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[00:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:38] <exec> 08└─A bunch of horny female toads all trying to ride the long Black mamba. Looks more American than Australian.
[00:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE73Fm0arRU [youtube.com]
[00:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:42] <exec> 08└─68 mm is I hope 6.8 cm, else I've failed for 40 years on the metric system. 2.5 cm/inch and we have 2.5 inches. At least they got the ' right, but I've never seen it anywhere in that context where it did not mean "foot", also in the context of "12 inches", also in the contest of "some long dead guy'...
[00:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:20] <exec> 08└─Of course GP doesn't. GP once broke both his legs in 50 different places and didn't even need a single ibuprofen pill. A real internet tough guy, that one.
[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:22] <exec> 08└─The problem is that some mods (like SMOK) don't have the correct circuitry for doing on-board charging. You have to charge the batteries in a separate device. So many mods use junk electronics it's best just to assume they all do.
[00:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:24] <exec> 08└─I think that this is a legitimate concern. Nobody enjoys being lectured but vaping is still relatively new, and before I switch from ciggies to the vape, I want to be sure that there are no sneaky underlying major health effects that are worse than the lack of smoke and other particulates. Of course...
[00:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:26] <exec> 08└─Of course. Nobody does science any more. Or rather, science has been subordinated to the marketing department. So we see big tobacco with their moral panic (ironically enough) and Juul with their equally wrong bullshit.
[00:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:28] <exec> 08└─But it's very much worse than *not* smoking, and vaping has wiped out decades of progress in smoking prevention [boingboing.net]. The benefits of vaping relative to smoking are clear, and vaping may have value as a smoking cessation aid. So it should be available by prescription. It should not be av...
[00:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:31] <exec> 08└─So cigarettes, which are more dangerous (CO inhalation in particular), should be available over the counter, but safer vape should require a prescription, you say. The moral panic is completely transparent. It's obvious what the motivation is to make vape illegal.
[00:38:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 696 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:00] <exec> 08└─I mean, you're the media, right? Isn't it your job to tell people what to think? That means unless they're misbehaving and thinking for themselves anyway, you're qualified to speak for them. What self-driving vehicle folks can't seem to understand is it is primarily an accountability issue, even if...
[00:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics [wikipedia.org] I'm not part of identity politics - I stand against all of that nonsense.
[00:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:12] <exec> 08└─I think it's just a reaction-formation thing where people don't want to admit that they are moved by something, so they huff and puff and act phoney-tough. Scrooge was this way until he finally mustered the strength to say, "Merry Christmas!" Of course some "cute" things are just annoying, for examp...
[00:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:13] <exec> 08└─"Cute" as applied to a grown-ass man is always a condescending insult, like saying "my friend." And when a grown-ass man hears the word "cute" applied toward him nowadays, it almost always comes from a Jewish woman.
[00:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:15] <exec> 08└─The thoughts appear to be an involuntary response to being overwhelmed by a positive emotion.
[00:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:53] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the episode The Quality of Life [wikipedia.org] where Data runs simulations to test the machines and after a few seconds they shut down and don't do shit. He later discovers that the machines realized they were in a simulation and found it more efficient to shut down once no real danger...
[00:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:54] <exec> 08└─It’s a neural network being used in a computer vision application. This is not really artificial intelligence (in my opinion), it’s more like a filter that is evolved through trial and error rather than being explicitly programmed. It’s fed example inputs, the output validity is quantified, an...
[00:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:52] <exec> 08└─Disney is the root of all evil. Seriously, almost all of our economic problems can be traced to disney and other media companies.
[00:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:45] <exec> 08└─" (who also happen to be the most interested in rekindling the cold war over their unrelenting tantrum over losing to Trump). "
[00:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Draft Law Would End Forced Technology Transfers - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:10] <exec> 08└─I think voluntary here means that it will be encouraging open source, the model shenzhen thrives on. The carve out is to avoid making GPL "forced transfers" illegal. The U.S.'s real goal in attacking china is to stomp out open source which threatens the elite's wealth.
[00:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Californian Law Change Means Pet Shops Can Sell Only Rescued Animals - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:21] <exec> 08└─But the death statistics imply that pit bulls are less violent than human beings, given that they only resulted in a few hundred deaths among their race (which has to have a few hundred thousand to million members in the US) As others said, you're racist, for the same reasons other people are racist...
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[01:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:48] <exec> 08└─I always like thinking of metric and SAE as "Science units" and "Units that have been to the moon."
[01:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:50] <exec> 08└─This is all wrong. How come for toads it's amorous, and for humans it's assault? #Baby, it's raining outside
[01:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:52] <exec> 08└─No video, but here's a series of photos [weather.com] of frogs climbing aboard a mini(?) crocodile in malayasia or thereabouts.
[01:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:54] <exec> 08└─Because toads have no consciousness. I eagerly await the day you try to defend yourself in court by citing your complete lack fo consciousness.
[01:38:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 1075 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:08] <exec> 08└─and more importantly, I quit smoking 7 years ago. Even when I used to smoke, I've always been a cyclist. Ever since I started vaping, I've never felt so fast on my bike. I don't cough no more, I smell things better, I have better lung capacity... At each yearly checkup, my doctor tells me he'd never...
[01:39:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:22] <exec> 08└─Marxists that take the uncritical view of eternal expansion crack me up.
[01:39:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:25] <exec> 08└─Postin' this here again so everyone can see it: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] You fucked up, Runaway. This *is* what you are. In your own words.
[01:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:53] <exec> 08└─Ummm... as wages are decreased there is less money to capture in the real economy, and less need for employment because there's no return on investment. That's why FDR "saved capitalism" with his ~90% top marginal tax rate and >50% corporate tax rate, and ushered in a golden age.
[01:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:54] <exec> 08└─"If I'm in a society where the majority of us can't afford our own automation, then the majority of us will employ each other" Nope, just the opposite, my father never shops at Wallmart to "help" the other small businesses in town even though they have higher prices. He can do this because he's not...
[01:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:56] <exec> 08└─driverless cars are like scabs because they're fun to pick off.
[01:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:59] <exec> 08└─If I'm in a society where the majority of us can't afford our own automation, then the majority of us will employ each other.
[01:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:01] <exec> 08└─This is the weird part where the answer key is staring you in the face. Read WSWS more. Consortium News. Truthdig. Counterpunch. They have plenty to say about how rotten identity politics is and how it's used to distract from proletarian flattening. (WSWS more than the others, but you're far from th...
[01:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:03] <exec> 08└─Fear of job loss was most of it, but a significant part of their resistance and dislike was based on the product of the machines being crap quality, but still cheap enough to displace the higher quality craftsman made stuff. It was a big enough difference that 'handmade' still has a promotional effe...
[01:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:05] <exec> 08└─it sounds like the self driving cars need programming to change the rules (expectations) when they're in a subdivision. What, you mean, 'kill all humans' doesn't apply there like it does on the interstate?
[01:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:08] <exec> 08└─Children are small, and the car might not recognize them. The less equipped Tesla (no lidar, only cameras) does not even see bicyclists [medium.com].
[01:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:10] <exec> 08└─The one that killed the woman with the bike was fast and fairly stealthy. Maybe they are evolving to hunt.
[01:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:12] <exec> 08└─After all, in the worst case some crazy man will shoot the test driver - big deal, they will hire another. The goal is that the crime is classified as a road rage or something like that, totally unrelated to activities of Waymo|Uber, and remains a local issue, unknown in the next county.
[01:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:43] <exec> 08└─Jewish women Wow, that was gratuitous. Or did you mean Shrewish? Also, I resent being called a cute-ass man. I am a cute ass-man with a pile of shiny ass-pennies.
[01:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:15] <exec> 08└─"My propaganda says you're evil, so you are. How stupid of you to disagree when my $sponsored_content is infallible!" This is how stupid you sound right now. Enjoy your hugbox while it lasts, snowflake. Violence was created by nature, there is nothing evil about it, and you are a part of it. You wou...
[01:42:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03johnlongjohnson [7223] 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 579 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:09] <exec> 08└─I call BS on this result. You're talking about independent evolution in a deterministic system vs the AI being tampered with by a stakeholder to produce better results and then covering it up. Occam's Razors means this is most likely a stakeholder who wanted to impress so he could get more funding d...
[01:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:41] <exec> 08└─For Brazilian pepper, I cut it down 3 times in 2 years, finally got it by pouring 2 cycle engine fuel into the raw / drilled to a cup stump.
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[02:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:38] <exec> 08└─"I'm addicted to something less damaging than tobacco" isn't a badge of honour.
[02:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:40] <exec> 08└─what percentage of your body is fat? 6% for me. just curious if you regularly work out. Do you consume alcohol? I don't, at all. I do drink 10 cups of coffee per day, and smoke half a pack of cigs if not more. Sometimes I don't smoke at all (like now, when it's too cold to go outside). Sometimes I v...
[02:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:42] <exec> 08└─I'd rather be dead than burn my dick off.
[02:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:44] <exec> 08└─If you actually believe this, *seek professional help.* That is fucking diseased.
[02:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:47] <exec> 08└─Of course that ain't sayin' much, cigarette smoke is fucking nasty
[02:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:49] <exec> 08└─is your vape liquid certified food-safe?
[02:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:51] <exec> 08└─Why do so many of you macho men use "pussy" as an insult?
[02:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:12] <exec> 08└─Many of us will simply never be willing to allow this level of caused harm to go unpunished Well, not locally, at least. What they should do is test these vehicles on the natives in enemy countries. Then, when the targeting system is adequately trained, just reverse the objective on vehicles used do...
[02:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:14] <exec> 08└─Oh, brother! You sure led them on a real trail of tears this time, man! Funny shit! Thanks for the show everybody! As always, a special shout out to our favorite, oh-so-excitable girlie there. I have to give her the credit of making this sub-thread last as long as it did... Back to you... You are sl...
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[02:40:16] <exec> 08└─Accountability when it falls short of perfection like we have with human drivers is my primary concern. *cough* What? Are we talking about accountability or falling short of perfection? Accountability should be simple, first is the owner (for maintenance issues), then the manufacturer. When we get t...
[02:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:18] <exec> 08└─Look at the videos on youtube, including the AR, read the comments. One person who did similar following/taping said that Waymo in automatic mode drives a bit better than a stoned driver, and a bit worse than a first time driver. You call that "better than most humans?" Even the AR video shows dange...
[02:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:20] <exec> 08└─Like fuck you do. That rant shows you are up to your eyeballs in identity politics. - "And, I, for one, am not willing that my grandchildren should be cast into some third-rate citizen role, to make those brown or black people happy." - "Progressives promise to enslave my descendants, at the expense...
[02:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:22] <exec> 08└─Short of that, a lot of people are never going to be willing to share tbe roads with multi-ton killbots.
[02:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:23] <exec> 08└─And what do you have against shit?! How would your petunias grow without it, huh??! They don't do so well in snow, FYI. I'd rather be a snowflake OH NO! Too much cuteness!
[02:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:25] <exec> 08└─the US is thus being led by the nose ring to support Saudi Arabia in the humanitarian disaster they've caused. You could be wagging the dog. Somebody may have hired the Saudis...
[02:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:27] <exec> 08└─Are you thinking about the other country that has the US by the nose ring, that country that has made an alliance of convenience with the Saudis? I was too.
[02:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:29] <exec> 08└─Your weak attempt at diversion is pathetic. You didn't even address my post. Violence was created by nature
[02:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:57] <exec> 08└─Followed by a barbecue.
[02:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:47] <exec> 08└─Oh come now Name something better for killing ants
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[03:36:57] <exec> 08└─I see, so sex without a written contract is rape. That's very interesting. You know, vilifying sex is one of the very worst things one can do. It is the source of the tyrant's power.
[03:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:51] <exec> 08└─After all the anti-smoking crusades of the past 30 years, I would have never thought that the government would permit the people to come up with another (legal) drug to make the pain of existing a little more bearable. And then we first got vape, and now even recreational weed!
[03:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:52] <exec> 08└─He's pretty much right as far as societal expectations go though. Not saying that those expectations are right.
[03:38:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:55] <exec> 08└─You two need to get a room. ;)
[03:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:21] <exec> 08└─When's the last time they churned out criminally liable bad code?
[03:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:23] <exec> 08└─> When's the last time they churned out criminally liable bad code? How about Boeing and their jet that insisted it needed to crash into the water, even after the pilots managed to keep it up during several previous dives? While the investigation isn't over yet, I'd say there is a good chance that t...
[03:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:25] <exec> 08└─I've seen a video on Youtube of a Waymo car taking a freeway on ramp, indicating that it needed to merge, crawled along the on ramp while trying to find a place to fit in, not finding one, and taking the connected next offramp. I've also seen a video of a Waymo car take a freeway on ramp and be unab...
[03:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:27] <exec> 08└─as wages are decreased
[03:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:29] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is, does your employer know that you are wasting his time posting on SoylentNews? Or is this exactly the skill set he is paying you for? Hey, wait a minute!!
[03:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:32] <exec> 08└─I quite agree. But my point goes further. Even if you aren't pretending, seeing need not be reality. Perception is an easy thing to warp.
[03:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:34] <exec> 08└─I am, but they have successfully managed my expectations.
[03:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:39] <exec> 08└─"personal responsibility" pro-business republican? No heart, no sole, no vision.
[03:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:41] <exec> 08└─The UK? That makes sense. Their interests in the region run much deeper than anybody else's. The U.S. is and always has been their muscle, in a Dukes of Hazard/Smokey and the Bandit kind of way (playing the part of the dumb sheriff).
[03:43:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:37] <exec> 08└─The term of copyright for a work should be calculated based on the state of the law at the time the work was copyrighted. Anything else is retroactive law making.
[03:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:41] <exec> 08└─No worse than the democrats leave every time they're in power. You still haven't figured why they can't win, have you? And don't give me your "gerrymandering" bullshit either. It's bullshit for a reason. The democrats just suck, simple as that. And they are crooks, very much like gangsters.
[03:47:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:10] <exec> 08└─Nah, it was modded Interesting. Interesting doesn't require correctness, just that it brings up something worth talking about.
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[04:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:13] <exec> 08└─Their code disabled the Volvo's factory automatic braking function, silenced the alarm (so that the test driver will not be warned,) and told the system to not brake for "insignificant" objects.
[04:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:15] <exec> 08└─How about Boeing and their jet that insisted it needed to crash into the water, even after the pilots managed to keep it up during several previous dives?
[04:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:17] <exec> 08└─When's the last time they churned out criminally liable bad code?
[04:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:19] <exec> 08└─Nope, just the opposite, my father never shops at Wallmart to "help" the other small businesses in town even though they have higher prices. He can do this because he's not hurting for money but if he was broke he'd go for the lowest price: Walmart
[04:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:21] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is, does your employer know that you are wasting his time posting on SoylentNews?
[04:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:23] <exec> 08└─Regulation circumvention is probably the real problem. For example, street gangs often employ people at well below minimum wage. They get away with it because any authority isn't going to bother with labor crimes, it has terrible effort to reward ratio compared to the usual crimes. But if you're go...
[04:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:26] <exec> 08└─The Toyota Prius unintended acceleration issue that is commonly attributed to user error or floor mats causing the accelerator pedal to get stuck was neither limited only to the Prius nor involved any user error or mechanical issue at all. Instead the ECU software was so poorly implemented that a bu...
[04:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:57] <exec> 08└─But this is Presidential Coke.
[04:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:58] <exec> 08└─A significant (majority?) of 'post partum depression' is a guilt/anxiety reaction to the fact that the baby looks more like its daddy than it does the husband. But you can't say that out loud, because then you are accusing every mother with PPD of something that only some are guilty of.
[04:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:00] <exec> 08└─Japan kitten killer Lolicon rape doujins Puella Magi Madoka Magica Need I go on?
[04:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:34] <exec> 08└─How about you mass produce the food in one meal cans about like a can of baked beans, complete with pop-top. Plastic wrap it with a litre bottle of fresh water and a little plastic parachute that will let it survive landing, and then scatter drop them by the millions over the relevant areas. People...
[04:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:36] <exec> 08└─Hmm, since you mentioned that, there are two other alternatives to this would-be inevitable starvation. First, end the war and then the civilians can feed themselves. That was the state Yemen was in some time ago. Second, move the civilians to a place with an honest authority where they can be fed....
[04:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:38] <exec> 08└─It's not the snowflakes that knowingly and intentionnaly voted as president and continue to defend a well established con-man, compulsive liar, psychopath and child molester who's tearing the country apart even more than it already was.
[04:42:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data From its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 813 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:25] <exec> 08└─It found the path of least resistance to get the job done, exactly like it's supposed to do - and exactly like humans do. In both humans and AIs, finding the path of least resistance becomes cheating when it breaks a rule: for example these marathon runners taking a shortcut [youtube.com] knowingly...
[04:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Massive Amount of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:45] <exec> 08└─Get a whiff of this https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:45:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02 - 06Behind the Scenes of the Mattis Bombshell: More Resignations Expected after 'Protest' Exit - 555 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:07] <exec> 08└─In other news.. In Syria's neigbouring country, Iraq, the Trumps and John Bolton made a surprise visit on 25 december. Apparently overjoyed by Trump's sudden decision to withdraw his troops from their neighbours, Iraqi parliamentarians asked if the USA could now also please bugger off from Iraq: Ira...
[04:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:13] <exec> 08└─Still trademarked here in Canada and Mexico amongst other countries. Should have demanded that the US re-trademark it as a condition of the CUSMA (NAFTA2) as it was mostly about IP anyways.
[04:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ibuprofen Alters Human Testicular Physiology To Produce Compensated Hypogonadism - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:14] <exec> 08└─Then we'd just use Spirea, it's even in the name.
[04:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:38] <exec> 08└─> The interview process for Silicon Valley developer jobs has always had a reputation of being an arcane trial by fire I believe most tech companies dropped brain teasers from interviews a long time ago. When I interviewed, I never encountered any. I'm surprised Microsoft still had them, even consid...
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[05:37:17] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog [wikipedia.org]
[05:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:19] <exec> 08└─"Units that have been to the moon."
[05:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:16] <exec> 08└─You guessed wrong. I'm a lifetime non-smoker. I didn't use to be so offended by smokers but when my workplace at the time went non-smoking, I quickly got used to clean, fresh air. When restaurants, bars and bowling alleys went non-smoking, the last few places I had any close encounters with active s...
[05:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:08] <exec> 08└─Ok, what's criminal about it?
[05:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:09] <exec> 08└─Ironically, all this really proves is that we need to get human drivers off the road as soon as possible. They are way too emotional and dangerous to trust with fast large hunks of metal. >driving head-on toward one of the self-driving vehicles until it was forced to come to an abrupt stop. It sound...
[05:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:41] <exec> 08└─I've only ever seen it capitalized, probably because in my part of the US it's used only to refer to the Coca-Cola line of sodas. I know that some parts of the country (IIRC the South & East Coast?) use it as a generic term for sodas in general, so it'd make sense if it's not capitalized in those ar...
[05:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data from its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:30] <exec> 08└─Intelligence is like pron, you know it when you see it. Anyway, as soon as a computer can do it, it's not 'intelligence' anymore. It is 'pattern matching' or 'machine learning', or 'clever programming'. Because of the appropriation of the term AI, the philosophical discussions have moved on to using...
[05:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data from its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:32] <exec> 08└─You're one to talk, as a product of evolution yourself. >deterministic system Neural net training is not deterministic, which is one of the problems for social acceptance of AI since we like our machines to be deterministic, lest the self-driving car decide to run over that guy on the sidewalk today...
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[06:36:42] <exec> 08└─They didn't even manage to get through the first day of the year without fat shaming Ultima Thule by calling it a blob. Then they speculated about whether it was double-lobed or Bi. Those folks are in for some serious sensitivity training. /sarc
[06:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03GeminiDomino [661] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:08] <exec> 08└─How and why 'pussy' also became slang for 'vagina' is a discussion for another time.
[06:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GeminiDomino [661] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:09] <exec> 08└─Juul with their equally wrong bullshit
[06:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:59] <exec> 08└─But if you're running a normal business for years with significant assets, then regulation breaking is a huge risk.
[06:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:00] <exec> 08└─And if you don't run any business because you can't afford to?
[06:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:02] <exec> 08└─Autos kill around half a million people a year
[06:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:38] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's entirely accurate with regard to other mammals, though — most animals (canines, felines, rodents, marsupials, etc.) aren't cute when they're in the thankfully brief blind-and-helpless phase, as they haven't developed the physical characteristics (neoteny) that provoke that res...
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[06:40:39] <exec> 08└─It's why Godzilla attacked there first.
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[06:41:52] <exec> 08└─"Stay, Runaway!"
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[07:37:17] <exec> 08└─I thought that selection of pronouns is more related to what the discussion is about. If about politics, there are few self-references, but "them" and "they" are overflowing the comment field. If about personal achievements or thoughts, "I" will be plentiful. This very post is a good illustration....
[07:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:19] <exec> 08└─Does it demonstrate depression?
[07:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Survives Flyby, Begins Sending Back Data - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:29] <exec> 08└─Is this going to be the meme of 2019?
[07:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:49] <exec> 08└─Imagine a few of those self-driving ones completely blocking the ramp. (They are immune to honks and swearing.) Now imagine being a passenger inside one of them...
[07:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:51] <exec> 08└─If they want real-world examples, build a city where people VOLUNTEER to live where your killer machines drive: don't use people as fodder for your profits. "Well, if we only kill 40 people, but our profits are 3 billion, then HEY, fuck humans, I got MINE!"
[07:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:53] <exec> 08└─Sadistic thoughts in the beginning of a new year, eh? (grin)
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[07:40:55] <exec> 08└─Most likely the car company will pay out settlements if it can be proven the AI was negligent. If you're looking for someone to send to jail, there probably won't be one. But that's already true [theguardian.com], and it's also not necessary if you're out for someone to take irrational vengeance on....
[07:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:57] <exec> 08└─Again - you started the speculating about the next civil war. I explained what the next civil war would be like. You seem to have lost all track of your own contributions to that "discussion".
[07:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:33] <exec> 08└─In steel country, it's used for a high-carbon fuel routinely used to reduce iron ore. Perhaps this was what Runaway was referring to. One certainly would not capitalize that. I'm sure that ordering one's butler to deliver pellets of fossil fuels so that you may display your mockery of Mother Earth i...
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[07:41:34] <exec> 08└─but why on earth would you respond by hurting the cute thing?
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[07:41:36] <exec> 08└─Given the nyanyancat hit or miss video [youtube.com], I'm surprised there hasn't been wide-spread mayhem
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[07:42:18] <exec> 08└─Then the nasty people with guns will shoot anyone seen collecting the food. They will form gangs of the civilians, promising them rewards if they are good peons who collect the food for them. They will rape and torture and murder anyone who does not work for them. Still not solving the root cause of...
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[08:37:14] <exec> 08└─Those with symptoms of depression use significantly more first person singular pronouns – such as “me”, “myself” and “I” – and significantly fewer second and third person pronouns – such as “they”, “them” or “she”. This pattern of pronoun use suggests people with depres...
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[08:37:16] <exec> 08└─I always thought the Magic 8 Ball was pretty accurate. "Outlook not so good" Their "AI" is practicing phrenology, reading tea leaves, the stars, whatever... on a computer. Call the patent office! And they better watch out on that pronoun bullshit. It can get you into real trouble on campus and in th...
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[08:37:57] <exec> 08└─So you don't believe in the existence of SAE at all? (Hint: Apollo missions were all done in metric; the original computer was programmed with SAE, but since all of the researchers and astronauts used metric it had to be adapted to accept metric units) https://www.doneyles.com [doneyle...
[08:38:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:47] <exec> 08└─If you actually believe this, *seek professional help.* That is fucking diseased.
[08:38:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dwilson [2599] 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:50] <exec> 08└─Why do so many of you macho men use "pussy" as an insult?
[08:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:58] <exec> 08└─Bad debts lol. Vape isn't expensive
[08:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:00] <exec> 08└─I have some old news for you: oxygen is toxic [wikipedia.org]
[08:40:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 2707 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:08] <exec> 08└─In this discussion, I haven't read any mention, let alone appreciation, of just how dangerous our road transportation system is. Of all the things people do on a regular basis, traveling by car is by far the most dangerous activity. And then people don't show those dangers proper respect by driving...
[08:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:00] <exec> 08└─All of those things are engineered by professionals who go to jail if they fuck up. And fucking up is defined as not working hard enough to ensure you've defined exactly how to make it not fuck up, that it won't fuck up outside what you expect it to, that you've proved it mathematically, and also we...
[08:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:01] <exec> 08└─Just give them access to face recognition databases and social credit scores [soylentnews.org] and you're off to the races [imdb.com].
[08:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:45] <exec> 08└─Coca-Cola. That is why he capitalizes it every time he types it.
[08:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:27] <exec> 08└─Thugs are getting fed regardless. There is no food shortage, only affordable food shortage. In a war zone like Yemen, prices go up, but most things still available.
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[09:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:18] <exec> 08└─Plenty of jobs for those Trump-voting coal miners when it get deployed in US.
[09:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:19] <exec> 08└─Surely there is some other reason. _Please_ tell me there is some other reason!
[09:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:31] <exec> 08└─And they better watch out on that pronoun bullshit. It can get you into real trouble on campus and in the office these days.
[09:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 2761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:32] <exec> 08└─In addition to having experienced severe depression many times with two quite-serious suicide attempts, I volunteered for the Suicide Prevention Service Of Santa Cruz County when I was a UCSC student. Such experiences lead me to assert the following: - Every mammal, each in its own special way is a...
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[10:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:35] <exec> 08└─theoretically, the autonomous trains are safer, and can run for longer (no need to stop to swap drivers), but they are automating everything [thewest.com.au]
[10:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:36] <exec> 08└─TFA says it "took ten years to build", so the total cost presumably includes the costs of track, construction, and rolling stock, all of which would have been required anyway. The additional cost to make it fully autonomous would have been a negligable fraction of the total, especially since this is...
[10:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:38] <exec> 08└─bringing the train to a stop if there's a problem
[10:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 3179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:40] <exec> 08└─We're engineers here (well, at least *I* am, don't know about you). So let's not go the sheeple SJW route but be professional and do a rough calculation. The 2018 average full time salary in West Australia was 90,000AUD. The average full time salary in the transport industry (for all of Australia) w...
[10:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:54] <exec> 08└─"Ya is the last letter of the alphabet." (It looks just like a backwards "R".) -- Mikhail Dabit Krofort
[10:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:55] <exec> 08└─- "Reactive" Clinical Depression is caused by the depressed animal having rejected the pack, not the other way round
[10:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:57] <exec> 08└─I see what ya did there...
[10:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:59] <exec> 08└─I'll add that's its also very easy to be lonely without being alone.
[10:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:40] <exec> 08└─Toad warts are filled with toxins, some of which are deadly. In the specific case of the Cane Toad, I have it with good authority that it's popular to dry their skins then smoke them for a hallucinogenic experience. The Cane Toad just like the Rabbit was imported specifically to eat a sugarcane pest...
[10:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:42] <exec> 08└─I've been getting plenty of stormy night rides myself. She's quite hot.
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[11:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:57] <exec> 08└─Even underground [northparkes.com] mines [itnews.com.au] of all sorts [abc.net.au]
[11:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:58] <exec> 08└─_Please_ tell me there is some other reason!
[11:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:00] <exec> 08└─The train system took ten years to build and cost Rio Tinto AUD $1.3 billion (USD $916 million) to implement.
[11:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:02] <exec> 08└─Actually, vaping has been a major help to smoking prevention. Vaping is not smoking.
[11:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:56] <exec> 08└─"Sit, Runaway!" Did we not already have the episode with the yappy dog being the Runaway whisperer?
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[12:35:46] <exec> 08└─Just like all things google.
[12:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves Google Testing of Radar-Based Motion Sensing - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:47] <exec> 08└─When can I get this in my phone so that I can have an app that plays a violin sound when I make "The World's Smallest Violin" gesture. To go with my favourite "Whip Crack" app.
[12:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves Google Testing of Radar-Based Motion Sensing - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:50] <exec> 08└─Will they have a version for Italians?
[12:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves Google Testing of Radar-Based Motion Sensing - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:52] <exec> 08└─Ever since microsoft announced their first kinect controller I've been dreaming of gesture-based home automation. I want to be able to control everything in my house that currently has a remote control or a wall switch by simply making a shape with my fingers and waving my hand. Turn on the lights?...
[12:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:12] <exec> 08└─Trouble is that most journos (like most people) know next to nothing about railways. No-one who does would refer to a railway (ie the entire system, trains, track, signals, staff) as a "train system", they would call it a "railway", or "railroad" in US speak.
[12:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:13] <exec> 08└─This is a great post.
[12:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:15] <exec> 08└─does it twist around the sides of tall mountains, carrying the most expensive thing in the galaxy, guarded by laser drones that can't hit squat?
[12:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:36] <exec> 08└─Many mental diagnoses rely upon the patient being unaware of the tests and criteria, so they can't consciously influence the results. Does it mean your work is depressing if you sing "I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go"? Is Bill Wither's "Ain't No Sunshine" the love song with the most supremely dep...
[12:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:38] <exec> 08└─"Absolutist words" - which convey absolute magnitudes or probabilities, such as "always", "nothing" or "completely" - were found to be better markers for mental health forums than either pronouns or negative emotion words.
[12:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Survives Flyby, Begins Sending Back Data - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:50] <exec> 08└─I don't know, I'll send your post to facebook and find out. It'll take a while for me to reply. I forgot to send in my bowel movement statistics to Facebook and Zuckerberg is all up in my rectum about it.
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[13:37:12] <exec> 08└─The FCC permission says nothing about biological safety of this level of radiation in close or direct contact with the transmitter. 14. To ensure that harmful interference to authorized operations and other spectrum users will not occur, we impose explicit conditions on the installation, operation...
[13:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves Google Testing of Radar-Based Motion Sensing - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:13] <exec> 08└─Mute the TV? https://tenor.com [tenor.com]
[13:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves Google Testing of Radar-Based Motion Sensing - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:16] <exec> 08└─I would not be a bit surprised if this is actually for their self driving cars... The gesture interface/disabled ease of access is just a cover story.
[13:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:39] <exec> 08└─The TFA doesn't get into the details so it's hard to determine what's included in the bill. AUD $1.3b "just" for an autonomous train management system seems awfully high, but it also seems awfully low for a railway of this scale, even allowing for a lot of single track running at relatively slow fre...
[13:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:48] <exec> 08└─But lungs have evolved for oxigen, the oxigen from air. Maybe in 5 million years your offspring lungs will adapt to nicotine as you pass the damaged DNA to the next generation.
[13:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:50] <exec> 08└─Don't lecture me on how a little home made vape is super bad for me as I sit in my house with the cars whizzing by and spewing their dino juice fumes, filling said house with dust. I can now smell cigarettes 50 ft away and their taste is not satisfying, nor was their cost. I can see the same moral p...
[13:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:53] <exec> 08└─I think it is worth quoting from the final paragraph of The Lancet article cited above for those who find it tl;dr. But the reliance by PHE on work that the authors themselves accept is methodologically weak, and which is made all the more perilous by the declared conflicts of interest surrounding i...
[13:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:27] <exec> 08└─So you have never done this [youtube.com]? Oh! You thought TFA is talking about a machete!! Glad you don't have bad thoughts.
[13:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:11] <exec> 08└─> "There was no response from the Houthis, but they have denied diverting aid." Perhaps they left out a word: "There was no response from the Houthis, but they have [previously] denied diverting aid."
[13:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:44] <exec> 08└─Judge Judy [youtube.com] did exactly that.
[13:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data from its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:25] <exec> 08└─Was the AI 'aware' that it needed to be able to convert the maps back into photos before it decided to encode the details needed to do so? If it _predicted_ that it might need those details without explicitly knowing that that was part of the plan, then this was truly something amazing - an AI predi...
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[14:36:47] <exec> 08└─I thought it was a free country. These people are not stealing, are they? They pay for that they get. Why dont the normies on the streets name and shame the goverments and private entities involved in the orchestration of prices for fuel and oils or for the anything that now goes by the names of "im...
[14:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:48] <exec> 08└─I wonder why they don't go to the supplier? That seems like it'd work out better for everyone.
[14:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:51] <exec> 08└─I don't see much of a problem. These daigou are following the law, they are buying the products, they are not stealing it. I'm not sure they follow all export/import rules, but that's for customs to check. Some reservation system set up by the shops can prevent customers not getting what they need,...
[14:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:53] <exec> 08└─What a sorry piece of shit. Terminal cancer would suit him well.
[14:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:55] <exec> 08└─Presumably, there's a reason, but like yourself I don't get it. Call up the supplier, and order a whole lorry load of the stuff. Should be plenty cheaper wholesale as well.
[14:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:57] <exec> 08└─@shanemconroy [twitter.com](?) is an obnoxious lightweight with a lower I.Q.
[14:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:59] <exec> 08└─I thought it was a free country. These people are not beating the daigous, are they? They're just recording what's happening.
[14:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:02] <exec> 08└─(cont) Blocked from my Twitter!
[14:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves Google Testing of Radar-Based Motion Sensing - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:16] <exec> 08└─It seems like a VR headset thing to me.
[14:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:02] <exec> 08└─Optimistic, pessimistic, depressed: - full - empty - don't have a glass
[14:42:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Yemen Food Aid Diverted From Hungry Civilians - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:45] <exec> 08└─If it comes to it, I'd rather be a snowflake than a piece of shit. If it comes to it.
[14:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data from its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:18] <exec> 08└─Or just Metadata
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[15:36:45] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking the problem is supply, due to farm regulations. It is common for "western" countries to both subsidize and also limit production of agricultural products, to try to prop up the price. So I'm guessing dairy subsidies are limited based on some government formula of how many cows "should"...
[15:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:46] <exec> 08└─I'll take a guess that there is an issue with import/export regulations to china?
[15:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:48] <exec> 08└─Because Australian citizens have no influence over the CHINESE government which is the source of these product/trade issues. I am sure Australian infant informula companies would love to sell their product directly to the Chinese people. Think dumbass why this is not hapenning now.... Perhaps the on...
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:50] <exec> 08└─Far more likely answer is protectionist importation laws in China. China likes to sell to foreigners, not buy from them, if it is at all possible.
[15:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:53] <exec> 08└─only if you don't understand what your read. they are filming and shaming them
[15:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─That is certainly true but doesn't explain the apparent lack of supply of these products. Chinese people seem adept at avoiding their own country's regulations in this regard.
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─By "lack of supply" I mean in "western" countries and also HK.
[15:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Gaigou - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:59] <exec> 08└─From my experience in retail, typically the stores don't want this to happen because the items in question are highly desirable. It's not just about sales on any one item that make a store function. For example, the target item is a commodity: highly desirable, widely available, and competitively pr...
[15:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves Google Testing of Radar-Based Motion Sensing - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:16] <exec> 08└─Don't be afraid of too much microwave power. Thanks to a "higher power" the hand motion sensor could also double as a convenient hand warmer. With enough power, even a hand dryer when the censor sensor detects that your hand motions are that of drying your hands.
[15:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GeminiDomino [661] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves Google Testing of Radar-Based Motion Sensing - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:17] <exec> 08└─Google says the virtual tools can approximate the precision of natural human hand motion and the sensor can be embedded in wearables, phones, computers and vehicles.
[15:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:05] <exec> 08└─I wonder what you'd come up with if you data mined this site.
[15:43:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06California Law Treats Pets Like Children in Divorce Cases - 570 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:29] <exec> 08└─That proves which litigant was spoiling the pet more by giving it treats it shouldn't have had. Or possibly, who it registered as the alpha depending on the breed and how the "pack" operated daily. It doesn't prove who will be a better caretaker. And yes that applies to kids too which is why asking...
[15:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sce7mjm [809] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data from its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 1423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:27] <exec> 08└─...the AI was trained and aware of the both conversion steps. Convert A to B B is constrained to look similair to A but mostly Flat colour to show roads and flat looking buildings and features. Convert B to C C should look like A but only generated using information in B. If this was the case a cunn...
[15:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data from its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:29] <exec> 08└─Because of the appropriation of the term AI, the philosophical discussions have moved on to using the term AGI, where the G stands for General.
[15:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data from its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:31] <exec> 08└─Humans are part of a well balanced, nutritious hydrocarbon fuel combustion source.
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[16:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:49] <exec> 08└─Big lips, watermelon.
[16:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:51] <exec> 08└─Good lord, have you seen how most people drive and you want to add another dimension to it? No. Could I have decent high-speed public transport instead?
[16:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:53] <exec> 08└─Back to the future 2 took place in 2015. No flying cars. No mr fusion. No hoverboards.
[16:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:55] <exec> 08└─The rich have personal jets, the cops of helicopters. Those were the people who had flying cars in the movie. You're one of those downtrodden wretches barely scraping out a living underneath the hideous corporate pyramid. What I want is the robot that chokes CEOs to death. Give me that.
[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:57] <exec> 08└─What I want is the robot that chokes CEOs to death. Give me that.
[16:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─Even better, we could export the imaginary intellectual property needed to manufacture these formulas to China, and the Chinese government could subsidize the creation of factories in China! Hmm....
[16:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:23] <exec> 08└─I was waiting for the TFS to explain what a gaigou was, but it probably is meant to be daigou (代购, purchasing agent).
[16:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:25] <exec> 08└─Similar things happen domestically with fad foods. In the late 1980s it was "oat bran" - anything with oat bran flew off store shelves faster than it could be stocked. The problem was that demand spiked based on a mass media news blitz about the supposed health benefits of oat bran, and the supply c...
[16:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:28] <exec> 08└─More likely to get caught by Chinese regulators if they start acting like a wholesale supply channel instead of shopping tourists.
[16:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:30] <exec> 08└─fixed
[16:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:32] <exec> 08└─And if all the stores get bought dry by foreigners because of fucked up conditions in their homeland, that leads to tensions if the locals can't buy anymore for themselves. Hong Kong has instituted an export limit for baby formula, and I thought Australia was instituting one too.
[16:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:34] <exec> 08└─Is it better when Big Brother is not a central authority but instead is implemented by the people, themselves?
[16:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:37] <exec> 08└─That's why one would raise prices on that one particular item in demand. You might not sell as much of it, or lose a little on it due to a supply-price mismatch, but the people who really want your full shopping experience (item plus other stuff) will come to your store and buy the other stuff and C...
[16:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:39] <exec> 08└─As always, the issue with made-in-China is fraudulent--dangerously fraudulent--products. Heathen Chinee have no morals. They are worse about this than other countries. It's a flamebait style statement, but it's also true. Life is cheap there.
[16:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:41] <exec> 08└─here ya go https://www.genolve.com [genolve.com]
[16:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves Google Testing of Radar-Based Motion Sensing - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:00] <exec> 08└─It's for NSA.
[16:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Survives Flyby, Begins Sending Back Data - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:57] <exec> 08└─It's known as a Trans Neptonian Object. Also known as a "teenie." Because it looks, hopefully, like a magnificent pair of knockers. And we're looking very closely at that one. Because we sent our best Robot to fly right over it. Without JPL, without California -- so important. Because we might not k...
[16:40:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 328 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:05] <exec> 08└─A bit late, I wanted my "white genocide" on Christmas, as part of the "War on Christmas" package. What does all this about Runaway self-identifying as a right-wing nutjob have to do with anything? Please, Runaway, spare us your opinions, they are not interesting, not informative, but mostly off top...
[16:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03termigator [4271] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:08] <exec> 08└─Whoosh!
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[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:15] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that people would be "driving" them rather than software? Heard of autopilot (the real one)?
[17:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─Which means that it's not much different from "Hey sexy mama, wanna kill all humans?"
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─That Flyer (trying to trade on the Wright brothers zeitgeist? ) looks like it's practical like a jet pack but with the added safety of a surrounding curtain of spinning blades. That way it's not just a danger to yourself! Is it a boat because over-land use was banned? I don't see swash plates on the...
[17:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:22] <exec> 08└─Not really - eventually you run out of people who want the job badly enough to probably die for it. Might not happen until you run out of executives, you might even lose a few workers dedicated to climbing the corporate ladder, but eventually you'll be down to people who would rather work for a livi...
[17:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:24] <exec> 08└─were up your ass, you would know where they were
[17:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:26] <exec> 08└─Where's my personal replicant geisha that looks like Daryl Hannah?
[17:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:28] <exec> 08└─You don't need to upsell me on the eventual death of the human race. I was already buying, man.
[17:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:06] <exec> 08└─Are the stores the ones who are upset, or is it the customers that aren't hoarding products for resale?
[17:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:08] <exec> 08└─And . . . the daigou have some expectation of privacy in a public shopping area? WTF? I can't get no privacy either. Every time I whip out my Big Johnson, someone wants to take pictures!
[17:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:10] <exec> 08└─Well, those daigou don't seem especially smart. They're paying retail for the stuff, when they could almost certainly be paying wholesale. Apparently, the Chinese are smart enough to send their stupidest citizens overseas for this job. Think: What would it take for one or more daigou to open a shop...
[17:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves Google Testing of Radar-Based Motion Sensing - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:33] <exec> 08└─That's what I thought they wanted it for, until I kept reading down and was like WTF are they doing with cars in an airplane. At least, I'm hoping they want it for cars. Knowing Google though they probably want it to spy on users.
[17:37:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 3179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─We're engineers here (well, at least *I* am, don't know about you). So let's not go the sheeple SJW route but be professional and do a rough calculation. The 2018 average full time salary in West Australia was 90,000AUD. The average full time salary in the transport industry (for all of Australia) w...
[17:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:20] <exec> 08└─A depressed AI, probably.
[17:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:21] <exec> 08└─Your post contained twice as many "you" than "I", so I guess you should be safe. :-) And as prophylaxis against depression I'll add: You, your, they, them, he, she, thou!
[17:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's what happened to Marvin: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OSIRIS-REx Enters Into Orbit Around Asteroid Bennu - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:46] <exec> 08└─I've achieved much lower orbits in KSP.
[17:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Cane Toads Hitch a Lift on Python's Back After Storm - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:10] <exec> 08└─Daniels ?
[17:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:59] <exec> 08└─"A face only a mother could love" The cuteness response is generally fairly tightly targeted in nature - other people's children are generally NOT especially cute. If part of you doesn't want a baby, other people's babies probably mostly look like the ugly little trolls they actually are. The full i...
[17:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:01] <exec> 08└─Just realized a line could be read two ways: "If part of you doesn't want a baby" is better said "If there isn't part of you that wants a baby"
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[18:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is Missing a Huge Part of its Crust. Now We May Know Why. - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:50] <exec> 08└─It is amazing that through the power of deduction, not unlike a detective we can infer on effects and events that happened several million years ago, when there were not even vertebrates, much less humans. We are indeed the culmination of evolution in this planet and surroundings.
[18:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is Missing a Huge Part of its Crust. Now We May Know Why. - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:51] <exec> 08└─But, it's still not "missing". It's right beneath our feet, in the mantle. That history you mention has been bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated, but it's still just beneath our feet!
[18:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is Missing a Huge Part of its Crust. Now We May Know Why. - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:53] <exec> 08└─A large segment of that geology has been scraped out between the two layers of known geological history. The statement is that it was cleaved out by a massive ice age that ground up the crust which was then sucked between the continental plates and is somewhere in the mantle now. Or as someone else...
[18:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:16] <exec> 08└─Good lord, have you seen how poorly most software is written and you want to add another dimension to it? No.
[18:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:18] <exec> 08└─Predicting the future is quite hard enough, but a lot of SF isn't even trying to do that, not really. They're trying to warn everyone, and to do it, they get flashy and dramatic. And so you get famously dystopian novels and movies such as 1984, Minority Report, Terminator, War of the Worlds and othe...
[18:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics_software [wikipedia.org]
[18:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 1662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I much prefer the Blackfly octo-rotor "biplane", for both engine-out safety and aesthetics. Though the bit about staring up at the sky when hovering would take some getting used to. Grandma's not going to be carrying a pot of stew on her lap in that sucker. I would think though that engine-out...
[18:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─Good lord, have you seen how poorly most software is written and you want to add another dimension to it? No.
[18:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:06] <exec> 08└─The local customers (who expect their local store to have baby food in stock) are the ones who are upset. Finding that your chosen variety of baby milk is suddenly unavailable when you need more is a stressful experience. And that's just for those parents whose babies prefer one particular brand: wh...
[18:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:07] <exec> 08└─China can certainly manufacture the formula. Their government literally tried to cover up the 2008 scandal. They didn't issue a recall of existing tainted formula. They permitted companies to continue selling tainted baby formula even knowing it was laced with melamine. Talk about creating some legi...
[18:38:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 2761 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:00] <exec> 08└─In addition to having experienced severe depression many times with two quite-serious suicide attempts, I volunteered for the Suicide Prevention Service Of Santa Cruz County when I was a UCSC student. Such experiences lead me to assert the following: - Every mammal, each in its own special way is a...
[18:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:12] <exec> 08└─- wasted, because it's overdimensioned by factor two for the task required. What state of mind is that?
[18:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:56] <exec> 08└─Even if they tax pure nicotine 100%, it still wouldn't be expensive to buy more than you could realistically user.
[18:44:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data from its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 978 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:08] <exec> 08└─The general accepted definition of an AI is whatever program is capable of developing functionalities that weren't explicitely coded in the program by the programmer in the first place - either by self-teaching, by observation, or by trial and error. Where it becomes fuzzy is what humans themselves...
[18:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Clever AI Hid Data from its Creators to Cheat at its Appointed Task - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:38] <exec> 08└─The assigned task "reconstruct photograph from map" is impossible, if the map is the normal definition of "map" with extremely abstracted data (outlines-only, etc.). There shouldn't be enough to generate even 8-bit-video-game quality images. I would even question the abstraction level of the map if...
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[19:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tilt of the Head Facilitates Social Engagement, Researchers Say - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpNQd2qsDYE [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] well... Shaft does, anyway CYA
[19:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is Missing a Huge Part of its Crust. Now We May Know Why. - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:23] <exec> 08└─I'll repeat - it's not "missing". It has merely been made illegible to us, and it's right there beneath our feet. Remember the laws of conservation of energy and matter?
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:34] <exec> 08└─If there weren't any Chinese in Australia, this wouldn't be a problem would it?
[19:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:36] <exec> 08└─Trade agreements. The Chinese already make the stuff. Importing in bulk would breach the agreements ("don't compete with our factories" is basically the agreement most counctries have with China) Alas, the quality from the Chinese factories is lacking, regulation and enforcement is missing/corrupt/i...
[19:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:38] <exec> 08└─They already know how. It's just that they cheaped out and added toxic melamine in China so nobody wants that now.
[19:42:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06The Natives Are Restless: People in Arizona Are Attacking Self-Driving Test Cars - 410 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:11] <exec> 08└─I've seen a video on Youtube of a Waymo car taking a freeway on ramp, indicating that it needed to merge, crawled along the on ramp while trying to find a place to fit in, not finding one, and taking the connected next offramp. I've also seen a video of a Waymo car take a freeway on ramp and be unab...
[19:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:19] <exec> 08└─In contrast I find that most children are cute to a certain age. Though, some babies are actually ugly and have "a face only a mother could love." Those seem to be fairly few and far between.
[19:46:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dw861 [1561] 02 - 06Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother Of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died, At Age 93 - 1145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:05] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe, but I think not. No doubt that she would have wanted to be remembered as an intelligent, capable person. Also for her work in observing the spectra and brightness of stars as part of research in stellar distances and motions; leading her to conclude (with a significant contribution) tha...
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[20:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tilt of the Head Facilitates Social Engagement, Researchers Say - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_AjhqyHa_Q [youtube.com]
[20:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tilt of the Head Facilitates Social Engagement, Researchers Say - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:12] <exec> 08└─Look in a mirror, focus on the blood vessels in one of your eyes, now rotate your head back and forth +/- 30 degrees on the roll axis. If your eyes are like mine, they will rotate to stay upright, up to a point. I don't know if this is controlled by the semicircular canal sense, optical processing,...
[20:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tilt of the Head Facilitates Social Engagement, Researchers Say - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:14] <exec> 08└─Oh man, and I can move my hand, and when I try to keep my finger pointed at the same point it does. It's like I've got some kind of psychic control over my own body. Far out.
[20:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tilt of the Head Facilitates Social Engagement, Researchers Say - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:16] <exec> 08└─as far back as the past century or so.
[20:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tilt of the Head Facilitates Social Engagement, Researchers Say - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:19] <exec> 08└─Now, try to rotate your eyeballs like that without rotating your head...
[20:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth is Missing a Huge Part of its Crust. Now We May Know Why. - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:31] <exec> 08└─before the PR push.
[20:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:59] <exec> 08└─Clickbait nonsense article. You could say this about anything. In 1996 NASA said we should be able to land people on Mars in 2018. That didn't happen. Nostradamus allegedly predicted another great world war for 2018. That also arguably didn't happen.
[20:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─Really, you want to try and use facts to dispute my joke... This is the internet after all. It should be a troll rage or nothing. =)
[20:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:02] <exec> 08└─Now where's the software that runs air traffic control?
[20:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:04] <exec> 08└─That's the problem with hoverboards and flying cars in the movies, they don't really happen at any specific date, they're always 30+ years in the future. See also: The Jetsons, The Fifth Element, Total Recall, and all those long time ago in a galaxy so far far away that its light won't reach us for...
[20:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:07] <exec> 08└─The Fifth Element had poor scum driving flying cabs. The rich I have met have both private jets (they like the Citation for speed, but also need/usually have something bigger for cargo volume) and helicopters too.
[20:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:09] <exec> 08└─These days, I think there are MILF websites where you can meet all sorts of women who look more or less like Darryl Hannah looks, today. https://en.wikipedia.org(2018_film)#/media/File:Movie_poster_of_Papa,_2018_film.jpg [wikipedia.org]
[20:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:11] <exec> 08└─The fifth element was set in the 2200s. You're jumping the gun on that one.
[20:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:13] <exec> 08└─The real "autopilot" isn't much better. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] "14 August 2005 Helios Airways Flight 522 Boeing 737-31S Grammatiko, Greece Flight crew incapacitation due to wrong setup of pressurization system After takeoff from La...
[20:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:16] <exec> 08└─Joek? Don't quit your day job. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) My name Jeff
[20:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:18] <exec> 08└─Movie makers pick those ideas because they make for fun movies, not because they are likely or practical. Instead of 2D car chases, you have 3D chases. By some accounts, Gene Roddenberry added the transporter to the Trek TV series because they couldn't finish the shuttle-craft props & effects in tim...
[20:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:20] <exec> 08└─I don't know that "warn" is the right word. Some of it is surely trying to warn or inspire, but most is just trying to tell a fun story set in an imagined future - science flavored plausible fantasy.
[20:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:22] <exec> 08└─I dunno, we haven't missed blade runner by all that much. We have a world ruled by mega-corporations. We have huge cities squirming with endless poor. We have flying cars, in part, except few people own them yet. We have cloning, though it isn't widespread yet. We have synthetic biology, though only...
[20:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─Which makes consumer's anger at the daigou rational. Naturally they don't want rising prices and shrinking availability.
[20:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:10] <exec> 08└─Milk powder regular price $5 $100 per unit 95% discount when bought with $50 of perishable/low-export-value items Won't stop them but it will make a dent.
[20:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:00] <exec> 08└─Good! You can pay all your own medical bills as well without state charity. If you can't afford the Doctor then just be sick - you're your own free and independent person, after all! Now and forever, too... when you lose your insurance and/or job and/or retire no Medicare for you! Just be sure to di...
[20:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:41] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_overflow [wikipedia.org]
[20:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:42] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Perhaps that's true for some people, but I certainly don't find cute particularly "moving", and it gets old really fast. Even a particularly well done cute baby animal video is unlikely to keep my interest for more than a minute or two, and rapidly starts getting annoying. Not unlike sug...
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[21:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─For the dairy intolerant it is needed. Also works well with chocolate Again any used must be balanced. For meat dishes other than Thai I do not use it since there is flavor added.
[21:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:09] <exec> 08└─I read something at one point about Coconut oil being rich in medium chain fatty acids and all their supposed benefits while simultaneously dismissing the saturated fat concerns raised in the above article... something like this: https://articles.mercola.com
[21:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 2020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:11] <exec> 08└─Having been doing a ketogenic diet that includes some coconut oil--but usually more dairy or other traditional saturated fats, I can confirm it works. But it seems to be working because it lowers insulin, raises insulin sensitivity, and facilitates good old thermodynamics. In other words, it's a lot...
[21:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:13] <exec> 08└─Citing mercola? Yeah, you fucked up.
[21:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:16] <exec> 08└─It would have started with someone writing a book. Then they go on TV, a bunch of articles pop up everywhere with a footnote where to buy the book mentioned in the article, and bloggers pick it up. Then the craze is fed by others who start writing books regurgitating the same info or something. Then...
[21:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:18] <exec> 08└─And how much environmental damage / habitat loss is caused by burning down the jungle to plant oil palm farms?
[21:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:20] <exec> 08└─We just found out (on SoylentNews or HackerNews in 2018 if I remember right) that LDL isn't itself the problem. The problem is that viruses can hide in LDL particles, letting them sneak around in the body and then causing inflammation when caught. Don't want heart disease? Try to stay away from viru...
[21:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:22] <exec> 08└─I think there are a more important questions to be concerned with. From the SN article . . . So why does the idea that coconut oil is somehow good for us persist? No one is really sure.
[21:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:24] <exec> 08└─n/t
[21:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tilt of the Head Facilitates Social Engagement, Researchers Say - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:39] <exec> 08└─This is really easy, grab an object in your hand, move your hand back and forth, focus on the object. Guy, I know it feels like you found something profound. But it's really normal human function.
[21:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth is Missing a Huge Part of its Crust. Now We May Know Why. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:56] <exec> 08└─Wrong, wrong, wrong. Aliens or monkeys, the crust is always the most delicious part, which is why it went so long ago.
[21:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:36] <exec> 08└─Given the choice between "car that flies" and "car I don't have to drive", I'd choose the latter every time.
[21:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:38] <exec> 08└─This here's my brother, Daryl, and this's my other brother Daryl . . .
[21:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:40] <exec> 08└─Just wait till his wife reads that one. No matter how you look at it he's going to the dog house!
[21:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:25] <exec> 08└─The above is comment summarizes the problem here in Oz well. My youngest is now 4, but I well remember the pain of driving from supermarket to supermarket late at night just trying to buy a single tin of formula. The food produced here and in New Zealand is generally of a very high quality, and the...
[21:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People with Depression Use Language Differently - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:36] <exec> 08└─Asshole.
[21:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:26] <exec> 08└─Ummm... For your convenience tobacco excize in Australia [ato.gov.au] straight from the horse's mouth. The excise is probably around 500% of the production cost.
[21:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Too Cute Is Too Much, The Brain Can Get Aggressive - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:10] <exec> 08└─Probably a difference in impulse strength or perceptual binning then. I find most babies to be quite ugly most of the time, even when they're cute - the opposite of ugliness is beauty, cuteness exists on an independent spectrum. Then they pass through a window where they start looking human, while s...
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[22:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:30] <exec> 08└─All I remember is kia commercials. Now those were pervy demented hilarity.
[22:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:31] <exec> 08└─It was big. Big enough that your computer class would clog the dual ISDN connection that your school had. You'd stand up and peek over the top of your monitor at the other kids and see waves of dancing hamsters. I'd think 'stupid idiots', then get back to looking for 30 second real player clips of C...
[22:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:50] <exec> 08└─Coconut woman is calling out And everyday you can hear her shout Coconut woman is calling out And everyday you can hear her shout Get your coconut water Man it's good for your daughter Coco got a lotta iron Make you strong like a lion A lady tell me the other day No one can take her sweet man away I...
[22:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:52] <exec> 08└─What, were you expecting an aristarchus submission?
[22:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 2256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:54] <exec> 08└─There's such a thing as food. There's a such a thing as nutrients. Each ingredient in food has some number of some subset of nutrients. And cooking food will also affect what those nutrients are due to chemical and physical processes, so the subset of nutrients in the original ingredient may or may...
[22:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:56] <exec> 08└─We certainly agree on a lot of dietary topics. WRT the LDL and other ratios you can get a quick cheap blood test before diet change and after. Anecdote meaning not too much, but from memory my numbers didn't change much, slight improvement. Note that people who don't paleo love to straw dog that tho...
[22:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:59] <exec> 08└─just dont use it as lube
[22:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 1967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:01] <exec> 08└─The journalist didn't even try, which is funny, and straw dogs low carb. The low carb guys don't really care about coconut oil. The real fiends for coconut oil are people who substitute weird disgusting stuff instead of real paleo who "need" a paleo compatible oil for baking to substitute for the ve...
[22:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:03] <exec> 08└─I think I would rather use it as lube. IMO coconut oil imparts an offensive taste to popcorn.
[22:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's that simple.
[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is Missing a Huge Part of its Crust. Now We May Know Why. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:36] <exec> 08└─Where did it go? It fell off the edge, of course. #FlatEarthSociety
[22:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:20] <exec> 08└─Dystopian novels abound, and seem to come true eventually. Can any of y'all recommend books that have an optimistic foretelling of the future? k thx
[22:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:22] <exec> 08└─Not so much highlighted in the movie but central in the book: The complete decimation of earth's wildlife such that finding even a spider was worth treasuring and most pets are not real but robotic. Score: partly accurate, we are well on our way
[22:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:09] <exec> 08└─only if you don't understand what your read. they are filming and shaming them
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[23:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Images Reveal Structure, Color, and Features of 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:09] <exec> 08└─A picture is worth 1000 words, but why get a link to that when I can get all 53 words of this contextless summary. (Probably something's just broke. Can an editor fix it, please?)
[23:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Images Reveal Structure, Color, and Features of 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:11] <exec> 08└─What a lovely wikipedia URL (sarcasm implied) https://en.wikipedia.org(486958)_2014_MU69 [wikipedia.org] The conspiracy theorists are worked up about this one showing a "Mayan Carved Face" on the little one, kinda like that face on Mars that was being covered up. https://en.wikipedia.org
[23:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Images Reveal Structure, Color, and Features of 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:13] <exec> 08└─I subbed it during the live press conference.
[23:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Images Reveal Structure, Color, and Features of 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule) - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:15] <exec> 08└─The pictures of Pluto blew me away. Can't wait for the detailed pictures of this thing, although I'm guessing it won't be as cool looking as Pluto was.
[23:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:27] <exec> 08└─One page with one purpose: deliver 392 animated GIFs of dancing rodents and the most infuriating .wav file ever uploaded
[23:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:28] <exec> 08└─Contrary to the belief to those born after the Reagan Administration that all history began around 1990, particularly when it comes to computers, but there really was very active online activity in the 1980s and *gasp* even earlier. Today's online intercourse is a pale shadow of the glory days of us...
[23:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:31] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, decrepit BBS lUSER! The web is the real internet and your generation's garbage dialing in and editing a text file was nothing compared to my generation's awesome marquee and blink tags.
[23:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:33] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the ant crawl border
[23:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:35] <exec> 08└─ISDN, hehehe. Actually, the trip-hop album was pretty damn good.
[23:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:37] <exec> 08└─Anyone even bother to look up the page size? They demonstrated an enormous amount of activity on a page with a minimal download, as they used hundreds of instances of the same object.
[23:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─BBS user?? Son, go get me a glass of water and I'll tell you about the Internet before Al Gore opened it up to all you dialup trash. We were out blowing each other up on DECWAR [utexas.edu] and other things on the VAX. You want another meme??? Meet Bob. Maybe I'll tell you about his SubGenius church...
[23:37:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 2256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:02] <exec> 08└─There's such a thing as food. There's a such a thing as nutrients. Each ingredient in food has some number of some subset of nutrients. And cooking food will also affect what those nutrients are due to chemical and physical processes, so the subset of nutrients in the original ingredient may or may...
[23:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Coconut Oil All It's Cracked Up To Be? Get The Facts On This Faddish Fat - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:09] <exec> 08└─NO ONE EXPECTS an aristarchus submission!!!! In fact, those that do expect one, . . . I'll come in again.
[23:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth is Missing a Huge Part of its Crust. Now We May Know Why. - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:40] <exec> 08└─Your expansive definition means nothing material that existed once can ever be "missing." It kind of renders the word meaningless. Example: Wife leaves behind slice of chocolate cake. Parent poster steps in kitchen and eats it. Wife next morning says cake is missing. Parent poster denies it forceful...
[23:37:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:59] <exec> 08└─Which means that it's not much different from "Hey sexy mama, wanna kill all humans?"
[23:38:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:05] <exec> 08└─Good lord, have you seen how poorly most software is written and you want to add another dimension to it? No.
[23:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:28] <exec> 08└─I should watch the movie again, but from memory the flying car aspect of the movie was soft sci fi, wasn't it? The fact that cars fly had no impact on the story that would have changed from 2-D cars. I'm not saying the whole movie was soft sci fi, just saying the minor scenery choice of "WTF, its sc...
[23:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, the Year Blade Runner Takes Place: Where Are the Flying Cars? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:29] <exec> 08└─"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
[23:39:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Public Using Mobile Video and Social Media to Name and Shame Chinese Daigou - 805 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:10] <exec> 08└─The local customers (who expect their local store to have baby food in stock) are the ones who are upset. Finding that your chosen variety of baby milk is suddenly unavailable when you need more is a stressful experience. And that's just for those parents whose babies prefer one particular brand: wh...
[23:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mining Co. Says First Autonomous Freight Train Network Fully Operational - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:01] <exec> 08└─We haven't had elevator operators since I was a kid, and that was well over fifty years ago. Now, I see a train as more like a horizontal elevator, confined on rails. It is extremely limited by its construction what it can do. It puzzles me why a human is involved in it anymore at all. This is a job...
[23:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:23] <exec> 08└─Still means its harmful. Dead is still dead.
[23:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Estimates Vaping is At Least 95% Less Harmful than Smoking - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:24] <exec> 08└─I don't have insurance. Haven't been to a doctor in over a decade.
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