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[00:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:09] <exec> 08└─This is literally the exact opposite of what you want to do. You want to cut out carbs so that people feel less hungry and thus consume fewer resources. Their plan is a plan for obesity.
[00:33:10] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:11] <exec> 08└─Set targets to transition away from livestock products starting with foods linked with the highest greenhouse gas emissions such as beef, then cow's milk and pig meat ('worst-first' approach)
[00:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:13] <exec> 08└─How about instead of these ridiculously inept plans that will result in making people fat and pumping crap into the atmosphere that will create poisonous acid rain, while raising taxes worldwide by 1 trillion dollars/year and giving it to the same incompetant UN bureaucrats and academics who come up...
[00:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to change my habits one iota without a price difference. I care more than most do. Find a way to increase prices or this will fail.
[00:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:18] <exec> 08└─Troll? Anyone can try a low-carb (actual low-carb of under 50 g per day, not the fake one medical researchers made up) diet for a week and know this is true. The only people who would still deny this are apparently unwilling to put forth even the slightest effort to understand what people are trying...
[00:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:20] <exec> 08└─Outlaw free trade of food, or accept that rich folks will be the last to lose access.
[00:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:22] <exec> 08└─I don't foresee me giving up milk, beef and pork anytime soon. She can eat all the bugs and worms she likes but it won't be for me. Feeding another 350 million people extra? Considering our massive overproduction of foodstuffs we might even be able to do that already. Question might be if the system...
[00:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:24] <exec> 08└─Find a way to increase prices or this will fail.
[00:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:27] <exec> 08└─I thought vegans were bad enough, but then someone crossed one with a climate change zombie.
[00:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:29] <exec> 08└─Stupid vegan scientist is too PC to admit the truth: get rid of Africans and Indians and the planet will do just fine.
[00:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:31] <exec> 08└─So why should we do that again? Need I remind everyone yet again, that while there is anthropogenic global warming and such, no one has demonstrated that it has serious consequences over the next century. Moving on: Harwatt further elaborates that recent evidence shows, in comparison with the curren...
[00:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:34] <exec> 08└─You were modded troll because you made a very ignorant sounding statement. You realize that there is plenty of protein we can get from plants without including the carbohydrates? Cause it sounds like you don't know that, and assume "eat less meat" means "eat more carbs".
[00:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:36] <exec> 08└─... when you pry it from my cold dead fingers. Seriously, I am small farmer. If this gets implemented, the resulting policies will undoubtedly discriminate against individuals such as myself, giving infinite freedom to the large confinement operations that contribute to the actual problem. Fascism i...
[00:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 3616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─It was an ordinary day. Neither too hot nor too cold, the weather was quite welcoming. Yet, even on an ordinary day, extraordinary things can happen. And on this day, at that time, extraordinary things did happen. *** What was he witnessing? Just what was Fredrik witnessing? A man was in an alleyway...
[00:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:40] <exec> 08└─Jackass #666 Looks like the stupid is inbreeding, soon we will have super stupids running around fucking up everything for everyone else.
[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTTP/3 Explained: A Work in Progress - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:51] <exec> 08└─I have to read the book to learn how many smart people will exploit having secure connections over unidirectional protocols. I know it's not impossible. I just don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about it.
[00:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06HTTP/3 Explained: A Work in Progress - 3616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:53] <exec> 08└─It was an ordinary day. Neither too hot nor too cold, the weather was quite welcoming. Yet, even on an ordinary day, extraordinary things can happen. And on this day, at that time, extraordinary things did happen. *** What was he witnessing? Just what was Fredrik witnessing? A man was in an alleyway...
[00:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Green and Edible Cling Film and Food Packaging Made from Plants - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─Edibly packaged booze has existed for awhile already: https://www.candywarehouse.com [candywarehouse.com]
[00:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:24] <exec> 08└─What can I say except to give you real numbers? I paid about $18k (pre-tax credit pricing) for a 5.25kW system (maximum allowed based on my usage) and that included a free EVSE installation (supplied and fitted), which would have cost at least $1000 had I paid for it separately. My neighbor is getti...
[00:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:26] <exec> 08└─If you have a diode that can rectify EM at visible light frequencies, you should also be able to do IR. Turn heat directly into electricity. I thought that violated some laws of thermodynamics.
[00:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:28] <exec> 08└─> Do you think it is artificially high (probably, yes). Your own math points to 60% of the cost being installation, and the less you install, the higher the percentage gets. That was my point. Cheap panels are not the problem here, where the "certified/licensed/bonded installer" is the majority of t...
[00:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Will Reportedly Release AR-Enabled Spectacles With Dual Cameras - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:44] <exec> 08└─Is that really that old already or am I just ...really that old already?
[00:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Will Reportedly Release AR-Enabled Spectacles With Dual Cameras - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:45] <exec> 08└─That was ~5 years ago, only old in the 24 hour news cycle perspective.
[00:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Will Reportedly Release AR-Enabled Spectacles With Dual Cameras - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:48] <exec> 08└─Please please add "no customer privacy respect" along with "no shirt, no shoes". I think it would be 100% fine to refuse service to someone who will be recording customers.
[00:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kingdom Hearts 3's Winnie The Pooh Might Be Censored In China - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:32] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the studio should license Sonic the Hedgehog to play the part of Pooh [freworld.info] in any Chinese release. Then the mod community could release a patch restoring Pooh to his rightful place in the cartooniverse.
[00:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Paper Supports Stratospheric Aerosol Injection for Cooling the Planet - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:08] <exec> 08└─Venus has an atmosphere many times thicker than earth's, that is why it is hot. Look at the temperature ~40 km up where the pressure is about 1 atm, it is exactly the temperature expected if we moved Warth to Venus's orbit.
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[01:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:04] <exec> 08└─give it 6 months until most of the bikes are stolen, vandalized, or destroyed.
[01:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:30] <exec> 08└─Why does he want to double the population? More cars/mines, more homes/clearcuts, more sewage (or "fuck you marine life/water table"), more of just everything harmful.
[01:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, an expert lawyer... WTF is up with the headline here? Oh, sorry I forgot, the usual political BS trying to steer the sheeple to maximise their profitability.
[01:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:33] <exec> 08└─I didn't agree to this. Make Canada Great Again. Are there really too many people? If so, the traditional solution works. We can have war, disease, and famine. That isn't as bad as going vegan. Siberia is cold and roomy. What is the Chinese word for "Lebensraum"?
[01:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:36] <exec> 08└─French people are already setting shit on fire over gas prices (as a symbol of high taxation cutting into their living standard). Cut subsidies, raising food prices, and they'll go for pitchforks and guillotines again. The government can't step over that line, because they know that people in unifor...
[01:33:37] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 1593 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:38] <exec> 08└─I grew up in a neighborhood that was almost entirely Cantonese people. There is a saying, within and without China, that "the people of Guangdong will eat anything with 4 legs that is not a table, and anything with 2 wings that is not an airplane." I'vealso heard "they use everything but the oink, a...
[01:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry -- from TFA: "Dr. Helen Harwatt, farmed animal law and policy fellow at Harvard Law School ..." That's where I quit reading and tried to find something out about her. She appears to be some city slicker from mostly urban/suburban east coast Boston, and formerly the totally urban area east of L...
[01:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:43] <exec> 08└─Every now and then this crap comes up. Until these numbskulls learn agronomy and logistics, they have nothing. The simple facts around productive land and rates of return and sources of fertilisation for the land render their arguments meaningless. Why on earth do people who study this stuff for a l...
[01:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:45] <exec> 08└─https://futurism.com/artificial-sun-china-temperature-record [futurism.com]
[01:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:47] <exec> 08└─Looks like the stupid is inbreeding, soon we will have super stupids running around fucking up everything for everyone else.
[01:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:49] <exec> 08└─Perfect lab-grown/cultured meat, and you can potentially eliminate a lot of the issues. Get people to switch to plants and insects when meat demand is growing globally? Fat chance. Unless you want to be the bearer of the "meat tax".
[01:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─just India and Pakistan and we can pollute like 1995
[01:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:54] <exec> 08└─We can make it warm and cozy in Siberia. As per Americans, they seem to be OK in desert places west of Mississippi such as LA and Frisco, so let them have nicer weather in NY and Boston.
[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, IYI (Intellectual, Yet Idiot) at it's best.
[01:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:58] <exec> 08└─but can find something to do with just about any other part of the animal save for eyeballs and such
[01:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:01] <exec> 08└─I feel like i need to respond because this was modded 5. What a weird argument. It sounds like you just don't want to but using excuses to justify it. Whole lot of swearing to make it sound cool too. How do you know the 1% don't already eat less meat? Look at Gwyneth Paltrow's books and other rich p...
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:03] <exec> 08└─I don't want to eat guts, exoskeletons, or other objectionable parts. I don't want flavoring or filler. I want to buy it raw and pure, like ground beef. DO NOT ADD ANYTHING. Make a machine that properly extracts the meat. I suggest extracting only the leg meat from large-legged insects like grasshop...
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:05] <exec> 08└─The French farmers are the masters of getting what they want, but farmers everywhere are pretty good at it. A quick search tells me that the US spends $20 billions per year on agricultural subsidies, which sounds like a massive under-estimate to me, but it still a lot of money. In my own country t...
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:07] <exec> 08└─get rid of Africans and Indians and the planet will do just fine.
[01:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HTTP/3 Explained: A Work in Progress - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:22] <exec> 08└─No wonder he's banned from the US.
[01:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Opens Up its Internal Machine Learning Training to Everyone - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:30] <exec> 08└─If their Precious would give others a real advantage, would they make it available to the public?
[01:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vauxhall's GTX Concept Teases the Future of Mass-Market EVs - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:42] <exec> 08└─Opel was sold* by GM to French group PSA (Citroen, Peugeot). And Vauxhall is owned by Opel, so "grandson" of PSA. Important decisions come from France now. Not so Anglo German anymore. This Corsa derivative seems to be the sucessor to Ampera-e, for when the supply deal ends. https://en.wikipedia.org...
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[02:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:06] <exec> 08└─One or two geeks will see it as a challenge to take the bike apart and work out the best "defanging" procedure (to remove the wireless link.) Then they publish their notes on the interweb tubes, and next morning the theft of the century begins.
[02:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:07] <exec> 08└─£5.5 (7USD) for 30mins? Get fucked.
[02:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─Americans need to make better use of their livestock. Organ meats, especially the heart and stomach, need to make a comeback I take it you have never been to a slaughterhouse? You can trust me on this. They use every bit they can. To do otherwise is waste. Waste does not make you money. You think th...
[02:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:53] <exec> 08└─This has touched a nerve for a lot of users here. So much vitriol and picking apart the professor. I feel like it's worth pointing out, whatever it is, the point is valid. Reducing meat intake will contribute to reducing carbon emissions substantially. You can try deal with the cognitive dissonance...
[02:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:56] <exec> 08└─We can eat ice cream and have warm weather.
[02:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:58] <exec> 08└─Care to name some of this magical low carb high protein natural plant based food? Rice is about 10 carbs to 1 protein Some beans get as high as 3:1.. Soy is about 1:1, which is equal parts, pity there are almost zero non-GM sources of soy any more thanks to Monsanto. Of course that is ignoring the O...
[02:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:00] <exec> 08└─Is there ANY solution to climate change and/or other environemental issues that will NOT discriminate against SOMEONE ?
[02:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:02] <exec> 08└─Animals are not wasted in the US. All the animal parts we don't eat gets, the guts, the feathers, the feet, the heads, gets shipped to the rendering plant and gets cooked up into animal food like dog food, cat food, chicken pellets, or something similar else that is fed back the the animals. Just do...
[02:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:05] <exec> 08└─gop.com gives Access Forbidden... iiiiiiiinteresting. Access IP is outside USA... but not in Russia. Can any Russian try? :)
[02:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:07] <exec> 08└─There's a fair bit of meat on these grasshoppers. [butterflycreek.co.nz] Not sure what they taste like, but you might only want a couple for lunch.
[02:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:09] <exec> 08└─I feel like it's worth pointing out, whatever it is, the point is valid. Reducing meat intake will contribute to reducing carbon emissions substantially. You can try deal with the cognitive dissonance in your own time.
[02:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:11] <exec> 08└─Humans are not cows, we do not have the right stomach for complete digestion of plants. We are omnivores; we eat everything that grows or moves. If it does not grow or move, we move it and then eat. It is stupid to restrict human food to plants, and it is dangerous to stand between man and his roast...
[02:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:14] <exec> 08└─No, because the climate change issue is designed specifically for discrimination. The human flock will be culled one way or another. As wars became too dangerous, another method had to be invented.
[02:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:16] <exec> 08└─I am leaving behind zero kids. This is a far greater benefit to the planet than anything else a single individual can do. So great, I can drive a hummer, eat meat at every meal, fly as much as I want and in the end I'll still have a smaller carbon footprint than anyone who chose to have kids.
[02:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:18] <exec> 08└─The issue is the method, not the livestock. The current state of the art is running cattle and chickens quickly over land growing as diverse a mix of plants as can grow. Short grazing periods, long recovery, manure feeds the plants, roots sequester carbon, and cattle emissions are way less on an ide...
[02:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTTP/3 Explained: A Work in Progress - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:32] <exec> 08└─If changes to http break that much software, then perhaps the software wasn't well designed in the first place? Not that that's at all surprising, with so much software being horribly hacked up, death marched rush jobs by bad programmers.
[02:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:09] <exec> 08└─I am not sure what you are referring to. The law of thermodynamics which i remember is that you cannot transfer heat from a heat tank to work without losing a fraction of the heat. That is why it would be wrong if they claimed a 100% efficiency.... but there is nothing preventing EM to electricity.....
[02:38:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06New Paper Supports Stratospheric Aerosol Injection for Cooling the Planet - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:30] <exec> 08└─After reading through most of that link I find they propose injecting Sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
[02:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paper Supports Stratospheric Aerosol Injection for Cooling the Planet - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:50] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that if Professor Zharkova is even close to correct, we're going to have a rude surprise here in the next decade or so, and will need all the warming we can muster. Cold equals crop failure, and this time around we've got WAY more mouths to feed. https://www.youtube.com
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[03:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:09] <exec> 08└─That the real question we should be asking is...Oooh! Look! Shiny! Wait, where was I? Never mind. There's more shiny over there!
[03:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:10] <exec> 08└─I prefer walking in the woods; alone. As much as possible. I never bored. Have a wish lists of things to do for a few lifetimes and tv is not one of them.
[03:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:12] <exec> 08└─And not even on a weekend.
[03:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:15] <exec> 08└─Very true. This does not man that it's not a useful skill to have.
[03:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:17] <exec> 08└─I think that early humans who were continually driven to learn, explore, and improve their situation had a survival advantage over those content with their situation.
[03:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:20] <exec> 08└─Constant self-distraction with TV / Games / Social Media / Gossip / rubber necking / 'oh look shiny' / sex / psychoactive drugs / etc Are all symptoms of a bigger problem. The mind is constantly trying to remain engaged, and in modern society there are limitless ways for it to achieve this. There is...
[03:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:22] <exec> 08└─I think you're on to something. When the mind is quiet, it becomes very creative and receptive to learning. Early humans would have had many opportunities for quiet contemplation. Modern day humans are now at the mercy of externalities that relentless and forcibly intrude into their lives preying on...
[03:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:35] <exec> 08└─If it likes the obikes, you pull off the cover on the solarpanel/battery compartment, find the two wires leading into the compartment next to it, and apply 3.3V across those... according to a friend. When I tried on the one dumped outside my place it didn't work, but that bike might've just been bus...
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[03:33:37] <exec> 08└─Probably the traction battery was discharged. Hardly unusual if the bike is dumped. Well, soon we'll know how the new batch works.
[03:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:39] <exec> 08└─In this business all that matters is to gather up the willing investors. After money changes hands, the bikes can be melted down. The investors make their own small profit on it. Otherwise there would be no fools to invest into an obvious disaster.
[03:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:41] <exec> 08└─For less than $100, I used a bikeshare for unlimited 30 minute trips per year. But I had to dock the bike. You could get more time by quickly docking and undocking the bike. I hear they are starting to add pedal-assist electric bikes to the system.
[03:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:38] <exec> 08└─I don't want to eat guts, exoskeletons, or other objectionable parts. I don't want flavoring or filler. I want to buy it raw and pure, like ground beef. DO NOT ADD ANYTHING.
[03:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:39] <exec> 08└─The animal parts that humans don't eat do NOT go to waste. Instead it goes into pet food, livestock rations, and fertilizer. (That last is also where stockyard manure winds up.) Check out the price of blood meal or bone meal and tell me if you don't think they process every bit they can.
[03:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:42] <exec> 08└─You can eat plants or insects, but not meat.
[03:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:44] <exec> 08└─Obesity has skyrocketed since carb consumption has increased.
[03:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:46] <exec> 08└─Americans need to make better use of their livestock. Organ meats, especially the heart and stomach, need to make a comeback.
[03:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:48] <exec> 08└─Thank you! That's the best belly laugh I've had in a long time.
[03:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:51] <exec> 08└─Stupid vegan scientist lawyer...
[03:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:53] <exec> 08└─Meat is much more nutrient dense. From an environmental viewpoint, broccoli is as damaging as hamburger. Do you realize how many heads of lettuce you'd have to eat to equal 1 150g hamburger patty? At least 5lbs. https://www.treehugger.com
[03:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:55] <exec> 08└─Outlaw the production of your own food.
[03:35:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Green and Edible Cling Film and Food Packaging Made from Plants - 673 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:38] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellophane [wikipedia.org] Cellophane sales have dwindled since the 1960s, due to alternative packaging options. The polluting effects of carbon disulfide and other by-products of the process used to make viscose may have also contributed to this; however, cellophane it...
[03:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:47] <exec> 08└─Thorium
[03:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vauxhall's GTX Concept Teases the Future of Mass-Market EVs - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:35] <exec> 08└─Great idea to make safety equipment more complicated and failure prone. People will die because somebody was driving with a busted display/camera. But I'm sure reducing air drag is totally worth it.
[03:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paper Supports Stratospheric Aerosol Injection for Cooling the Planet - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:26] <exec> 08└─More to the point, without sufficient photosynthesis, what do we eat??
[03:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Paper Supports Stratospheric Aerosol Injection for Cooling the Planet - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:28] <exec> 08└─Venus has an atmosphere many times thicker than earth's, that is why it is hot.
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[04:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:01] <exec> 08└─I tell people that's because of Tinnitus - ringing in my ears - but no, I learned when Bonita taught me Shambhala Buddhist Meditation: I'm afraid of silence. Nothing will bring out all your demons like sitting in silence.
[04:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:03] <exec> 08└─Sitting in a room with nothing else and thinking requires either idling or using stored knowledge to make new one. Hardly anyone has that job (rulers, philosophers.) Sitting in a room with a book works today for a scientist, as too few people reads books (or read at all.) Everyone else earns his dai...
[04:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:05] <exec> 08└─Being locked up, alone, with yourself, is scary. Unless of course, you can love yourself.
[04:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:07] <exec> 08└─Boredom is second only to necessity as a creative force but only in the lengths we'll go to to avoid it. Sitting around just being bored holds no value whatsoever. It is in fact a waste of a perfectly good opportunity to be fishing, napping, or both if you have the forethought to put bells on the en...
[04:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:10] <exec> 08└─The mainstream media is becoming easier and easier to ignore. All they seem to report is a stream of identity politics occasionally punctuated by "Her Emails!" Now I just need to cure my Soylent addiction. Free speech is going away on the clearnet, anyway. Society is puking up its undigested barbari...
[04:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:12] <exec> 08└─the runaway reveals that he hates himself would make his posts make more sense what does he hate about himself? probably his closeted ligbuttism leading to unsatisfied homosexual urges
[04:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:14] <exec> 08└─In my case, if I ever sit still with no stimulus I inevitably fall asleep. So it's not boredom that I am trying to avoid, but falling asleep in the middle of the day. Particularly at work in an open-plan office...
[04:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:16] <exec> 08└─They Did Surgery On A Grape
[04:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:19] <exec> 08└─I'd love nothing more than for it to be shut off, but some people really _do_ sit there and watch it. But I often pass through it; consider what will be the top three national or international news items on any really decent textual news site. Both CNN and MSNBC will cover those three stories in vid...
[04:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:21] <exec> 08└─There is no silence to appreciate if you have Tinnitus. . The quieter it gets, the louder the Tinnitus.
[04:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:23] <exec> 08└─Is aversion to solitude a problem, or is it a personality trait? Maybe extroverts have this "problem", this inability to handle solitude. Especially caffeine fueled, ADHD suffering, gossipy, drama loving, showboating extroverts. Although it's an extrovert's world, with so much viewed through the pri...
[04:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiu1uLgwF1E [youtube.com]
[04:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:50] <exec> 08└─There are 75.5million people in the 1% group. Most of the 1% don't realize their in the 1% (worldwide).
[04:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:51] <exec> 08└─Of all the things that can be subsidized, food production makes the most sense
[04:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:53] <exec> 08└─Probably because that's a foolish measure when used globally. Around here we've got people literally making $30k a year that are homeless, but they'd be rather high when compared globally even though they lack something as basic as housing. Whereas somebody making that kind of money in a 2nd or 3rd...
[04:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:56] <exec> 08└─It would if we had a shortage. We don't have a shortage of food production, we have some issues with distribution, but that's not being subsidized. In the US we literally pay farmers to not produce certain crops and we pay to have certain crops destroyed. This year it looks like a significant portio...
[04:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:58] <exec> 08└─Anyone in the US making more than 35k/year is in the top 1% of the world.
[04:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:00] <exec> 08└─Cut subsidies, raising food prices, and they'll go for pitchforks and guillotines again.
[04:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:02] <exec> 08└─The United States are the template for the world yet liberals are always trying to make things worse or shame us. You know what? Find happiness in yourself and learn from our success in being a bread basket of the world. You can't fix what's not broken. You can't control us.
[04:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:05] <exec> 08└─I've raised a lot of chickens. Believe me, they have no problems eating mom & dad. Or baby. Chicken, all birds imo, are really disgusting creatures. Some will say all animals, but especially birds and especially especially chickens. They're just evolved dinosaurs.
[04:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:07] <exec> 08└─When i lived in a real state (Alaska) I would buy beef heart from the store on a regular basis and chicken liver and gizzards when they were cheap enough, beef liver as supply allowed. I would have liked to continue this in Oregon but beef heart is more expensive than other parts of the cow here. Or...
[04:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:09] <exec> 08└─Nope. I will just accept that I have access to their kitchen and pantry. If they want to keep the caviar, Foie gras, and the like, go ahead. Basic shit like hamburgers, steak, bacon? You better betcha your ass that the rich will be paying out the fucking nose for security, and paying the security pa...
[04:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTTP/3 Explained: A Work in Progress - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:24] <exec> 08└─The book describes what HTTP/3 and its underlying transport protocol QUIC are, why they exist
[04:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTTP/3 Explained: A Work in Progress - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:26] <exec> 08└─Google is going to push this really, really hard. Once your site falls off the search results because you don't do /3 yet, you'll have no choice. Obey, consume, reproduce, and conform, Google customer.
[04:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:02] <exec> 08└─Free energy. Get it to work at long IR wavelenths and you can convert radiant heat from room temperature objects to electric energy. This will cool the room. Run the electricity out of the room on wires, and then use the temperature differential to extract even more energy. I think you are fighting...
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[04:37:52] <exec> 08└─This much is completely obvious -- you do not have kids. SUVs and minivans make modern life possible for those of us with kids, especially if they do sports, have friends, go to parties and do the occasional science project at school. The added safety of a bigger, heavier car matters to us parents t...
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[04:39:10] <exec> 08└─In any case, as anyone who's read the Appendix to the Apocrypha of Milne's extended works knows, Pooh has major problems [skrause.org] as he goes "OWT CHAGIG THE DRAGGN".
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[04:40:13] <exec> 08└─New Zealand has one of the world's highest rates of whale strandings, although the precise cause for it is not known.
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[05:32:54] <exec> 08└─A pretty good summation of an obscure research topic, particularly the end note.
[05:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:21] <exec> 08└─Sitting around just being bored holds no value whatsoever
[05:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:23] <exec> 08└─Parent nailed it. People are not plants. We are doers who exploit opportunities. It's a sign of intelligence. A goldfish, on the other hand, is never bored in its bowl.
[05:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:58] <exec> 08└─What a weird argument. It sounds like you just don't want to but using excuses to justify it.
[05:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:59] <exec> 08└─LOL! In all seriousness, the people that should've been doing it in the first place. Local programmers. I'm not saying Indian coders are complete shit, but they usually produce shit. Not because they don't know what they are doing, they're brilliant programmers everywhere, but because project manage...
[05:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:02] <exec> 08└─I don't want to eat guts, exoskeletons, or other objectionable parts. I don't want flavoring or filler. I want to buy it raw and pure, like ground beef. DO NOT ADD ANYTHING.
[05:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:04] <exec> 08└─During my career, I have worked with and managed outsourced projects. All successful. Things have probably changed, but in the beginning, it was difficult to get one Indian programmer to talk to another Indian programmer and then tell us what they had decided. Instead, issues tended to be relayed be...
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[05:35:06] <exec> 08└─Anyone in the US making more than 35k/year is in the top 1% of the world.
[05:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:59] <exec> 08└─How long does the solar panel last without replacement? Decades? If it lasts long enough, the fossil fuels and pollution that went into production could be negligible. Newer solar panels may be flexible and capable of being stored in rolls. This could allow much more solar panel surface area to be s...
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[06:33:04] <exec> 08└─> obscure research topic Obscure unless they get confirmation, in which case it's a discovery "bigger than the Higgs"
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[06:33:35] <exec> 08└─Not to be tormented by the ringing in my ears. Shambhala Meditation doesn't regard thinking as a negative thing. Their advice is to think the word "Thinking", then proceed to clear one's mind. More advanced meditators don't think "Thinking" as often as beginners. There _is_ a way to temporarily sile...
[06:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:36] <exec> 08└─Unless of course, you can love yourself.
[06:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:39] <exec> 08└─However going to a crowded cafe then sitting alone there for a while is the only human companionship I really require.
[06:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:41] <exec> 08└─For example, Lawrence Calvin "Rusty" Foster III - the founder and owner of what used to be Kuro5hin, as well as the principal author of the Scoop CMS became a Country Western Star by the name of Larry Calvin. I've been meaning to write him a snail mail to tell him that; he never reads his email but...
[06:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:43] <exec> 08└─That's the specific reason that the NedSpace management requested that I not sleep there anymore. I can stay awake for quite a long time but every few hours I grow too weary to work. In an effort to lessen by addiction to coffee I started taking naps whenever that happened. Now I have to drink coffe...
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[06:33:45] <exec> 08└─-es. Seizures, Dissociative Fugues, Concussions. That I have no dreams, no memory at all when I regain consciousness has me convinced that when I'm dead, it will be just like having a seizure that just never ends: the view fades to black, the background noise silences then.
[06:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:48] <exec> 08└─If you're too hooked into the "LOOK SHINY!" your thoughts, feelings and experiences will mimic real Attention Deficit Disorder. But it's not real ADD, as there are lots of ways to eliminate that pseudo-ADD: learn to enjoy some quiet, contemplative activity. F or me, it was grinding, polishing and fi...
[06:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe extroverts have this "problem", this inability to handle solitude. Especially caffeine fueled, ADHD suffering, gossipy, drama loving, showboating extroverts. Although it's an extrovert's world, with so much viewed through the prism of "extroversion is good", there are still many introverts.
[06:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:52] <exec> 08└─I think that early humans who were continually driven to learn, explore, and improve their situation had a survival advantage over those content with their situation.
[06:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:54] <exec> 08└─I value quiet solitude. I've got plenty enough to think about, plan and dream about to keep me occupied without any other activity. It's also when I come up with solutions to vexing repair problems (I fix lab instruments and equipment for a living) or figure better ways to do things.
[06:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:39] <exec> 08└─You may have identified my problem: beancounters
[06:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:41] <exec> 08└─Tofu, soba noodles has 1/2 the protein density as chicken Wheat germ is 3/4 the density of chicken Also not all meats have the same density as chicken https://www.bodybuilding.com [bodybuilding.com] It isn't hard, especially if you vary your diet with...
[06:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:43] <exec> 08└─How else can Sulla give us our first world guilt? The irony is amusing.
[06:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:45] <exec> 08└─This is the problem, you think it is some fascist authoritarian thing to point out reality and how we can improve things. No one is forcing you to do anything, no one is trying to control you, but a fuckton of people are trying to educate you and praying some little bit of it sticks.
[06:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:47] <exec> 08└─There is the issue that if you let the beancounters manage it, they will find the cheapest outsourcing solution. Cheap does not usually mean good.
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[06:35:50] <exec> 08└─I love McDonalds. And KFC. As everyone knows. Frankly, they got me through my 2016 campaign. But my Doctor told me, "Sir, if you want to live to 200 -- no more Fast Food." I listened. And now I'm on a very special diet. Soup & Salads. And a little bit of Bacon. I'm losing weight, I feel great. And t...
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[07:33:14] <exec> 08└─"expansive unexplored biodiversity" https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[07:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:52] <exec> 08└─$30k and homeless in the us is still a much higher standard of living than a locally wealthy person where $1500/year would put you in the top 1%. Candy bars and iphones are relatively the same everywhere. Cleaner environment (most places), access to better healthcare, access to more goods and servic...
[07:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Green and Edible Cling Film and Food Packaging Made from Plants - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:56] <exec> 08└─Could this tech be used to make bags, forks, straws, cups?
[07:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Intermediary Between Qubits Provides Basis for Control and Scaling - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can spur some interest in this story if you can somehow tie it into: “Orange Man Bad”.
[07:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget VR treadmills—Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:18] <exec> 08└─> About the only other thing I can think of is your skin might feel that the air isn't moving correctly with the treadmill, but that shouldn't feel much different to a very slight headwind. I (idly) wonder if anyone's tried to put a spinning fan or some other air-blowing device in front of the tread...
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[08:33:26] <exec> 08└─She was an African woman sixty thousand years ago. That's a long enough time that somebody's male MtDNA could be in _all_ of us. Or rather, just _some_ of us.
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[08:33:38] <exec> 08└─And perhaps the editors should speed-RTFA. Because TFS does not make any mention those microbes are extremophiles. In a paper published in Nature Communications this week, researchers documented extensive diversity in the microbial communities living in the extremely hot, deep-sea sediments located...
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[08:33:39] <exec> 08└─Genetic engineering ftw! I wanna see the movie. "They thought they could cover up the oil spill, but it fed the evolution of bacteria in the deep!"
[08:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Plot Thickens for a Fourth Neutrino - 1524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:52] <exec> 08└─The Solar atmosphere is opaque to light until that atmosphere is cool enough to permit electrons to bind to nuclei, primarily hydrogen but because our Sun is the child of a Supernova, there are lots of other varieties of nuclea too. The thin layer that's so cool enough is called the Photosphere, bec...
[08:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:34] <exec> 08└─I was playing music very, very softly through my Mac's speakers while at NedSpace. This fellow works where he could still hear it. He _very_ politely asked me to turn it down, but I knew he'd still hear it so I shut it off. During the day I always use headphones now, but on nights and weekends I'm m...
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[08:36:26] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I forget that there are low-quality suppliers of ground beef. I get ground beef from Publix. Publix is one of only a couple US supermarkets that did not add pink slime. Fat is a known and standard evil, actually part of the animal, and I buy the lean stuff. Hearts are excellent meat if you...
[08:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:28] <exec> 08└─I'd love a fat-free slab of meat, or even just a bunch of thin sheets that I can fry into something like a steak sandwich. Since it is cloned, I could eat exotic animals. If they allow custom orders, I could even eat myself. The reality is that the "blood" will be some sort of soy/corn crap, not eve...
[08:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:30] <exec> 08└─Most places I've seen you're lucky to get one. Two would be a fucking miracle.
[08:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:32] <exec> 08└─Eating larvae is not "improvement". It's the opposite.
[08:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 2584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:34] <exec> 08└─Kids can be a lot of fun. Although, more the making than the raising. The hardest thing for me about raising kids has been finding the time. I know friends who leave their business so they can spend more time with their children, and I say, gimme a break! My children could not love me more if I spen...
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[08:36:37] <exec> 08└─Globalism almost killed our Country. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities. Rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our Nation. An education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge. And the c...
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[09:33:41] <exec> 08└─As part of the "Blue Growth Strategy', the EU-funded H2020 W2O project... Wave2O will be piloted in Cape Verde, an island in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa.
[09:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:50] <exec> 08└─I do not wish to eat kidney, liver, brain, stomach, rectum, esophagus, trachea, spleen, testicles, ovaries, horns, hooves, fur, eyeballs, cartilage, tendons, stingers, lungs, poison glands, skin, scales, feathers...
[09:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorokin [187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HTTP/3 Explained: A Work in Progress - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:12] <exec> 08└─Frankly, I didn't find the booklet very informative. If anyone is interested, below are the links that describe the motivation and details very well. At least they work for me. https://www.slideshare.net [slideshare.net] https://blog.clo...
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[10:34:26] <exec> 08└─They Did Surgery On A Grape
[10:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:28] <exec> 08└─Besides being able to sit quietly in a room alone, I also happen to know Pascal programming. However, programming is actually helping me escape boredom...
[10:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, extroverts are a bizarre bunch, and I would expect them to have a hard time seeing any value in solitude. One might try explaining "hell is other people" or "I look forward to social gatherings like you look forward to a calculus exam" but they still won't get it. However, I would say that bore...
[10:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:27] <exec> 08└─150g hamburger patty? At least 5lbs.
[10:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vauxhall's GTX Concept Teases the Future of Mass-Market EVs - 1433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:17] <exec> 08└─What do SUVs have to do with kids? More to the point, following your logic, how did people manage to have kids before SUV's existed? They are a relatively recent invention. Hint, there are entire classes of vehicles for people with kids. From the small family hatchbacks, to the standard family car w...
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[10:39:18] <exec> 08└─> I expect and fear that it will mean no windows at all. Most likely, after all, how would you make sure the occupants are watching the adverts if they can look outside? Think of it from a marketing perspective, you have the opportunity to have a captive audience for the entire trip, who have nothin...
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[11:33:29] <exec> 08└─Oil-eating bacteria are nothing new. There were a number of articles about oil-eating bacteria after the gulf oil spill [scientificamerican.com]. Oil fields leak, or are exposed naturally. It's all a matter of quantity and timing. Nature doesn't care if oil is dribbling out of a crack in the ground,...
[11:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:25] <exec> 08└─What you say indeed has merit but I feel obliged to point out that not having company and not doing something especially productive are not quite the same as boredom, though they may appear outwardly so. Reading a book, pondering the meaning of life, trying to figure out how to release a million chi...
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[11:34:27] <exec> 08└─Eh, there's nothing wrong with extroversion as an inclination any more than there is introversion. It's when they become a necessity that problems arise. I prefer having someone to swap lies with while fishing, so I'm an extrovert, but I'm certainly not going to skip a day of fishing just because I...
[11:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:29] <exec> 08└─trying to figure out how to release a million chickens in NYC in one day without going to prison
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[11:34:31] <exec> 08└─Technology was developed specifically to remove the natural ability of humans to think and contemplate. Look at almost all people and you will see they are busy doing things with no meaning or purpose. They are spending life doing repetitive things like playing computer games. Such things did not be...
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[12:32:52] <exec> 08└─Rats are easy enough to find. Where did they get the ferret [pets4homes.co.uk]?
[12:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enormous Dwarf Satellite Galaxy of Milky Way Discovered - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:01] <exec> 08└─Enormous Dwarf ??? What is this? A marvel movie?
[12:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wave Power for Clean Drinking Water - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:11] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of NIMBY associated for these kinds of projects - especially for test/pilot projects. These are considered eyesores when they are near high-priced shorelines (e.g., the EU). By placing this test off the coast of a West African island they get access to very cheap (or in this case free...
[12:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wave Power for Clean Drinking Water - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:13] <exec> 08└─"PUSH! come on baby. PPPUUUSSSHHH!"
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[12:33:24] <exec> 08└─i hope nobody failed or had to "repeat-year" highschool because they got this question "wrong" in biology class. which makes one wonder what other new research wonders will over turn the present schooll text books? which kinda leads to the suggestion that going to school (not uni) is more about lear...
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[12:33:58] <exec> 08└─I prefer walking in the woods; alone. As much as possible. I never bored. Have a wish lists of things to do for a few lifetimes and tv is not one of them.
[12:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:37] <exec> 08└─so why do we have open plan offices?
[12:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:38] <exec> 08└─No. It kept whining. Eventually, just to shut it up, they had to cork it.
[12:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:40] <exec> 08└─A goldfish, on the other hand, is never bored in its bowl.
[12:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:59] <exec> 08└─and if it is not do I get a reward for unintentionally storing them? can I get rewarded for reporting them?
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[13:33:19] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious: A Ferret towing a brush. Those tubes are eight miles in diameter; I expect they employe a number of ferrets.
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[13:33:20] <exec> 08└─> Those tubes are eight miles in diameter; I expect they employe a number of ferrets. No, really really fat ones.
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[13:33:22] <exec> 08└─> The rat ran from the ferret a short distance and stopped. It was feared that he would show fight and be killed. But he started on again. The rat realized what's the task at hand and really considered his options before proceeding.
[13:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:25] <exec> 08└─Those tubes are eight miles in diameter
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[13:33:44] <exec> 08└─France in the Caribbean and French Guyana in northern South America. Also Tahiti and St. Pierre and Michelon islands immediately south of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic. The UK has the Falklands. I expect there are others.
[13:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:11] <exec> 08└─Sex? Okay. Porn?
[13:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:10] <exec> 08└─I'm emphatically against bureaucrats of any stripe forcing people to stop eating meat, because I'm against bureaucrats, period. But I'm in favor of education programs on the environmental and ethical impact of raising meats - the free range stuff is rare and expensive and not any better for the env...
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[13:37:11] <exec> 08└─Raising animals takes many pounds of grain or other feed for every one pound of meat that comes out of the slaughtered carcass. So you can feed even an obese person double portion of their daily recommended calorie intake from vegan foods and still reduce the net environmental impact by a large amou...
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[14:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:08] <exec> 08└─Daedalus, the mythical Greek engineer who made the Labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, was later challenged by a King Cocolus to pass a silk thread through a spiral shell. He did it by tying the thread to the hind leg of an ant.
[14:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:10] <exec> 08└─Ferrets have also been used to run wires through some planes. I don't suppose they still do nowadays, but when you need to run a cable through a confined space that isn't just a straight line, some kind of animal probably beats out even the most expensive robot.
[14:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:12] <exec> 08└─I saw them using fireworks when they were running fibre through the cable TV ducts on my street! Put rocket in pipe, attached to reel of fibre, set it going down the pipe, and someone at an open manhole a few hundred yards away gets the cable delivered in just a few seconds. Looked fun!
[14:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wave Power for Clean Drinking Water - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:32] <exec> 08└─Disgusting, dirty, dangerous coal.
[14:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mitochondrial DNA can be Inherited from Fathers - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:43] <exec> 08└─this has been known for many years (I read it in a book ,so that's how old....!!!). All things in biology are "fuzzy", although that's not so easy to parameterize...;-)
[14:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mitochondrial DNA can be Inherited from Fathers - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:45] <exec> 08└─If you get one question "wrong" and that causes you to fail the class, I don't think this one question is the central piece of the problem.
[14:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:00] <exec> 08└─Soylent is a labor of love. Like any great love affair, there are highs and lows. Which are the highs, and which the lows, is left as an exercise for the reader. But I too have tuned out the media entirely. This, and eco sites are all I read now. I figure if anything really important happens, someon...
[14:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:02] <exec> 08└─I read a short story once about a man who bet a wealthy fellow he could stay locked up in a room for a long period of time; he could leave any time he wanted, but then he'd lose the bet. At the end when the time was up he had won the bet, but he had found the solitude so beneficial, so conducive to...
[14:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:04] <exec> 08└─That sounds cool. Please give us a heads up here on Soylent before you do so I can go watch and take video. That would be absolutely hilarious.
[14:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:04] <exec> 08└─If they outlaw pigs, I will turn to eating guinea pigs. Mmmm, guinea pig bacon.
[14:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:06] <exec> 08└─> Reducing meat intake will contribute to reducing carbon emissions substantially. I don't care.
[14:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:08] <exec> 08└─I don't see how it makes any sense to destroy a cranberry harvest. The stuff is eminently preservable. You can dry it, can it, or juice it and it will keep practically forever. Also, it's really good for you.
[14:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Green and Edible Cling Film and Food Packaging Made from Plants - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:19] <exec> 08└─This is why we should not be colonizing other planets. And certainly not out to the stars. If we can't even stop ourselves from making this one uninhabitable, why should we get another one?
[14:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Artificial Life Created on the Cloud - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:59] <exec> 08└─Genetic algorithms are so new that we have had them for almost 60 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm). Yeah, it was no quantic thingy but we gotta shout the buzzwords.
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[15:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:08] <exec> 08└─Would you eat the glowing mushroom? 🍄 :)
[15:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:09] <exec> 08└─Soon to be followed by glow in the dark piss. Then would people absorb any of the bioluminescent cells from the beverage into their bloodstream? Could they absorb enough to be very faintly glowing? Imagine the marketing. Can a self replicating bioluminescent micro organism be engineered so that mass...
[15:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:11] <exec> 08└─Hey kids, try this new glowing lacto-fermented oatmeal [thekitchn.com]. Gee whiz!
[15:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:13] <exec> 08└─A lighting source that constantly renews itself, and is capable of extracting the energy needed to do so from its surroundings. Could make for useful path lights, or night lights. Sure would be easier and cheaper than running cabling to for electric lights, or the solar panel + extras + lights neede...
[15:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─I saw them using fireworks when they were running fibre through the cable TV ducts on my street! Put rocket in pipe, attached to reel of fibre, set it going down the pipe, and someone at an open manhole a few hundred yards away gets the cable delivered in just a few seconds. Looked fun!
[15:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:33] <exec> 08└─really? solid-fueled rockets in a confined space together with cables that contain rubber and plastic? In horizontal pipes? I have doubts.
[15:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enormous Dwarf Satellite Galaxy of Milky Way Discovered - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:44] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_galaxy [wikipedia.org] A dwarf galaxy is a small galaxy composed of about 100 million up to several billion stars, a small number compared to the Milky Way's 200–400 billion stars. The Large Magellanic Cloud, which closely orbits the Milky Way and contains over...
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wave Power for Clean Drinking Water - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─Sure, many European countries have those (including mine). However, Cape Verde is an independent (non-EU) country.
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wave Power for Clean Drinking Water - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─I doubt NIMBY was the reason for the location. Lots of other projects are carried out on mainland EU and even some EU countries could even benefit from such project in terms of going green, improvement to water supply and economy.
[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:30] <exec> 08└─I, too, lock the door when I masturbate.
[15:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:47] <exec> 08└─Red and green. Learn the bloody difference.
[15:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:33] <exec> 08└─I thought I had a reliable source for that 10-30 pounds figure, but now I can't find it. Unfortunately I can't edit that post. Sorry for the misinformation.
[15:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Green and Edible Cling Film and Food Packaging Made from Plants - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:37] <exec> 08└─The reasoning is the same as buying a new USB thumbstick because it is a lot easier than going through and managing the old USB thumbstick that is filled with a lot of unnecessary cruft. It's that whole needing to add energy to reduce entropy thing.
[15:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Green and Edible Cling Film and Food Packaging Made from Plants - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, but after I eat those, it hurts when that foil comes out the other end.
[15:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:31] <exec> 08└─The mercury and lead are an issue - but the coal ash at least goes away. It's looking like carbon nanotubes don't - nothing eats them, they're not particularly reactive, they just get inside cells, kill them, and then get inside the cells of whatever eats the corpse in near perpetuity.
[15:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:33] <exec> 08└─Must be nice having a 40 acre backyard.
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[16:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:59] <exec> 08└─Alternately the title could be more about how the project was allowed to become more or less abandoned [boingboing.net].
[16:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:00] <exec> 08└─I was worried that if I ever got hacked, they might steal real money from me.
[16:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:15] <exec> 08└─The gene introduced was active in cells, making them luminesce upon addition of luciferin
[16:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:33] <exec> 08└─After the opening was shut behind the ferrett... Rat: Hey, please don't kill me Mr Ferrett! Ferrett: You're kidding right? We're both stuck in a sewage pipe, and I can't pass you. Get your ass moving. Rat: Right! Running for the far exit as fast as I can. Ferrett: Right behind you. Those damn humans...
[16:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:34] <exec> 08└─My father worked at Sandia National Labs and told me a very similar story. They pulled a cable out of a very long tube, without attaching a leader to it, and had no solution until someone said "I bet if I showed my ferret that tube he'd take off down it and not stop until he finds the end." So the n...
[16:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─A torus has two diameters.
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─I re-purposed some empty 1" diameter PVC pipes in a rental house for CAT6. I vacuumed a rag tied to a string to complete the pull.
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mitochondrial DNA can be Inherited from Fathers - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─You know that passing science class tests always means "Giving the answer that was generally thought to be correct when the textbook was published", right? And that's when they don't purposefully simplify because they deem kids too dumb to understand the difference between a probability cloud and a...
[16:34:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06The Plot Thickens for a Fourth Neutrino - 1524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:33] <exec> 08└─The Solar atmosphere is opaque to light until that atmosphere is cool enough to permit electrons to bind to nuclei, primarily hydrogen but because our Sun is the child of a Supernova, there are lots of other varieties of nuclea too. The thin layer that's so cool enough is called the Photosphere, bec...
[16:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Plot Thickens for a Fourth Neutrino - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:34] <exec> 08└─Why are they calling these hypothetical particles "sterile" neutrinos? Doesn't seem like a good name.
[16:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Plot Thickens for a Fourth Neutrino - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:36] <exec> 08└─The term sterile neutrino is used to distinguish them from the known active neutrinos in the Standard Model, which are charged under the weak interaction. [wikipedia.org]
[16:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:36] <exec> 08└─-$$$ per person spent by company or at least -$$$ per person for this quarter.
[16:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:37] <exec> 08└─Constant self-distraction with sex, could be worse things. Sex isn't evil, but also most people have a definite period of not having sex after having sex. Due, to physical limitations and / or pain threshold. After X number of times in a row, one gets quite sore. Good exercise, though.
[16:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:40] <exec> 08└─They are cheaper to do and easier to micromanage
[16:37:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─Anyone in the US making more than 35k/year is in the top 1% of the world.
[16:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:48] <exec> 08└─Tofu, soba noodles has 1/2 the protein density as chicken Wheat germ is 3/4 the density of chicken
[16:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:49] <exec> 08└─Raising animals takes many pounds of grain or other feed for every one pound of meat that comes out of the slaughtered carcass.
[16:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:51] <exec> 08└─I really do like space exploration and it's really cool science stuff, but the actual benefits to our society in any semi-near to even long-term future are negligible. In fact, with every launch, we are polluting the Earth even more. So, in actuality, the long term take away may be more along the li...
[16:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:54] <exec> 08└─Sure, you say that now, but in an alternate timeline, your kid saves the Earth. In this one, a giant asteroid hits it 100 years from now.
[16:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:56] <exec> 08└─Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert... Dr. Helen Harwatt
[16:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:58] <exec> 08└─I too heard similar numbers, roughly an order of magnitude reduction in mass from eaten food to meat extracted. Having said that, what is food for animals isn't necessarily food for humans. 30 pounds of grass won't go further than one pound of beef.
[16:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Opens Up its Internal Machine Learning Training to Everyone - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:29] <exec> 08└─While, you may learn some useful things. It's looking more like those free webinars I take every now and again, because it sounds interesting and my boss approves. 90% advertisement for Amazon Web Services and 10% content. They have helpful learning paths for, different positions such as a "Data Pla...
[16:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Green and Edible Cling Film and Food Packaging Made from Plants - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:08] <exec> 08└─humans manifesting common sense
[16:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:04] <exec> 08└─The article (or maybe one of their pages, I forget) claims that they have in fact developed the fastest diode in the world. But it sounds like it forms spontaneously as the nanotubes grow to reach the contact plane, so it's likely not a technique that would lend itself to more structured production....
[16:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:05] <exec> 08└─If NovaSolix can get to that 90% number, that’s 67 miles of sunlight driving. The average daily miles driven in the USA is about 40 miles per person.
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[17:32:55] <exec> 08└─The way sites pull javascripts from all over the net, this is least of your worries.
[17:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:56] <exec> 08└─Funny you should say that. When Bitcoin first came out, I thought "what a great way to have game currency port from one game to another". Of-course other people that it made more sense without the word "game" in that sentence. They made more real money that I did.
[17:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:59] <exec> 08└─Looks like someone paid attention to his article about pretty much this happening [hackernoon.com] Although this is all made up, it worries me that none of this is hard.
[17:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:01] <exec> 08└─we will have to use blockchain to fix this sort of thing. you can have anon devs and still have a reputation system so that if someone wants to pull some shit like this they have to put their federated/universal rep at risk.
[17:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:16] <exec> 08└─He is my shining light. My beautiful, glowing, fallen angel.
[17:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:17] <exec> 08└─IIRC the amount of light emitted is insufficient for even fully dark-adapted eyes to see anything except the emitter by. (Remember, there's a square of distance fall off in brightness, not to mention some of the light is absorbed rather than reflected.)
[17:33:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:28] <exec> 08└─> Those tubes are eight miles in diameter; I expect they employe a number of ferrets. No, really really fat ones.
[17:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:40] <exec> 08└─They couldn't get a lawyer to fit in the pipe? They didn't try hard enough.
[17:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─I'm seen CO2 cartridges used this way, but not firework-style rockets.
[17:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:44] <exec> 08└─So, the ones that got to chase the rats that failed their cable pulling practical exam?
[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:46] <exec> 08└─Sounds like telecom was shitty work back then!
[17:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's how it originated. To drive something out with a ferret.
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wave Power for Clean Drinking Water - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─coal is ok. however it probably wasnt meant for making steam in a gigantic teapot. pretty cool stuff to remove odor in the fridge, stuff leaky pipes when ingesting nasty food and i think the only simple way to make steel? also those magical carbon nano tubes have an appetit for a carbon source?
[17:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mitochondrial DNA can be Inherited from Fathers - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:24] <exec> 08└─"Giving the answer that was generally thought to be correct when the textbook was published" Also means "Even if it is generally thought to be wrong, now." I went to primary school pre-internet, so it was much easier to declare "the textbook is the bible, it shall not be questioned." I wonder how te...
[17:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mitochondrial DNA can be Inherited from Fathers - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─They standardize the tests by making them match the textbooks they require all the schools to have. Some states even test students on known to be wrong answers for political reasons. *cough*Texas*hack* That's not the joke answer. That's what they do.
[17:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Microbes Gobble Greenhouse Gases and Perhaps Oil Spills, Too - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:38] <exec> 08└─these microbes prevent greenhouse gases from being released into the atmosphere
[17:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:55] <exec> 08└─I'm a very, very pronounced introvert, meaning I was always this way naturally but experience has also shown me the value and virtues of solitude. Although not good at meditating, I do find that breath control and mindfulness are much easier to do all alone than with other people. For the most part,...
[17:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:56] <exec> 08└─Man's inability to sit quietly in a room? No, I've traced the real problem to this: "Everyone is so damn sure they are right" That is the real problem, Pascal was wrong.
[17:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:14] <exec> 08└─My animals never touch grain. They eat grass on land that's not suitable for agriculture. Grazing animals convert non-digestible carbohydrates into energy - meat. Maybe learn the basics first.
[17:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urgent Need to Reduce Meat and Dairy Consumption to Meet Climate Targets, Says Expert - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:15] <exec> 08└─> In the US we literally pay farmers to not produce certain crops and we pay to have certain crops destroyed. Certainly the Home Of The Free Market does not do such things! My, this would be Central Planning, which we all know to be Dangerous, Evil and an Abomination unto Nuggan. Proud conservative-...
[17:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vauxhall's GTX Concept Teases the Future of Mass-Market EVs - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:19] <exec> 08└─> I don't think they can legislate normal cars away. - "People are less reliable than autonomous cars. Driving your own car will costs you many thousands per year in mandatory insurance fees." There, got rid of the annoying 99%ers blocking my fun drive! Another cigar? - But wait! I don't want to pay...
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[18:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Dental Plaque Sheds Light on how our Microbiomes have Changed - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:46] <exec> 08└─If you can see it under a normal microscope Id say it is visible.
[18:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:14] <exec> 08└─the scientists discovered a set of enzymes that produce this molecule [luciferin], as well as luciferase, a light-emitting enzyme.
[18:33:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:27] <exec> 08└─> The rat ran from the ferret a short distance and stopped. It was feared that he would show fight and be killed. But he started on again. The rat realized what's the task at hand and really considered his options before proceeding.
[18:33:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:29] <exec> 08└─Daedalus, the mythical Greek engineer who made the Labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, was later challenged by a King Cocolus to pass a silk thread through a spiral shell. He did it by tying the thread to the hind leg of an ant.
[18:33:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:32] <exec> 08└─I saw them using fireworks when they were running fibre through the cable TV ducts on my street! Put rocket in pipe, attached to reel of fibre, set it going down the pipe, and someone at an open manhole a few hundred yards away gets the cable delivered in just a few seconds. Looked fun!
[18:33:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─I re-purposed some empty 1" diameter PVC pipes in a rental house for CAT6. I vacuumed a rag tied to a string to complete the pull.
[18:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:46] <exec> 08└─You're gonna need a bigger ferret.
[18:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:48] <exec> 08└─This is similar to a diode, where current (movement) can only go in one direction. Of course, the ferret-rat junction is the simplest form, but I'm looking forward to improvements that combine multiple junctions to make more complex constructs. I suppose the next will be a transistor, probably 'RFR'...
[18:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:51] <exec> 08└─Ferrets are stupid enough for the job. A cat would have been interested in that string rushing by, stepped on it, blocking the rat, and probably repeated the process multiple times until actually caught the rat directly. Per Murphy's law, the cat would have eaten the rat about halfway down the pipe,...
[18:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─Unless it was Schrodinger's cat.
[18:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:55] <exec> 08└─Blinking between the world of the living and the dead, Schrodinger's cat only cares about Ethernet connections.
[18:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enormous Dwarf Satellite Galaxy of Milky Way Discovered - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:07] <exec> 08└─*Stares at astronomers* You keep using that word...
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wave Power for Clean Drinking Water - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─Is Cape Verde located in an enclave of the Sahara Desert? The name would suggest otherwise, but the location is probably subject to little rainfall, which would drive the need for desalinated water.
[18:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wave Power for Clean Drinking Water - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:24] <exec> 08└─Former Portuguese colony. There's a good amount of money flowing towards former colonies, by countries trying to preserve influence in strategic places.
[18:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mitochondrial DNA can be Inherited from Fathers - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:41] <exec> 08└─> is very rare, it has occurred at least 17 times in three tested families. Did someone go to buy a lottery ticket shortly after, or did they just redefine "rare" when I wasn't looking ? Even with 15 kids per generation and 5 generations, finding something 17 times in 3 tested families would definit...
[18:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:11] <exec> 08└─I hope that room was the bathroom.
[18:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:31] <exec> 08└─I would love to run a business where I'm not paying rent for inventory storage. Well, except that the public's paying for it, and I'm not an asshole.
[18:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:32] <exec> 08└─At least it's the UK. Try that in Southern France or Italy, and the GPS chips will cheerfully tell the owners they are now visiting the Mahgreb.
[18:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Opens Up its Internal Machine Learning Training to Everyone - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:56] <exec> 08└─I avoid anything that is tied to closed shit. I steer clear of freemium community editions and I resent saas infested ecosystems.
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[19:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:42] <exec> 08└─Fuck her right in the pussy. Spread those genes.
[19:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:43] <exec> 08└─did Neanderthal move out of Africa?
[19:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:45] <exec> 08└─Honestly, come on now, is *anyone* surprised? Even in the square '60s, nobody blinked an eye about Captain Kirk gettin' it on with nonhumans, as long as they looked female.
[19:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Dental Plaque Sheds Light on how our Microbiomes have Changed - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:57] <exec> 08└─Medieval Danes weren't eating tomatoes, or potatoes or any number of other New World foods that we eat as a matter of course. I imagine that sort of thing makes a huge difference to the microbes a person is exposed to.
[19:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Dental Plaque Sheds Light on how our Microbiomes have Changed - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:59] <exec> 08└─A friend who lived for a long period in third world country made the observation/theory that this is the cause of the global obesity epidemic, not any one particular food or group. When you have only one thing ever available to eat, no matter if it oat bran, steak, cheesey puffs or milkshakes, you g...
[19:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:13] <exec> 08└─The malicious code was also hard to spot because the flatmap-stream module was encrypted.
[19:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:15] <exec> 08└─I guess that person cared more about profit than about reputation. That is, as soon as the malicious code was in the repository, the person's reputation with the project was no longer relevant.
[19:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:34] <exec> 08└─There's a quick and dirty way to find out the biological response - fireflies use the same luciferin/luciferase chemical reaction. Anyone here wanna eat a bunch of lightning bugs?
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─A torus has two diameters. Wouldn't it have 3?
[19:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:08] <exec> 08└─No, really really fat ones. In my industry we use pigs [wikipedia.org] for a similar task.
[19:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:10] <exec> 08└─Or Schrödinger's rat.
[19:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enormous Dwarf Satellite Galaxy of Milky Way Discovered - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:21] <exec> 08└─Do they use dwarfs or dwarves as the plural though?
[19:34:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Mitochondrial DNA can be Inherited from Fathers - 684 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:54] <exec> 08└─You know that passing science class tests always means "Giving the answer that was generally thought to be correct when the textbook was published", right? And that's when they don't purposefully simplify because they deem kids too dumb to understand the difference between a probability cloud and a...
[19:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mitochondrial DNA can be Inherited from Fathers - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:58] <exec> 08└─Good. They should get used to the fact that science changes all the time as it improves itself. Learning something, and then later learning why it's actually wrong is how science should be taught.
[19:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mitochondrial DNA can be Inherited from Fathers - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:00] <exec> 08└─Not overturned, refined. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Plot Thickens for a Fourth Neutrino - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:28] <exec> 08└─Does it point to the existence of the bulk[9] or Lorentz violation.[10]? As mentioned here https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:35] <exec> 08└─It’s the same thing. Man is trapped in his ego. The ego doesn’t like silence which leads to it being internally seen as a superficial and a construct trapping the true self.
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[20:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:17] <exec> 08└─What an ethical nightmare.
[20:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:19] <exec> 08└─All I want to know is how many embryos were exposed to this stuff and at what stage (how many cells).
[20:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:30] <exec> 08└─Is "it's complicated" an okay answer? We tend to track prehistoric movement of peoples in "waves" because that's the most granularity we can extract from the amount of records we've got. And we've got "fossil" and artifact evidence of them in southern europe with one set of dates. The middle east in...
[20:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:32] <exec> 08└─Turns out conservatives can now blame their genetics! "We're part neanderthal, we can't help acting like cavemen!" I jest, I kid, bring on the downmods!
[20:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:34] <exec> 08└─You have to see the picture of it on the sleazy-looking rose-colored sofa. They added makeup. They even SHAVED it, denying customers the genuine "furries" experience. https://www.thesun.co.uk
[20:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:36] <exec> 08└─Rule 34. Pics or it didn't happen. Neanderthal-on-human porn? Yes pls. That's my newest fetish now.
[20:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Dental Plaque Sheds Light on how our Microbiomes have Changed - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that's especially true towards the end of a cold Danish winter when the only food you have left is whatever you have salted or pickled from the harvest. Jesus, bloody cabbage again? I'm going out to cut some more firewood.... grumble grumble grumble
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[20:34:06] <exec> 08└─Which is one of the big reasons why Security in Open Source is a non-issue to the vast majority of software users. They do not have the training, time, or inclination to screen source code. (At the end-user level, I mean). Before anyone gets their hackles up, I'm not saying that Open Source is there...
[20:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:08] <exec> 08└─Obfuscation is common with javascript code, to save on transfer of the gigabytes of code it takes to track a user's mouse movement, or insert the perfect ad into open space. As for the huge amounts of shitty libraries, isn't this what we were taught in software engineering to be code reuse? Just use...
[20:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─It depends on how long they spent preparing for the attack. It could very well be a throw-away account nonetheless. Take the case of the Wikipedia edits of Trump and his penis. To even get one shot at the article, the jokers have to have built up an account over a longer period of time and accumulat...
[20:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:29] <exec> 08└─Regular peanut butter glows in the dark if you hit it with a laser.
[20:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:30] <exec> 08└─Glow-in-the-dark tinea
[20:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:32] <exec> 08└─Yeast infections commonly strike the vagina and mouth.
[20:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:09] <exec> 08└─Make sure you have some pop-tarts [archives.gov] on hand when you try this. I've also heard that you want to pull a closed loop of string through, so that you can turn it into a simple pulley system at both ends. Then tie anything else you want to pull onto the string, and then pulley that other ite...
[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enormous Dwarf Satellite Galaxy of Milky Way Discovered - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─dwarfsss https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) wikipedia gud source
[20:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Microbes Gobble Greenhouse Gases and Perhaps Oil Spills, Too - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:12] <exec> 08└─This stuff is becoming more and more nonsensical. Humans also use methane and butane as energy sources to survive and grow. Does that mean humans are limiting "greenhouse gases" in the atmosphere?
[20:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:35] <exec> 08└─I agree with what you said. However there is also the emotional factor. How many of us are genuinely afraid of being left to contemplate our own thoughts? Especially those that have depression or anxiety issues, not having something to occupy our minds is absolutely terrifying because we know what o...
[20:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:36] <exec> 08└─It was more like a one room shack, with a bathroom inside. They put his meals through a slot in the door and gave him all the books he asked for.
[20:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─Like anything, it's something you can learn on your own. It might just take a bit of dedication to do so. Rather, what we are really addicted to is a state of not-being-bored.
[20:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:41] <exec> 08└─Actually about 21% of the US population earns their "Daily bread" by doing precisely nothing.
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[21:32:58] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our new Chinese superhuman overlords.
[21:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:00] <exec> 08└─Gene-Edited Twins in China Still Face Risk of HIV Infection [bloomberg.com] Still, how much of the outrage is due to scientists afraid of having their funding teat dry up and not getting to write the club rules themselves?
[21:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:02] <exec> 08└─One problem with CRISPR editing is that it sometimes introduces mutations far from the gene at which it is aimed at correcting. Such off-target mutations could obviously cause other problems. Researchers are working hard to make CRISPR editing ever more precise. If parents were given the choice of i...
[21:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:04] <exec> 08└─I think we're pretty damn close to linking groups of genes to desired traits. Maybe this info is being assembled right now, but rather than being published is being kept a trade secret. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The practical...
[21:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:06] <exec> 08└─Might be handy to have a little genetically engineered Chinaman to help around the house.
[21:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:08] <exec> 08└─I bet that any government funding lost because they did something controversial will be made-up for by the venture capitalists who want the IP for gene-edited children. I bet that will be a a multi-billion dollar market.
[21:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:11] <exec> 08└─Good. Maybe they can help advance the field.
[21:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:29] <exec> 08└─If you'll accept literary accounts, there's Clan of the Cave Bear.
[21:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─Conservatives really can blame their genetics influencing brain structure for their fearful, violent nature, but we have no reason to believe that Neanderthals were stupid. They may just have been more peaceful than Homo sapiens. Half of Americans live in terror of imagined dangers, and are eager to...
[21:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:32] <exec> 08└─I only read the first one but I don't recall inter-species mixing. The homo sapien girl hooked up with another homo sapien, she was considered ugly by the neanderthals.
[21:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:34] <exec> 08└─I think our brains are much more plastic than we think which makes epigenetics and nurturing factor in quite a lot. If you come from fearful violent parents then most likely they will "train" you to be that way as well. How we use our brains definitely affects the structures, and we can do some re-p...
[21:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:37] <exec> 08└─The hero is a homo sapiens woman who has a child with a homo neanderthalis man, so yes, there's inter-species mixing. It's the second one where she meets her first homo sapiens man, and things quickly become hot and heavy between them.
[21:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:39] <exec> 08└─IRL, Darryl Hannah mating with Neil Young is close enough.
[21:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:41] <exec> 08└─Wait... wasn't Uhuru human?
[21:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:14] <exec> 08└─Sooner or later, reputation/history can/will factor into code review depth decisions. When pulling a new set of code into a project, any code contributed by anonymous or lower reputation authors would pop to the top of the "to be scrutinized" list. We are far far away from that today, but, someday,...
[21:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:15] <exec> 08└─When you are the maintainer, you are the one scrutinizing. And you certainly will “pass” your own test.
[21:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:17] <exec> 08└─Just that the whole "anyone can look at the code" argument only has true meaning to those who know how to parse code.
[21:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:19] <exec> 08└─Same 24 year old kid is then immediately doubly frustrated that the same Catch-22 exists where 3 years work experience doing X is required to get a job doing X.
[21:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Uncover the Mechanism of Fungal Luminescence and Create Luminescent Yeasts - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:40] <exec> 08└─But, the new research is 'on a computer'. So it's totally different and non-obvious. Clearly completely novel and worth of multiple patents and study grants.
[21:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:20] <exec> 08└─Aethernet, not just for ghosts anymore!
[21:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:22] <exec> 08└─Too bad pig out [soylentnews.org] doesn't have a parallel meaning.
[21:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enormous Dwarf Satellite Galaxy of Milky Way Discovered - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:37] <exec> 08└─This is what they mean. [wikipedia.org]
[21:36:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:56] <exec> 08└─That the real question we should be asking is...Oooh! Look! Shiny! Wait, where was I? Never mind. There's more shiny over there!
[21:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:54] <exec> 08└─I agree with what you said. However there is also the emotional factor. How many of us are genuinely afraid of being left to contemplate our own thoughts? Especially those that have depression or anxiety issues, not having something to occupy our minds is absolutely terrifying because we know what o...
[21:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:56] <exec> 08└─After X number of times in a row, one gets quite sore.
[21:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:58] <exec> 08└─I see higher: In 2010, children made up 24 percent of our population
[21:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:00] <exec> 08└─At the end when the time was up he had won the bet, but he had found the solitude so beneficial, so conducive to reflection and study, that he told the rich guy to keep his money.
[21:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Green and Edible Cling Film and Food Packaging Made from Plants - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:30] <exec> 08└─It's that whole needing to add energy to reduce entropy thing.
[21:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:30] <exec> 08└─Free energy. Get it to work at long IR wavelenths and you can convert radiant heat from room temperature objects to electric energy. This will cool the room. Run the electricity out of the room on wires, and then use the temperature differential to extract even more energy.
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[22:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:09] <exec> 08└─Ah, FORTRAN. It was one of the first languages I learned all those decades ago. FORTRAN 77, RPG II, COBOL, BASIC, PASCAL and Assembler. I liked FORTRAN so much better than those others. / end of whimsical sentiment
[22:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:11] <exec> 08└─10: PRINT "Welcome to your happy place" 20: GOTO 10
[22:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:13] <exec> 08└─You can write FORTRAN in any language.
[22:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:15] <exec> 08└─You can write Fortran in any language. Makes me miss Basic. I know, I will write a Fortran-lisp.
[22:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:18] <exec> 08└─Safe Loop: stay = 'y' while stay == 'y': print("Welcome to your happy place") stay = input("Enter y to stay: ")
[22:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian67 [982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:20] <exec> 08└─Saying "xyz is a thing" is not a thing any more.
[22:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:22] <exec> 08└─F77! 🙂 Does it make me old if my CPSC 231/233 courses were all in Miranda, Forth, Fortran etc., barely got to actual C in those years because the professors were all super old-school (actually YAY!), trying to entrench fundamentals and we were even "forced" into using VT-100s in first year just b...
[22:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:24] <exec> 08└─Does Netcraft confirm it?
[22:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:41] <exec> 08└─Hopefully this technology doesn't reach northern India.
[22:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:42] <exec> 08└─Pretty much none? I'm sure there are a few assholes out there, but my guess is that most scientists realize there are incredibly complex ethical issues along with very possible genetic issues that could result from mass gene manipulation. We don't even fully understand genetics yet! Discoveries are...
[22:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─If the Chinese send the Monkey party, they will reach Northern India.
[22:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:07] <exec> 08└─Exactly when was fermentation for alcohol invented?
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:09] <exec> 08└─Not just simians, of course, as anyone who has interacted with a male dog knows full well.
[22:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Widely Used Open Source Software Contained Bitcoin-Stealing Backdoor - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:44] <exec> 08└─Again, we are far, far away from this future, but in such a future one would choose financial software based, in part, upon code quality audit results from third parties, and financial software publishers who use packages maintained by relatively anonymous individuals without thorough documented rev...
[22:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─Hunting with ferrets was pretty common back then, it's called 'rabbiting' in English.
[22:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now THAT'S the Old-School Way to Pull Wire! - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:48] <exec> 08└─You might be right. This was well over 25 years ago, and I didn't get a very close up view of the process. However, the conduits were brand new and this was the first stuff being laid, so it wouldn't have damaged any of the other cables or fibres since all the conduits were empty. Not sure how much...
[22:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:24] <exec> 08└─Must you let that sort of thing out of the bottle?
[22:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:26] <exec> 08└─Hardly anyone has that job
[22:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:28] <exec> 08└─dude, posting on soylentnews.org is totally a jewish plot to keep you from being productive, hence allowing them to take over the world. by posting here, you're doing EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO DO! you poor, deluded soul. every time you post, a jew snickers. EVERY TIME! and you're too weak to sto...
[22:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:01] <exec> 08└─If this diode works on IR you can take a sealed room with no temperature gradient and extract useful energy from it. You are not moving the heat with an air conditioner, you are transforming it into a lower entropy form of energy. This violates the currently accepted laws of thermodynamics. It is Ma...
[22:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:03] <exec> 08└─Strangely enough, the car has a battery. People will start fighting for the parking spots in the sunlight, instead of the ones in the shade.
[22:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06All I Want for Christmas is a 90% Efficient Solar Panel - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:05] <exec> 08└─It's enough room to turn a truck around. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[23:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:05] <exec> 08└─std_check(out); -> ERROR.
[23:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 1522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:07] <exec> 08└─There are different jobs, and FORTRAN is good in one, while modern languages are in another. Messing with them ends with bad results and difficult code. Most FEA packages use internally some FORTRAN in their solvers and C/++ in their "user" (pre/post) and I/O modules. Code in FORTRAN just well refle...
[23:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:09] <exec> 08└─There is still a ton of Fortran running data acquisition from lab or manufacturing QA equipment in the biomedical and pharma fields. It's turned into a "It ain't broke and we don't know how to fix it if it was without spending gobs of money" situation.
[23:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:11] <exec> 08└─1 REM THE GREATEST, COOLEST PROGRAM EVER!!!!! 5 CLS 10 INPUT "Did you really learn FORTRAN before BASIC";A$ 20 IF A$="NO" THEN PRINT "I didn't think so. You said one of the first." 25 IF A$&lt&gt"NO" GOTO 40 30 GOTO 60 40 IF A$="YES" THEN PRINT "Liar! Nobody would learn BASIC after FORTRAN!" 45 IF A...
[23:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:14] <exec> 08└─Back in the days of 77 column Punch cards, the number of people coding was quite small. Even though Fortran's market share has fallen, niche users in statistics and supercomputer applications white possibly write more fresh lines of Fortran's code per day today than was cut into cardboard sheets 40...
[23:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FORTRAN is Still a Thing - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:16] <exec> 08└─No... I prefer RPGII more, ASM is right there too, since RPG and ASM where line by line a match except for IO.. COBOL was to typing heavy. Fortran looks to unstructed to seee patterns in the code entry. PASCAL == "C" BASIC was my first language, on a HP2000F, those were the good days in mid-70's Bac...
[23:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:35] <exec> 08└─China IS North India.
[23:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:37] <exec> 08└─If we waited until we fully understood things before messing with them we'd never get anywhere. And yes, every technology has the potential to mess with or shorten people's lives, this isn't a special case.
[23:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:39] <exec> 08└─No matter how much finger wagging religionists or ethicists engage in, it's going to happen and if it happens in China, then well, your joke will be a reality.
[23:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Furor Over Genome-Edited Babies Claim Continues (Updated) - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:41] <exec> 08└─You're wrong. The rate of progress in the field hasn't slowed down anywhere near the point we can say it's time to start experimenting on humans. They're still finding new hereditary mechanism regularly. New epogenetics mechanism 5 years ago. A whole new pseudo dna strand 2 years ago. Junk dna getti...
[23:33:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] 02 - 06Study Suggests Multiple Instances of Inter-Breeding Between Neanderthal and Early Humans - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:52] <exec> 08└─Honestly, come on now, is *anyone* surprised? Even in the square '60s, nobody blinked an eye about Captain Kirk gettin' it on with nonhumans, as long as they looked female.
[23:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Park Anywhere' Electric Bike Hire Launched in Milton Keynes - 1902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:46] <exec> 08└─Just another example of why mixing a fragile, difficult to see and unpredictable means of transportation with fast moving one ton vehicles is bad for everyone. . Bikes are promoted at the expense of normal vehicles. Idiot burbs either take away from existing carrying capacity (happened here) or expa...
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