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[00:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:26] <exec> 08└─Boobs on deep field... Righto, chump, your knowledge of anatomy is rubbish.
[00:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:28] <exec> 08└─When is the last time someone saw a sunspot? https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov [nasa.gov]
[00:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:30] <exec> 08└─The consensus seems to be that sides 1 & 2 are great, sides 3 & 4 are not great. I'm with you though. I like Nous Sommes du Soleil which is side 4. I'm not a huge fan of vinyl myself, but the 12" format made for a great space to put some art, and Roger Dean took advantage didn't he?
[00:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:32] <exec> 08└─The city of Tulsa, OK, USA will pay you $10k and a stipend to move into this cgi building: https://www.apartments.com [apartments.com]
[00:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hemimastigotes: A New Kingdom of Eukaryotic Microbes - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:45] <exec> 08└─fungus infections [medlineplus.gov] are harder to treat because they are similar enough to humans, how long before someone gets a hemimastogoes infection that doesn't respond to treatment?
[00:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hemimastigotes: A New Kingdom of Eukaryotic Microbes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:47] <exec> 08└─Is it possible there are many more undiscovered branches?
[00:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:31] <exec> 08└─I always figured the glorification might be a deliberate strategy to churn out a nation of willing soldiers. When you look at the budget, the military is always a very high priority. </tinfoil hat>
[00:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:32] <exec> 08└─Holy shit, what kind of porn are you in to?
[00:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:34] <exec> 08└─That film is almost old enough to drink in the US.
[00:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:37] <exec> 08└─Intent is irrelevant to the question of effectiveness of mass media. I, for one, believe in free will, and the effect could be zero, depending on one's personal choice to be influenced.
[00:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:39] <exec> 08└─Can we find out if there's evidence to support a link between violent government policy and behaviour? I wish someone would bring this up instead.
[00:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:41] <exec> 08└─Remember that the high level of gun violence is due to young blacks shooting each other. They are kept in a parallel society, while the majority culture is ok with them killing each other, as long as they don't take their violence to white areas. I guess the hope is they will eventually become extin...
[00:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Make-A-Wish Website Crammed with Coin-Mining Malware - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:14] <exec> 08└─"Yippeee, 5 Bitcoin. Oh wait, false alarm" "Yippee, 0.0034 Bitcoin. Oh wait ...."
[00:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:48] <exec> 08└─The usual problem with procedural generation isn't generating content, but generating interesting content. A game like No Man's Sky generates a galaxy full of planets including flora and fauna, but a lot of players found the planets to be dull and samey after playing for a while. Games that do gener...
[00:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:49] <exec> 08└─Medicine, maintaining the environment, science, education, space exploration, and peace all merely serve to facilitate pleasure. inb4 a strawman misunderstanding of the word pleasure which excludes something you value, if you feel yourself going that way just read my comment again replacing "pleasur...
[00:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:28] <exec> 08└─Sure they are, but so is the chinese commie party. If this Lab has the Chinese Commie party's backing, my money's on the Chinese to squash them like bugs. Maybe DeBeers can go toe-to-toe with the next big corp or even small-mid sized govies, but going against the Chinese behemoth is suicide.
[00:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:29] <exec> 08└─You can't be right! It says right here that diamonds do good [diamondsdogood.com]!
[00:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dynamic Audiovisuals Increase Spectator Attention, but Inhibits Conscious Processing - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:48] <exec> 08└─Quality fight scenes are the best place to avoid short cuts. They have discovered that the long shot better shows the skill involved in both the fight and the film making. Try watching The Raid, The Protector or the Netflix Daredevil series. They all have long cut fight scenes measured in minutes in...
[00:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spectre, Meltdown Researchers Unveil 7 More Speculative Execution Attacks - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:09] <exec> 08└─Pentium 90 was the last true CISC chip from Intel*. RISC was introduced with the Pentium Pro and continued with the PII. *ISTR There being other x86 CISC chips after that from other manufacturers, but they didn't sell well and have been abandoned.
[00:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drinking Coffee May Reduce Your Chances of Developing Alzheimer's, Parkinson's - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:40] <exec> 08└─Don't confuse selfishness with shortsightedness.
[00:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent - What to Do With a Bottle of Creme de Menthe - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:14] <exec> 08└─Or we could just do what I already suggested once and give the user a button to voluntarily reset their karma to zero, or some other low starting value. It might seem crazy, but I think some people would use it, for the reasons given by the parent. I would.
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[01:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:08] <exec> 08└─What's the catch? Is it near MLK Blvd?
[01:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hemimastigotes: A New Kingdom of Eukaryotic Microbes - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:24] <exec> 08└─Fungi have cell walls, they are very different from human cells.
[01:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:13] <exec> 08└─I am surprised that parent post hasn't been modded down already. But, he brings up an important bit of data. Overall, most shootings take place in impoverished inner cities, with blacks shooting blacks. At the same time, most nutcases who just open up, and start shooting random people are white. Jus...
[01:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:15] <exec> 08└─The movie is older than Brett Kavanaugh was when he started to drink.
[01:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:30] <exec> 08└─maybe it'll go to the live servers (the "persistent" universe) after Thanksgiving.
[01:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:28] <exec> 08└─The big question is that of bias. Are the algorithms that determine what you get to see biased in some significant and not widely known manner? I mean, if I connect to a search site about category theory, and it shows me social media posts about category theory, that might be OK. But if I connect to...
[01:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Space Science Becomes a Political Liability - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:04] <exec> 08└─Many of us ARE paying attention. I note that you don't complain about one, or six, or 36 specific regulations. Instead, you mention "a ton of regulations". From any point of view outside of your own, it would seem that you believe regulation to be good, for the sake of regulation. That is an authori...
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[02:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:45] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin Will Burn the Planet Down. The Question: How Fast?
[02:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:47] <exec> 08└─tl;dr: cryptocurrency mining is really only worth it if you steal the power and don't care about the environmnetal impacts.
[02:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hemimastigotes: A New Kingdom of Eukaryotic Microbes - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the fungal infections that are prevalent are hard to get rid of because anything that kills them is generally toxic to us. Fungi have eukaryotic cells, just like ours. Prokaryotic cells—-like bacteria—-are much easier to differentiate and target with antibiotics. https://www.quora.com
[02:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:31] <exec> 08└─Firefly MMO is assumed dead. No status updates since March 2016 Official website [ https://keepflying.com [keepflying.com] ] has been offline for months now.
[02:40:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:58] <exec> 08└─> Granted, I am not married and even if I was getting hitched there most likely would not be a diamond involved, as I'm not that type of person. If you're a straight guy buying a wedding ring, your opinion of diamonds is not the important opinion.
[02:42:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 384 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:00] <exec> 08└─Prevent and slow advancement in programming, enhance the profitability of algorithm patents and patent trolling by making alternative algos illegal, increase hardware sales by making certain more efficient algos illegal, increase hiring of middleman and lawyers for regulatory reasons, make free soft...
[02:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:25] <exec> 08└─You would never get that, but you might be able to argue for all software purchased by the government must include a full copy of the source code and build environment. You are not prohibiting anything, just ensuring that it is auditable and maintainable. You would need to come up with a title that...
[02:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:26] <exec> 08└─Department of Algorithms
[02:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent - What to Do With a Bottle of Creme de Menthe - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:47] <exec> 08└─Hiram Walker is a quality bar brand. they suggest this : 1 part Green Crème de Menthe 1 part White Crème de Cacao 1 part Vodka Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Chugg ;}
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[03:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:39] <exec> 08└─because gold mining requires actual mine rights, which are not included. How about the costs of extracting gold from sea water - virtually unlimited and so far free - compared to bitcoin mining?
[03:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:41] <exec> 08└─Have nature and wired considered adding up all the CO2 emitted due to the unnecessary crap on their webpages? I once compared current reddit.com to i.reddit.com (which is perfectly capable of conveying the desired info) and even just the waste from that single (albiet large) site was about the same...
[03:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:50] <exec> 08└─Just give peanuts to infants. Seriously. Overprotective parents create fragile people: https://www.news-medical.net [news-medical.net] Also, let them get dirty: https://thorax.bmj.com [bmj.com]...
[03:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:53] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Expose your children to all sorts of strange foods. I'm serious. It teaches their immune system that the items aren't a threat at an early age. It's good for them. I'm really lucky I don't have a peanut allergy, but thanks to people with peanut allergies, I won't eat peanuts in public for fe...
[03:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:55] <exec> 08└─I'm really lucky I don't have a peanut allergy, but thanks to people with peanut allergies, I won't eat peanuts in public for fear of setting off a reaction by touching a guard rail and leaving peanut dust.
[03:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hemimastigotes: A New Kingdom of Eukaryotic Microbes - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:30] <exec> 08└─Protists and "Protista" are a taxonomic classification. Depending on which taxonomic system you use, there are between 4 and 8 kingdoms, with 5 and 6 being most common. Biology is now changing to cladistical analysis. They have stricter standards for what they consider a kingdom, although they don't...
[03:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hemimastigotes: A New Kingdom of Eukaryotic Microbes - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:31] <exec> 08└─Sorry, one section should have read although they don't like that classification name due to the baggage it brings
[03:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.pinkcross.org.au/ [pinkcross.org.au] *Warning*: This web site contains large doses of truth about the sex industry for purposes of recovery and education.
[03:42:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:15] <exec> 08└─The obvious name for this new administration would be ADA, Algorithm and Data Administration!
[03:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:42] <exec> 08└─I used to write code for high power supplies and things rarely got more complicated than for( ; ; ) { setpoint = read_voltage( ); DAC_out = k * ( ADC_vin - setpoint ); // the important part update_display( ); wait_timer( ); } And yes I've had to do lin...
[03:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:44] <exec> 08└─Ada. Everybody's favorite programming languages. As a long time Ada programmer, I really liked it.
[03:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:46] <exec> 08└─I wonder what happens if the device blows and kills a few people in the process. In older world, say civil engineering, the engineer would certify a bridge and go to prison if it falls down with victims. Do we have "bridge designs" with significant software and who takes the responsibility?
[03:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:48] <exec> 08└─Don't they try to regulate crypto - a tiny math subject?
[03:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the Boston School Bus Schedule Can Teach Us About AI - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:12] <exec> 08└─What? My non-linear programming algorithm is very intelligent. It's so smart that it doesn't have to 'learn' anything else. It was born that way. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[04:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Pay Private Space Companies for Moon Rides - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:55] <exec> 08└─Deliver 50 tons of computer parts. Which parts? Where exactly? Who cares.
[04:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:07] <exec> 08└─Adding S is more expensive then not adding it.
[04:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:19] <exec> 08└─By contrast, only 4 percent of the 124 children who had been given a placebo powder were able to consume the same amount of peanut without reacting.
[04:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:39] <exec> 08└─The building doesnt exist?
[04:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hemimastigotes: A New Kingdom of Eukaryotic Microbes - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:59] <exec> 08└─What evidence is there that it is more difficult to treat a fungal issue?
[04:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hemimastigotes: A New Kingdom of Eukaryotic Microbes - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/candida-auris/index.html [cdc.gov] https://quizlet.com [quizlet.com] https://www.biology-online.org [biology-online.org]
[04:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:56] <exec> 08└─I could tell he was wishing we were using real guns
[04:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:57] <exec> 08└─Let's recap: I said that some porn actors enjoy what they do and some don't. This was in response to bob_super's post which may have misinterpreted AC's criticismYou posted a link to a website supporting people who are recovering from traumatic experiences they had while working in the sex industry....
[04:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:00] <exec> 08└─I suggest that some of them are mistreated.
[04:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:24] <exec> 08└─Not until the working class seizes political power and gains democratic control over the major industries, including software. Proprietary software would fade away after we open source all of the major software companies' code. One would also hope such a system would prevent the kind of software dev...
[04:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Unveils Design for $5 Billion Particle Smasher - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:31] <exec> 08└─He was going on a LOT more information with a LOT more scientific theory: dark matter is just a kludge with no science behind it. Have you looked into QI? It has a much more scientific aspect to it: an equation that seems to fit everything thrown at it with no adjustments like is needed for MOND, et...
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[05:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:46] <exec> 08└─So, to avoid the danger of Amazon abruptly cutting them off and torpedoing their prize, they cut themselves off from Amazon first? Sounds awfully defeatist in a very French way.
[05:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:23] <exec> 08└─On paper, peanuts have some restrictions on what pesticides and herbicides may be used. But their normal crop rotation complement is cotton, which doesn't. So everyone eating peanuts is getting all the funky chemicals from last year's cotton. You brought this on yourselves.
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[05:43:41] <exec> 08└─Don't let him convince you!!
[05:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Unveils Design for $5 Billion Particle Smasher - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:23] <exec> 08└─Life energy?
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[06:37:45] <exec> 08└─Actually, I respect them for their position. In effect, "This contest is meant to promote our home (city/state/nation). By accepting big corporate dollars, we dilute the purpose. Either end the corporate participation, or end the contest." Salutes, you Frenchy Canucks!
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[06:37:46] <exec> 08└─Decades ago, pretty much every town, large and small, had various events throughout the year. Fourth of July, Memorial day, Corn Festival (or lobster, or beer, or whatever the town was known for). Those events were sponsored by the various businesses in the town. Merchants, manufacturers, craftsmen,...
[06:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Pay Private Space Companies for Moon Rides - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:56] <exec> 08└─So how much are they willing to pay for the astronaut mustache rides? What is the ratio between astronaut rides and Cosmonaut rides? And what about the Chinese, Ben-wah Space station option? I fear that Nasa is selling out to whores, and not just SpaceX (Whores to the Galaxy!, and Boring)
[06:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:10] <exec> 08└─I've always had problems with mineral rights. I don't think they should be transferrable without the land, really. I own *some* of the mineral rights under my land, but both oil and gravel rights were sold long ago. There really isn't much left, unless I stumble across gold, silver, or copper. Miner...
[06:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:42] <exec> 08└─It's built on a Kiowa burial ground, and it's haunted. Nice place to live if you don't mind the old war chiefs, their squaws, and all the kids sitting around watching your television all night long. Oh - you'll never keep a beer in the fridge if you live there. Plan on dining out a lot.
[06:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:02] <exec> 08└─Agreed
[06:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:18] <exec> 08└─Well, the community did vote to vastly increase the scope of the game.
[06:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:56] <exec> 08└─Recently, I tried out a new sushi place in town (run by Chinese). Routinely I checked the little "wasabi" sachet I got. 18%. Eighteen. BAM. With my little knowledge of Kanji I deciphered the sachet to read "Tian Peng", "Heavenly Phoenix". A little internet journey brought me to the manufacturer's si...
[06:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:58] <exec> 08└─Anyone who calls them "fake" I will not trust, in fact. I find it an overwhelming advantage that they can be ethically sourced. My wife is adamant (pun intended) that any future diamonds from me will be the embodiment of human knowledge and skill, not dug out of a pit by mistreated workers.
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[07:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:06] <exec> 08└─Facebook is always meddling. If any one of us decides that we want do suicide, what right does Zuckerberg have to interfere? Euthenasia is pretty much outlawed in the US, and it seems to be true of most of Europe as well. That doctor - Kavorkian? They hounded his ass for assisting in suicides. We ca...
[07:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:08] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a SWATTERs wet dream. Don't do it! Your life is valuable! Please don't kill yourself, I love you!
[07:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:10] <exec> 08└─Absolutely true. Some of the direct harm from such clumsy "help" is in mistakes (say, someone is citing a book or discussing a personage. Then suddenly the police knocks on the door (or breaks it down - they are very eager to help.) This will be recorded in the database forever and may harm the pers...
[07:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:12] <exec> 08└─this just might be a case of correlation therefore causation.
[07:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:47] <exec> 08└─Beautiful Clean American Crypto. We can make crypto here in the US and sell it elsewhere and put tariffs on foreign dirty crypto.
[07:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:39] <exec> 08└─And why would you blame guns? You don't blame cars when someone is run over. You don't blame arms and legs when someone is beat to death. Or do you have a habit of blaming things on inanimate objects? Maybe in that case you should blame god for executing the devine plan.
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[08:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:47] <exec> 08└─"Inhumane"? Really? Amazon undeniably has some aggressive business practices that have devastated retail outlets that have failed to adapt, bookstores in particular, but I don't think that word means what they seem to think it means. I sympathise with their general position, but for authors in the r...
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[08:38:48] <exec> 08└─Award organizers are now working to find alternate means of supporting the award.
[08:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:13] <exec> 08└─Muh blockchain! I gotsta hab muh blockchain! I needs muh non-fiat currancy! I make muh owns! Get yo' filthy gub'mint hands offen muh crypto munny!
[08:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:12] <exec> 08└─Except for those that take place in impoverished Appalachian hell holes where people play banjo and ask you to squeal like pig. Or in the Ozarchs, where the Runaways doth lie. You are a racist bigot, Runaway, and I shoot in your general direction, just to see you hug the ground like the coward you...
[08:42:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:54] <exec> 08└─Such negativity ! Not all diamonds are washed in blood. Many are washed in sweat of poverty, and tears of working children. Artificial diamonds ? How dare you not think of the children ?
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[09:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:43] <exec> 08└─I say this in the best form of an English Canadian, making fun of my French Canadian brothers. You see -- you're reading it wrong. It's not "inhumane", it's "in-human". Amazon is an English company, run by English people, who do not speak French... and such people are not considered a human being. :...
[09:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:44] <exec> 08└─Really. They treat their employees like robots.
[09:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Pay Private Space Companies for Moon Rides - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:57] <exec> 08└─I fear that Nasa is selling out to whores, and not just SpaceX (Whores to the Galaxy!, and Boring)
[09:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:49] <exec> 08└─you'll never keep a beer in the fridge if you live there.
[09:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe in that case you should blame god for executing the deveine plan.
[09:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:34] <exec> 08└─Vegastrike has been beautiful looking, had multiplayer, and as far as I remember supported turrents for... 10+ years now. I fucked around with the privateer fork of it, with the WCU assets added on top of it it around 2010. My GPU had a hard time keeping up, but it had multiplayer, including turrets...
[09:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:36] <exec> 08└─That is a free software or free culture license. Otherwise it's not an investment but a donation with no strings attached. Now it's almost a moral requirement these people who promised no license will blow it all on blow and hookers.
[09:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:38] <exec> 08└─They have shareholders or investors or whatever beyond the 200 million here. So someone else is profiting. Really for 200 million dollars the game should be DLC/paid content free or even free outside of donation runs for operating costs yearly at the amount of donations they raised.
[09:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:20] <exec> 08└─I have been to several talks by ethnobotanist James Wong http://www.jameswong.co.uk [jameswong.co.uk] Wasabi grows in a particular part of Japan that is damp and wet. James tells a story of being outside of a Japanese restaurant in England and picking up a wasabi plant that had self seeded outside...
[09:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:22] <exec> 08└─If they just get rid of the one child per family doctrine in China they can use the population boom to bloody as many artificially produced diamonds as they need, helping all those poor children in africa by offering the much more prestigious asian child's bodyparts with every diamond instead of tho...
[09:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:24] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Nothing makes a diamond real and valuable like nigger blood.
[09:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dynamic Audiovisuals Increase Spectator Attention, but Inhibits Conscious Processing - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:44] <exec> 08└─Anyone with children knows...
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[09:44:03] <exec> 08└─If your budget is under 100 dollars, RaspPi, Rock64/Rock64Pro (latter has a hex core with 2xOoO cores, non-pro and the other 4 cores of the Pro are In-Order), most other Pi marketed SBCs, specifically 2-4GB models. Out of those the Rock64Pro is the most usable. 2-4GB of GDDR4, and a 4x PCIe slot wit...
[09:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Space Science Becomes a Political Liability - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:36] <exec> 08└─Because science. Quite a weak troll. And shit like this gets promoted on SN these days...
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[10:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:58] <exec> 08└─Just you wait for Denuvo 6.0, that's gonna be *da shit*. Yeah, 1.0 to 5.3 were crap, but don't worry - this time we've got it cracked, ooops, you know what we mean.
[10:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SuperCooKey – A SuperCookie Built Into TLS 1.2 and 1.3 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:05] <exec> 08└─So fair warning.
[10:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:33] <exec> 08└─Half their own conduct. As nasty as amazon and company are, I remember going to the local stores, finding them overpriced, and dicking you around when returning merchandise that was unfit for use. In contrast, K-Mart, Ross, TJ Maxx, Sears, etc were quite good with returns, and slowly other segments...
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[10:39:02] <exec> 08└─They aren't even really properly applied. There are whole towns in Gold Country with random sinkholes under areas WITHOUT mineral right grants because in the old days the miners just kept mining until they were too far from their access tunnels, or hit someone else's mines. As a result a lot of land...
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[10:41:00] <exec> 08└─I think our culture in the USA is to blame for our gun problems.
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[11:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:25] <exec> 08└─what right does Zuckerberg have to interfere?
[11:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:12] <exec> 08└─I didn't find any comparable numbers to how much CO2 is created from the production of Aluminum, Gold or other metals.
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[11:39:26] <exec> 08└─Who modded this troll? It's quite insightful actually. --moondrake
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[12:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgian Company Invents New, Greener Tire Recycling Process - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:38] <exec> 08└─Car tires and brake pads produce harmful microplastics [sciencenews.org] Previous research has estimated that about 30 percent of the volume of microplastics polluting oceans, lakes and rivers come from tire wear.
[12:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgian Company Invents New, Greener Tire Recycling Process - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:39] <exec> 08└─One is Goodyear The other is a great year
[12:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgian Company Invents New, Greener Tire Recycling Process - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:41] <exec> 08└─Saving the world one gram at a time. That's how you *really* do it, folks! *thumbup*
[12:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:50] <exec> 08└─All DRM schemes are just based on a flawed security model while pursuing the illogical goal of sharing something with people while also not sharing it with them.
[12:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:08] <exec> 08└─Less people equals less data equals less revenue
[12:39:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:01] <exec> 08└─I'm really lucky I don't have a peanut allergy, but thanks to people with peanut allergies, I won't eat peanuts in public for fear of setting off a reaction by touching a guard rail and leaving peanut dust.
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[12:39:06] <exec> 08└─"setting off a reaction by touching a guard rail and leaving peanut dust" That's not how it works.
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[12:40:44] <exec> 08└─I've played violent games for years. Doom. Quake. Counterstrike. My father showed me how to handle a gun. How to shoot. I never had the urge to run around shooting people. That might just be me though.
[12:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:44] <exec> 08└─People have invented diamond making machines a couple of times already. One lot was selling diamonds in a range of colours. Debeers always finds them and shuts them down. One way or the other. What they should have done is built their diamond making machine and then onsold the diamonds on the second...
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[13:37:55] <exec> 08└─Here's some background on the rCB business, https://www.rubbernews.com [rubbernews.com] Among other problems, it looks like a bootstrapping problem -- plastic makers are ready to use rCB when there is a large and ste...
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[13:37:56] <exec> 08└─whoops long change polymers long chain polymers
[13:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:07] <exec> 08└─Proof that while the universe may or may not be infinite, human stupidity is? Doesn't seem to matter how many times the uselessness of DRM is demonstrated, and that the history of DRM and copy protection failure now goes back 40 years, there are still suckers lining up to buy it. They want to believ...
[13:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:09] <exec> 08└─Simple solution: Stop buying games until the DRM is removed from them. This kills all the first-day sales. Means they expend all their money on something that actually costs them customers. And they'll have a clear up-surge in purchases on the date the DRM is removed. Until that happens, pretty much...
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[13:38:11] <exec> 08└─meanwhile, dongles and network licenses are widely used for all kinds of commercial software, just say'n
[13:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 5443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:13] <exec> 08└─However, we have some security where we have precisely this kind of model and it works. Bluray AACS was based on encryption based on unique keys for each model of Blu-Ray player. The model was actually good and worked - the flaw was in letting some keys gets published / discovered so easily. Even to...
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[13:38:24] <exec> 08└─privateinternetaccess.com is blocked by the corporate firewall at work. Sigh.
[13:38:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:38] <exec> 08└─what right does Zuckerberg have to interfere?
[13:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:40] <exec> 08└─I liked it better when social networks acted like simple bulletin boards. Now they are controlling speech on their network and inserting their own propaganda. And the latest innovation is moving beyond the confines of their website to interfere in your life in meatspace? WTF these things are out of...
[13:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:42] <exec> 08└─Because when a Millennial says 'OMG, I literally want to kill myself', what they mean is that they are mildly irritated by something that just appeared on their Facebook news feed.
[13:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:44] <exec> 08└─But dead people can win elections.
[13:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:00] <exec> 08└─Amazon is a progressive company that is getting ahead of the curve by minimizing meatbag inefficiency. Soon they will deploy the Amazonk Prometheans, liberating their warehouse workers to take on new positions as nuclear fusion technicians, mathematicians, robot salespeople, outsourcing analysts, pr...
[13:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:31] <exec> 08└─There's a market balance at work here: bitcoins are worth about as much as people put into them, from the other side of the bit: people put nearly as much money into bitcoins as they can get out of them. Since some people get their energy for cheap, or free (stolen), that drags down on the market va...
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[13:39:32] <exec> 08└─Worth pointing out that gold might not have been as environmentally clean and pleasant to mine 4990 years ago when it started. Its kinda like going software engineering about code maturity when comparing some COBOL from the 60s to todays javascript framework of the week.
[13:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:35] <exec> 08└─> ??? going software engineering Best to stick with car analogies...
[13:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:37] <exec> 08└─Note that when the "cool kids" talk about what the legacy media and legacy political parties think is "cool' like SJW stuff in games like RDR2, the point isn't that its a realistic or fun game but that you're a member of the cool kids club by publicly hating whitey outside the game. Meanwhile as a t...
[13:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:39] <exec> 08└─Given the above it would be interesting to hear ACs thoughts on the Jewish Question.
[13:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:41] <exec> 08└─Speaking of abortion, the rates has imploded since 1980 although its still worth pointing out that it kills thousands of times as many people as school shooters or teen violence in general. Eventually abortion will become illegal not because of "literally Hitler" (although we can dream...) but becau...
[13:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:43] <exec> 08└─I would extend your commentary (which I mostly agree with) and provide an interesting observation/example/analogy: As a trained soldier in the Army (well, a quarter century ago) I'm probably 1000 times more lethal than a member of the general public (zombie movies are not too realistic, LOL), sure t...
[13:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:45] <exec> 08└─Apparently you misspelled the word too, it's "devein". Why can't english be a phonemically orthographic language? "Tö reis vas kuud, bat tö taiers veör sliperi änd vii didnt häv taim tu adjast tö vings"
[13:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:47] <exec> 08└─What's the question?
[13:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:11] <exec> 08└─Try to launch a crowdfunding campain to raise that kind of money for medical research on cancer or malaria, or environmental solutions, or science research and education, or space exploration, or peace efforts throughout the world, and you would fail miserably.
[13:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06We Need an FDA For Algorithms - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:28] <exec> 08└─You are quite right – I’ve assumed there’s no regulation just cos I’m not aware of it, and she hasn’t mentioned any, but works in the field – so I’m just guessing she would have said if so... If there is regulation that you’re aware of, I’d be grateful if you’d link to some info?
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[14:37:53] <exec> 08└─It's not like those can't be cracked, or in most cases just NOP:ed out of existence since all they mostly do or did was just check to see if something was there or not and not actually doing any advanced checking. Mostly old dongles are just a massive pain for the user as if the dongle is lost or br...
[14:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA to Pay Private Space Companies for Moon Rides - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:48] <exec> 08└─I fear that Nasa is selling out to whores, and not just SpaceX (Whores to the Galaxy!, and Boring)
[14:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:50] <exec> 08└─I last saw one while I was observing the solar eclipse in 2017. I haven't looked since so I haven't seen one since.
[14:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:21] <exec> 08└─It depends on if the game tries to simulate reality. You might not learn to drive from MarioKart, but Gran Turismo teaches the concepts of how to accelerate out of turns and how to drive on low traction surfaces. You might not learn how to shoot from Unreal Tournament, but America's Army will teach...
[14:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03splodus [4877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:22] <exec> 08└─I've lived in rural Devon for 50 years - never been interested in going on a shoot so never seen a shotgun... Your link to the report on gun crime puts Firearm Offences in the South West at 4 per 100,000 population! I did just remember though as a kid seeing guns in a sports shop in Heavitree - not...
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[15:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:49] <exec> 08└─What predictions have they deduced from this new explanation?
[15:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:51] <exec> 08└─From the fucking article: If the Higgs boson turned on in such a violent way, it would have left echoes. As the bubbles of the new phase of the universe nucleated, much like clouds, and expanded until the universe was like an overcast sky, the collisions between the bubbles would have produced lots...
[15:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:53] <exec> 08└─So they predicted that gravitational waves would exist?
[15:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgian Company Invents New, Greener Tire Recycling Process - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:07] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the details. The posted article does make the process sound like an easy win: the recycled tyres produce 20~30 percent of the CO2 of virgin carbon black. I would assume that translates into the energy and dollar savings critical for getting a process off the ground. I'm impressed and curi...
[15:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:27] <exec> 08└─Even updated devices will play pirated content. Pirated content doesn't use pirated keys, it uses unencrypted non-drm content. The display would have no way to know that the content was anything other than public domain.
[15:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:28] <exec> 08└─In case of games with physical and unique interaction, this may work. Although as you mentioned, getting a working implementation without discoverable bugs will take more than a few attempts. For video or audio, there already is a very effective copy method. Get a good camera, pay and play the movie...
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[15:38:38] <exec> 08└─Mine as well. Our blocks are normally very sensible and don't get in the way. To have this one blocked means it is on a "list" somewhere.
[15:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:54] <exec> 08└─It is more desirable for them to vote than to run for office, or win. Proposal: grave side voter registration.
[15:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:55] <exec> 08└─The government doesn't want to regulate how Facebook manipulates and interferes with your real life. The government wants to participate in it. And foreign governments want to participate in it too.
[15:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:57] <exec> 08└─OMG! Millennials literally don't know the meaning of the word literally. Social Media will be the downfall of civilization, led by Facebook.
[15:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:59] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of suicides (successful or otherwise) are the result of mental illness. Saying that people have a right to determine their own fate is all well and good, until you realise that the brain they are using to make that determination is faulty. Intervening in suicide is the right thing...
[15:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 1785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:02] <exec> 08└─Often very large employers do their own life insurance actuarial tables against their own employee data. Then they buy life insurance on the employees who they think are most likely to die. Generally their data is more accurate than the insurers, and they make money on it. The insurers loss is exter...
[15:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:04] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, they should not be permitted to commit suicide. They, with their faulty brain, should be humanely culled instead.
[15:39:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Blymie [4020] 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:15] <exec> 08└─I say this in the best form of an English Canadian, making fun of my French Canadian brothers. You see -- you're reading it wrong. It's not "inhumane", it's "in-human". Amazon is an English company, run by English people, who do not speak French... and such people are not considered a human being. :...
[15:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:20] <exec> 08└─I've seen small businesses bend over backwards to serve the customer however when they start the the path to going out of business it forces miserly behavior. As soon as I notice this in a restaurant I'll stop going there because it'll be downhill quality till they do close.
[15:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─Thats what Ive been saying. Crappy javascript wastes far more energy than crypto, but there is no mention of that by these same people. I can undersrand legitimately being concerned by both or neither, but only one means you are ignorant or malicious. I just optimized some code that went from about...
[15:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─Like always, you're forgetting the externalities. Intrinsically, it looks like you can save characters by skipping the esses, but once you've factored in 2 - now 3 - retarded follow-ups, the costs clearly outweigh the benefits. And now imagine this thread goes through a hard fork...
[15:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:30] <exec> 08└─When observing a solar eclipse, follow the example of the president by not using any eye protection.
[15:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:05] <exec> 08└─Which realistically will lead to these people withdrawing from people interaction as much as possible. What it doesn't necessarily lead to is violence. There are more ways of dealing with conflict in an unhealthy way than resorting to force. A very big one is avoidance.
[15:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:06] <exec> 08└─I expect you also learned a discipline and respect for the weapon and the power within it. People going to the gun shop to buy something are not likely to get that from the sales person.
[15:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:08] <exec> 08└─What I really liked was that the censors would not allow it by its original title: South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose So they changed it to: South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut and the censors didn't see any problem with a simple description of how the film compares to a tv episode.
[15:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:10] <exec> 08└─When I was young I played very violent games like Frogger and Space Invaders. Yet here I am. Sane and rational. And so far as I can determine, I have not been involuntarily committed to a mental health care facility.
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Citizen Hits $200 Million in Crowdfunding - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:35] <exec> 08└─I played Vegastrike in college, and, regardless of mechanics or art or fun, it was atrociously badly written. "%n fighters of faction %s are making trouble in system %s" badly written.
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[16:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:55] <exec> 08└─Cubes? It sounds like a new toy to replace lego bricks. Maybe these wombats could be trained to defecate in orderly rows upon rows, like stacking bricks, to form structures, such as restaurants. Wombats defecating reminds me: Microsoft please, PLEASE wait until Windows is stable enough to release, b...
[16:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:56] <exec> 08└─Yo Wombat's so round it eclipses the sun! Yo Wombat's teeth are so yellow when it smiles the traffic slows down! Yo Wombat's so square it poops cubes! "So?"
[16:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:58] <exec> 08└─This certainly will be one of the nominees for the IG Nobel next year.
[16:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:00] <exec> 08└─From TFA . . . Yang hopes that the group's research on wombats will contribute to current understandings of soft tissue transportation, or how the gut moves. She also emphasized that the group's research involved mechanical engineering and biology, and their findings are valuable to both fields. "We...
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[16:38:45] <exec> 08└─Wait. They'll figure that one out sooner or later in a way that the device won't play without likewise being assured that the product is genuine. There will still be analog copy that you will use another device to play. It too shall pass. And then pass again. Round and round we go.
[16:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:47] <exec> 08└─While I agree with you in principle, it simply will not work. The vast majority of purchasers are completely ignorant of what DRM is and even those who are aware of it's existance most won't consider it a downside unless they get stung. Even those that get stung will go on to buy the next DRM'ed gam...
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[16:38:59] <exec> 08└─Uhoh, time to upgrade everything again, and if you don't have the absolute latest of everything, it will all stop working.
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[16:39:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe because they are a VPN service? Are other VPNs blocked?
[16:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:26] <exec> 08└─Did you notice they define success as the number of outputs the system has generated and refuse to provide data on any kind of accuracy rate? This's thing would need a false positive rate near zero if it is to be tolerated at all and that just isn't realistic. Maybe they are playing a bigger game, I...
[16:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:27] <exec> 08└─1000000 - suicides per year worldwidej, 365 days per year 2.2b - esitmated no. of facebook users in a world population of (not counting europe) 6.6b (1000000/365) / (6.6/2.2) = 913 facebook users suicide daily. So this algo is catching about 1 percent even if it turns out that what it's catching...
[16:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:30] <exec> 08└─With antidepressants, talk therapy or with shock therapy. I was in the hospital with two women who got shock treatment while we were there. It did them both a great deal of good. The clinical term for it is Electroconvulsive Therapy or ECT. It is regarded as the safest treatment for suicidal depress...
[16:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:32] <exec> 08└─This whole "how should they go about trying to prevent suicides" thing presupposes that they should go about trying to prevent suicides in the first place. I don't accept that this is facebook's job. As a general rule, I imagine the majority here on SN when asked "should facebook do X with their dat...
[16:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:23] <exec> 08└─Proposed modification for Blockchain. Instead of "proof of work done", how about "proof of work NOT done" ? (It would also work for high school english homework.)
[16:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 2159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─> The whole idea of the killer training simulator is just a fantasy, if it was real in any way shape or form we would have millions and millions of trained sharpshooters in the world today. We don't. Disagree. You don't need to be a highly-trained sharpshooter to commit an atrocity. Training is very...
[16:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:35] <exec> 08└─As an American I must say it's choice for people from a continent with a history like Europe's to have anything to say to anyone on the subject of violence. Americans have a long way to go before we equal the violence and depravity of Europeans. Holocaust? Inquisition? Normal jurisprudence in the Mi...
[16:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:38] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, Americans and the rest of the world are mystified that Britons cannot watch the most tedious sport in the world without rioting, burning, and trampling innocent bystanders to death. You're weird in your way, we're weird in ours.
[16:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:40] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus, we all know it's you. Just own your words. Don't fear the troll mod. If you don't draw the foul you're not playing the game right.
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[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─Just scare the hell out of someone. The Internet tells me, and as we know The Internet never lies, that this causes people to "shit brix."
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─Build the Wall! Build the Wall!
[17:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:53] <exec> 08└─If you click through to the article, the term "cube" is being used very generously. "Not entirely round" would be more accurate. "Just not-round enough to avoid rolling away"
[17:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:55] <exec> 08└─SN keeps citing Physics.org for articles. The content is good, however the website's javascript is god awful. I only have JS enabled for the top level domain and as soon as I open the tab (vivaldi) the browser becomes unresponsive and cpu starts struggling.
[17:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:57] <exec> 08└─Sorry, phys.org
[17:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:05] <exec> 08└─Just asking. Because even if it'll take 8,000 years for the burst to hit us once launched, if it's face-on with us, we're screwed.
[17:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:07] <exec> 08└─I have just the play for you to watch while you wait: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:09] <exec> 08└─The fun part about stellar physics is that you don't know yet whether the burst happened 7999.8 years ago. It might also happen in a very short 100k years. Sleep tight.
[17:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:11] <exec> 08└─The burst might have been launched 7999 years ago. It may arrive next year. Yes, plenty of time to watch that play. Or even to launch a nanogenmo mashup of the play. How many people could tell the difference?
[17:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:14] <exec> 08└─When I read that 8000 light-year number, I started worrying, Just how far does one have to be fro gamma ray burst to survive? 8000 light-years seems awfully close.
[17:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:25] <exec> 08└─Because the Federation never looked for a sustainable alternative to antimatter.
[17:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgian Company Invents New, Greener Tire Recycling Process - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:39] <exec> 08└─"Virgin carbon black" is produced as a byproduct of oil refining, especially cracking heavy crude. Breaking those long chains requires either adding hydrogen from (say) NatGas, or strategically removing carbon to produce shorter chains, like octane. https://www.nytimes.com
[17:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:58] <exec> 08└─quit saying "commercial" when you mean "closed source". Free Software can be commercial too. Acting like something has to be closed source to be commercial is either ignorance or propaganda for digital slave traders.
[17:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:59] <exec> 08└─"Commercial" in this context usually refers to "software aimed at businesses, not at home users". A company will often buy a site license of some kind in order to get access to all of their employees at a location with a minimum of hassle. It's just buying in bulk, typically for software intended to...
[17:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SuperCooKey – A SuperCookie Built Into TLS 1.2 and 1.3 [Updated] - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:14] <exec> 08└─this is why i trust PIA. they put their money where their mouth is.
[17:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:43] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of suicides (successful or otherwise) are the result of mental illness.
[17:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:44] <exec> 08└─The night before that I emailed my manager to tell him that I had Schizoaffective Disorder, that I was doing poorly as well as give him the link to Living with Schizoaffective Disorder [warplife.com]. Then I admitted myself voluntarily to a psychiatric hospital, where they took away my phone. I expe...
[17:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:46] <exec> 08└─If the police don't shoot them in "self defense" for being "black while trying to commit suicide".
[17:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:49] <exec> 08└─That jives with the above theory. They throw some bones to the authorities on a few high probability cases to create plausible deniability. Then they use the remainder of the high probability cases for cheating, or maybe selling data to, insurers. While insurers use actuarial tables in the same way,...
[17:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:51] <exec> 08└─just because it's unfortunate doesn't make it your fucking business to override their decision. everybody is a little authoritarian these days.
[17:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:53] <exec> 08└─Right... let's pretend that one day your best friend learns that he had been fired in disgrace from his job, and his bank account had been emptied by thieves, and his wife is leaving and taking the dog with her because she has been fucking his dog, and all his family suddenly hates him and a pennile...
[17:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:55] <exec> 08└─Oops, this was supposed to be upthread, a reply to to an AC who replied to me.
[17:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:57] <exec> 08└─Right... let's pretend that one day your best friend learns that he had been fired in disgrace from his job, and his bank account had been emptied by thieves, and his wife is leaving and taking the dog with her because she has been fucking the dog, and all his family suddenly hates him as a penniles...
[17:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:59] <exec> 08└─Only an AI could do this job well. Any person who had to troll other peoples facebook feeds all day would quickly lose the desire to prevent any of their deaths.
[17:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:58] <exec> 08└─yeah, while you groveling whores use bankster slave notes and fund the IRS and every other enemy of humanity every chance you get. at least crypto has the chance to enable freedom. your precious slave "money" was designed to steal your wealth and sovereignty.
[17:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:14] <exec> 08└─The drug has this on the label: This product contains no peanuts, but was manufactured in a facility that processes peanuts.
[17:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:40] <exec> 08└─It's very pretty but I think these videos give a better sense of scale and magnitude: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:25] <exec> 08└─I would add the physicality of shooting a gun and engaging in a firefight further argues against the transference from virtual scenarios. Guns are heavy and loud. The smell of cordite can choke you. Taking aim and reloading are harder to do when you're shaking with fear/adrenaline. Running from cove...
[17:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:27] <exec> 08└─I can imagine one way playing a lot of video games could lead to increased violence. As social animals, a great many of our learned behaviors address conflict resolution and violence avoidance. Those behaviors are like any skill, and have to be used constantly or they will be forgotten. So if a pers...
[17:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:29] <exec> 08└─Yet here I am. Sane and rational. And so far as I can determine, I have not been involuntarily committed to a mental health care facility.
[17:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:35] <exec> 08└─We need a study, because I suspect that a colorful red/green/blue rock might look bigger on an Asian child's hand, but a whitish rock might just be better magnified by a background of black severed fingers...
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[18:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:51] <exec> 08└─So California isn't going to fall into the sea then? Personal anecdote: although I have lived in CA for 20 years, the most powerful earthquakes I have actually felt have been in other countries.
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:08] <exec> 08└─Trump "Hold my KFC, I need to talk to you about the Finns raking their forests to prevent fires"
[18:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:09] <exec> 08└─I'm not one to brag, but I have developed such exquisite control over my sphincter muscles that I can poop a perfectly-shaped icosahedron.
[18:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:12] <exec> 08└─"The first thing that drove me to this is that I have never seen anything this weird in biology. That was a mystery," said Yang.
[18:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:14] <exec> 08└─Just disable exzemascript altogether and the site works fine.
[18:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:26] <exec> 08└─Even the wikipedia summary was boring.
[18:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:27] <exec> 08└─*Everything* in space is line-of-sight with us - not a whole lot of anything to block the view out there. And if there were, we wouldn't be able to see what was blocked - line-of-sight works in both directions. However, near the end of the summary they answer your real question: Fortunately, Apep ap...
[18:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:29] <exec> 08└─The odds of a gamma ray burst from this star coming anywhere even remotely close to our solar system is astronomically remote. So don't worry.
[18:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:42] <exec> 08└─Presumably there is something about these gravitational waves that would allow them to be distinguished from the ones created by collisions between black holes and/or neutron stars, so that the hypothesis can be tested. Unfortunately what is not explained in the article is what any of it has to do w...
[18:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:43] <exec> 08└─tbh, i dont understand it at all. but thats because i dont have a background in physics. what i wonder is, if at some point after the big bang the developing universe would have tipped towards anti matter, would the anti matter universe physists consider themselfs anti or regular matter people? so m...
[18:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgian Company Invents New, Greener Tire Recycling Process - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:58] <exec> 08└─Flying is too energy intensive. We need train tracks to every house. Metal is better than tires or asphalt.
[18:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:10] <exec> 08└─I dunno about all of that . . . it looks like all the mass shooters have been treated with anti-depressants and shit. I have no qualms about shooting someone that deserves shooting, but the idea of just coming unwrapped and gunning down a bunch of random people is beyond the pale.
[18:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:30] <exec> 08└─There were miserable, miserly fools in most towns. They didn't participate much in those events I mentioned. Some might, if they were dragged along by peer pressure, but the really miserable old fools weren't easy to pressure.
[18:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:48] <exec> 08└─The guests will drink it, of course. There aren't a lot of native Americans who can resist alcohol. No, I'm not speaking prejudicially, I'm speaking from experience. My stepsons are more native than anything else - they could join the tribe if they liked. My own sons are only about 1/3 native. The d...
[18:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:49] <exec> 08└─https://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml [nasa.gov] Seems this is pretty normal for this time of solar-cycle. They should start to pick up in 5 years or so. Otherwise we can chalk that one up to global warming. :)
[18:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:34] <exec> 08└─Americans have a long way to go before we equal the violence and depravity of Europeans.
[18:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:35] <exec> 08└─You're the racist, Ari. You don't think there are black people in Apalachia? Or the Ozarks? Speaking of squealing like a pig - do you have any new little boys to talk about? You Cretins know all about making little boys squeal!
[18:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Look Good - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:48] <exec> 08└─How about those who call them cultured diamonds? ;)
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[19:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─Particularly in demand are software developers, with many switching jobs each year. Even some banks have eased up on their dress codes to project a hipper image.
[19:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:33] <exec> 08└─Hey clue challenged managers. Here's a way to retain employees. Wait for it . . . . PAY THEM BETTER. Wow. It's a novel and radical idea, I know. It seems corporations will do any conceivable thing to attract and retain people EXCEPT actually pay well enough to make them loyal.
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:35] <exec> 08└─I don't live in the US, but we have same problem. Every week I see stories about employers whinging and bitching because they can't get "qualified staff" for their restaurant or to pick their fruit, as if those jobs require an advanced degree. What they are really lobbying for is to bring in cheap...
[19:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:45] <exec> 08└─Possibly not, but t there is still a 0.00014% [express.co.uk] chance the Yellowstone supervolcano will cover most of the US in ash.
[19:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:47] <exec> 08└─Fracking is not a problem, the new EPA website tells me so, it must be true.
[19:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─> Possibly not, but t there is still a 0.00014% [express.co.uk] chance the Yellowstone supervolcano will cover most of the US in ash. Aw, man, and today would be the day I forgot to bring my d714285.
[19:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:51] <exec> 08└─Ah, the Supervolcano. The thing about that is that it will equally affect Red-state hell-holes just as much (if not more than) as liberal paradises.
[19:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─0.00014% chance over what timespan? If that's for the next hundred years then, cool. If that's for the next million years, I call B.S. and if that's for the next second, we're all doomed.
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:55] <exec> 08└─The new EPA website must be better than the old EPA website . . . because . . . well, . . . it's new.
[19:38:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:07] <exec> 08└─Just scare the hell out of someone. The Internet tells me, and as we know The Internet never lies, that this causes people to "shit brix."
[19:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:16] <exec> 08└─Where's C0lo? I need to know exactly how venomous these "wombats" are, and how many Aussies they kill every year.
[19:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:18] <exec> 08└─Elaborate, please. I find no search results for exzemascript.
[19:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:21] <exec> 08└─Dodecahedrons make better Christmas tree ornaments.
[19:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:36] <exec> 08└─Can't remember where I heard this quote . . . The surface of the moon is covered with the results of astronomical odds.
[19:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:37] <exec> 08└─...a very short 100k years. Sleep tight.
[19:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:51] <exec> 08└─All the processes we know of for energy to condense into matter should create equal amounts of matter and antimatter- they're basically the exact same thing after all (according to current theories at least), just with opposite charges and the neat little quirk that they'll spontaneously self-annihi...
[19:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─I think they mean a specific looking G-wave, but it is hard to tell.
[19:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgian Company Invents New, Greener Tire Recycling Process - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:10] <exec> 08└─That run on magic or at least clean electric or hydrogen. Then again, maybe Fallout had it right and we should have been using nuclear powered everything. Everything we do will "produce pollution" of some sort or another. Anything as ubiquitous as tires will have a profound impact on our ecosystem....
[19:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:32] <exec> 08└─To put it concisely, DRM is a fence. It's there to signal that the inside belongs to someone else, so that people who are worried of getting caught don't break in. You can make the damn wall or fence as high as you want, someone will try to get through just for kicks. The more bragging rights the be...
[19:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:33] <exec> 08└─meanwhile, dongles and network licenses are widely used for all kinds of commercial software, just say'n
[19:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:35] <exec> 08└─Here's where I plug the wonderful site GoG which used to stand for Good old Games, but they settled on just the acronym for their name GOG. Since, they also host new games. https://www.gog.com [gog.com] They are 99.999% DRM free, with the occasional exception of needing to register with a 3rd party...
[19:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SuperCooKey – A SuperCookie Built Into TLS 1.2 and 1.3 [Updated] - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:48] <exec> 08└─I know the place I work for blocks things like TOR, and other proxy / relay / vpn services. It's not an uncommon practice, because reasons. One possible reason being control of the flow of traffic on their own network.
[19:40:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:05] <exec> 08└─Because when a Millennial says 'OMG, I literally want to kill myself', what they mean is that they are mildly irritated by something that just appeared on their Facebook news feed.
[19:40:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 1328 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:24] <exec> 08└─Right... let's pretend that one day your best friend learns that he had been fired in disgrace from his job, and his bank account had been emptied by thieves, and his wife is leaving and taking the dog with her because she has been fucking the dog, and all his family suddenly hates him as a penniles...
[19:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:28] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of suicides (successful or otherwise) are the result of mental illness.
[19:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:30] <exec> 08└─Given the high number of suicide survivors and how happy they are they didn't succeed I will now label your post as "libertarian pure-freedom-only nonsense".
[19:40:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 269 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, I respect them for their position. In effect, "This contest is meant to promote our home (city/state/nation). By accepting big corporate dollars, we dilute the purpose. Either end the corporate participation, or end the contest." Salutes, you Frenchy Canucks!
[19:40:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06NASA to Pay Private Space Companies for Moon Rides - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:57] <exec> 08└─I fear that Nasa is selling out to whores, and not just SpaceX (Whores to the Galaxy!, and Boring)
[19:41:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:08] <exec> 08└─tl;dr: cryptocurrency mining is really only worth it if you steal the power and don't care about the environmnetal impacts.
[19:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:24] <exec> 08└─That's helpful, if the computer is setup to take advantage of said efficiency.
[19:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:25] <exec> 08└─Difference being, that COBOL from the 60s may have had three or four self-taught programmers look at it from the time it was written until today, usually only when someone had a complaint about something. The latest javascript framework is published on multiple sites like GitHub, GitLab, etc. collab...
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[20:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:24] <exec> 08└─The sets I built in the high school theater were mostly lightweight canvas tacked to wooden frames. AC without a doubt will soon assure me that's what Amazon's alleged second and third headquarters were be, so I don't need to list all the fake jobs that Amazon will claim they will have openings for...
[20:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.pobronson.com/index_nudist.htm [pobronson.com] The Nudist On The Late Shift I myself relaxed in the large hot tub at the Santa Cruz Operation's original headquarters - buck naked
[20:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─You cf. dynamic in D.C.
[20:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:29] <exec> 08└─The paper company I currently work for allows all IT employees to work from home 3 days a week and a few people are remote 5 days a week (oddly enough, I know people that work at telcom companies that don't provide this option to their employees) -- it works good for all as the company reduces requi...
[20:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─We are overdue for an economic correction. Just wait for a recession, then you'll get plenty of applicants.
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:34] <exec> 08└─They couldn't pay me enough to live in VA...or if they would, it'd be enough to retire in a year.
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:36] <exec> 08└─You don't know the DC tech job market very well, I see. Even during an economic downturn, the tech jobs are in such a demand in DC that companies and recruiters are practically clawing at each other. I don't need to apply for a job if I want to switch. I just say I'm open to opportunities on LinkedI...
[20:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─I'm going to agree, except for the "fair wage" bit. If the wage is accepted without coercion or fraud or similar, then it is fair. Employees want more, and employers always want less, and we should disregard both complaints when assessing what is fair. Companies do need to pay people what they are w...
[20:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:55] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that the idea of oil drilling causing earthquakes in California plays a big role in the 1990 movie "The Two Jakes" (a sequel to 1974's "Chinatown").
[20:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:57] <exec> 08└─Only 20 years? That means you missed the Loma Prieta Earthquake by only 9 years, and if you are in Southern California, the Northridge Earthquake by only 4 years. There are several smaller quakes almost every day in the state. Just go to https://earthquake.usgs.gov [usgs.gov] There you can use the...
[20:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:59] <exec> 08└─So can we just put the oil back in to prevent The Big One?
[20:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:01] <exec> 08└─That means you missed the Loma Prieta Earthquake by only 9 years,
[20:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:03] <exec> 08└─This theory really shakes things up.
[20:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:05] <exec> 08└─Yup: https://mashable.com [mashable.com] https://gritdaily.com [gritdaily.com] https://motherboard.vice.com [vice.com] https...
[20:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:08] <exec> 08└─What if all the little ones reduced the severity of the big one?
[20:38:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 471 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:21] <exec> 08└─From TFA . . . Yang hopes that the group's research on wombats will contribute to current understandings of soft tissue transportation, or how the gut moves. She also emphasized that the group's research involved mechanical engineering and biology, and their findings are valuable to both fields. "We...
[20:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:34] <exec> 08└─Whether or not it wins the IG Nobel, this research is definitely worthy of a large government grant and a dedicated research center.
[20:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:36] <exec> 08└─A typo. The word is correctly spelled eczemascript.
[20:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:38] <exec> 08└─They're about the only pet you can kick around like a ball and no one will scream animal abuse.
[20:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:40] <exec> 08└─So it really is possible to "crap bricks". It's no longer just an idiom.
[20:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:42] <exec> 08└─Down the wombat hole.
[20:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:19] <exec> 08└─I'm not clear on what mechanism they are alleging causes the asymmetry. Is it that waves, bubbling, and frothing cause irregularities that accidentally may favor an uneven balance?
[20:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:04] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about it, DRM is a losing battle. Microtransactions and always-online is the future.
[20:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SuperCooKey – A SuperCookie Built Into TLS 1.2 and 1.3 [Updated] - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:21] <exec> 08└─VPN through HTTPS Proxy with SSH [tobru.ch] If you are in a situation where you are locked in a network which has all ports closed to the outside, but there is a HTTP(S) proxy available, then you're lucky and can create a VPN easily using some nice tricks. Prerequisites You need to have access to a...
[20:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SuperCooKey – A SuperCookie Built Into TLS 1.2 and 1.3 [Updated] - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:23] <exec> 08└─See my post below about 'if your vpn is blocked'.
[20:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:05] <exec> 08└─I notice you didn't address the latter part of my argument. I was being somewhat rhetorical with the "who decides" part to make a point. Deciding that somebody no longer deserves to exercise their inalienable rights is not a thing to be taken lightly, no matter how many degrees and certifications yo...
[20:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:06] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between people who actually want to kill themselves, and people who make a show of it for other emotional reasons. Surviving a suicide attempt doesn't necessarily mean they're just incompetent at the act.
[20:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:08] <exec> 08└─We the people are the ones who demanded Facebook to meddle. Not you or me personally, but the general public. Left to their own, Facebook has no motivation to predict suicide risk, but people seem to think think Facebook is responsible for fixing any and all social and political problems that touch...
[20:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:10] <exec> 08└─Except... It turns out none of that is true!
[20:41:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 1138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:21] <exec> 08└─Decades ago, pretty much every town, large and small, had various events throughout the year. Fourth of July, Memorial day, Corn Festival (or lobster, or beer, or whatever the town was known for). Those events were sponsored by the various businesses in the town. Merchants, manufacturers, craftsmen,...
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[21:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe they could hire all of the homeless people in CA and buy them a train ticket for moving expenses.
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─Some of us "computer programmers, mobile app developers, data scientists and cybersecurity experts" don't want to work alongside H1Bs that come here despite hating America, don't want to enrich a CEO/chairman/whatever who hates America, and don't want to be involved in sleazy FAANG data hoovering. I...
[21:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:49] <exec> 08└─do white collar amazon employees get bathroom breaks?
[21:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:13] <exec> 08└─Thank you for posting that.
[21:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:43] <exec> 08└─Drop-bears from above, wombats from below, bandicoots in the armpits of the Dreamtime. A lovely continent! Unfortunately, there are no longer any Diprotodons. [wikipedia.org]
[21:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:45] <exec> 08└─They dreamed alright with a belyful of Diprodont.
[21:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:22] <exec> 08└─I model in HO. I never have these problems.
[21:39:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 5443 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:56] <exec> 08└─However, we have some security where we have precisely this kind of model and it works. Bluray AACS was based on encryption based on unique keys for each model of Blu-Ray player. The model was actually good and worked - the flaw was in letting some keys gets published / discovered so easily. Even to...
[21:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quebec Literary Prize Cancelled due to Amazon Protest - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:27] <exec> 08└─If you want it... KERBLAM IT!
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[22:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Technology Paves the Way for Quicker Road Repairs - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:22] <exec> 08└─Solar Roadways [solarroadways.com], or just even concrete, is vastly superior to asphalt. What asphalt has going for it is the expensive long term maintenance, and that's good for all the people who get rich of contracts for it. In other words, asphalt is perfect for corruption simply because of how...
[22:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Technology Paves the Way for Quicker Road Repairs - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:23] <exec> 08└─Concrete forms much nastier potholes in a climate where the yearly temperature swing ranges from -40 to +100 degrees (-40 to +38 C), with water getting into the works and breaking things up. Asphalt isn't great, but is a quick patch in the middle of winter when fresh concrete won't cure properly or...
[22:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology Paves the Way for Quicker Road Repairs - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:25] <exec> 08└─What asphalt is really good at is creating continued employment and owner profits for a huge global industry. It's also a well characterized and (as demonstrated by TFA) highly optimized process that produces predictable results for, mostly, governments who order huge infrastructure projects that us...
[22:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:47] <exec> 08└─I'm a cybersecurity expert and computer programmer. My company makes death machines for killing foreigners. I love my job.
[22:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:48] <exec> 08└─I'm going to agree, except for the "fair wage" bit. If the wage is accepted without coercion or fraud or similar, then it is fair. Employees want more, and employers always want less, and we should disregard both complaints when assessing what is fair.
[22:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:50] <exec> 08└─But did you pay your $699 entrance fee, you cock smoking teabagger?
[22:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:14] <exec> 08└─Orders of magnitude. oblig duck search result: https://www.wisegeek.com [wisegeek.com] I don't like their example. Magnitude 9 vs. 2 (407). How about a magnitude 4 vs. magnitude 8 (404 = 2.56E6)? Let me run this thr...
[22:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:47] <exec> 08└─I'll tell bytram again to use ScienceDaily [sciencedaily.com] instead. That site is not a browser killer and also links directly to university article sources instead of to another page on site and then the university homepage.
[22:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:48] <exec> 08└─They didn't want their poop to roll away. They went with cubes. The other option was really sticky poop, and that was by far a less pleasant option.
[22:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:09] <exec> 08└─I'm off outside to start digging
[22:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Finding of Particle Physics May Help to Explain the Absence of Antimatter - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:29] <exec> 08└─They predict specific gravitational waves, not the existence of them per se.
[22:39:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 1012 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:58] <exec> 08└─Simple solution: Stop buying games until the DRM is removed from them. This kills all the first-day sales. Means they expend all their money on something that actually costs them customers. And they'll have a clear up-surge in purchases on the date the DRM is removed. Until that happens, pretty much...
[22:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:12] <exec> 08└─Stop giving them ideas
[22:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hitman 2’s Denuvo Protection Cracked Three Days Before Launch - 1947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:14] <exec> 08└─You may be correct. Bluray had some other problems in it, and the fundamental flaw in your design is that I would kill you before I need to check in with you each and every single time I enjoy content of any kind. That's the #1 deal breaker right there. The damn machine won't work without being conn...
[22:43:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 2166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:45] <exec> 08└─First off, I don't have a problem with responsible adults enjoying violent video games. If someone is going to perform a violent act, then they clearly have other problems. However, I doubt these sort of experiments are going to pick up any significant change in behavior from playing the games, as t...
[22:43:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behaviour - 810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:48] <exec> 08└─These results aren't necessarily comparable to previous results. The reason is that most previous studies were undertaken in America, and Americans and Brits are different. This happens all the time in psychology. Usually, the impact is that psychological effects unique to Americans are improperly p...
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[23:38:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:24] <exec> 08└─"there really weren’t a lot of materials out there at the time to do that" There are these things on paper called BOOKS you can learn all sorts of things from what is written in them In particular, BREADMAKING Check it out "bro"
[23:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:27] <exec> 08└─Real bros don't eat carb loaded bread. Real bros go paleo, breh.
[23:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:29] <exec> 08└─That $600 cookbook was written by another bro, bro. The patent troll guy.
[23:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:31] <exec> 08└─I've been baking bread for years, collecting cookbooks and trying the recipes. Always OK, wowed the neighbors, yada yada. I happened on "Flour Water Salt Yeast" by Ken Forkish, a baker and guru in Portland, OR. He shows (in photos) and tells how to make the best bread, comparable to or better than I...
[23:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:33] <exec> 08└─They seem unable to function in the real world, which suggests yes. OTOH, the article made no mention of a breadmaking app which suggests they may be a different subhominid species.
[23:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:35] <exec> 08└─Who’d be dumb enough to buy the book after he gives the recipe away in the title?
[23:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:37] <exec> 08└─Bro that point doesn't even matter because bros making books for other bros still results in books being read by bros as opposed to the original point "There are these things on paper called BOOKS" made by some old person I'm guessing who thinks millenials are all bros who bro it up without the slig...
[23:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:40] <exec> 08└─They seem unable to function in the real world
[23:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:42] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone waste their time with baking when you can broil some steaks and vegetables. It is far better for you, tastes better, and is far easier to clean up afterwards. I literally can't think of any reason to bake some bread rather than broil some meat and veggies.
[23:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:44] <exec> 08└─One of said shops in Truro, Nova Scotia left it out for their customers to read. Can I find a link? I'm not sure but maybe it was Pizza Today [pizzatoday.com]. The often had articles about successful shops that spent _years_ perfecting their dough recipes.
[23:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:46] <exec> 08└─But it's cool, bro. As you were.
[23:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:48] <exec> 08└─Pity tne "Know-It-All" who has no one to tell it to.
[23:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:50] <exec> 08└─Real bros go paleo, breh.
[23:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:53] <exec> 08└─From your comment, the Millennial generation should be renamed the Dunning Kruger generation!
[23:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:55] <exec> 08└─You kneed to release your frustrations.
[23:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Do You Even Bake, Bro? - 1583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:57] <exec> 08└─I use a wet dough and a probe thermometer, taking the bread out when the internal temperature goes above 94°C. Works for me, with minimal effort: 800g white flour (both plain and high-grade NZ varieties of flour seem to work equally well) 130g wholemeal flour (or ground grains) 3 cups (750ml) water...
[23:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology Paves the Way for Quicker Road Repairs - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:07] <exec> 08└─I know a better way to reduce road repair costs and times : don't have every individual drive a 1.5 to 3 ton vehicle ! Fifty years from now, when there are only autonomous vehicles on the road and crashes are a thing of the past, maybe we can miniaturize the self-driving tech enough to put it in my...
[23:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Technology Paves the Way for Quicker Road Repairs - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:09] <exec> 08└─The Goog suggests: > 57 Limestone. 3/4-1” clean crushed limestone. This material is the most common driveway and parking lot topping. We had a gravel driveway, about 150 feet long, for 50 years (since I was a kid). If the stones are all nearly the same size, it never packs, always scatters around....
[23:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Technology Paves the Way for Quicker Road Repairs - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:11] <exec> 08└─I've been mixing #57 and #89 on about 150' of our private sand based driveway and it has packed to a pretty solid surface. The part that is just straight #57 does need a little something to settle it into place, probably do that after it has had a chance to sink into the underlying sand for a year o...
[23:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:39] <exec> 08└─Each employee and possible future has their price. Some, of both high and low skill, are not worth that price. They go elsewhere. Nobody should be bothered by this. Again, what is this "fair wage" of which you speak? Do we need communism to measure it? Somebody demands $1,234,567 per year to do ordi...
[23:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:40] <exec> 08└─Please to remind me what that entrance fee pays for.
[23:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:42] <exec> 08└─Not soon but after my January Indiegogo campaign I'm planning to hire a Back End Developer, and Entry Level QA Engineer and a Senior Front End Developer [soggy.jobs]. If you're interested, the application instructions are on the linked page.
[23:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:44] <exec> 08└─Or the empty water carbouys in the break room. Just take on to your desk, then swap it out once a week.
[23:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon HQ Expansion Means Tough Fight for Talent - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:46] <exec> 08└─I have a different take on this. The whining is hypocritical in the extreme when upper management rakes in obscene pay. I have zero sympathy for this whining and blind faith in the employment market so long as companies can somehow afford to compensate upper management with 7 figure or more annual p...
[23:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oil Extraction Likely Triggered Mid-Century Earthquakes in L.A. - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:11] <exec> 08└─Therefore, a small earthquake at a magnitude of 4 would need to occur 2,560,000 times to relieve the same amount of pressure as one major earthquake with a magnitude of 8
[23:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explain How Wombats Drop Cubed Poop - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:45] <exec> 08└─I need to know exactly how venomous these "wombats" are, and how many Aussies they kill every year
[23:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Doomed Star in Milky Way Threatens Rare Gamma-Ray Burst - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:07] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't Zombie embrace the idea of a gamma burst ?
[23:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:18] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be great to be paid to troll Facebook users all day? Trawl, on the other hand...
[23:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cryptogold Costs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:23] <exec> 08└─That's helpful, if the computer is setup to take advantage of said efficiency.
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