000. My ex and I rented quite a nice three bedroom home - one for my office, one for her studio - in St. John's in 2000. I don't recall the rent but I do know that it was quite a lot less than what we paid for a two bedroom half of a duplex in Santa Cruz. Towards the end of 200 we...
[21:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:15] <exec> 08└─Double Wide [youtu.be]
[21:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:17] <exec> 08└─The other day I read an article in I think it was Forbes that said today's businesses are heavily over-leveraged because of low interest rates, and that many will be unable even to make interest payments when rates rise so as to cool the overheated economy.
[21:49:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:25] <exec> 08└─Not sure about that. My cats do pretty good.
[21:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:36] <exec> 08└─I'd add the destruction of unions in North America as well.
[21:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:47] <exec> 08└─I've not afforded a new monitor as a 32" 720p LCD has been plenty for me. Now, you can get a similar one for near $200. It's quite nice to have a screen of that size. Much larger and it really starts to be too large for a desktop machine.
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[22:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Purism Announces the "Librem Key" - 1524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:30] <exec> 08└─So they basically do ~ this [howtoforge.com]? CRYPTROOT=target=sda2_crypt,source=/dev/disk/by-label/Librem_Key in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot sda2_crypt dev/disk/by-label/Librem_Key none luks,keyscript=/usr/local/sbin/unlocklukskey.sh in /etc/crypttab Locking my laptop when I take out the...
[22:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Announces the "Librem Key" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:31] <exec> 08└─Librem key $59 (USD) Nitro Key Pro 2 [nitrokey.com] €49 So almost the same price. Can't immediately tell how they are different (apart from the branding)
[22:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purism Announces the "Librem Key" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:33] <exec> 08└─Couldn't we cobble together an open source version of this with a cheap commodity sd card/usb stick?
[22:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Purism Announces the "Librem Key" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:35] <exec> 08└─When it comes to security, I only trust Microsoft.
[22:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Announces the "Librem Key" - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:38] <exec> 08└─Great news for US border officers and justice: with a physical key, fuck that pesky 5th
[22:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sound of Pixels - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:49] <exec> 08└─AI is really good at that, I hear. Maybe they can tell it to listen for pixels that say "Allah Akbar Jihad Jihad".
[22:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:34] <exec> 08└─Faux News and other alt-right news
[22:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:35] <exec> 08└─It should be considered an in-kind contribution, because that's what it is.
[22:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:37] <exec> 08└─> leftists isn't exactly captialism at work; Could it be the work of a true scotsman? Capitalism is an economic theory, just exactly how sterile do you need the world before the invisible unimpeded hand of god suddenly starts acting in the best interests of humanity? So I'll start the list 1. Crimin...
[22:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah they decided not to do "this", we should see what they actually did. Of course their bias was already known when you compared search hints for Hillary Clinton from Google to EVERY OTHER SEARCH ENGINE. Also Bill Clinton is a Rapist, Infowars.com
[22:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:37] <exec> 08└─they seem traumatized by the behavior of their fellow Democratic Party members
[22:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:38] <exec> 08└─You're just excreting poopy diamonds today!
[22:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:40] <exec> 08└─They don't even notice their lack of logic, and yes. The hate runs deep in VLM.
[22:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, save the human reviewers for user complaints and posts with lower probability of accuracy.
[22:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:15] <exec> 08└─Now? No... Not yet.
[22:47:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 203 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:50] <exec> 08└─But i moved on, and everyone else can, too. As long as that's possible, that we choose to not participate and suffer no consequences, then let's do that if we don't like where those companies are headed.
[22:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:55] <exec> 08└─-rs. I thought he was dead. I'm going to keep using FB. While I do realize that it's stylish for the neckbeards to hate on Facebook, you haven't come up with anything that my friends from high school regards as any better. It's not enough to have a product that has superior technology, security or p...
[22:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:26] <exec> 08└─-g? I don't like the latest version - this is just before the forced login. I preferred the UI of the previous version. As far as I can tell there is no way to prevent it from automatically updating itself. If that's really the case I'm going to stop using it.
[22:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:27] <exec> 08└─Qt supports OSX. Is there an OSX build somewhere?
[22:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:29] <exec> 08└─I was using the free option for warp life for quite a long time, never got any complaints
[22:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:02] <exec> 08└─Here's a nice chart of productivity vs total compensation '73 to '12 [heritage.org]. Notice that there is a mild decline in total compensation relative to productivity, but the former still gained three quarters of the productivity gain, roughly +100% productivity over the time span (which I gather...
[22:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:04] <exec> 08└─In fact, if you're waiting till the brain finishes development to start making responsible choices, then you're skipping the period over which the human brain would best be able to learn those important lessons.
[22:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Opinion: Let Teenagers Sleep In - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:06] <exec> 08└─High school will be a place for teens to hang out.
[22:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Will Reportedly Adopt Android Auto - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:27] <exec> 08└─want the systems in place before self-driving hits.
[22:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who are the Largest Employers in the World? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:48] <exec> 08└─You also capitalised "Largest" and "Employers" for no good reason.
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[23:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NCIX Data Breach - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:09] <exec> 08└─They were seized by the retailer's landlords after NCIX failed to pay CA$150,000 in rent
[23:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NCIX Data Breach - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:10] <exec> 08└─We need major breaches, bothering very rich people. That's the only way we're gonna get any sensible laws about private-info databases and the obsolete concepts of SSNs and credit card numbers.
[23:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Announces the "Librem Key" - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:25] <exec> 08└─From the Purism link [puri.sm]: A few months ago we announced that we were partnering with Nitrokey to produce a new security token: the Librem Key and I’m pleased to announce that today the Librem Key is available for purchase on our site for $59.
[23:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Purism Announces the "Librem Key" - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:27] <exec> 08└─FTA: In addition to multi-factor authentication, security tokens can also often store your private GPG keys in a tamper-proof way so you can protect them from attackers who may compromise your laptop. With your private keys on the security token, you can just insert the key when you need to encrypt,...
[23:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purism Announces the "Librem Key" - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the info - obviously, I didn't RTFA How much entropy in that PIN? Any brute-force countermeasures? (Obviously, I don't intend to RTFA :) )
[23:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sound of Pixels - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:42] <exec> 08└─So is this just bandpass filters and basic image recognition? huh
[23:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sound of Pixels - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:44] <exec> 08└─I think this has been done before...melodyne's "direct note acess" claims to pull individual notes out of a chord and chang it anyway you'd like. It has been around for a decade or so https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sound of Pixels - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:46] <exec> 08└─So can it generate the video that would produce a sound track? Ala winamp visualizations? Or maybe generate the audio that corresponds to a video?
[23:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sound of Pixels - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:48] <exec> 08└─Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move. [youtube.com]
[23:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sound of Pixels - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:50] <exec> 08└─https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804 [mit.edu] https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] https://www.npr.org
[23:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:38] <exec> 08└─Naah bro, we just need anarcho-capitalism, a series of contracts, and the infinite contract-enforcing turtles. Mr. Vim has assured me that if those 3 things instantly result, it will be for the best.
[23:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:39] <exec> 08└─Google: #1 official website #2 official twitter #3 wikipedia article #4 biography.com bio #5 ABC news section for her #6 official facebook #7 Guardian news section for her #8 NYT news section #9 Hillary Clinton: American Democracy Is in Crisis - The Atlantic [theatlantic.com] #10 What Is Hillary Cli...
[23:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:42] <exec> 08└─Nope. I'm left of the USA Green Party. I believe that the working class should own and control the means of production. There's a whole political space out there above [theadvocates.org] and to the left of the USA Democratic Party. The global lurch towards authoritarianism concerns me deeply.
[23:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:04] <exec> 08└─If it is icing up, you need a new one. There are many issues that can cause that, from the thermocouples failing, to refrigerant leakage, to using the wrong size. Plus, if it is a non-energy star unit where the fan turns off when the compressor is off, that can cause icing and other problems. Aroun...
[23:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Remove Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:05] <exec> 08└─Good question: is the atmosphere part of the planet?
[23:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:46] <exec> 08└─Ok, I'm naive, but: why review and censor at all?
[23:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma: Lawsuit - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:48] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry Dave, you can't view that.
[23:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:36] <exec> 08└─I think it was built in 1924, the article said? There weren't a lot of mobile homes back then.
[23:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny House in Palo Alto, California Goes on the Market with a Big Price Tag of $2.59 Million - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:37] <exec> 08└─I look at that building, and it looks like an old shotgun house. One room to the left, one room to the right, with a covered walkway between the two rooms. There may or may not be a front porch, seldom a back porch. Someone closed in the walkway, providing a little bit more sheltered living space. F...
[23:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I make pizza maybe once or twice a week and it takes far less effort than a lasagna. And the only parts I don't source from my garden is wheat and cheese
[23:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Junk Food Produces Similar Withdrawal-Type Symptoms as Drug Addiction - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:28] <exec> 08└─Yes! Anchovies! To be precise, anchovies and pineapple. Delicious!
[23:48:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 772 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:47] <exec> 08└─> Can you tell the difference between the DNC and the leadership of the legacy media or academia? Fly off the handle much? The topic is "...authorize federal regulators and law enforcers to investigate the business practices of the internet giants for potential antitrust violations." Time to quit ta...
[23:48:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 1136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:56] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, web companies, coming from the deregulation-fueled disruption tech boom that started in the 80s, have so much power ceded to them by US law that they are now de facto governments themselves. Apple has more cash on hand than most countries. As such, when they take it upon themselves to...
[23:49:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:03] <exec> 08└─So, just how did Micro$haft survive. After they were convicted, GW Bush and the rest of the Republicans gave them a free pass, that's how. "Law and Order" is only for the peons.
[23:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:12] <exec> 08└─In the traditional definition, censoring is done by government (or the church, if/when church and state are/were fist-in-glove).
[23:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:14] <exec> 08└─Most democrats don't seem that interested in doing anything either. They seem more interested in intentionally failing to implement policies that the American people overwhelmingly support and then blaming Republican obstructionism for the failure, even when the democrats have a supermajority. Hence...
[23:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:16] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention that Republicans are worse. If I don't say that, some partisan hack will come along and say, "But Republicans are worse! False equivalency!" Even though I didn't argue that they're the same. The tribalism gets old.
[23:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:19] <exec> 08└─Trading your privacy and everyone else's (since Facebook has shadow profiles on non-users) so you can occasionally chat with people who are hardly relevant to your life at all isn't worth it. Hell, if you can't be bothered to find an alternate means of communications with them, then they don't mean...
[23:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Considering Launching an Antitrust Probe on Google and Facebook - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:21] <exec> 08└─... but will it be an anal probe? Well I wouldn't rule it out. We'll just have to wait and see what Avenatti announces tomorrow.
[23:49:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:32] <exec> 08└─If you're using chrome, you're their bitch, login or no login.
[23:49:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 19 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:41] <exec> 08└─Don't. Use. Chrome.
[23:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Privacy Concerns Flare Over Latest Chrome Browser’s ‘Forced Login’ - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:56] <exec> 08└─The google analytics and tag managers are all blockable. It's possible, though more and more technically challenging, to evade googles prying eyes.
[23:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zhaoxin KaiXian KX-6000: A Chinese x86 SoC - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:44] <exec> 08└─What is the single thread performance. Making that fast is where most of the technology is.
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