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[00:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship Will Now be Made of Stainless Steel, With Tests Still Scheduled for Early 2019 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:44] <exec> 08└─Carbon fibre was a much safer choice. Everyone knows that stainless steel melts when hit with Martian death rays.
[00:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship Will Now be Made of Stainless Steel, With Tests Still Scheduled for Early 2019 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:45] <exec> 08└─Duh. This time they're polishing it to a mirror finish - the rays will reflect right back!
[00:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:03] <exec> 08└─Building cathedrals, temples, pyramids, walls, and other mega projects require a unified community with a lot of extra resources, or a powerful dynasty with a consistent surplus of resources. I've looked at building a pyramid, but "just because it would be cool" isn't enough to motivate a large enou...
[00:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:05] <exec> 08└─On another note, if we cure aging, maybe we will have more 1,000+ year projects.
[00:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:07] <exec> 08└─China is and has been playing the long game to become the sole world superpower (uber-power?). Western democracies cannot think long term, as the next term's election results are all that matters to those in power. Democracies still are better than authoritarian governments (as when authoritarian go...
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[00:36:09] <exec> 08└─PAYING OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT
[00:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:11] <exec> 08└─Building cathedrals, temples, pyramids, walls, and other mega projects require a unified community with a lot of extra resources, or a powerful dynasty with a consistent surplus of resources.
[00:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:13] <exec> 08└─One of the quirks with democracy is the difficulty with long-term projects. If you are on a four year election cycle you need to deliver results within that scope. This is exacerbated with changing administrations in-line with the election cycle. I would point to China with their Belt and Road Initi...
[00:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:34] <exec> 08└─Stubborn, nationalistic and xenophobic leads to tentacle porn.
[00:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:36] <exec> 08└─Proves that the Japanese had it right all along. Kick out the migrants, welcome the tentacles into every orifice.
[00:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Try Your Hand at Being an Operator at the Roseville Telephone Museum - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:35] <exec> 08└─I do wonder sometimes what this has done to people, or if it has had any effect. But I used to remember like all the phone numbers to my friends, my parents workplaces, my sisters when they moved away from home etc. Now I can sometimes barely even remember my own number. Perhaps we have just trades...
[00:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pair of Gatwick Airport Suspects Released Without Charge - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:44] <exec> 08└─Gatwick drone arrest couple feel 'completely violated' [bbc.com]
[00:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pair of Gatwick Airport Suspects Released Without Charge - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:45] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the perfect excuse to spend 5 million pounds on equipment to prevent copycat attacks.
[00:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pair of Gatwick Airport Suspects Released Without Charge - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:47] <exec> 08└─And it will come (partially) out of the couple's tax dollars.
[00:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Motorcycle Safety: Ten Years of Data on Neck Braces - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:22] <exec> 08└─Except I suspect anyone with a lawyer would get the advice that they have no claim on the data. I would think it's like a recipe - you can't copyright the information in a recipe, only the way it's presented. So, copy all the *data* from their report into your own database, organized and formatted a...
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[01:35:39] <exec> 08└─Carbon fiber will disintegrate when the death rays heat the laminate, because the air which is entrained in the laminate will expand and destroy the parts which are made of carbon fiber. And yes, I do in fact have experience with design and fabrication of advanced composite structures. On a more rea...
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[01:35:41] <exec> 08└─That will one big ... falcon. And now, shiny.
[01:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:05] <exec> 08└─I want to do a lot of things - that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm always willing to pay the price for them. For example, wingsuits look incredibly fun - but I have no appetite for the associated risk profile. I hope enough people have an appetite to see humanity move slowly towards the stars to...
[01:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:06] <exec> 08└─America has lost it's appetite for grand projects
[01:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, you seem to be correct. At least in this particular time and place. And, yet, our grandfathers accomplished great things, didn't they? Someone has already mentioned Eisenhower's Interstate highway system. There was the Hoover dam. The TVA and their great flood control project. World War Two, an...
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[01:36:11] <exec> 08└─The site you linked to demonstrates top notch skills in brainwashing. I know nothing about geopolymers and have no opinion about their use in Egypt. I'm talking about methods. For example: the same dogma is repeated again and again (proof by assertion), the text refers to unspecified accurate and p...
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[01:36:13] <exec> 08└─American capitalism never had much appetite for the long term, including the age of robber barons. In the 1860s, the Transcontinental Railroad took a bit under a decade, which is much less time than multigenerational, but that was still too long and risky for the market to stomach. Took a great deal...
[01:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:40] <exec> 08└─If you are worried about population declining because of its impact on the economy, then your economy is based on a pyramid scheme.
[01:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pair of Gatwick Airport Suspects Released Without Charge - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─I confess I sometimes get carried away discussing bees. As for bee drones, it's most likely 99% of people have never seen one. They are pretty rare as they have very limited purpose and none unless the hive raises new queens. When you open a hive, they are only slightly easier to find than the queen...
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[02:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship Will Now be Made of Stainless Steel, With Tests Still Scheduled for Early 2019 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:13] <exec> 08└─Carbon Falcon? Nope, too expensive. Aluminum Falcon? Nope, too weak. Magnesium Falcon? Nope, burns too bright, astronomers will complain if it catches fire. Stainless Steel Falcon? Ohh, Shiny, we'll take it!
[02:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon 'Echo' Lives Up to its Name - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:30] <exec> 08└─They say in their forums that it needs an account on their server and that it uses a web API for speech to text. They are considering a "local server" implementation but they don't have one yet. If you know otherwise, please provide a link.
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[03:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Tinder Changed Dating - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:12] <exec> 08└─All these Tinder-like Apps are Cancer for the society. I can give pass to some more in-depth services, that actually have real long term connections in mind, but most are just about a way for women to slut about, and ruin their long-term expectations of what is a husband material.
[03:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:54] <exec> 08└─I suspect that most people, even among space enthusiasts, will have no appetite to actually emmigrate from Earth, to severely limited artificial habitats in the harshness of space or other worlds.
[03:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:55] <exec> 08└─They did do this and found it to be like 1000 times more efficient than dragging stones around. The geopolymer theory does not need a book or a throng of believers. It only needs a proof - and given that the work was, purportedly, done by ancient Egyptians, it surely can be done by a modern PhD, a b...
[03:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:57] <exec> 08└─Egyptians did not make the big pyramids
[03:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:59] <exec> 08└─Businesses run by MBAs plan short-term to 1 quarter, long term to 1 year. Government plans short term to 1 year, long term to 4 years or so. In the USA, those are our only two real institutions for deciding what society does with it's time and money. Scientific and engineering institutions are at th...
[03:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:02] <exec> 08└─I love witnessing this echo chamber of people who can't figure out that the government doing something isnt capitalism. Its like nothing is wrong about what you are saying except you are applying the wrong label since you were somehow taught the wrong definition.
[03:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:04] <exec> 08└─Methusala lived to about 4,850 years old according to carbon dating. But hes not even the oldest. The oldest so far is 5,068 years.
[03:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:29] <exec> 08└─In all seriousness, and yes I know this is amazingly apropos given my username, tentacles look like they could feel really good if they were being careful and more like their real-world counterparts. Real ones aren't really phallic; they kind of slide and slither and flex, more like a cross between...
[03:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:30] <exec> 08└─Trump wishes you a merry Christmas and Happy holiday. He understands, congress left him all alone in DC.
[03:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's InSight Places its First Instrument on Mars - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:40] <exec> 08└─Ah! Okay, thanks. I was wondering what was going on there. Is this an agreement they have with Donald Trump? :)
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[04:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:48] <exec> 08└─One of the quirks with democracy is the difficulty with long-term projects. If you are on a four year election cycle you need to deliver results within that scope.
[04:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:49] <exec> 08└─Slave labor makes it a whole lot easier to make the decision to expend peoples lives and time.
[04:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 1691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:51] <exec> 08└─Obviously, some sliver of people will/would take on the challenge of Martian colonization. You've got people who have proven their chops on places like the ISS or in Antarctica. You've got people who live indoors most of their lives, either in hospitals or as no-sunshine NEETs. We'll want relatively...
[04:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 1652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:53] <exec> 08└─If you look at small scale projects (not necessarily involving thousands of people), they are literally everywhere... any decent scholar knows this. In science there's classic stuff like the pitch drop experiment (been running for about 90 years). Something that immediately occurred to me that's a b...
[04:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:22] <exec> 08└─Actually, it is the stupidly written obscenity laws thanks to the U.S. after WWII. The artist can't show certain acts between two existing species and can't show a penis on anything; the logical conclusion is to show fictional monsters with tentacles. That doesn't violate either of the provisions in...
[04:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's InSight Places its First Instrument on Mars - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians [wikipedia.org] (public domain film) Also going to drop this here [arstechnica.com] since nobody made an Xmas journal.
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[05:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Developer of Star Citizen Takes on $46M in Funding at Nearly $500M Valuation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:13] <exec> 08└─This is RandomFactor's ideal Long Term Project for humanity.
[05:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Tinder Changed Dating - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, tinder to dating is like porn to anal fucking. Note: a girl was messing with me yapping about enema. Only later i realized ...
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[05:36:21] <exec> 08└─https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/over-budget-underused-and-in-some-cases-never-even-opened-these-are-the-globes-multibillion-dollar-mega-project-disasters/news-story/f05b236e123b499ce0cb722138c37eea [news.com.au] They’re the massively expensive global infrastructure projects that have...
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[05:36:23] <exec> 08└─China is threatening to go to war over the China Sea [telegraph.co.uk] even though an international court has rejected territorial claims [theguardian.com] made by China. World war 3 here we come. China's long term project may very well be to rule over the planet.
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[05:36:25] <exec> 08└─consider the bright side they may be successful in wiping out islam
[05:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:27] <exec> 08└─Is it a project if there is no start date?
[05:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:29] <exec> 08└─I've heard of the pitch drop experiment. RandomFactor is asking about large-scale, ambitious projects. In the sciences, ITER, LHC, and ISS come to mind. RF mentions infrastructure and building projects such as the Great Wall and pyramids. And of course, space colonization, which is certain to be a l...
[05:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:31] <exec> 08└─They don't seem to be accomplishing that in Xinjiang, although they are putting Muslims under surveillance [wsj.com]: China’s aggressive policing of Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang is being replicated in other parts of the country, particularly in areas with other Muslim communities. Ove...
[05:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:34] <exec> 08└─I can't really take this list of failed megaprojects and overruns too seriously when we have the F-35 [wikipedia.org] showing how to really bust budgets. The Sydney Opera House is an iconic landmark. The F-35 may or may not kill its pilots. [acsh.org] And it's only a couple hundred billion over budg...
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[05:36:55] <exec> 08└─If you are worried about population declining because of its impact on the economy, then your economy is based on a pyramid scheme. We artificially raised our standard of living in the present by buying prosperity on credit that would be paid by future (larger) generations. This actually works perfe...
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[05:37:04] <exec> 08└─They do have a history: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─Whatever they are doing it is working and worth keeping. Their culture may very well survive for centuries. My culture has risen and fallen. We are dying, as a nation, as a people. Yes, we are an offshoot of another country. We had our own identity. We made ourselves who we are. Now multiculturalism...
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[06:35:40] <exec> 08└─... Improves the flux dispersal. Elon is just improving his mad scientist street cred.
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[06:35:42] <exec> 08└─It also makes it look like a rocket out of a 50s sci-fi movie.
[06:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:30] <exec> 08└─China is and has been playing the long game to become the sole world superpower (uber-power?).
[06:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Moof123 [5927] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:32] <exec> 08└─74% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
[06:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:05] <exec> 08└─There is an option other than slow destruction. But it involves wading in your enemies' blood, and white people seem to have lost the will to kill.
[06:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:06] <exec> 08└─In an economy heading towards automation and mass unemployment, this is a good thing.
[06:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study "Proves" Parachutes Ineffective - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:05] <exec> 08└─From an outside perspective, your posts just appear dismissive. The kind of dismissive attitude that people use to make themselves feel superior to those they put-down or appear higher-status because of their cynicism.
[06:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study "Proves" Parachutes Ineffective - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:06] <exec> 08└─As always, the problem is capitalism.
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[07:36:10] <exec> 08└─Full Metal Falcon
[07:36:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:37] <exec> 08└─Building cathedrals, temples, pyramids, walls, and other mega projects require a unified community with a lot of extra resources, or a powerful dynasty with a consistent surplus of resources.
[07:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:03] <exec> 08└─OTOH, the pyramids are a good example of what can be accomplished by treating your workforce well. At that, what multi-generational projects have used mostly slave labour? And by slave labour, I mean the type where the slaves are outright owned and have zero rights rather then conscription or having...
[07:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:04] <exec> 08└─Copyleft movement is playing long-term as well.
[07:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:39] <exec> 08└─The cold part wouldn't turn you off?
[07:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:40] <exec> 08└─I don't see why they would have to be cold.
[07:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:42] <exec> 08└─I guess there might be some tropical species that are warm, but even at 20-30C, they'd still feel cool. In my experience, octopuses are cold and I don't see why squid would be different.
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[08:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Tinder Changed Dating - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:42] <exec> 08└─So, tinder is a good way to make more money? Hmm, think your analogy breaks down. Also, do you know if the enema was for you or her?
[08:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:55] <exec> 08└─Your theory of how the pyramids were built was devised by people who loved slave labor. There are others, which are thousands of times more efficient...
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[08:38:30] <exec> 08└─I think you are mixing a few things. First for your view on a pyramid scheme economy, on that part I think you are right but not as pyramid scheme of people but rather money token. When you have productive industry (any kind, agricultural, cars, etc) you will have enough goods for the current popula...
[08:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Slartibartfast [5104] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Try Your Hand at Being an Operator at the Roseville Telephone Museum - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah... no. Don't get me wrong: POTS has almost always had better quality than cell, but T1/packetization has been with us for well over 50 years, and the filters put in for digitization at the CO effectively killed both high- and low-frequency sounds. (Basically, they were optimized for voice.) THA...
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[09:36:42] <exec> 08└─This One. [warplife.com] She was a Computer Lab Monitor at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College where she studied Chemistry. She didn't have a whole lot to do, so she'd surf in between helping other students. She didn't fall in love with me over my page, rather she wrote a very brief note to commend...
[09:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Tinder Changed Dating - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:43] <exec> 08└─But she refused Emergency Medical Services because "The doctors don't do a very good job of keeping me well". "Getting Well" is her turn for shooting up. I took her home so she could shower, have something to eat then get some sleep without fear of being sexually assaulted. Last night I told her whe...
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[09:36:46] <exec> 08└─Fuck MDC.
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[10:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Tinder Changed Dating - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:49] <exec> 08└─Why should people in general and women in particular not have sex? Are you advocating gay male-on-male sex then? Even casual sex with perfect strangers? As long as it's two consenting adults who use protection, it's all good if you ask me. The ridiculous idea that a supreme being which has created t...
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[10:36:51] <exec> 08└─But if I ever made an online dating page, I would very bluntly ask that if you had ever downloaded or seriously considered using the Tinder app, to please not contact me.
[10:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:02] <exec> 08└─I'm that AC. Electricity is not plentiful but scarce. Of course you can fire up a coal plant and get plenty of electricity but doing so will completely fuck the planet, as science has so amply proven. Humanity has existed for millions of years and has only used electricity for the last 200 years or...
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[10:38:03] <exec> 08└─Less than four years long projects, top eight, are what you mostly will get all the funding for from congresscritters.
[10:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 2013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:05] <exec> 08└─Not sure why you want to be so argumentative when I was agreeing with you. I don't think most cities are great examples, since urban planning has been a disaster in most places -- consider Boston (awful, due to not knowing the need for future expansion) vs. many recent cities in the West and Southwe...
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[10:38:46] <exec> 08└─white people seem to have lost the will to kill other white people. FTFY
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[10:40:24] <exec> 08└─Thus quoth "The Best Study Ever".
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[11:36:14] <exec> 08└─Private funders don't give money away for nothing. We don't know the details, but Chris Roberts just gave away a 10% stake in the company and (presumably) at least some say in the way things are run - he now effectively has another shareholder/partner to answer to. Roberts comes across as a perfecti...
[11:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship Will Now be Made of Stainless Steel, With Tests Still Scheduled for Early 2019 - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:51] <exec> 08└─I saved the Glorious American Steel Industry. And created MASSIVE numbers of jobs. With my Tariffs. And my Steel Slat Barrier. Otherwise known as Steel Wall. NOT CONCRETE!! Korea built Concrete Wall, big mistake. A lot of steel mills are now opening up because what I did. We were losing many billion...
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[12:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:02] <exec> 08└─> A white hole is the time-reversed image of a black hole: in it, matter can only move outwards. > Thanks to the peculiar distorted relativistic geometry, the white hole interior born at the center joins the white horizon, completing the formation of the white hole. If a black hole is the most power...
[12:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:04] <exec> 08└─Your mom's?
[12:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:49] <exec> 08└─Shh. We're pretending that the F-35 project doesn't exist.
[12:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:51] <exec> 08└─is the modern workplace any better?
[12:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:53] <exec> 08└─The chinese population will eradicated by heatwaves soon enough https://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[12:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pair of Gatwick Airport Suspects Released Without Charge - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/gatwick-airport-drone-couple-wrongly-accused-of-incident-distressed-and-violated/news-story/1114b5bff42f4b8f3e5bdfa16384ac98 [news.com.au] Bet they sue.
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[13:36:13] <exec> 08└─would force everything out with just as much vigor as the original black hole ingested?
[13:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:15] <exec> 08└─Cat: So, what is it? Kryten: I've never seen one before - no one has - but I'm guessing it's a white hole. Rimmer: A *white* hole? Kryten: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the Universe; a white hole returns it. Lister: So, that thing's spewin...
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[14:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─Environment related... A book called The Population Bomb was published but no where has any news outlet or blog covered this particular anniversary even though now we know it was right in gist if wrong in facts.
[14:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:24] <exec> 08└─They are all holes and you are a RACIST.
[14:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5nh2s__fPE [youtube.com]
[14:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Use Samsung 7nm EUV for Next-Gen POWER and Z CPUs - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:36] <exec> 08└─Seriously, when IBM neglected the PC market, that was a lot of name recognition they walked away from. Admittedly, their PCs were lame. Didn't have a reset button, couldn't skip the POST, and most of all, they only ran at 2/3rds the speed of a good clone. They slipped back in with their Thinkpad Lap...
[14:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Developer of Star Citizen Takes on $46M in Funding at Nearly $500M Valuation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:56] <exec> 08└─You're just salty because you couldn't afford a better ship.
[14:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:38] <exec> 08└─If we're entering the age of robots and automation, then maybe the horizon of completing big projects will grow nearer. We could be standing on the threshold of an explosion of big projects that might once have taken decades but will now be done in a couple years.
[14:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:20] <exec> 08└─She's talking about Australia. Chinese aren't white.
[14:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pair of Gatwick Airport Suspects Released Without Charge - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:44] <exec> 08└─As inconvenient as this is for the couple I suspect if they play it well they're going to make quite a profit out of the whole situation in the end.
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[15:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:00] <exec> 08└─Something ... something ... fake moon landing ... something ... earth is flat. There are just so many people out there that Buzz needs to punch out ...
[15:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:17] <exec> 08└─Obvious and could have had better delivery. 2/5 is the best I can give it. Nah, it's Christmas. Have a 2.5/5.
[15:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:19] <exec> 08└─Julia Roberts says her holes get better with age. https://www.syracuse.com [syracuse.com]
[15:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:21] <exec> 08└─It's astronomy gentrification. The black holes have go away so that the white holes can come in and make the galaxy safe for white dwarfs.
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[15:37:26] <exec> 08└─Micro meteriods like a layered skin Tarnished skin reflects less Reentry prevents the reuse of a great deal of boost to orbit energy. A booster's function is that boost from the ground so reentry and landing is a necessary part of reuse. A spacecraft's function is to travel in space, so how come ree...
[15:37:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 946 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:48] <exec> 08└─Clock of the Long Now [wikipedia.org]: Not a multi-generation project, but represents multi-generation thinking. ITER [wikipedia.org] is a project spanning multiple decades, and longer (into the 2050s) if that is the track we need to ride on to reach a commercial reactor. But I don't think ITER's lo...
[15:37:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:53] <exec> 08└─On another note, if we cure aging, maybe we will have more 1,000+ year projects.
[15:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Called a Zamboni, John Carter - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─Not mars-murdo. Search for 'greenland icecap base' to find out about a real cold-war under-the ice US military base. This location provides great protection from radiation. It also minimizes the dust problem. And since it's nearly polar, solar panels rotating on a mast could provide continuous power...
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[16:36:18] <exec> 08└─I feel no inspiration for the environment from that photo. The photos preceded this song by several years, but the "long long way from home" nails it. Long, Long Way from Home It was a Monday A day like any other day I left a small town For the Apple in decay It was my destiny It's what we needed to...
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[16:36:19] <exec> 08└─Admiral Byrd witnessed far more interesting stuff than some ice.
[16:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:21] <exec> 08└─The earth is round and hollow floating in a flat ocean. Like a pitted olive floating in a bowl of brine.
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[16:36:33] <exec> 08└─Cat: So, what is it? Kryten: I've never seen one before - no one has - but I'm guessing it's a white hole. Rimmer: A *white* hole? Kryten: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the Universe; a white hole returns it. Lister: So, that thing's spewin...
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[16:36:49] <exec> 08└─You've, um, apparently fallen into a time warp set for 20 years ago...?
[16:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06New York Sets Tougher Standards for Marketing Internet Speeds - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps New York could also set tough standards (including no lies, deception or exploitation) for investment banks. But that would cause uproar by the khazar jewish rat-faced filth that inhabits and exploits that area.
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[16:37:01] <exec> 08└─Verizon FIOS sent me an email last week, "Your internet connection has been sped up to 100mB/s up and down." When I use Verizon's recommended speed test, sure enough the speeds are close to 100 both ways. BUT, when I use a couple of different 3rd party tests the speeds ranged from 15mB/s to 30mB/s....
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[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─Is that how they move the knife? Like swipe the sharp knife against the jew's throat? Or did they mean JSwine? Or JRats, JVermin, ...
[16:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship Will Now be Made of Stainless Steel, With Tests Still Scheduled for Early 2019 - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─It saves money to reuse the spacecraft. SpaceX wants it to be able to deliver stuff to LEO, land on Earth, and be reused, or be able to land on the Moon or Mars, take off, land on Earth, and be reused. In the case of Mars it will be able to use the thin atmosphere to help slow itself down somewhat....
[16:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:48] <exec> 08└─Electricity is not plentiful but scarce.
[16:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:50] <exec> 08└─One thing to consider in this is how long would it take for the project to be obsoleted by technology? There's not much point to centuries-long plans, if the plans have to be abandoned in 20 years because we've progressed so much beyond them. For example, something like Wikipedia or the Linux system...
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[16:38:52] <exec> 08└─No, mankind has lost nothing of that kind. It is just that those who begin something great are murdered by the cabal. And the cabal has its own appetite for long term projects, namely, enslaving the entire human population and murdering them mercilessly. They have been working on it for centuries. L...
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[16:39:33] <exec> 08└─Japan could let george soros help them out by importing nearly-worthless immigrants who will make sure to destroy what exists. It will be only temporary relief to the aging population, as the immigrants will take over, destroying the natives. And that would be called ethnic cleansing. So if you allo...
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[17:36:01] <exec> 08└─You say that like it’s a bad thing.
[17:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:16] <exec> 08└─There was an episode of SFIA where he actually proposed using some of the flat Earth concepts in building Earth like habitats. ahh found it Megastructures: Flat Earths [youtube.com]
[17:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─even though now we know it was right in gist if wrong in facts
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─Almost all Earth-side construction uses the flat Earth model as well. I assume you nobody took the curvature of the Earth into account when they made my residence.
[17:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─er, I assure you
[17:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:40] <exec> 08└─I hate that I can't read the referenced papers without a subscription to the journal (Physics Review Letters). Not that I have the tools to fully understand them, but it would be interesting to be even able to look at them.
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[17:36:41] <exec> 08└─This makes a testable prediction. The transition time has a lower bound of 13 to 14 billion years. This means that primordial black holes should be converting right about now. We should be seeing these things. When they transition it would emit an otherwise unexplainable Ultra High Energy Gamma Ray...
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[17:36:52] <exec> 08└─The Talos Power 9 dual-CPU and mainboard combo is, what, $3k? Still pretty high. Interesting system, and really nice CPUs. I'm kind of stuck in the past though. I still do HD video editing on one of those dual-CPU aluminum powermacs from ~2008. $150 from ebay. Makes a pretty decent system for other...
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[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─is very strong. But from what I understand it is also prone to metal fatique. There was an aircraft in WWII made of stainless. Only a few were made, and they were bought by Tiger Line and operated after the war. While they were regarded as good aircraft, they required constantly welding cracks to ke...
[17:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:57] <exec> 08└─Then get your funding from somewhere else. It's not long term planning, if you can't even from the start think of alternatives to begging from the peanut galleries of the world.
[17:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:37] <exec> 08└─Population growth rate and overpopulation is a racist problem. It will inherently create racial/ethnic divisions because some cultures and ethnicities are growing faster than others, automatically creating all kinds of conflicts of resources, jobs, land, opportunity, etc.
[17:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:38] <exec> 08└─Obviously, we'd genetically engineer a warm-blooded octopus or a robotic octopus with heaters. It's a solved problem. Move on.
[17:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:41] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot. Countries can compete for resources without it being about race. Tell me, are the Yankees and Red Sox fans racist?
[17:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:43] <exec> 08└─Going into limit values, let's say that you have country A that produce things, and country B only pay to consume what A make.
[17:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:45] <exec> 08└─There is an option other than slow destruction. But it involves wading in your enemies' blood, and white people seem to have lost the will to kill.
[17:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:47] <exec> 08└─It's interesting how little of what you described has anything to do with money or money token. And the main target economy for TPP is Japan. If companies are so adamant in selling things to them and not the US, they must be doing something right don't you think?
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[18:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:18] <exec> 08└─I don’t regard the iPhone or Facebook to have contributing in any significant way Poor cultivation practice continue to cause desertification. Slash and burnish agriculture in the Amazon result in extinction of species on a near-daily basis and greatly accelerate climate change We can solve desert...
[18:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─He aims to prevent my new lady’s death from the bacterial blood infection sepsis by feeding her colloidal silver So far she’s taking oral antibiotics but if she starts horking it will be lights and sirens to a delightful two-week inpatient course of inpatient ones
[18:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─What I’ve been witnessing sure is
[18:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─None of those examples have anything to do with the Population Bomb, the ideas of overpopulation, increasingly scarce resources, etc. While the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment guarantees Treasury Bonds I remain skeptical and so am stockpiling beans and rice
[18:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:44] <exec> 08└─That particular prediction probably can't be verified, but the goal is surely to come up with predictions that can be verified and which differ from the predictions without quantum loop gravity. However these other predictions may not be spectacular, so we may never hear of them.
[18:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:46] <exec> 08└─The transition time has a lower bound of 13 to 14 billion years. This means that primordial black holes should be converting right about now.
[18:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Use Samsung 7nm EUV for Next-Gen POWER and Z CPUs - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─20 years? Yeah, could be about that long since IBM sold product to end users. ThinkPads are now Lenovo products. Looking at the Marketplace on ibm.com, I see nothing for end users. It's all big iron and services for big business. Well, perhaps they always were oriented towards institutional customer...
[18:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM to Use Samsung 7nm EUV for Next-Gen POWER and Z CPUs - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:58] <exec> 08└─AFAICT, WD/HGST still sells Deskstar-branded drives as of 2017, but they may have switched completely to the "Ultrastar" branding [westerndigital.com] by now.
[18:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Starship Will Now be Made of Stainless Steel, With Tests Still Scheduled for Early 2019 - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:54] <exec> 08└─SpaceX says it made a new steel alloy with better properties. It's also likely to be much thicker steel than what you get with an aircraft. SpaceX does some pretty advanced computer simulations in order to rapidly test new designs. And while they have been revising the BFR/Starship design year by ye...
[18:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:52] <exec> 08└─Countries can compete for resources without it being about race.
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[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─Colloidal silver diminishes the absorption of a number of antibiotics/antibiotic families. Web MD [webmd.com] Mayo [mayoclinic.org] If she must take this particular 'supplement' (it is not considered safe and effective by the FDA) then please inform her doctor and check the drug interactions w...
[19:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:05] <exec> 08└─For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie. Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse [cloudflare-ipfs.com] It has blood on it! [cloudflare-ipfs.com] NASA Allais Effect Eclipse Experiment [archive.org]
[19:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Use Samsung 7nm EUV for Next-Gen POWER and Z CPUs - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:21] <exec> 08└─Raptor has released a second, lower-cost motherboard called the Blackbird (the previous Talos Lite was a Talos II board the was either not fully populated or had defects that were deactivated, if I recall correctly) Link: https://secure.raptorcs.com [raptorcs.com] While sti...
[19:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Sets Tougher Standards for Marketing Internet Speeds - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:33] <exec> 08└─Internal to the VZ network they have decent speeds. Always have. Their egress sucks balls. Always has. When I worked there they made it clear they had 0 intention of upgrading that. The wireless stuff that is getting upgrades. Nothing else beyond the bare minimum.
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Sets Tougher Standards for Marketing Internet Speeds - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:34] <exec> 08└─Right, guess there isn't any point in complaining. Thanks for explaining the VZ corporate policy.
[19:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Developer of Star Citizen Takes on $46M in Funding at Nearly $500M Valuation - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:45] <exec> 08└─For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie. Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse [cloudflare-ipfs.com] It has blood on it! [cloudflare-ipfs.com] NASA Allais Effect Eclipse Experiment [archive.org]
[19:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:37] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the tax-exempt trusts system of the USA, the Kochs and Olins, etc. have their decades-long attempts to eradicate capitalism, education, and democracy.
[19:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:38] <exec> 08└─Of course, it is. But I suppose that would require comparing the two sincerely.
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[20:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:19] <exec> 08└─It also causes some of these "folk cure" taking idiots to turn into new candidates for the Blue Man Group.
[20:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:20] <exec> 08└─And yet it is turtles all the way down.
[20:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:22] <exec> 08└─What an odd post, RunAway. You posting something by Foreigner considering how much you hate foreigners.
[20:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:47] <exec> 08└─Now, now. We need a whole rainbow of alternative holes here. Can't have this binary thing like male and female. I'm sure Apple could help find new categories of holes in many configurations.
[20:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM to Use Samsung 7nm EUV for Next-Gen POWER and Z CPUs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:02] <exec> 08└─Unlike a "reasonable gaming PC," this won't run anything except through WINE. Gamers will never buy this. Which leaves paranoid-schizophrenic autistic freetards as the only target market for the low-end board.
[20:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Developer of Star Citizen Takes on $46M in Funding at Nearly $500M Valuation - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:27] <exec> 08└─I suspect this may be a good thing. You comment that Roberts is a perfectionist, and while that creates beautiful tech demos it also results in games that are released well past their expected release date. Maybe a new voice in the upper management will push the software to something releasable.
[20:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:15] <exec> 08└─AKA industry will continue unhindered by environmental concerns!
[20:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:17] <exec> 08└─They did do this and found it to be like 1000 times more efficient than dragging stones around.
[20:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:19] <exec> 08└─AKA industry will continue unhindered by environmental concerns!
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[21:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:56] <exec> 08└─I'm getting rid of my smart phone this holiday season. I won't have it by the time we go back to work in January. I have used iOS and Android devices since 2012 and this entire generation of phones has been a huge disappointment. For all of the lacking security, privacy and battery life, all I've ga...
[21:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:57] <exec> 08└─so, when your telecommunications infrastructure is so broken you have to screen or whitelist all your calls, the answer is to give more control over your life to a private company? Pass.
[21:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D-Printed Robot Hand Plays the Piano - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Works: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Also works: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Though it might be an extension or something I have running...
[21:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:43] <exec> 08└─Conspiracy theory time? Are you talking about the entrance to the hollow earth, or the alien artifacts, or maybe the wall of ice, or . . . ? If you're going to hit us with any of the conspiracy stories, I prefer one with nymphomaniac goddesses who love human males.
[21:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0650 Years Ago, 'Earthrise' Inspired the Environmental Movement - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:44] <exec> 08└─You only think that I hate foreigners, because I'm talking three or more levels over your head. Do yourself a favor, and look up "immigration law". Those persons who immigrate legally are welcome here. Those who immigrate illegally - that is, "illegal aliens" - are not welcome here. Islam isn't welc...
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─This makes a testable prediction. The transition time has a lower bound of 13 to 14 billion years. This means that primordial black holes should be converting right about now We should be seeing these things.
[21:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Predict That Black Holes Will Become White Holes - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:12] <exec> 08└─No evidence of white holes before or since. Why reiterate?
[21:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdfunded Developer of Star Citizen Takes on $46M in Funding at Nearly $500M Valuation - 1554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:51] <exec> 08└─No salt or ship deficiency here, although I am skeptical of whether CIG is going to be able to deliver a finished product. FWIW, I actually had several ships across two accounts, including a Constellation which was probably the best ship available for what I wanted to do with the game as originally...
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[21:37:53] <exec> 08└─In terms of getting something out of the door, probably. In terms of the community, I think it's a little more complex. For many the mantras to place placate themselves in the light of ever extending delays are "perfection takes time" and some version of "Chris as Project Dictator is a good thing"....
[21:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:48] <exec> 08└─America is not exactly synonymous to humanity. America has lost it's appetite for grand projects, but humanity still seems to be doing some cool stuff.
[21:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:50] <exec> 08└─Sagrada Família [wikipedia.org] - started 1882, Gaudi took over in 1883. The completion of the spires will make Sagrada Família the tallest church building in the world.
[21:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASK SN: Has Mankind Lost its Appetite for Long Term Projects? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:52] <exec> 08└─Is it a project if there is no start end date?
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[22:37:02] <exec> 08└─I put dibs on the pink holes.
[22:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:27] <exec> 08└─Population growth rate and overpopulation is a racist economic problem.
[22:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan's Population Declines by 448,000; China May Reverse Childbirth Restrictions - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:28] <exec> 08└─more like a cross between tongues and fingers
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[22:42:18] <exec> 08└─Weak against $5-wrench attack.
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[23:35:44] <exec> 08└─There is no Gavle Sweden. They're probably thinking of Gävle, pronounced 'yæv-leh.'
[23:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:55] <exec> 08└─"Hell is other people" wrote Sartre, and in this case, indeed they are. I have resisted for years getting into the bandwagon, so I have no FB, Twitter or other social media. However, a couple of weeks ago I accepted a position where I must have Whatsapp to properly fill my role and, I had to install...
[23:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Software Won 2018 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:57] <exec> 08└─How much did en-gag-it have to swallow for this bit off fluff from G? "Google delivered thoughtful software" bite me, G is the tool of Wall Street
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[23:37:10] <exec> 08└─You're assuming these are billions of light years away. There's no reason for them to be very far at all. We could be seeing these and not know it. There have already been numerous GRB events that we cannot explain. Well here's a convenient explanation.
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[23:40:07] <exec> 08└─There's no satisfying the worrywarts. The Earth is definitely overpopulated, yet this article paints Japan's population decline as a bad thing. Suffered? Suffered?!?
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