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[00:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Rocket Carrying Crew Successfully Launches and Docks with ISS - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:16] <exec> 08└─How many people here watched the launch or docking (or, in my case both,) live? I just happened to be up at in the wee hours of the morning and so I manage to even catch the launch live. :)
[00:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:28] <exec> 08└─That's OMAN, close, but no QATAR.
[00:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:30] <exec> 08└─Alberta, here in Canada, WAS pulling in TRAIN LOADS of money from oil. They were swimming in it! So, instead of putting it in the bank and lending it out or whatever it is you do with buckets of money, they spent it wildly making EVERYONE happy. I thought: "Ooops, bad move. Just wait til the price o...
[00:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:32] <exec> 08└─During my trip to the Middle East last Year I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar -- look!
[00:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:34] <exec> 08└─Oil is on it's way out of course, because we're not making any new oil, but in the meantime the Saudis can make an awful lot more money from the reserves they have left. My concern is their increasingly belligerent attitude towards anyone they feel might oppose them (mostly Shia muslims) and how th...
[00:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:36] <exec> 08└─All the other OPEC nations, led by Saudi Arabia, have been shunning them for years at best, trying to provoke a war failing that. To be honest, I don't keep track of the middle east "your great^4 grandfather killed my great^3 grandfather, so I gotta kill you" politics. But it's been clear for years...
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:39] <exec> 08└─the CIA always makes things worse in the Middle East. Worse compared to what? Was it better off under the Ottomans or the Romans?
[00:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:41] <exec> 08└─Yes to both.
[00:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─To be honest, I don't keep track of the middle east "your great^4 grandfather killed my great^3 grandfather, so I gotta kill you" politics. Europe has the same problem. Only American occupation keeps that shit subdued. It will take the same thing to keep everyone honest in the middle east. When you...
[00:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:45] <exec> 08└─:-) You were there, eh?
[00:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─You're such a disingenuous shill, trying to spin population growth as some positive numbers growth when the middle class is actually shrinking and losing money? Fuck off you sociopath. You basically just proved my point, wealth inequality is growing and that top 10% better watch out when shit hits t...
[00:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:16] <exec> 08└─So... what is the point to this entire post?
[00:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists in the U.S. and Japan Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:31] <exec> 08└─It's a hot research opportunity.
[00:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:20] <exec> 08└─2016 started out horribly -- Sanctions on Iran lifted! But you remember that incredible night with the maps, and the Republicans are red and the Democrats are blue, and that map was so red it was unbelievable. And they didn’t know what to say. Amazing!!!
[00:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:21] <exec> 08└─The earliest cannons were hollowed logs with bands of metal reinforcing them.
[00:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:46] <exec> 08└─It's good summary. I'd add that there's a chance the government is trying to wait out the end of Fall Strike Season (Sept-Nov, usually), and hope that some conciliatory moves during the Too-Cold-to-demonstrate winter months, will avoid a restart when Spring Strike Season comes. Most people see, to a...
[00:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:48] <exec> 08└─Policeman is a job. Gotta love how many Americans idolize Servicemen who kill kids in other countries over dumb shit, while hating the cops who protect their own kids from drunk drivers.
[00:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:50] <exec> 08└─My favorite one is that time when some group went on strike to get paid for the days they had just lost by going on strike. Fighting for your privileges, squared.
[00:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:52] <exec> 08└─>The paradox is this is not a result of the failure of the globalised economic model but of its success. Uh no.. its a failure then. A good economy has two parts: 1)Generation of wealth 2)Distribution of wealth among the people who produce it part 2) above has clearly failed in most developed countr...
[00:41:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 231 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:26] <exec> 08└─Right there with you except if I need to use a card for something online I go and buy a prepaid one with folding money. If they want to keep track of my spending habits, I'm at least going to make tracking by card number pointless.
[00:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:34] <exec> 08└─And if our consciousness does exist in some other dimension? Did it exist before you were born? Don't be stupid. Consciousness emerges from the meat. It is the meat, nothing more. You only doubt this because you are afraid of the preachers, subconsciously or not.
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[01:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:30] <exec> 08└─Just need to put one end of the heat exchanger in outer space. The same structure can be used as a space elevator and the temperature difference between top and bottom can be used to generate bonus electricity.
[01:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:31] <exec> 08└─Doesn't seem to have a profitable business model though...
[01:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:34] <exec> 08└─Thermoelectric generation that sees increased efficiency from the waste heat of anthropocentric global warming. Heads will spin!
[01:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:36] <exec> 08└─Build underground and let the earth cool your house/pad/man-cave. Gimme me money!
[01:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:38] <exec> 08└─Another few cold winters and the AGW suckers will be trading in their air conditioners and carbon credits for fur coats.
[01:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:40] <exec> 08└─Just don't delve too greedily and too deep... unless you prefer heating over cooling.
[01:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:42] <exec> 08└─2 weeks ago I bought a 50" TV. Sitting on my entertainment center it blocks half my heater vent. Not keen on melting the back of my TV, looking for options. I measured stuff, and wanted a 45" TV. But that cost $50 more than the 50", so I thought I would make do. Froze my ass off this morning. Wanted...
[01:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:45] <exec> 08└─There are literally hundreds of cooling solutions that are more energy efficient than heat-pump refrigerant, but none so easily mass produced and distributed. Around here, ground water is a comfy 72F - all you have to do is drill two wells and put a marine AC (rejects heat to water) between them. Go...
[01:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:47] <exec> 08└─You hardly need the expensive structure [wikipedia.org]
[01:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:49] <exec> 08└─Do you only have one heater vent? Close the vent behind the TV, and let the other heat vents heat the room/apartment/home. If you do really only have one heater vent, then yes, a space heater would be a good idea.
[01:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─What you want is the Sandia cooler. The prototype is for a CPU, but it works most anywhere you have a fan and some cooling fins. Replace the fan and cooling fins with the all-in-one design of the Sandia cooler, and efficiency improves. So you'd use at least 2 for an air-conditioning unit, for air on...
[01:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:23] <exec> 08└─I think even Saudi Arabia knows oil is on its way out, though. Well, there's always murder and extortion
[01:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:24] <exec> 08└─The petrodollar is done but petroleum, fossil fuels and equivalents [nationalgeographic.com] are not. The US being the reserve currency has prevented devaluation to escape debt -- when the US devalues, every other currency maintains parity. Trump (and Wilbur Ross) understand all this while in Europe...
[01:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:26] <exec> 08└─Too many people on the planet anyway. Time for a little pruning of the deadwood.
[01:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:28] <exec> 08└─> Time for a little pruning of the deadwood. Are you volunteering to be pruned?
[01:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:16] <exec> 08└─Robots are dirt cheap compared to a year of human wages. Try again fool, we're just waiting for the manufacturing to get cheap enough and the machine learning to become powerful enough that these robots can hop into any menial labor task. Won't be long. Those 3 jobs you just mentioned are the first...
[01:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:18] <exec> 08└─Artificial Stupidity.
[01:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:20] <exec> 08└─Congratulations to all of the "DEPLORABLES" and to the everyone else at SpaceX! America is open for business and we are competitive once again. Great job! x1F1FA;🇸
[01:38:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nishi.b [4243] 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 6026 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:24] <exec> 08└─Ok I'll try to give some context here (as a french). Macron was the young finance minister from Hollande (previous president, socialist party). He did the standard (for about 20 years now in France) right-wing, "business-friendly" policy that included lowering taxes to companies and rich individuals...
[01:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:32] <exec> 08└─I guess they only identify with the drivers and not the dead kids. Call it a survivors bias.
[01:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:34] <exec> 08└─I just searched "most protesters in 30s and 40s" for the last week. There are many mentions from wide political spectrum news sources; here is one: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[01:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:36] <exec> 08└─250 fires, 120 burned cars, "a few" burned buildings in Paris. Not sure if it is one weekend or total. I keep wondering what NY City cops would do if some "protesters" to burn "a few buildings" in Manhattan... I walk by police station on 42nd every other morning. Each of the parked car out there - d...
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[02:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:03] <exec> 08└─You cold? Buy your own server for your email, run for president, you'll get plenty of heat! (From the computer, too!)
[02:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:04] <exec> 08└─Unless the hot air coming from that vent exceeds about 220°C, you're not going to melt the TV's casing (which is most likely ABS). If it IS that hot, fix your furnace. The hot air won't do the electronics any good, in any case. So, buy some sheet metal and rig up a simple duct to aim the hot air up...
[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 2059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:06] <exec> 08└─Diverter? Can you put a hood on the heat vent so it blows sideways? Relevant Amazon Reviews [amazon.com]: Heaven Can Wait. 4.0 out of 5 stars It can change your life! December 11, 2013 TV is Fantastic! Unfortunately it would not fit through the maze of doorways into main Family room.. Currently sitt...
[02:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:09] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem with blowing air on electronics is that they're going to get dust piled on way faster than they would otherwise. Get a piece of cardboard, cut it out to fit behind your TV so that it won't be seen, and duct the air away from it.
[02:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:11] <exec> 08└─Dump the business suit and raise temperature in office buildings by 3C. The amount of energy saved in NYC alone would be significant; extrapolate to the rest of the world. Take it further and change the clothing materials to breath better and get another 2-3C bump and still be comfortable. While mov...
[02:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:13] <exec> 08└─who asked for UK taxpayer money to repair his private island after hurricane Irma [bbc.co.uk]
[02:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 2674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:15] <exec> 08└─All an A/C does is transfer the heat inside your home to the outside. There are two reasons for heat being inside: Hotter outside, and thermodynamics causes heat to move inside the house.Sources of heat inside the house. It's relatively cheap to keep a very well insulated area cold, or hot. The lowe...
[02:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there is a certain masochism in having black shingle roof and colored walls. Hard to imagine how an IYI feels inside.
[02:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:20] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Lower maintenance than liquid cooling: Big copper pipes tied to the ground and/or the water pipes under the house. Tie some of your hot sources to cold plates. Conduction isn't as good as pumped hydro, but it's better than nothing, especially if passive. Small DC fan on cold plate optional.
[02:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:22] <exec> 08└─Why don't you mine coins?
[02:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:24] <exec> 08└─Just a thought, pumping massive amounts of heat into the earth is probably going to wreak some havoc on soil dwelling critters and have serious unintended consequences. With some good heat capture infrastructure we could probably recycle a lot of energy and reduce the excess heat pumped into our env...
[02:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:27] <exec> 08└─Business suit? Hell, work "in the buff" instead! Well, it worked for me, when I worked from home...
[02:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Rocket Carrying Crew Successfully Launches and Docks with ISS - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:38] <exec> 08└─From TFS (and presumably, TFA) a dramatic, high-gravity landing
[02:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:06] <exec> 08└─Well, there's always murder and extortion
[02:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:07] <exec> 08└─Oh. We're doing that are we?
[02:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:09] <exec> 08└─By devaluation do you mean inflation? That has always been the game, borrow like mad because inflation erases it eventually. Still, I don't see how trading oil in a different currency will "crash the dollar "
[02:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:12] <exec> 08└─Still, I don't see how trading oil in a different currency will "crash the dollar "
[02:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:28] <exec> 08└─130 TFLOPS is lower precision "tensor performance", not the number given by LINPACK. It's useful to machine learning users, but misleading. However if a technology like this [soylentnews.org] pans out, we could see 1 petaflops smartphone SoCs or maybe 1 exaflops desktop PCs.
[02:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:30] <exec> 08└─You'll get much higher FPS in Doom (1993).
[02:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:10] <exec> 08└─I've said repeatedly that automation will cause more people to prostitute themselves. So they will become literal cock suckers and ass kissers. And they can work from "home". That's what people can do with Backpage and similar services.
[02:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that "lower cost" was a big selling point in my econ classes. It has happened for a lot of things, but usually only emerging markets. Once a market is saturated there is very little incentive for anyone to lower costs. If one company figures out how to do so they keep the price where it is and...
[02:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:13] <exec> 08└─Robots are dirt cheap compared to a year of human wages.
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[02:36:16] <exec> 08└─Well to be fair someone's face on an ID is sometimes very different from their current look. My old ID they wouldn't let me keep my long hair held back by any hat so it looked weird, kept getting double takes with that ID.
[02:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:18] <exec> 08└─ou're such a disingenuous shill, trying to spin population growth as some positive numbers growth when the middle class is actually shrinking and losing money?
[02:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, and a "boring and predictable" one as well.
[02:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists in the U.S. and Japan Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:14] <exec> 08└─Chinese startup founded last week has developed a breakthrough in LENR shockingly comparable to the Japanese findings. "Glorious 5000 years of culture! 1950's were 5000 years ago!" Xi was quoted as saying.
[02:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but that's countered by rising mortgage rates usually causing a drop in real estate prices. Man, it's almost like economics is complicated or something.
[02:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:01] <exec> 08└─That was rather tactless.
[02:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:03] <exec> 08└─Net worth is assets you own minus debts you owe, and by your own admission slaves had no assets at all to their name.
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[03:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:33] <exec> 08└─This. Plus the fact the TV is venting hot air to the top, last thing I want to do is blow hot air down. Then again, it's a nice balmy 40 degrees F so I don't think an overheating TV is an issue. CSB. Couple years ago my PS3 started overheating on hot summer days. I turned it around and vacuumed the...
[03:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:34] <exec> 08└─I used to disassemble and then blow the fans with compressed air, then reassemble. Now I just blow compressed air and pray that the condensed water dries before it becomes a problem. PS3, notebook, NUC, all the same. Some day I'm going to stop being cheap about it and buy a real fanless PC.
[03:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:36] <exec> 08└─I don't think coed naked business will work out very well.
[03:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:38] <exec> 08└─That's highly unrealistic. You will be murdered immediately by all the "weight challenged" people. For there is something that every fat-ass knows well; You can only remove so many layers of clothing, but you can add all you want. Some of us can get hot and sweat just by having anything against our...
[03:35:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:02] <exec> 08└─That's OMAN, close, but no QATAR.
[03:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:20] <exec> 08└─Um, what? comparing the present to the past? Or maybe the CIA, to say, the KGB (or whatever they call themselves now)? The middle east has to pick its poison, doesn't it? It's a giant prison yard. Business is business. 95% of the voters are ok with it. What am I supposed to say?
[03:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:25] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the closer we come to post-scarcity, the probability of a planetary socialist revolution approaches 1. Capitalism and post-scarcity are simply incompatible, yet the process of capitalism dictates that it will venture closer and closer towards post-scarcity. The alternative is societal col...
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:27] <exec> 08└─Well, I do have to admit that a 20meg hard drive use to cost about 2000 dollars. Probably still do because they're rare antiques now
[03:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists in the U.S. and Japan Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:18] <exec> 08└─I believe it was a pun.
[03:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists in the U.S. and Japan Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:19] <exec> 08└─ECAT back in the fray?
[03:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:09] <exec> 08└─I don't think you'd be very comfortable, but yes, back then it was possible to disappear in the woods and survive. Today? No way even with streams full of fish and full auto arsenal. One will be overrun by escaping desperate city dwellers. Some will survive, but mostly by chance; not by preparation.
[03:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:10] <exec> 08└─They were very popular during cold war. The idea was that even a limited war - a few major cities burned - is enough to critically hurt our civilization. Back then it was propaganda though; at least in parts. I wonder if anybody checked the calculations more recently. Say how a city wide fire is com...
[03:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Revealing Hidden Information in Sound Waves - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:41] <exec> 08└─Its amazing how much info is in sound... Most of what I messed with was how harmonics and Doppler shifts interrelated, along with beamforming, using multiple microphones listening to the same source but from various spatial perspective. Just one tiny sound snippet was all it took to know what was ma...
[03:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:44] <exec> 08└─With the audiobook method, you put in your earbuds and then actively seek out chores to prolong the listening.
[03:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:46] <exec> 08└─The only place in which the linked mention the age bracket is: Among those arrested were largely men in their 30s and 40s, some from the far right and some from the far left, but also “a number of protesters wearing yellow vests” who did not hesitate to join the fray, said Rémy Heitz, the Paris...
[03:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:48] <exec> 08└─Many thanks, it's a clear coherent image now.
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[04:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Reveals 8-Bit Analog Chip with Phase-Change Memory - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:52] <exec> 08└─This isn't a radical idea. They've been talking about "calculations right where information is stored" since I was kneeling at the Master's feet.
[04:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Reveals 8-Bit Analog Chip with Phase-Change Memory - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:54] <exec> 08└─"Know your place." - Big Blue
[04:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Open Sources PhysX SDK - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:02] <exec> 08└─Free work. That's what they want. FOSS has been destroyed over the last 5 years; there is no such thing anymore. You're just being used.
[04:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Open Sources PhysX SDK - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:04] <exec> 08└─You could always just download it, use it, and contribute nothing.
[04:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Open Sources PhysX SDK - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:06] <exec> 08└─Shame, Nvidia, shame.
[04:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:42] <exec> 08└─Around here, ground water is a comfy 72F
[04:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:43] <exec> 08└─Big copper pipes...
[04:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:45] <exec> 08└─1) Light fabric mumu for anyone bulging outside of normal size attire 2) Women already like skimpy clothing, that's why they prefer the A/C set to non-arctic temperatures 3) Stop being a prude. See #1 above 4) Free horse blinkers and blindfolds at the door for people who can't control their 'sensibi...
[04:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you can't build a cartel on something that everyone does [murder and extortion].
[04:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:45] <exec> 08└─The problem we've got isn't so much that prices have plummeted. The problem we've got is that it now costs me significantly more to pay for the electricity to mine than mining will pay in coins. That's a _widespread_ phenomenon; network hashrates have become smoking radioactive craters for most if n...
[04:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:48] <exec> 08└─It was an audio GUI app built on the Electric Magic Company's [em.net] ZooLib C++ Cross-Platform Framework [em.net] (MIT License). ZooLib has robust support for cross-platform atomic operations, threading and locking. My plan was to test my app by playing a whole bunch of tracks all that the same ti...
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[05:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Reveals 8-Bit Analog Chip with Phase-Change Memory - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:22] <exec> 08└─But we are well beyond the "they have adapted to the phase change of our phasers!" tech. Or have we?
[05:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:10] <exec> 08└─I came here to comment about this exact thing. I was all in a huff thinking Branson was bullish enough to ask for money to repair HIS PRIVATE ISLAND but even the linked article makes it clear this isn't the case. Soylent starting to become sensationalist and fake like slashdot? I hope not.
[05:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:48] <exec> 08└─Oil is on it's way out of course, because we're not making any new oil
[05:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:43] <exec> 08└─That can be effective, and of course you can mount bayonets on the muskets to allow them to be used as makeshift spears in a pinch as well - but this means equipping *many* men with weapons, not just one.
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[06:33:10] <exec> 08└─Nasa, or Mork and Mindy, with reference to a Big Giant Head, or khallow.
[06:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:53] <exec> 08└─Don't worry - it can't take that long to form. After all, the earth is only 6,000 years old, right?
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[07:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:21] <exec> 08└─So we've got a bunch of Linux-based services, a Chromium-based browser, and SaS (Software as Sabotage, your OS breaks every time MS pushes out new bling, advertising, and spyware updates). Why would anyone go with their stuff any more? The bits that aren't from borrowed from someone else who does it...
[07:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 3842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:23] <exec> 08└─My AI has found some documents detailing this new microsoft strategy, I found them very interesting. Here: Hello there, There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform o...
[07:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:25] <exec> 08└─That's right, no systemd here! Oh, no! We'll get Windowsd!
[07:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:37] <exec> 08└─Move South? (assuming you are in the Northern Hemisphere.)
[07:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:39] <exec> 08└─A marine AC is still a heat pump. Maximum theoretical efficiency is 1-cold/hot. Where cold and hot are absolute temperatures.
[07:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:41] <exec> 08└─Only $9/kilo. That's ~$1/m, 2.5mm (10AWG) or $3/m for 35mm pipe.
[07:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:04] <exec> 08└─So "the under 500 troublemakers arrested are in majority in their 30s and 40s" and not "the demonstration was made in majority by people in their 30s and 40s".
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[08:33:48] <exec> 08└─If you do not recognize this memo, it was written by Elop during Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia: https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[08:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:49] <exec> 08└─Will one big company buy another big company soon?
[08:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tech triyo [7194] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:51] <exec> 08└─Google chrome is amazing browser and no one can beat it. Tech triyo [techtriyo.com]
[08:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:53] <exec> 08└─Windows Lite will have to be pre-installed by an OEM.
[08:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:56] <exec> 08└─Web standards have become so ridiculously complex that it is nearly impossible to write a new rendering engine. We have what we have. As Google now pushed for ever more extensions, they are turning the web into a Chromium monoculture. This includes adding more and more complexity to the web standard...
[08:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:58] <exec> 08└─If you do not recognize this memo, it was written by Elop during Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia:
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[08:34:10] <exec> 08└─How much do you weigh? 150 pounds? 200? 250 even? Consider that it takes an eight-thousand mile diameter rock to attract you so forcefully that you feel what you actually weigh on the soles of your feet. How in tarnation do asteroids and comets stick together? What made them clump together in the fi...
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[09:33:58] <exec> 08└─"It's Just This Little Chromium Switch Here"
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[09:34:00] <exec> 08└─Indeed. MS sucks. Google sucks. It's better that they compete, rather than combining like Super Gundam into one giant hyper-mega-launcher of suckiness. As for Windows Lite, I'm gonna guess their plan is something like this: 1) throw out compatibility with vast field of existing Win software 2) keep...
[09:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:02] <exec> 08└─They are looking to replace Edge already? It's only like three years old or something? Wasn't it supposed to be the end of all the other competitors? I don't know really, I used it a bit at work since it came with Win10 on the company laptop and I we are not allowed to install third party things. Th...
[09:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:05] <exec> 08└─As for Windows Lite, I'm gonna guess their plan is something like this:
[09:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:07] <exec> 08└─I completely agree. Everyone remembers how IE6 defined web behaviour, and the only real saving grace was IE6 was a rubbish product. Google is good at writing Blink and web standards, but that doesn't mean they should have free reign. Mozilla and Microsoft may not be your favourite organizations, but...
[09:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Reveals 8-Bit Analog Chip with Phase-Change Memory - 2196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:26] <exec> 08└─-tion. Tsutomu Shimomura's first job after he dropped out of Caltech was to design a cellular automaton for Los Alamos that would do supersonic fluid flow simulations. While this is an important kind of simulation for reentry vehicles, that it was for Los Alamos in particular led me to speculate tha...
[09:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Open Sources PhysX SDK - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:39] <exec> 08└─Generally failed technologies are released as opensource. Seems PhysX ended up being too overkill for games, in danger of being replaced by Bullet which is not specific to a particular vendor's hardware. So they opensource it so at least scientists could make some use of it.
[09:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:26] <exec> 08└─Only $9/kilo. That's ~$1/m, 2.5mm (10AWG) or $3/m for 35mm pipe.
[09:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:28] <exec> 08└─No he didn't. I offer as proof the article linked to, which never mentions rebuilding his home, and specifically points out that he was there "to further mobilise aid efforts and rebuilding plans for the British Virgin Islands
[09:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:30] <exec> 08└─Doesn't help the vent is about 5 feet up, instead of towards the ceiling like it should be. Umm, in my world, hot air rises, so the logical place to put a vent that blows hot air would be near to the floor, not the ceiling, unless you like your room temperature to be stratified. I too have suffered...
[09:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:15] <exec> 08└─If/when dollar loses this status, all the folks will come to the US for their money back.
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[09:40:58] <exec> 08└─the most aggressive of the protesters - the one actually violating the law, burning buildings and beating the police - are people from the most productive age bracket.
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[10:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jared, Kay Jewelers Parent Fixes Data Leak — Krebs on Security - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:34] <exec> 08└─the only thing I can chalk this up to is complete incompetence, and being very lazy and indifferent to your customers’ data
[10:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:56] <exec> 08└─Web standards have become so ridiculously complex that it is nearly impossible to write a new rendering engine. We have what we have. As Google now pushed for ever more extensions, they are turning the web into a Chromium monoculture. This includes adding more and more complexity to the web standard...
[10:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:58] <exec> 08└─The same reason why people have stuck with microsoft for over 30 years now... They are sheep and follow the herd. They do not know any better and stick with what is pre-installed on the machine. Now, you can mention that their is more software available for windows, and that is true, but almost ever...
[10:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:00] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's Edge web browser has seen little success... launched with a plethora of issues... users rejecting it early on... struggled to gain any traction... continued instability... lack of mindshare...
[10:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anyanka [1381] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's OSIRIS-REx "Arrives" at Asteroid Bennu - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:10] <exec> 08└─Technically, the Bennu was supposed to *land on a rock*, not *be* the rock. Although a visit by Osiris is certainly interesting, and may signal a fresh start...
[10:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:15] <exec> 08└─bwhahaha, sorry I can't finish that thought with a straight face. There is zero percent change companies will pass the savings along to consumers.
[10:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:17] <exec> 08└─The market for cock suckers and ass kissers is inexhaustible. It takes little talent and is highly valued.
[10:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:19] <exec> 08└─Capitalism and post-scarcity are simply incompatible
[10:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue Los Angeles Tunnel Under 405 Freeway - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:03] <exec> 08└─My point is that there is no need for further "test tunnels" (eg 405 parallel) because they have already done one (Hawthorne) even if that were needed - given that making tunnels is established tech. The fact that Musk keeps calling these things "test" tunnels after the first suggests to me that he...
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[11:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:03] <exec> 08└─Oh, wait. Government didn't help; in fact, they've made it worse. Competition is the sole solution to Tyranny.
[11:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:05] <exec> 08└─Competition is the sole solution to Tyranny.
[11:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:42] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it supposed to be the end of all the other competitors?
[11:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:43] <exec> 08└─Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Albert Einstein
[11:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue Los Angeles Tunnel Under 405 Freeway - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:46] <exec> 08└─Capitalists are people with capital (ie, money) that wish to invest it in some enterprise or activity,
[11:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue Los Angeles Tunnel Under 405 Freeway - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:47] <exec> 08└─Actually if it's only for his Hyperloop project, why did he have to start a tunnel boring company of his own? It's not as if such a thing didn't exist before, or that such a company would be unwilling to be a subcontractor if Musk ever got a viable contract to build a Hyperloop (they don't even have...
[11:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revealing Hidden Information in Sound Waves - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:34] <exec> 08└─Try blindfolding me sometime, then let me wander around a hallway with corners in it. I won't run into any of the walls. Really what I'm doing is not so much hearing but sensing the presence of the acoustic pressure of very low-frequency harmonics of the space I'm in. This takes some practice, but t...
[11:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revealing Hidden Information in Sound Waves - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:35] <exec> 08└─They really _did_ listen, for the sound of oncoming air raids. Can I find a link? -~<{([LINK [google.com]])}>~- You won't need to click it if you can visualize Jesus Big Ear Trumpets. I hear quite poorly, however it helps quite a lot for me to wear wide-brimmed hats as they reflect sound into my ear...
[11:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revealing Hidden Information in Sound Waves - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:37] <exec> 08└─But all I ever got out of it was a lot of really poor production quality pr0n.
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[12:32:55] <exec> 08└─Why should the fool have has weighty a voice as the scholar? The answer to society's ill's is Freedom; voluntary trade; capitalism. Everything you think requires a State, well, doesn't.
[12:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:05] <exec> 08└─Never, ever, do business with somebody really eager to give you a big loan. A legitimate loan officer is someone you have to beg, not someone who approaches you checkbook in hand.
[12:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:44] <exec> 08└─MS Office has captured the corporate market. LibreOffice is way too unstable to suit anyone except a few niche users. Games. SteamOS is a flop with not much market share. Games on linux (and iOS) are still a fail. There are no serious games on Android either, although they seem to be doing well with...
[12:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:46] <exec> 08└─MS Office has captured the corporate market. LibreOffice is way too unstable to suit anyone except a few niche users.
[12:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:48] <exec> 08└─ChromeOS sells pretty well. If throwing out compatibility with existing Windows software doesn't matter to Chrome OS buyers, then it won't matter to Windows Lite buyers either. Three problems will kill this product, though: 1. Windows Lite still has "Windows" in the name, so some people will purcha...
[12:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:09] <exec> 08└─Heat pumps have been >400% efficiency for ages (cost of energy to move the heat), true that the cold is rejecting heat somewhere, but much of that rejected heat effectively radiates to space, particularly when the skies are clear (and sunny).
[12:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:10] <exec> 08└─The ground is big, 20 acre feet of water have a hell of a thermal capacity, and eventually that heat does make its way back to the surface and atmosphere, where most of it radiates to space. If solar energy didn't re-radiate to space, we'd all be vaporized within weeks.
[12:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:13] <exec> 08└─"President Trump" will make it work. TREMENDOUSLY. I promised to take the brand of the United States and make it great again. And run our government like a business. With or without clothes!!!!
[12:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soyuz Rocket Carrying Crew Successfully Launches and Docks with ISS - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:23] <exec> 08└─Finally, someone who understand the gravity of the situation.
[12:36:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 1105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:32] <exec> 08└─If automation knocks out half of the janitors, taxi drivers, fast food employees, cashiers, etc., pretty soon you will be left with a lot of unemployable people. A bounty of high skilled jobs aren't going to materialize out of nowhere. New companies will be using less people to do more. Factories wi...
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[13:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:35] <exec> 08└─I guess you could call it the best government money can buy...
[13:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:37] <exec> 08└─In before the usual Repugnican apologists start trying to distract attention away yet another display of right-wing contempt with lame whatabouts and diversions.
[13:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:39] <exec> 08└─Umm, you just did that. As a whataboutism, imagine if US Congress had acted to curb the power of President Trump before he assumed office? These things aren't always bad.
[13:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:50] <exec> 08└─Are adults babies are what? The worst part is that government is participating.
[13:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:52] <exec> 08└─Means you've agreed you're in default on day one, and they can seize your assets. All of them (amounts greater than principle are considered penalty and costs). Meeting the other terms of the contract doesn't matter. This one really is unethical and backed by gov't force. I really want to know the h...
[13:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:54] <exec> 08└─It's the "logic" of libertarian-land, a mythical nation where businesses never engage in rent-seeking nor use any deceptive practice, oligopoly and monopoly don't exist, and government action never has a legitimate purpose. A place where "the magic of the markets" fixes every problem, even the ones...
[13:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:56] <exec> 08└─It comes down to how much freedom you can give people. Some dumbass people in this country want to allow 6 year olds to go on hormone therapy to poison their bodies for life, but god forbid you let an adult make a financial decision that doesn't end well for them, that's predatory!
[13:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 1561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:59] <exec> 08└─"where businesses never engage in rent-seeking" No, that's a straw man and a distortion. Libertarianism is actually the only political ideology which deals with rent-seeking explicitly. It posits not an environment where rent-seeking magically goes away for no reason, but one where it is *minimized*...
[13:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jared, Kay Jewelers Parent Fixes Data Leak — Krebs on Security - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:09] <exec> 08└─that this applied to all past orders as well as future orders." How the fuck would anybody know anything about future orders?! Crystal ball? Holy shit the arrogance and negligence are getting unbearable. Time for violence already?
[13:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jared, Kay Jewelers Parent Fixes Data Leak — Krebs on Security - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:11] <exec> 08└─This is why I assume that anything I put online will eventually get leaked. Security sucks everywhere. What sucks most is when you have to enter sensitive details for your entire life into some online form to get a government background investigation to get a clearance for a job. Oh yeah, of course...
[13:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 2687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:41] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that Microsoft's biggest problem these past ten years is the same problem that Google has. If a product isn't wildly popular in a short time, both companies kill it. Google Reader, Google Wave, Google Buzz, Google Plus, Google Site Search. Microsoft kept killing and restarting its att...
[13:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:43] <exec> 08└─You could say that GNU/Linux is the operating system people choose without needing millions of dollars in persuasion. But you have to say Micro$oft is doing such nasty deeds one after another in rapid succession that they really are the GNU/Linux marketing campaign.
[13:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nvidia Open Sources PhysX SDK - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:19] <exec> 08└─I like Linus' way of saying that better: https://www.wired.com [wired.com]
[13:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:12] <exec> 08└─You may need to read up before saying stupid things again, http://www.powerknot.com [powerknot.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but (fellow Floridian here...) what do you do about the humidity without an A/C or similar device with condenser?
[13:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:15] <exec> 08└─Actually, your link is not that crazy price. Somewhat of a markup, but it costs about AUS$30 for that 3.1kg of pipe. The price is $50. So, you have about 70% markup for manufacturing and distribution for the that pipe from raw metal.
[13:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:17] <exec> 08└─I read the spec. Here is the parameter that makes it a joke: "Usable in existing homes, rather than requiring a "designed in" engineering solution" The inefficiency of existing HVAC, has more to do with shitty architecture than it does with HVAC design. Since changing architecture is out of the ques...
[13:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:01] <exec> 08└─If history has taught us anything, it is that the CIA always makes things worse in the Middle East
[13:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:02] <exec> 08└─Please start, we'll see how that works out for your candy ass.
[13:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:25] <exec> 08└─If they launch so often maybe it's time to invest in skyhook? Even simplest ones could make huge savings.
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[14:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:01] <exec> 08└─... when stealing your wife from a neighbouring tribe was the final step in the rite of coming at age. Or when the men either remained dead on the battlefield or were experiencing the best in life Conan-style, moving the lamenting women to their settlement. Those were ... times when women moved a lo...
[14:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:03] <exec> 08└─Or it might mean that they married outside the tribe on a regular basis. Reduces inbreeding and forges ties with the neighbors. In a patriarchy, the women would be doing most of the moving. Probably a lot of both.
[14:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:05] <exec> 08└─forges ties
[14:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:07] <exec> 08└─I submitted this in September 2017. lol...
[14:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Blymie [4020] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:09] <exec> 08└─I came here to say this exactly. Even today, women are stolen from families. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And if you raid a village in the bronze age? Guess what's part of the plunder. And war?! Well, that's another whole ball game. Even "good" outcomes to war can m...
[14:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:20] <exec> 08└─Why should the fool have has weighty a voice as the scholar?
[14:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:22] <exec> 08└─You're going to take this as apologist talk but decreasing the power of the Executive is rarely a bad thing, regardless of why. They currently have way, way too much.
[14:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:24] <exec> 08└─How about straight up dishonesty in reporting. The Utah medical marijuana discussions were already being worked on in the legislature before the election and were expected to pass regardless of the outcome of the election.
[14:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:26] <exec> 08└─Umm, you just did that.
[14:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:28] <exec> 08└─These so-called 'voters' should be at home mending their children. Ideally the department of child services should check the home of every voter to ensure child safety as they vote.
[14:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:31] <exec> 08└─Emacs! Emacs! Emacs! If not now, when?
[14:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:46] <exec> 08└─and government action never has a legitimate purpose.
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:47] <exec> 08└─I don't know what "predatory" lending means.
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[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─Actually that's one of the things I admired about China, they ban financial schemes in every shape and form, Even amway can't use their pyramid selling scheme there, AMway is still in business there, just can't use that pyramid crap.
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[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─If officeholders no longer have so much power to hand out rents, then it makes sense that fewer would spend time and money seeking favors, no?
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[14:34:37] <exec> 08└─Definition of "mindshare" :- consumer awareness of a product or brand (as opposed to "market share"). Edge has hardly suffered from "lack of mindshare", now, has it - quite the opposite. Anybody who has used Windows 10 (which is frankly quite a lot of people) has had to suffer Microsoft's persistent...
[14:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:39] <exec> 08└─To be clear, I hate IBM. But I hate Microsoft too, and competition is good. I'm worried that in fifteen years Microsoft will be twice as big as it is today and IBM will be too small to affect the market.
[14:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:41] <exec> 08└─I never used Office362 so can't comment. My work PC has regular MS office installed, which doesn't seem to be crippled, (except that the GUI is still terrible since MS updated it 5 years ago).
[14:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:13] <exec> 08└─So, you have about 70% markup for manufacturing and distribution for the that pipe from raw metal.
[14:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:14] <exec> 08└─De-humidifier [homedepot.com]. There are also water coolers that distill water from air [triplepundit.com]; you win twice with that. Cutting the humidity will decrease the perceived temperature. You might even be able to get away with no AC and a ceiling fan, but you'll find yourself drinking more w...
[14:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:16] <exec> 08└─Mumu has such a negative connotation. Perhaps call it a "Toga", and attract fresh-out-of-college talent into the workplace as well?
[14:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:23] <exec> 08└─indeed a more appropriate label would be "Titan RTX now 510 GFlops Double precision!!!!". If you want a real comparison, the ASCI red machine (1997) had a peak of 1.3 Tflops (LINPACK), remained number 1 for 7 years (2 upgrades). That was an x86 chip and they used 9152 of them. two decades supercompu...
[14:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:09] <exec> 08└─If you can keep your allies from dying with easily obtained antibiotics while everyone else's population is hit for a third to two thirds? You're going to make out like bandits.
[14:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:10] <exec> 08└─You assume the necessary tech already has to exist. It doesn't if you know what you want and have a general idea of how to get to it. Fairly good steel isn't at all difficult to produce if you know how. You wouldn't be getting specialty steels like we have today but you could definitely get somethin...
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[15:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:47] <exec> 08└─Specific skill sets associated with mainframes, DB2 and Oracle, for example, are complex and require years of training...
[15:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:49] <exec> 08└─Don't fall for this line if you are starting your career. If they were honest, they would say new blood needed in dying industry as old staff dies off.
[15:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scottingham [5593] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:51] <exec> 08└─There's merit to that, but what if somebody is starting out coding in their late 40s? It seems like it'd be a way to let ageism work in their favor. When you're interviewing people to help with your legacy COBOL codebase, would you feel better with the 22 year old or 48 year old?
[15:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:53] <exec> 08└─One of my colleagues had lots of experience in a niche programming language used by British local authorities. As the roles got more sparse he was in high demand and got paid more and more until ... POP! No more jobs!
[15:33:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 340 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:03] <exec> 08└─... when stealing your wife from a neighbouring tribe was the final step in the rite of coming at age. Or when the men either remained dead on the battlefield or were experiencing the best in life Conan-style, moving the lamenting women to their settlement. Those were ... times when women moved a lo...
[15:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:09] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on, a year is nothing when we're talking Bronze Age.
[15:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:11] <exec> 08└─So, mail order brides? https://yourbride.com [yourbride.com] https://www.russianbrides.com [russianbrides.com] https://www.internationallovescout.com [internationallovescout.com] https://brightbrides.net [brightbrides.net]...
[15:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:28] <exec> 08└─Is that you legont [soylentnews.org]?
[15:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:29] <exec> 08└─And I have this feeling you're an idiot.
[15:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:32] <exec> 08└─Too bad they're only ever doing this when it's the other guy that sits in the executive chair.
[15:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:34] <exec> 08└─Right but everybody is the other guy to someone.
[15:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:36] <exec> 08└─Thought the same. I prefer to darn my children.
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─What makes you think rent-seekers need government help? There's vanishingly few markets where the upstart little guy can compete on equal footing with large established players, which means most markets are naturally dominated by a few large businesses ripe for forming an oligopoly - at which point...
[15:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jared, Kay Jewelers Parent Fixes Data Leak — Krebs on Security - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─My guess from the description of the problem is that the "fix" was changing the "magic link" in the e-mail confirmations (which apparently take you right to the order details with no further authentication) to be a much more obfuscated string as opposed to a simple sequential one, making it harder (...
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jared, Kay Jewelers Parent Fixes Data Leak — Krebs on Security - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─...I know it's a little off-topic, but I had no idea Jared, Kay, and Zales were all the same company. As an occasional buyer of expensive jewelry, I'm a little surprised that the apparent competition is intra-company (those are the three biggest brands I can think of in the US from an advertising pe...
[15:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:47] <exec> 08└─I can only hope this is the beginning of the end of the beginning of the end for Microsoft. That is, I hope we've moved past the beginning of the end, and are now near the end of the end for Microsoft. Good riddance. Put it out of our misery now.
[15:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:48] <exec> 08└─I have this recurring nightmare that systemd was conceived somewhere deep in the bowels of Microsoft. Microsoft Loves Linux Sharks Love Fish Foxes Love Chickens And who needs systemd to worm its way into our systems, when we have Intel's "management" engine.
[15:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:50] <exec> 08└─There must be a way Microsoft can create a 'systemd' for Chromium.
[15:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:53] <exec> 08└─A monoculture cannot be a good thing.
[15:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:55] <exec> 08└─It's not that Microsoft has changed. The game has changed around them. Everyone else got tired of playing the old game where Microsoft had a crushing monopoly and monoculture. Open source happened, because it was the only way other developers could do anything successful without being either (1) cru...
[15:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Reveals 8-Bit Analog Chip with Phase-Change Memory - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:15] <exec> 08└─8-bit analogue? Isn't a bit a binary digit?
[15:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:25] <exec> 08└─Those are all good suggestions. Thorough insulation is the best bang for the buck. Windows are always the achilles heel for the envelope of the structure, but don't spring for the triple-paned argon-filled options, because we will never make our money back on the initial investment. Instead, good ol...
[15:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:27] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing, though: isn't a dehumidifier kind of just an A/C that dumps its heat back into the house? In which case someone in a warm, humid climate ends up being better off / more efficient with an A/C anyway? Which, I think, is why they don't even exist in places like Florida, but are common...
[15:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:29] <exec> 08└─I have always thought radiating all that nicely harvested heat to the outside air was a waste. Think of the lengths we go to burning fuels to heat water up and generate electricity, but when nature kindly supplies us with more of the stuff than we want, we dump it outside and have it do no work at a...
[15:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:31] <exec> 08└─Space based heat exchangers suck. The massive radiators on ISS shed about the same amount of heat as a large truck radiator.
[15:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:30] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that there is not one job, not one, in the financial sector that shouldn't have been automated away with very small shellscripts decades ago, yet somehow the bankers have not laid themselves off to increase efficiency. Why is that? It seems to me that most jobs in government bureaucra...
[15:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─It is interesting (and modded as such...) - the only thing about the machines so far is that for the most part they have to be fed the data by a trained observer. One can automatically transmit vitals including glucometry, or even an EKG, without human intervention after setting the test up. The mac...
[15:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:27] <exec> 08└─Dunno about you but I can pick up a language to a functional if not fluent level in a month or two. Call it six months until I was speaking as if I were born there. I might not be able to read and write it but then most of the people I'd be dealing with wouldn't either at that time.
[15:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:29] <exec> 08└─Conan Exiles. It's like Minecraft for people who like naked dancing girls and beating someone to death with a severed leg.
[15:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:31] <exec> 08└─The hard part would be surviving for that month.
[15:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:33] <exec> 08└─You first need a way to keep people from killing you, then a means to eat, then to generate enough wealth to support your technological endeavors. Read "The Crosstime Engineer" for one author's optimistic take.
[15:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:35] <exec> 08└─So now its changed to you teleporting back to the dark ages along with a loyal infantry battalion?
[15:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:37] <exec> 08└─Might. That'd be highly situational though. Drop in somewhere they're having a go at xenophobia and it's going to be difficult. Drop where there aren't any people, ditto. Anywhere the people aren't predisposed to kill you though, you could make a pretty easy go of it. I'm assuming of course you've p...
[15:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:40] <exec> 08└─Keeping them from killing you could be difficult, depending. Too situational to do much about though. Eating would be fairly easy though around other people. If you haven't picked up a million valuable little ways to make someone back then's life easier throughout your life, we're just too different...
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[16:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:49] <exec> 08└─So I see that project to rewrite the entire thing in Java, or whatever the language-buzzword-of-the-day-will-magically-solve-all-problems is, with no documented business requirements, no one left who actually understands the business, and only shreds of inconsistent code comments, that has been ongo...
[16:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:50] <exec> 08└─yeah and if these companies have any sense the jobs are for porting/rewriting the applications to another language.
[16:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:52] <exec> 08└─Reality collides with HR hiring bias
[16:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:55] <exec> 08└─The real truth. New tech is shit. Written by user who cannot break down a problem and use the best tools and techniques to do it. 1+ MB webpages are poor programmers ng at best. Ben in this best for 45years and expect another 15 before I want to stop. Poor tech uses. SQL for coding. It is a report...
[16:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:57] <exec> 08└─I work in Java. I believe it is the COBOL of the 21st century. I can't speak about COBOL, but . . . Learning "Java" is about a whole lot more than just learning a language. I might liken it to "learning Linux". The ecosystem is gigantic. An embarrassingly large treasure trove of open source riches....
[16:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:59] <exec> 08└─What about legacy systems that are on obsolete hardware with no possible upgrade path. They desperately need to be rewritten. But they are mission critical. So excess resources are poured into keeping them running. Even with emulators. Because rewriting and validating would be just too much. Despite...
[16:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:01] <exec> 08└─What about legacy systems that are on obsolete hardware with no possible upgrade path.
[16:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:04] <exec> 08└─The one who understands COBOL and the particular business best?
[16:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:06] <exec> 08└─You're treating Java like a trendy new language? You know there are programmers in my company younger than Java, right?
[16:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:08] <exec> 08└─DIVISION BOTS SUBDIVISION INTERNET TROLLS MESSAGE REPLY REFERENCES SN POST SUBTHREAD NONE CHARSET ASCII EXTENDED BEGIN REPLY What about no? END REPLY END SUBTHREAD DONE QUIT EOF
[16:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:24] <exec> 08└─When all the chicks in the village are uglier than the north end of a southbound skunk, they have to go wandering to find guys stoned enough to want them. Or blind enough. Or whatever enough. Face it - who wants to marry a cousin who has a bigger, better mustache and beard than you can grow? Let Cou...
[16:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:25] <exec> 08└─Wanted to say this too. I thought, those scientists can't be that naive, when I read "individual female mobility" in TFS. Those women never had a say in those journeys.
[16:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:27] <exec> 08└─Why is this troll? Its funny
[16:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:52] <exec> 08└─Ok. No arguments there. There are often situations of excessive power in government that us voters can do little to reign in except to hope for change that often doesn't happen the way we hoped. Unfortunately, the real problem is that it was only when they no longer were they were able to retain con...
[16:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:54] <exec> 08└─this is what i came to post. the whole point of the state legislature is to deny the people justice and con them out of their rights. in texas the republicans champion scam licensing schemes that steal your god given rights while the brainwashed idiots love their new pieces of government paper. mode...
[16:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:56] <exec> 08└─The story here is about two issues where the submitter is trying to draw a relationship, but where I'm not sure one exists. In the case of Utah, it seems clear that the legislature is, in fact, going against the will of the voters. Or at least, trying as hard as it can not to go along with the will...
[16:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:58] <exec> 08└─In before the usual Repugnican apologists start trying to distract attention away yet another display of right-wing contempt with lame whatabouts and diversions.
[16:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─In the other cases, remember that it's not just the governor who's elected by the people. The legislatures are too. Legislatures are, in fact, considerably more representative and democratic than the executive offices (which are winner-take-all).
[16:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:02] <exec> 08└─Funny how nobody torpedoes their own side, right? It's always the opposition that does that.
[16:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:05] <exec> 08└─They keep on reelecting people that will take it away. They could have voted for a matching set of democrats to go with their new governor, but they didn't. The system works! However, the lame duck period should be no longer than a couple of weeks. Less money and furniture is stolen that way, but pe...
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─Time for the loansharks bubble to burst.
[16:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jared, Kay Jewelers Parent Fixes Data Leak — Krebs on Security - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:42] <exec> 08└─Travel agencies are the same.
[16:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jared, Kay Jewelers Parent Fixes Data Leak — Krebs on Security - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:43] <exec> 08└─order info sdhouldn't be available in the clear, without auth and checking that the user is entitled to view the order info. any modern framework would make this stuff obvious. these asshats have some completely original piece of shit, obviously.
[16:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:24] <exec> 08└─ChromeOS sells pretty well. If throwing out compatibility with existing Windows software doesn't matter to Chrome OS buyers, then it won't matter to Windows Lite buyers either.
[16:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:26] <exec> 08└─I don't care so much about the size or wealth of Google, mostly only about their power and control over choice. Open source is a good inoculation against the abuse of Microsoft in the 90's. But it is not an absolute guarantee. (some) People are starting to recognize the dangers of trading all their...
[16:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:28] <exec> 08└─I've never has a stability problem with libreoffice, so I would like to know what you are doing to break it.
[16:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:30] <exec> 08└─there is nothing unstable about libreoffice. i guess by "unstable" you mean "they want me to download new binaries for my slaveOS all the time because those bastards keep updating it"?
[16:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:32] <exec> 08└─You are probably right. It smells like PowerShell through and through:weak, verbose, flappy, and corporate as fuck. I have to wonder how deep the rot goes; remember Miguel de Icaza, the Mono guy? I am sure that guy was an MS plant.
[16:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:35] <exec> 08└─MS Office has captured the corporate market
[16:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Open Sources PhysX SDK - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:12] <exec> 08└─"Generally failed technologies are released as opensource." found the dumb ass windows user talking out of his ass.
[16:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Open Sources PhysX SDK - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:13] <exec> 08└─it's pretty funny and it shows just how far out of touch they really are. their sdk was closed source? lmao!
[16:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 1628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:15] <exec> 08└─People do. Typically with ground source heat pumps. The heat pump is essentially just a loop with a water heater in it. The HVAC water heater is slaved to the tap water heater using solanoid valves. There are other ways. Buildings with their own power plants (hospitals for example) sometimes use fan...
[16:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:20] <exec> 08└─I agree, $2500 for a card is hard to justify. At least the telemetry can be blocked or disabled without affecting the utility of their present line-up. Everything else is what you are paying for, and it's not worth that unless the performance desired requires numerous other cards (like previous gene...
[16:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:10] <exec> 08└─I'd bet that powered floor scrubbers (https://powerboss.com/product-categories/rider-scrubbers/nautilus/) displaced a lot more people (6-20 with mops and buckets) than a robotic floor sweeper (1 with a powered floor scrubber).
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:12] <exec> 08└─All of the engineering jobs that I did in the 1980's (as an intern) are gone. Most of the engineering jobs too. Engineers are just doing something different.
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:14] <exec> 08└─No, that one is true.
[16:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:16] <exec> 08└─And the huge machine replaced a lot more people than a robotic sweeper did. I was at a construction site in Nairobi. It took me a while to figure out what was 'off' from all of the construction sites I'd seen before - no power tools and 200 workers.
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[17:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:39] <exec> 08└─It's not a horrible practice, but it's not what I would call customer friendly. That's okay though, Customer Service is mostly a figment of your imagination nowadays anyway. You think it's bad with having to jump through the robo hoops to get a real person now. Just think about the wonderful possibi...
[17:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:41] <exec> 08└─"We're making this change so our video and broadband services follow the same billing policies as our mobility services," AT&T wrote. Yeah, and I'd really like that nice bridge in Brooklyn you have on offer. It would have been far less work to change the cellular service to match the other services,...
[17:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:05] <exec> 08└─Having been a contractor to DHS, we did just that. They are turning off mainframes all the time. It's all AWS and Java (modern COBOL ;-)
[17:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:07] <exec> 08└─> As the roles got more sparse he was in high demand and got paid more and more until ... POP! No more jobs! And if your colleague had any sense, he would have kept his costs as stable as possible, taken the larger and larger income, then invested it, paid off debt, or put it to one side. Then when...
[17:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:09] <exec> 08└─You're right! The old systems can NEVER be replaced! Think how ridiculous that idea is. Look, the new systems might not be perfect, but I guarantee you the old ones aren't either. Replacement can and will occur: it's just a matter of when.
[17:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:11] <exec> 08└─10 PRINT "You're right, Buzzard!" 15 GOSUB 40 20 GOTO 10 40 PRINT "Although actually mastering a language takes significantly longer." 50 RETURN
[17:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:13] <exec> 08└─Jesus, somebody has no budget to maintain their IT systems. By running something that obsolete, you are running serious risks that will materialize should the code need maintenance. Code/IT systems may last a long time, but not forever.
[17:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:15] <exec> 08└─Could work in your favor. People tend to be most confortable around others like themselves. But a shrewd manager might be looking to hire younger (22-30) to balance out the old fogey employee base. Most likely, they will hire if they have a burning need. I would say go for it if it interests you, bu...
[17:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:18] <exec> 08└─I did say ongoing since the late 90s, Mr ikanreed :) That is exactly what happened with a huge enterprise application, written entirely in a higher level business database language, that I had been responsible for. Upper management was constantly dancing around saying that any day now they would off...
[17:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:20] <exec> 08└─I hear this advice trotted out, but it's not realistic. You need to train yourself (minimally) on new tech on your own time: say 90 min each week (or whatever you can manage) to get comfortable with it (not necessarily MASTERING it). Almost everyone needs a steady job with no gaps. That's reality. Y...
[17:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:22] <exec> 08└─The rewrite per se is not the problem. The problem is management not committing up front to a couple or few years of expensive work. Project management failure, not tech failure, from the sound of it.
[17:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:24] <exec> 08└─"there are real professionals who use the new tech and know their stuff" But they won't work for H1B salaries.
[17:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:27] <exec> 08└─Would YOU like to be the one to say they cost the company half a million dollars just to "fix" something that was still working? Bonus points if your new solution doesn't work nearly as reliably or well as the old one!
[17:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 1977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:29] <exec> 08└─There is far, far more than language proficiency involved here. I am reminded of a client we had where I worked back about 1990. Their company had an IBM System 36 and the code was written in RPG II. They had one system operator who was pretty good at running reports and making backups, etc. Our com...
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:16] <exec> 08└─Yup, which is a good argument for changing who's in power regularly. That way they're all constantly taking turns removing powers from the other side. Eventually regular old people might end up with a government lacking the power to screw them over too bad.
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─I admit you do have an interesting point. However... These actions are being held in lame duck sessions. These are legislative items that were not formed in committees before the lame duck session, not requested by the public and lets face it, they were never even considered until the group in power...
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:20] <exec> 08└─Why not? Is the scholar a fool as well? Do we have some sort of foolproof way to determine who are the fools?
[17:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 1397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:41] <exec> 08└─Your first error in logic is leaping from "One particular use of government power is wrong" to "All use of government power is wrong". And even in this case, you're being over-broad: In a world where there's no asset seizure procedure organized by some universally agreed-upon body, what exactly do y...
[17:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:43] <exec> 08└─The flaw is simple, obvious, and therefore almost always missed: the assumption that "business" and "government" are two quantitatively different things, and never, ever, in any way, ever overlap. Once one realizes that this is part of the libertarian bedrock, myriad examples throughout history--fro...
[17:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:45] <exec> 08└─Also never, ever do business with somebody who sent you a fax or email that you never asked for. And while we're at it: Never sign a contract which involves money without actually reading it and figuring out what it means.
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jared, Kay Jewelers Parent Fixes Data Leak — Krebs on Security - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:59] <exec> 08└─"As an occasional buyer of expensive jewelry" and this is why we are losing the war.
[17:35:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:13] <exec> 08└─If you do not recognize this memo, it was written by Elop during Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia: https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[17:35:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 710 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:17] <exec> 08└─Web standards have become so ridiculously complex that it is nearly impossible to write a new rendering engine. We have what we have. As Google now pushed for ever more extensions, they are turning the web into a Chromium monoculture. This includes adding more and more complexity to the web standard...
[17:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:49] <exec> 08└─Microsoft doesn't even ship Edge on their LTSB (Long Term Support Branch) operating systems [itprotoday.com] such as Windows Server and Windows IoT platforms. They have refused to support their own product since it was launched. After multiple conversations with our Microsoft Vendor we have walked a...
[17:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:50] <exec> 08└─I've never has a stability problem with libreoffice, so I would like to know what you are doing to break it.
[17:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:52] <exec> 08└─If you aren't familiar with how Windows manages "services" (that is, "anything not the kernel" - drivers, all the stuff driving win32/the GUI/usermode/etc), well... I don't think systemd came from Microsoft, but it was certainly inspired by it. The core structure and features of a unit file pretty m...
[17:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:55] <exec> 08└─...remember Miguel de Icaza, the Mono guy?
[17:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Reveals 8-Bit Analog Chip with Phase-Change Memory - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─Consider that in 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moom
[17:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 1673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─Fanless usually means you're not buying top of the line and low power as well. You should be able to build a pretty decent and yet cheap fanless PC for pretty cheap. Depending on how cheap / slow you want to go, you even have something like the Raspberry Pi. On the other end, you could build a cheap...
[17:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:47] <exec> 08└─"but also fully expect to wait days for those transactions to clear." get off the cheese, man.
[17:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:44] <exec> 08└─It was about 19 years ago that I stood at "presentation day" in the FDA in Rockville, MD next to a company that was doing AI pap smear screening. At the time, only a trained (and highly paid) cytologist was qualified to look at a pap smear slide and tell you "Cancer / No Cancer," but the rest of the...
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[18:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:50] <exec> 08└─I second the meh. Well if you know that your commitments are due in a given time, then prepare for it. How tough is it that you keep some semblance of control over your life? I just went through over this and had actually a bit more pain related to the fact I needed to return the router to some rand...
[18:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:52] <exec> 08└─Yup, still a shit company with a near monopoly that lets it do whatever the fuck it wants.
[18:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:27] <exec> 08└─*is the sole dev in obscure language that no one knows for an extensive project* *there's no documentation which explains the functions of the application* "This is company's fault"
[18:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:29] <exec> 08└─Are you in charge of our nation's highway infrastructure? You use the same arguments they do to wait until an ancient bridge, for example, collapses before doing anything about maintenance. "It's too important to fix!"
[18:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:31] <exec> 08└─All of which is a long way of saying she was not even remotely proficient at the job. That was then and this is now though. Nowadays you probably wouldn't have received a call at all. She could have found most any information she needed to know online, though it may have taken some time. Today I don...
[18:33:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on, a year is nothing when we're talking Bronze Age.
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─The corrupt toad in the White House does illustrate your point. No one man should have that much power, because a really bad man was bound to come along and get the worst of us to vote for him.
[18:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:51] <exec> 08└─Your first error in logic is leaping from "One particular use of government power is wrong" to "All use of government power is wrong".
[18:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:53] <exec> 08└─If officeholders no longer have so much power to hand out rents, then it makes sense that fewer would spend time and money seeking favors, no?
[18:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:55] <exec> 08└─even though that's exactly what companies like Standard Oil did back before monopolies were illegal
[18:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:57] <exec> 08└─I get annoyed when local tv stations are really good with their special investigations, but will then put on a Titlemax loan commercial -- I wish local radio stations or newspapers would call them out on that practice
[18:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:59] <exec> 08└─the practice of a lender deceptively convincing borrowers to agree to unfair and abusive loan terms, or systematically violating those terms in ways that make it difficult for the borrower to defend against
[18:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jared, Kay Jewelers Parent Fixes Data Leak — Krebs on Security - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:17] <exec> 08└─So is he. He apparently has a wife who wants him to abort efforts to create family wealth and instead buy her an expensive abrasive.
[18:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:10] <exec> 08└─Mueller Lite for the DOJ.
[18:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─I know of no-one who uses Google Docs. I work with scientists in the government sector. Maybe it's a US thing?
[18:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:14] <exec> 08└─I never used Office362
[18:39:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:38] <exec> 08└─Why does any job stay or come into being? Because the human does it good enough.
[18:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:04] <exec> 08└─This has been Walmart's modus operandi for decades. Sell so low that you run the competition out of business. Become the biggest employer in the town, now they own the town and can charge whatever they want and abuse employees and deliver shitty customer service. That robots are getting involved is...
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[19:32:58] <exec> 08└─“This result was not as good as could be obtained with even the crudest of glass lenses using visible light,” he said.
[19:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:09] <exec> 08└─They've paid a lot of money to get that near monopoly. If you don't like like it you should buy your own senators.
[19:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:11] <exec> 08└─Headline says they've made it "more expensive" to cancel, but that's not really true. It seems there is no additional cost associated with cancellation. What they've actually done is made it so that you can no longer buy less than one month's worth of service. Obviously that means there's less optio...
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[19:33:13] <exec> 08└─I tried offering them passage into Heaven but they said they're holding out for the Devil's Christmas Eve sale. Supposedly you can get all your sins for only 1/2 of eternity in Hell. I was told not to mention that the Devil is a math nerd who likes bad jokes
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─yeah and if these companies have any sense the jobs are for porting/rewriting the applications to another language.
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─So I see that project to rewrite the entire thing in Java, or whatever the language-buzzword-of-the-day-will-magically-solve-all-problems is Nobody said it would solve all problems. It will solve the problem we are discussing, though: lack of a workforce that knows the programming language the progr...
[19:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:57] <exec> 08└─I would agree with that. I am just countering the, perhaps straw-man, manager who thinks that anyone can instantly pick up ten years of know how in a few months.
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[19:34:00] <exec> 08└─50 GOTO 15
[19:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:02] <exec> 08└─When I left there in 2008 they were still planning to re-write it "any day now", although by then the winds had shifted towards Microsoft's Dot Nut.
[19:34:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:51] <exec> 08└─In the other cases, remember that it's not just the governor who's elected by the people. The legislatures are too. Legislatures are, in fact, considerably more representative and democratic than the executive offices (which are winner-take-all).
[19:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:59] <exec> 08└─It's not bad men you should be afraid of. Good men with the best of intentions are far more terrifying.
[19:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:01] <exec> 08└─Also, some people actually like it when the Governor and State Congress (or President and US Congress) are controlled by two different political parties...
[19:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:03] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that it's a zero sum power shift (as I understand it). I'm all for less government power, but in this case it's just executive power that is being usurped by the legislature. Now that may be a good thing, but it doesn't sound legitimate in context.
[19:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03taylormc [5751] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:05] <exec> 08└─To a Brit, many aspects of US politics are surprising. On the one hand, there seems to be nothing like an independent Civil Service; most appointments under a new government are party political. On the other hand, you permit those who have been voted out of office a free run to commit what mischief...
[19:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:07] <exec> 08└─How many people were calling for Obama to make sweeping changes by executive order due to an obstructionist Congress? How many people are calling for Trump to do the same thing now? How many people do you think maintained a consistent position regarding executive powers between the two administratio...
[19:35:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 1199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:27] <exec> 08└─What makes you think rent-seekers need government help? There's vanishingly few markets where the upstart little guy can compete on equal footing with large established players, which means most markets are naturally dominated by a few large businesses ripe for forming an oligopoly - at which point...
[19:35:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 586 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:30] <exec> 08└─The flaw is simple, obvious, and therefore almost always missed: the assumption that "business" and "government" are two quantitatively different things, and never, ever, in any way, ever overlap. Once one realizes that this is part of the libertarian bedrock, myriad examples throughout history--fro...
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[19:36:51] <exec> 08└─It used to be the rule of thumb that new Microsoft products were unusable before SP3, maybe SP2 if you're an optimistic (masochist). So if they're killing anything before it gets to SP2 of course its not 'popular' no one has even tried it yet!
[19:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:53] <exec> 08└─Edge web browser has seen little success...
[19:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Reveals 8-Bit Analog Chip with Phase-Change Memory - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:20] <exec> 08└─NPC-131072 writes:
[19:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Reveals 8-Bit Analog Chip with Phase-Change Memory - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:22] <exec> 08└─Oxywhat ;P Our device uses phase-change memory (PCM) for in-memory computing. PCM records synaptic weights in its physical state along a gradient between amorphous and crystalline. The conductance of the material changes along with its physical state and can be modified using electrical pulses. This...
[19:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:44] <exec> 08└─what happened to that google price for the smallest Ac-Dc converter? did somebody win? was it patented? are they already using it? can i buy it? does it work in reverse, Dc-Ac and with grid syncing capabilities? thx.
[19:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:46] <exec> 08└─If the vent is in the middle of the wall, you can most likely route it between the studs up or down so as to have it exit above or below the TV. Sure you'll have to fix the drywall, but its fairly simple. Good luck!
[19:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:35] <exec> 08└─I suppose funding Radical Idiocy instead is much cheaper?
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[20:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:34] <exec> 08└─you just give up and accept your fate.
[20:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:35] <exec> 08└─This is kind of obvious. 1. 'quirky', fun behaviour is adored (first 1-3 years) - the other is a gift 2. then, 'quirky' behaviour is despised (after 5-15 years) - the other is an intrusion 3. 'quirky' behaviour is accepted (after 20 years) - the other becomes part of "you" That's my observation just...
[20:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks for remembering that I'm alone... sniff
[20:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Could Lead to Safer and Cheaper 3D Medical Imaging - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:48] <exec> 08└─That's really neat, but are there health risks associated with x-rays? I've always heard a lifetime of occasional x-rays was inconsequential.
[20:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─i wanted to learn Cobol, there's no way i want to work in those industries.
[20:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─> Almost everyone needs a steady job with no gaps. That's reality. You need to "cash out" while you are on top, not when someone else decides for you. Milk the old tech if you wish, but not forever before jumping to current tech. I would absolutely love a steady job with no gaps. I've heard stories...
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:51] <exec> 08└─You have a legacy system. You want to replace it with a new one. All you need is an AI who that treats the old system like a black box and inserts all the combinations of possible inputs and detects all the corresponding results. Now you teach the AI which ones are meaningful and which ones to disca...
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─Wrong question: Would YOU like to be the one to say they cost the company half a million dollars just to "fix" something that was still working? Right question: Would YOU like to be the one to say they cost the company half a BILLION dollars because they DID NOT fix something that was hopelessly obs...
[20:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─CHARSET ASCII EXTENDED
[20:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:13] <exec> 08└─At least it is not an aristarchus submission, so there is that. You know, in the Bronze Age, news aggregation sites accepted more aristarchus submissions than takyon submissions, as we can tell from DNA sampling. But not so much in the Final Countdown Neolithic.
[20:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:14] <exec> 08└─Its funny
[20:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:55] <exec> 08└─Even that biased right wing fake news propaganda machine, NPR....
[20:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:27] <exec> 08└─Adam Smith, in fact, was highly alert to the issue of business misconduct while documenting the merits of freedom and competition.
[20:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:43] <exec> 08└─"I don't care so much about the size or wealth of Google, mostly only about their power and control over choice." Good point. You expressed that with more nuance than I did. I think open source is weaker now than it was then. You can find a bazillion tools of all sorts to operate at middle levels i...
[20:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:45] <exec> 08└─https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3394-rtx-2080-ti-artifacting-failure-analysis-crashing-black-screens [gamersnexus.net] Overheating, core dumps and, rarely, boards cracking due to mechanical stress from the fans and the heat. On the a more positive note, along with ebay's entries for 1070s and 108...
[20:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:46] <exec> 08└─So instead of planning on how to prevent a problem we have to see it happen first? That is dumb. I am not saying to restructure society regardless, just that we should be considering how to move forward when all the experts are agreeing that many jobs are gong to get automated. There is nothing wron...
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[21:32:40] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe a cynical way to put it, but it's true. You learn to be less selfish. You're not going to get everything you want in life, so pick what's important. It's more than simply accepting your fate. As you become more mutually dependent on each other, a deep trust develops. There is nobody else I wou...
[21:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:42] <exec> 08└─that when my wife and I fight, it is because one or both of us is tired or stressed. When I say "We're just tired, let's just stop now before we regret it" it DOES stop because we realize we're heading into territory we don't go when we're not tired. Usually we joke about what we began fighting abou...
[21:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:44] <exec> 08└─Psychologists have long known that the 5 stages of marriage are: 1. Denial and isolation 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance 6. Humour 8. Loss of numeracy skills 9. Conflating unrelated memes 10. ???? 11. Profit!
[21:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:47] <exec> 08└─And yet, I hear of couples who stayed together for 20 to 40 years, then divorced. As to why, some stay together, live with a shaky truce, only until the kids are adults, then split. If not for their children, they would have divorced much sooner. In other cases, one of the partners worsens as they a...
[21:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they controlled for the age of the players, and not just the duration of the game? Is it because older people are more accepting as they look back instead of forward? 20-30s looking forward to things in life that you might be dealt in some undefined future (either in or out of your contr...
[21:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:51] <exec> 08└─Exceptions. The highest divorce rate is less than 10 years, and reduces as the marriage goes longer. Kids and financial dependence are obvious reasons for staying together when they'd otherwise split. But, the easiest people to get in the sack are younger people that have been married about 2-3 year...
[21:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:53] <exec> 08└─I had modeled marriage in 3 stages, instead. 1. fuck 2. "honey I'm pregnant" 3. "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
[21:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:56] <exec> 08└─It's any friendship, with or without sex. Once you get past the novelty, either people wind up with Billy Joel's "cold remains of what began with a passionate start", or they have become friends who put up with each other's foibles.
[21:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:58] <exec> 08└─That's not so much unfitness for each other as unfitness as a human being in general. If you don't buy into tribalism on a family level at least, you're not going to be happy with anybody. If you do buy into tribalism on a family level, it's not an issue; you fight and you make up. Small scale triba...
[21:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:00] <exec> 08└─Shit, if you're looking for life to hand you happiness, you're going to be sorely disappointed. You have to carve out your own happiness.
[21:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:21] <exec> 08└─It wanted to buy Time Warner. Otherwise known as the Home of Fake News CNN. I told them NO!!!!
[21:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:13] <exec> 08└─This is why Go will succeed. Having a dead simple language with no clever features, a single compiler with cross-compilation out of the box, testing and source formatting built in means one can be productive within a week, without having to waste time on trivialities. No, most use cases nowadays do...
[21:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:14] <exec> 08└─Don't even joke about such things on a public forum... Somewhere out there some PHB's weaselly nark employed to monitor sites such as this for ramblings of identifiable internal 'dissidents' may also be engaged in the noble art of climbing the corporate pole, and will suggest such a 'plausible sound...
[21:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:35] <exec> 08└─If a strange man shows up in the village, he is a threat and is thus killed. He would know it in advance though, so he likely wouldn't try. Men stay safe in the village of their birth. If a strange woman shows up in the village, she will be mostly welcome. Some of the other women might not be too ha...
[21:35:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:12] <exec> 08└─It's not bad men you should be afraid of. Good men with the best of intentions are far more terrifying.
[21:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:18] <exec> 08└─You reap what you sew.
[21:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:21] <exec> 08└─That's silly. A good person could be reasoned with and accept they screwed up. Could even attempt to undo damage. A bad person who intentionally does bad things really doesn't care. Will deny they did anything wrong. Will abuse power to cover up any visible damage.
[21:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:23] <exec> 08└─Lame duck sessions should not exist at all. You fire an employee, he leaves the building and his login credentials are revoked then and there. Maybe you let him clean his desk, but if he looks sideways, security is called and escort him out with a box full of the shit left on his desk. You don't let...
[21:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:56] <exec> 08└─Lemme get this straight, you're arguing that because government did nothing, we need even more government?
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Reportedly Building a Chromium-Based Web Browser to Replace Edge, and "Windows Lite" OS - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─Initially it would have helped quite a bit too if they had simply also made it available for Windows freaking 7!
[21:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Branson Launches $3M Challenge to Reinvent the Air Conditioner - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─R-Pi still does not qualify as a "real PC" in my book - neither do Atom nor Celeron systems. Core i3 or better is almost there, and I typically am not happy 'til I'm up in the Core i5 range. I've been a spcr fan for years: http://www.silentpcreview.com [silentpcreview.com] and actuall...
[21:39:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:41] <exec> 08└─Don't worry - it can't take that long to form. After all, the earth is only 6,000 years old, right?
[21:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:46] <exec> 08└─If there's going to be crime at least it should be organised.
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[22:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tackling the Challenge of Undergraduate Retention in Computing - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:57] <exec> 08└─Most of these so-called "CS" jobs are just basic business logic to automate someone's workflow. Adolescent boys (and maybe a few girls) can pick up this skill almost naturally just by playing around with computers, and can do for society what society needs without ever really understanding anything...
[22:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tackling the Challenge of Undergraduate Retention in Computing - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:58] <exec> 08└─This is an easy one.. Uh..I dunno, maybe get rid of the H1B (and L1, and whatever else) Indian import programs so our grads know that there are good long term stable jobs with benefits and good working conditions at the end of the study slog that they can build a long term career with? This would al...
[22:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tackling the Challenge of Undergraduate Retention in Computing - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:00] <exec> 08└─You can't increase retention in a field that appeals to only a small percentage of people. Not by much, anyway.
[22:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tackling the Challenge of Undergraduate Retention in Computing - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:02] <exec> 08└─How many of those 60,000 graduates are but Micro$oft monkeys?
[22:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tackling the Challenge of Undergraduate Retention in Computing - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:05] <exec> 08└─I wish I was a plumber. I didn't want to get my hands dirty, and here I am with PHP... FML.
[22:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_bad_influence [3854] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:27] <exec> 08└─One cause of divorce after a long period of marriage seems to be retirement. When couples, who may not have a solid foundation for their marriage, find themselves together 24x7 all of the suppressed insecurities and annoyances can surface. I love my wife but I'm happy we have separate interests and...
[22:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:28] <exec> 08└─I didn't figure you for a surgeon, let alone one who would do her own gender reassignment surgery.
[22:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aurean [4924] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:30] <exec> 08└─Consider that those who have been married that long have remained together for a reason. - one of those reasons being that they can deal with conflict with affection and humor. The results may say more about what makes for long lasting relationships than how relationships change with age.
[22:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:32] <exec> 08└─Get out there. And meet someone new! Someone "sexy." I think you probably can easily, you can. But I have so many friends when they call me they want to hang out because they think -- and at a thought of an amazing phenomena. How they eat people for lunch and they are the toughest, meanest, most mis...
[22:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:35] <exec> 08└─Beaten by a Dutch uncle!
[22:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:37] <exec> 08└─I was talking about filleting fish. I have no idea what you're talking about.
[22:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:39] <exec> 08└─So, does this only apply to married couples? What about couples who have been together a long time but who are not married?
[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Could Lead to Safer and Cheaper 3D Medical Imaging - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:50] <exec> 08└─but there's 8000000000 patients, so one in a million is rather high
[22:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Could Lead to Safer and Cheaper 3D Medical Imaging - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─X-rays give you cancer. And the development of cancer is a stocastic process meaning there is no safe dose. Added exposure means bigger risk. If this works, I think it's pretty great.
[22:34:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:03] <exec> 08└─They've paid a lot of money to get that near monopoly. If you don't like like it you should buy your own senators.
[22:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:08] <exec> 08└─AT&T has never been what I would call "customer friendly." I do prefer to give my money to "customer friendly" businesses, which is why we dropped AT&T like a rock in 1994 and never looked back. AT&T sends door to door salesmen to my house like JWs or something, I openly mock their company and tell...
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─Would you still argue the same if they changed their block to one year or a decade?
[22:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Makes It More Expensive to Cancel DirecTV or Internet Service - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:12] <exec> 08└─Just try calling them near the end of a billing month now...
[22:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:06] <exec> 08└─Ruby on rails? node.js? flavor-of-the-week language X? It can't be good engineering though, that's been dead for over 15 years.
[22:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:08] <exec> 08└─Oh shit no. Experience is most definitely time-on-job dependent, though limited by the potential of the individual to learn it. There are no shortcuts, just faster runners.
[22:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:10] <exec> 08└─That would take significantly longer, yes.
[22:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 2791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:12] <exec> 08└─I wasn't a coder but I worked on as/400 for 5 years and by the time I left I could write simple rpgle programs, I understood at least the basics of how screens work (maybe there are some advanced features I don't know). I wrote some CL programs at some point too but I've forgotten all of it by now....
[22:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:14] <exec> 08└─If you're relying on GC, I do not want to work with you. GC = "I don't understand how to manage memory for shit. Why can't The Computer do this for me?"
[22:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:16] <exec> 08└─Fuck's sake... Am I really the only one here who sits down and learns languages just because I'm not yet proficient in them? Old or new doesn't matter. Is it the right tool for the job is what matters. Mechanics think finding an antique but functional tool is awesome but code monkeys seem to scoff a...
[22:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:19] <exec> 08└─Ruby on Rails apps work flawlessly for five days, then the dependencies start breaking. Should be fun to see them in 15 months let alone 15 years.
[22:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:41] <exec> 08└─I try to avoid exercise as much as possible. Which is why I look& feel so young -- I save my Energy. And "woman on top" is great for that. You can fall asleep after without rolling over. PERFECTO!!!
[22:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:43] <exec> 08└─I can't wait until 3 or 4 graduating classes later when this this has turned into "See this was a vast womyn empire where the men stayed home looking at porn and the women were out having adventures, defeating invaders, trading, and handling political disputes."
[22:36:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 1179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─I admit you do have an interesting point. However... These actions are being held in lame duck sessions. These are legislative items that were not formed in committees before the lame duck session, not requested by the public and lets face it, they were never even considered until the group in power...
[22:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:31] <exec> 08└─I live under a Westminster system as well, and it amazes me how our American friends just seem to accept that there can only be two political parties. 300 million of them, and they can only muster two parties? The UK has 8 parties, plus some independents, and even my own tiny country of ~4 million...
[22:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:33] <exec> 08└─When was the last time you tried to reason with someone who felt morally obligated to do something for your own good? I ask this because clearly you have not been paying attention to politics for the past several decades.
[22:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:35] <exec> 08└─The legislature is less dangerous. They have built-in disagreeability within themselves. One man who knows what he wants is astoundingly more dangerous and should only be given the bare minimum necessary power.
[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:37] <exec> 08└─He forgot his <sarc> tags. It was obvious from context, so you must have skimmed.
[22:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:39] <exec> 08└─That's more or less accurate if you define the ruling class as a fairly nebulous group primarily made up of politicians, intelligence agencies, and bureaucrats.
[22:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:42] <exec> 08└─See, from our point of view, having a branch of government not answering to The People is a non-starter. That doesn't keep everything but the agency heads and maybe a deputy or two from being non-appointed, non-elected bureaucrats though. I never said we made complete sense...
[22:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:44] <exec> 08└─So, you're wanting everyone who runs for President to have an entire staff and cabinet who already know intimately how things around the Whitehouse work hired before they even know if they've won the election?
[22:36:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 443 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:59] <exec> 08└─It's the "logic" of libertarian-land, a mythical nation where businesses never engage in rent-seeking nor use any deceptive practice, oligopoly and monopoly don't exist, and government action never has a legitimate purpose. A place where "the magic of the markets" fixes every problem, even the ones...
[22:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:19] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. Legalese is the product of a monopoly on adjudication that we call "government".
[22:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:20] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure this is all religious thinking I didn't bother finishing after reading the first paragraph of wizardry. I hope when you die god sends you to hell for worshiping a giant hand.
[22:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:22] <exec> 08└─That's certainly one of the flaws, yes. There are so many others it's hard to know where to start really.
[22:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:25] <exec> 08└─Libertarianism is the fantasy that not being part of a power structure means you won't be enslaved or killed by one. Just visit Somalia... no government, but if you aren't in good standing with the local clan you're maggot meat. Democratic socialism is as close as we've managed to get as a species t...
[22:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Reveals 8-Bit Analog Chip with Phase-Change Memory - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:11] <exec> 08└─Analogue digit, were there such a thing.
[22:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:55] <exec> 08└─This has been Walmart's modus operandi for decades. Sell so low that you run the competition out of business. Become the biggest employer in the town, now they own the town and can charge whatever they want and abuse employees and deliver shitty customer service.
[22:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:56] <exec> 08└─That wasn't the case before Walmart.
[22:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:58] <exec> 08└─So instead of planning on how to prevent a problem we have to see it happen first?
[22:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:00] <exec> 08└─So what? You're portray this supposed universal phenomena and all you have to show for it are a few Walmarts. I'll note that most of my visits to Walmarts have been in places with copious like competitors such as Target, Costco, Home Depot, Lowes, and of course, email retails like Amazon.
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[23:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Bit of a Stretch... Material that Thickens as It's Pulled - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:52] <exec> 08└─They are great at energy absorption.
[23:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Tackling the Challenge of Undergraduate Retention in Computing - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:05] <exec> 08└─If you want to retain undergrads, teach them programming instead of requiring them to take women's studies.
[23:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tackling the Challenge of Undergraduate Retention in Computing - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:06] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, teach them COBOL [soylentnews.org] - that's the only way to make sure the distant past will continue well into the future. While only 9% of the business need it, it's the 9% which have the money to pay good wages but not enough money to risk the code brought into the present.
[23:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tackling the Challenge of Undergraduate Retention in Computing - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:09] <exec> 08└─In the typical 4-year BS CS degree with 120 credits, you get: 1 year (30 credits) of computer science 1 year (30 credits) of vaguely related stuff that could possibly be useful: physics, calculus, statistics, discrete math, linear algebra, chemistry... 2 years (60 credits) of bullshit propaganda, in...
[23:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tackling the Challenge of Undergraduate Retention in Computing - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:11] <exec> 08└─Yes. I wonder, is this a plan for more code monkeys, to keep pay down? Seems a lot of businesses want to use smart people, but won't respect them, instead viewing them with a blend of jealousy, contempt, and hatred. It's as if college is only a brief escape between the persecutions and gaslighting t...
[23:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tackling the Challenge of Undergraduate Retention in Computing - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:13] <exec> 08└─What about whites in professional basketball? Can we get some affirmative action for that? What about women as smokejumpers, coalminers, and roofers? Can we get some affirmative action for that? What about men as daycare providers, nursing consultants, maids, and natural family planning instructors?...
[23:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:43] <exec> 08└─Kids actually make the marriage/relationship more likely to break down, but not divorce. It's no surprise that adding a screaming ball of stress which saps your time, sleep, finances, and ability to have alone time with your partner would cause trouble in a relationship. So, the couple may stay toge...
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─a/s/l?
[23:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:46] <exec> 08└─Since there are administrative and legal benefits to being married, I suspect people who live together, even a long time, cling at least somewhat to the idea that they could separate easily. An escape hatch. That is an assumption. It could be wrong. Or in some instances.
[23:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─Age 40 is about when most men have a mid life crisis. This is because the realization suddenly hits them that they are not going to live forever. Many of the dreams they had in their 20s and 30s of what they would do 'someday' are not going to get done. Ever. So they look for a new partner half thei...
[23:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:51] <exec> 08└─It wasn't meant to be cynical. Part of maturation.
[23:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Married Couples Age, Humor Replaces Bickering - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:53] <exec> 08└─Wanker.
[23:34:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:50] <exec> 08└─DIVISION BOTS SUBDIVISION INTERNET TROLLS MESSAGE REPLY REFERENCES SN POST SUBTHREAD NONE CHARSET ASCII EXTENDED BEGIN REPLY What about no? END REPLY END SUBTHREAD DONE QUIT EOF
[23:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─If you're relying on GC, I do not want to work with you. GC = "I don't understand how to manage memory for shit. Why can't The Computer do this for me?"
[23:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:28] <exec> 08└─Only until the stack overflow.
[23:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:30] <exec> 08└─1) the system was not at fault nor do you have to multi-hatted to work on S/36 or AS/400. This is crap that consultants want you to belive to keep the their billing high. Been on these machine from System/3 model 3 days. 45 years. What you have to have is the ability to think in logic processing ste...
[23:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:32] <exec> 08└─Fuck's sake... Am I really the only one here who sits down and learns languages just because I'm not yet proficient in them?
[23:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Increased Demand for COBOL, Mainframe, and Legacy Storage Skills - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:34] <exec> 08└─BUZY, thank you for playing dumb. Hardware is not out of date, if the cost of operations and size of business match. I have today systemms that I wrote in 80's still running on hardware from the 90's. This computer I am writing this on is 17yrs old. It is only people that cannot think the problem th...
[23:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Early Bronze Age European Women Moved Around More than Men - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:00] <exec> 08└─Even my year old submission is better than your "fresh" loads.
[23:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:52] <exec> 08└─We could cripple the lame duck. Surely they could be "in office" in case we need one (if something catastrophic happens) but remove most of their power - no new legislation, etc.
[23:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:53] <exec> 08└─I was defining the ruling class as the owners of the industry groups and corporations that fund the political class in the US.
[23:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Legislators try to Limit the Power of Voters - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:56] <exec> 08└─Very few people have the same "everyone should literally have total freedom" attitude you do. Just so you know that makes you sound like a moron, psychopath, or whatever falls in between.
[23:37:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 1397 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:17] <exec> 08└─Your first error in logic is leaping from "One particular use of government power is wrong" to "All use of government power is wrong". And even in this case, you're being over-broad: In a world where there's no asset seizure procedure organized by some universally agreed-upon body, what exactly do y...
[23:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:32] <exec> 08└─Libertarianism wouldn't have serious support in the first place, if that was what it was about. Instead, it's the egregious abuses of government that drive the belief and have made it popular.
[23:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:33] <exec> 08└─because they believe they could get away with something they currently can't
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:35] <exec> 08└─Well, in 1865, when Rockefeller’s market share was still minuscule, a gallon of kerosene cost 58 cents. In 1870, Standard’s market share was 4%, and a gallon cost 26 cents. By 1880, when Standard’s market share had skyrocketed to 90%, a gallon cost only 9 cents — and a decade later, with Sta...
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:38] <exec> 08└─No, the Pickertons were angels.
[23:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predatory Lending is Crushing Small Businesses (continued) - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:40] <exec> 08└─The mythical nations of libertarian-land and Marxist-socialism need to get together and have a baby - it might look something like Denmark.
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