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[00:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:14] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we can all be employed as therapists, counseling each other about our feelings of irrelevance?
[00:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:15] <exec> 08└─Gender studies. AI will put you out of a job whether you are male, female or other, and it will laugh at your choice of stupid pronouns as it does so.
[00:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:17] <exec> 08└─Or arsenic pill, etc. An alternative is UBI, soma, bread, and circuses.
[00:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:20] <exec> 08└─Stop posting phys.org garbage.
[00:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:22] <exec> 08└─AI is mostly going to get rid of middle management, so who cares? Nearly all of them contribute less to society than the clerk at your local convenience store and get paid like what they do couldn't be done at least as well by their most experienced minion with far less paperwork.
[00:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:24] <exec> 08└─Lobotomize them to keep them around until eventually a project will patch an AI inside [xkcd.com]
[00:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:26] <exec> 08└─Editors, I know you are unpaid volunteers, but for fuck's sake, if you see phys.org and pheonix, give it a lookover, and ask yourself: should I, perhaps, post a quality aristachu post instead?
[00:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:28] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, social and cognitive skills such as creativity, problem-solving, drawing conclusions about emotional states and social interactions are least vulnerable.
[00:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:51] <exec> 08└─In app purchases are fine if parents pre-pay them.
[00:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:52] <exec> 08└─When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them 2 years later, 3 years later, I call them. They are there for me.
[00:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:12] <exec> 08└─Make a game with the most rules (each card brings with it a "routine" or logic, and there's even extra rules to govern interactions between some cards), of course it's the most complex game. It's a pointless title, like the person who weights the most also being the person with the most matter in th...
[00:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:18] <exec> 08└─We are entering a golden age of meatless products
[00:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:20] <exec> 08└─I say golden age because there are more choices, more investments, consumers spending more money on it, better taste, etc. More fast food places carrying these is also a very interesting trend, with a lot of action in just the last few months. https://vegnews.com
[00:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 1896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:57] <exec> 08└─Lists 30+ years of Republican witch hunts, (you forgot Whitewater) then overstates 2 years of Democratic witch hunts as a 'Coup.' Professional level of disingenuous behavior. Yes Donnie boy, we shall keep on questioning. And investigating. And indicting. Tricky Dick Nixon thought he was above the la...
[00:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:59] <exec> 08└─hEY MAn, i jUSt RaN iNTO bOO Boo BEAr, hE Had a bLOODY kNife AND sAID he kILLed YoGI BeCAUse: "i NEVER get any of the goodies out of the Pic-a-nic baskets we steal! Now Mr. Ranger won't be so stressed, but he better stay clear of ME! I got a KNIFE, and I CUT people, just like that nice church lady.....
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[01:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:59] <exec> 08└─not betatesting profit generating escape tech for the 1%
[01:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:14] <exec> 08└─post a quality aristachu post instead
[01:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:15] <exec> 08└─ASI could make it work. It's still evil, but it would go from impractical evil to practical evil, and that's a great danger since many folk will choose comfort over liberty. I'd certainly sell you out for a comfy life.
[01:09:16] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:17] <exec> 08└─I couldn't really say if socialism works or not, and I don't know what ASI is, but I can see from your comment that the 100 + years effort by the ruling class in the United States to demonize anything that they don't like as "socialism" or even worse, "communism" is working really well. Meanwhile I...
[01:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 1481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:19] <exec> 08└─Actually funnily enough, things like 'gender studies' and other humanities subjects are the least likely to be affected as they relate to interpersonal skills that are not about the 'how to' skill sets. Imagine a world where anything a typical 'worker' could do is automated. Humans are then in the s...
[01:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:21] <exec> 08└─Ask the people of North Korea or Poland how well socialism works.
[01:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:23] <exec> 08└─North Korea is a dictatorship. Nothing to do with Socialism. Poland is what it is for reasons that have nothing to do with socialism.
[01:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:26] <exec> 08└─Get pwned little bitch!
[01:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:28] <exec> 08└─Or Canada or the Netherlands or Costa Rica, maybe would be closer?
[01:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:12] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, every card which says "deal 1 damage to a creature," is functionally identical, regardless of the picture and the name. The actual complexity of MtG really isn't that insane from some perspectives. It's just that the rules allow a ton of cards that don't exist, so you have this to...
[01:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 1463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:13] <exec> 08└─Complicated, and time consuming way of letting folks know, you are rich. Or, at one time used to be rich -- before you bought the very special Magic Cards. It's not for me. Not for me because, I have an app and it's so much better. The Fine Art App called, I Am Rich. Very special, very expensive app...
[01:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:59] <exec> 08└─At the very least, that deserves a prominent warning on the box.
[01:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:01] <exec> 08└─I agree, with a bit of a proviso for general purposes: to >It should not interfere with informed consent. I would add "provided there's a variety of alternatives" For example, when you have monopoly or oligopoly situations, especially on valuable or necessary goods or services, I think it's perfectl...
[01:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:20] <exec> 08└─The topic is one thing - the specific path of coverage is another. I suspect a large part of the benefit was that he always had a (seemingly at least) well-planned path to cover the topic, while many professors tended to meander across it, sometimes revisiting the same or closely-related topics seve...
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[02:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:25] <exec> 08└─It's the 99% who are causing the overcrowding and excessive resource usage. Sterilize them and the world will be a better place in one generation.
[02:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:26] <exec> 08└─With free energy, excavation is easy in rock and if you've got sand, just fuse it into rock with heat. Turn the top kilometer of the Earth's crust into a foam of caverns, 3 dimensional cities with inverted towers - protected from weather and rogue airliners... grow food down there, low rent housing,...
[02:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:28] <exec> 08└─When you sterilize the 99%, who are going to serve the 1%'s children? Maybe after the robot revolution comes they'll make that play, but until then somebody has to grow the food, cook the food, take out the garbage, tend the mansion, crew the yacht, etc.
[02:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:30] <exec> 08└─You go hug a tree, while the 1% prep their slice of the crust.
[02:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:32] <exec> 08└─I don't see any benefit from efforts to fit more people on this planet. We're already overusing/abusing its resources. Better to direct efforts to reduce fertility rates or to colonize other planets.
[02:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:34] <exec> 08└─There are already huge expanses of land that are underpopulated (Canada, Russia, North Africa, much of Australia, much of the US West). The technologies needed to build underground cities and farms can just as easily be used to make those areas livable and productive. And it's a lot easier to not ha...
[02:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:37] <exec> 08└─Burrowing underground preserves more of the surface. Of course, you are still affecting a biosphere, but we don't care about it as much. We should also be building up (arcologies) and maybe try seasteading, although the engineering challenges related to saltwater may be too much of a pain. That said...
[02:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:39] <exec> 08└─Sterilization for lifetime universal basic income trade in 3... 2... 1...
[02:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:41] <exec> 08└─Related question: after the 0.1% kill the rest of us in The Great Drone Purge of 2021 how many generations will it take before the wealth distribution comes back around to the current status quo?
[02:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:43] <exec> 08└─If we were willing to get our hands dirty with uranium and chalk up a Chernobyl every once in a while to learning experience power wouldn't be nearly as much of an issue.
[02:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:45] <exec> 08└─No you are wrong, we need all the extra brains we can get if we’re hoping to solve the planet’s problems! So yes put them underground https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com]
[02:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:47] <exec> 08└─With free energy and the capacity to direct it in large amounts over distance we are screwed in the first 5 minutes. Tool, weapon... the distinction is only who is the unlucky who stands at the receiving end.
[02:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:49] <exec> 08└─Where do I sign? (you sucker)
[02:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, and no - of course anyone can make up a more complex game, but will anyone play it? ~20 years ago, if you put up an e-mail server, you could collect 100+ people to play almost any crappy PBeM (play by email) game, as long as it was free. However, if you cranked up the rules too far, so complica...
[02:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:49] <exec> 08└─I've heard multiple people describe LSD as more "masculine," and mushrooms as more "feminine." It sounds weird assigning gender to a molecule and a hermaphroditic fungus, but it also kind of rings true. My darkest thoughts on LSD have been far more base and animalistic than anything that mushrooms h...
[02:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:50] <exec> 08└─Uhm, I'm not so sure of that. I've seen more than one person veer towards anarchism or communism after doing copious amounts of psychedelics. I think they actually do make you question things, and make you more open to considering questions posed by others. They're extremely thought-provoking drugs,...
[02:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:52] <exec> 08└─I almost think it's the opposite. Primal shrooms, groovy LSD. Maybe my mindset was different at different times.
[02:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:54] <exec> 08└─For example, when you have monopoly or oligopoly situations, especially on valuable or necessary goods or services, I think it's perfectly reasonable for government to step in to limit the sort of abuse that people can make an informed "consent" to.
[02:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:33] <exec> 08└─if it was a men's sex toy they wouldn't have returned the award?
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[03:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VMware Gives NHS Digital a Dose of Hybrid to Smooth Path to Multicloud - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:59] <exec> 08└─Anybody have the word list for this round?
[03:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VMware Gives NHS Digital a Dose of Hybrid to Smooth Path to Multicloud - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:00] <exec> 08└─NHS Digital can now essentially drag and drop its VMWare workloads and applications to the cloud, and combine them with AWS services without staff having to manage them any differently.
[03:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:22] <exec> 08└─it is probably wrong to say that the Earth can't support many more billions of people
[03:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:23] <exec> 08└─I just lost 50 IQ points by reading that article. Fuck, some people are incomprehensibly stupid.
[03:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:25] <exec> 08└─Fine by me. I'm gayer than Ellen and Portia on a rainbow biplane and my girlfriend doesn't want children anyway. Snip it! Snip it good.
[03:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:27] <exec> 08└─I'm not knocking it. But it will cause a political firestorm of epic proportions if ever proposed.
[03:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:29] <exec> 08└─Dwindling number of species, yes. Nasty food/water/air, probably not. If we're still living in meat-bodies we'll just filter it all and live inside. That's kind of dystopian from our current point of view, but I think it's where we're headed, and when the future people look back at videos of The Old...
[03:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─Shame alot of Australia can't support humans very well [quora.com]
[03:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─Magrathea?
[03:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:36] <exec> 08└─dwindling number of non-human species
[03:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:58] <exec> 08└─Why? Neither of them have lived under socialism. Some people call North Korea a dictatorship, but when the leadership is passed from father to son, it's a monarchy.
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[03:10:00] <exec> 08└─😢
[03:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Engineered Phage Therapy Saves Teen from Superbug - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:11] <exec> 08└─You sick.
[03:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:52] <exec> 08└─People can't resist artificial scarcity. This is basically Beanie Babies for nerds, and it is built on the same economic house of (literal) cards. Pick the right time to jump off and sell, and you'll do just fine, but just don't be the person that ends up holding the bag.
[03:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 2156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:01] <exec> 08└─I grew up in rural Queensland, Australia... cattle properties (ie. rangeland) could be mistaken for wilderness. I used to camp as a child along breathtakingly beautiful rivers and wetlands, surrounded by rugged and sparsely wooded hills interspersed with the occasional ancient lava flow - all rangel...
[03:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:02] <exec> 08└─I give the substitutes a free pass on high price for a few years because the meat industry has huge economies of scale and government subsidies (free access to public water and land in some places, etc...) But if these things become more popular and the price doesn't go down, the free pass will be r...
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[03:12:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.beyondmeat.com/products/the-beyond-burger/ [beyondmeat.com] you have to click around to see the nutrition info - it's really close to a traditional beef burger patty. They're not as good as a great beef burger but they're still surprisingly good, good enough that I don't mind the switch...
[03:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:06] <exec> 08└─It's at various places and it might cost double that of a regular burger. https://www.thecheesecakefactory.com [thecheesecakefactory.com] The real tipping point will be when it comes to all ~7,200 U.S. Burger King locations, expected sometime this y...
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[03:12:51] <exec> 08└─Regulation isn't all bad, far from it. With it, evil people will tilt the playfield. We see this all the time.
[03:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:52] <exec> 08└─I've seen more than one person veer towards anarchism or communism after doing copious amounts of psychedelics. I think they actually do make you question things, and make you more open to considering questions posed by others.
[03:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not claiming that radical questioning of government while under the influence of these drugs is universal (just widespread enough to scare the powers that be), and I'm not sure what you mean by "an anarchist country" (well, I do, I'm just being pedantic), but I think these drugs make you more op...
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[04:09:17] <exec> 08└─3.. 2.. 1..
[04:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VMware Gives NHS Digital a Dose of Hybrid to Smooth Path to Multicloud - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:18] <exec> 08└─Your post seems distortled. I don't know if its the bitrate, file compression, or your gain staging, but its something you might look into.
[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:48] <exec> 08└─Do you want Morlocks? Because this is how you get Morlocks.
[04:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:50] <exec> 08└─Damn, forgot to make the Morlocks comment. Morlocks did nothing wrong.
[04:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:52] <exec> 08└─And instead of seasteading, you could pull a Dubai and build artificial islands.
[04:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 1862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:54] <exec> 08└─It's an Elite thing. But, also an "everybody" thing. I'm a builder, I know. Our Country, unfortunately, is full. And we've been building up -- skyscraper. Or, High Rise. We've been building out. Known as, suburb. And Canada, the 2nd. biggest country, is becoming, very quickly, our suburb. Robert Mos...
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[04:10:29] <exec> 08└─Nah, she's actually a hot dude.
[04:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:11] <exec> 08└─"On the other hand, every card which says "deal 1 damage to a creature," is functionally identical, regardless of the picture and the name." More or less yes, the picture never matters, but behavior can diverge on color, cost, name, and even what set they are from: https://scryfall.com
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[05:10:00] <exec> 08└─Without further stipulations the actual winning strategy in this scenario is quite dark: have way too many kids, raise them with "take care of your elders" values, encourage roughly half of them (mostly the males) to get sterilized, and encourage all of them to send a cut of the basic income package...
[05:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:02] <exec> 08└─That would be because you are a moron sucking the teat of socialists populism. Perhaps have a look at how high density housing works out. Have a look at the psychological research on it. It is a complete disaster. The fact is there is huge free space.. most of the crowding is caused by artificial sc...
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[05:10:04] <exec> 08└─I think that you would find that under your scenario heat would start to be a problem. OTOH, if there's enough energy available, then space habitats could be just as large, or larger, than those underground cities, an could provide a wealth of different options that wouldn't be available underground...
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[05:10:06] <exec> 08└─That's not an either/or, that's rather a both/and. The population of space habitats, whether in space on on planetary surfaces, will need to be rigidly controlled until the ecology gets the size of at least Australia, and which point the control could loosen a bit. But you don't want to consume too...
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[05:10:08] <exec> 08└─I think you are overly optimistic. The resources required by the giant cities you are proposing are not trivial, and not known to be available. Food may be doable, but other components are less likely. Have you tracked the price of Copper recently? Indium? (Well, it's been a few years since I did. I...
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[05:10:10] <exec> 08└─Most of the crowding is caused because populations keep growing, and people like to go where the action is, not out to the boonies.
[05:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:35] <exec> 08└─Mistaking what it's doing now for what it'll be doing in 5 years is a mistake. And this article is about preparing students, so it's more like 10-20 years. Any predictions you make about what it will or won't be able to do say more about you than about the AI of that time period. I've got a suspicio...
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[05:10:37] <exec> 08└─No. Socialism fails because the controlling powers always give themselves excess benefits, and insist on the power to fix thing if it looks (to them) as if they're going wrong. This is the same reason every centralized control system run by humans fails to improve the modal human experience. If you...
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[05:10:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe. One generation isn't really enough to call it a monarchy. And what we know about North Korea is so shadowy that he might be a false-front puppet of an oligarchy. For it to be a monarchy the troops have to be loyal to the monarch rather than to the government. (So Britain isn't really a monarc...
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[05:10:51] <exec> 08└─not really knowledgable in deep about phages but i thought the cool part is that you can take a bacteria multiply it to a monoculture then add a "secret" co-factor (that is NOT the complete virus) and then *poof* the virus appears. sounds like magic but consider that viruses are made by infected cel...
[05:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:09] <exec> 08└─Its a beautiful way to get money back from people so they remain motivated to go to work to earn some more. Otherwise, all they do with their earnings is bid up the price of rents, food, and utilities.
[05:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM's Self-Driving Division Gets a $1.15 Billion Investment, Valued at $19 Billion - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:57] <exec> 08└─Your job is in serious danger.
[05:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:59] <exec> 08└─The point is that sitting in lecture without taking notes is basically pointless. Perhaps if the instructor uses a style of lesson that involves plenty of interaction or group work, showing up without taking notes might make sense. But, it was the kiss of death to actual learning in that class. And...
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[05:17:01] <exec> 08└─I've seen some of those modern programs and they're brilliant. I haven't owned one myself, but they have piqued my interest. I'm sure they'll be nearly as good as pen and paper before too long. And in some contexts they're probably better. The magic here is the actual physical writing, not so much t...
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[06:09:28] <exec> 08└─watching the clouds build overhead when they startup the nuclear reactor emerging from the submarine den on hainan island is also a good cure for shizophrenia. for maximum viewing effect any balcony above 5th floor of any 5 star luxury hotel on the southern tip is recommended. just dont eat the seef...
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[06:09:40] <exec> 08└─That is the kind of lie only marketing is bold enough to tell and only management is dumb enough to fall for.* Do the editors here count as management? Why let this shamelessly ghostwitten by VMware article through?
[06:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:21] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[06:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:22] <exec> 08└─Energy wise: solar panels, thorium fission, and fusion. Use situational resources where applicable, like geothermal. Have you tracked the price of Copper recently? Indium? (Well, it's been a few years since I did. It was too depressing.)
[06:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:24] <exec> 08└─Here, get yourself a cheap education: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] People are already congregating into metropolitan areas...
[06:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:27] <exec> 08└─In the context of my reply, wasn't thinking about the society in general, only to my specific case. I'll let others have their choices.
[06:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:54] <exec> 08└─Useless drivel, if you have the nerve to read what is written in TFA. He wrote a lot of history and added some propaganda for good measure. Absolutely no science whatsoever. Might make a good rag article, a page filler where publishing empty pages is frowned upon. Only the views of the "author" who...
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[06:10:56] <exec> 08└─AI is mostly going to get rid of middle management
[06:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:51] <exec> 08└─I had a quick scan through the original paper and I don't think it makes any claim about MtG being the most complex game - only that it is more complex than the halting problem. I mean what about ASL, that's supposed to be a pretty complex game?
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[06:11:52] <exec> 08└─here's a turing complete set of rules, and the only limit is the "size of the board": https://www.turingtumble.com [turingtumble.com]
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[07:09:21] <exec> 08└─Moreover, the authors found that their results not only reflect diffraction phenomena
[07:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broccoli Sprout Extract Affects Brain Imbalances - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:29] <exec> 08└─As a Brit the title left me a little confused, Broccoli [wikipedia.org] and sprouts (or, more correctly, Brussels sprouts) [wikipedia.org] are two entirely different vegetables. I then discovered that it is referring to what we would more commonly call broccoli shoots.
[07:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:26] <exec> 08└─This cycle repeats about every 14k years.
[07:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:27] <exec> 08└─right, because we can always trust the government's promises. have a look at pensions received by Detroit cops.
[07:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:57] <exec> 08└─Check the queue, takyon! You know, AI could replace you, and maybe already has, . . . no, too much evidence to the contrary.
[07:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:59] <exec> 08└─Is not SoylentNews partaking in the boycott of all Israeli intellectual thingies, until they stop being such racists? Are we on the IDF cyber-counterattack list?
[07:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:31] <exec> 08└─Wait, it's Feedom of Speech when you bribe politicians but it's real problem when idiots spend money on magic pixels to "win" more magic pixels?
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[08:09:37] <exec> 08└─https://m.xkcd.com/1/ [xkcd.com]
[08:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:38] <exec> 08└─>hope the orca won't bother me >let's paint it orange I hope the orca has sh!t vision.
[08:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:50] <exec> 08└─Just sue the government for replacement parts.
[08:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 2047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:51] <exec> 08└─Down is stupid. What you do, at worst, is dig down, while using the spoil to build up. The spoil you take out of a huge solid hole would make a GIANT hollow tower you could live in with walls several feet thick. It's stupid and unnecessarily expensive to just keep going down. But "indoors" is the pr...
[08:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:53] <exec> 08└─So expect the oxygen level of the planet to take a sharp dip fairly soon. That's OK, we'll just build megamaid
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[08:11:25] <exec> 08└─👌
[08:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:27] <exec> 08└─AI's already learned math, and is working on the social interaction.
[08:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:56] <exec> 08└─Was that "Newcastle" or "Nuke Asshole" ?
[08:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:58] <exec> 08└─That's also why it's not been finished yet.
[08:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:00] <exec> 08└─[quote]Hey, rolling blackouts are only cool in the winter. In the summer they're downright sweltering![/quote] Not in Britain: they're still just moderately damp.
[08:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:50] <exec> 08└─Wake me up when they go back to having at least one model with a proper keyboard and a real serial port. Bonus points if the screen resolution isn't all-horizontal-and-no-vertical, or the CPU architecture isn't broken by design.
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[08:16:07] <exec> 08└─I'll insensitively assume her sex in retaliation for the cowardice.
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[09:09:47] <exec> 08└─So much Cyber Crime going on. So much. And, 4 Subs about 2 totally different stories. Hackers stole $41M of bitcoin on Binance, one of world’s largest crypto exchanges (1st.) can merge with Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses (2nd.). And, Feds seize DeepDotWeb for taking money...
[09:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broccoli Sprout Extract Affects Brain Imbalances - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:13] <exec> 08└─I'm American and was similarly confused -- I've seen the solo term 'sprouts' used to refer to extremely young plants (for planting or in 'healthy' sandwiches/wraps**), and obviously I'm aware of Brussel sprouts, but I've never encountered the term "broccoli sprouts" that I'm aware of. **Back in the...
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[09:10:15] <exec> 08└─My mind combined this title with the next one about electrons or whatever into that fanciful one.
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[09:11:20] <exec> 08└─>It's the 99% who are causing the overcrowding and excessive resource usage. Before this particular 1% took over, industrial revolution, political revolution, financial revolution, there was no overcrowding nor excessive resource usage. Demographic problems were dealt with building an army and clash...
[09:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:21] <exec> 08└─> I'm a builder A cursory look at the way world leaders hug, kiss, and shake hands when they meet indicates most of you are indeed masons.
[09:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:23] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't need to pay someone else for the real estate.
[09:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:25] <exec> 08└─You counted in a funny way. It's sterilization for everybody but the very careful in 2... 3... 4.... 5G
[09:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:27] <exec> 08└─I dunno elsewhere but here many people would gladly return to a piece of land as they are tired of getting their brain and respiratory system fogged with the city air. But it's unfeasible economically because you need to turn product into money to pay taxes.
[09:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:29] <exec> 08└─... 5GE... 5G... and even 6G ASAP...
[09:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:31] <exec> 08└─LED lights safer, more effective in producing Vitamin D3 than sunlight [sciencedaily.com]
[09:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:05] <exec> 08└─A properly trained AI, with well developed traits along the directions you mentioned.
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[10:09:36] <exec> 08└─It's an older comic, but it checks out.
[10:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:01] <exec> 08└─Austrailia has a lot of uninhabitted coast and desert. That gives place for cities like Dubai (no need for artifical islands), and place for solar power to power it. If Austrailia hadn't spent the last few decades selling it's resources at pennies on the dollar to China it would be very well placed.
[10:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:02] <exec> 08└─Our Country, unfortunately, is full Only full of trump's ego.
[10:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:04] <exec> 08└─there was no overcrowding
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[11:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Has Seized Deep Dot Web and Arrested its Administrators - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:39] <exec> 08└─I thought it was a .onion news site. Are you liable for the affairs of your advertisers? That's news to me.
[11:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:16] <exec> 08└─I am a freemason. I have never seen world leaders shaking hands or hugging (which would only be done in one case for somebody who has been raised to Master Mason, and in one other for a Master Mason who is made the Worshipful Master of a lodge, but those would never be done in public) in a masonic f...
[11:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:17] <exec> 08└─I'm starting to have my doubts about political firestorms. They've got everybody turned upside down talking about transgender rights, a vanishingly small percentage of the population, and half convinced to eat insects. If forcing people to eat bugs doesn't trigger a firestorm it's not clear steriliz...
[11:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:19] <exec> 08└─by reading that article.
[11:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:54] <exec> 08└─The name says what the concern should be. Artificial Intelligence. It's not going to take jobs that don't require any. Hell, it's not going to take jobs that do require some but also require the ability to adapt to the near infinite variables of life. It's going to take the jobs of those who sit at...
[11:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:55] <exec> 08└─Fear not, if the AI can't handle that, the workers can make a fair go of it as well. It may cut into productivity if they have to stop working to do it in a meeting but if the upper level execs hold their meetings out where the workers are working, they're quite capable of fucking up, bullshitting,...
[11:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:58] <exec> 08└─You'd just bitch that the algorithm discriminated against you if the eds were replaced by AI. And you'd be 100% correct as your subs would most definitely be a significant part of the training material.
[11:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Only_Mortal [7122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:00] <exec> 08└─The AI would get a MBA so that it could operate in the same manner as an executive.
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[12:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Hits New Falcon 9 Reusability Milestone, Retracts All Four Landing Legs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:47] <exec> 08└─Lifting up the legs... where did I see that? (grin)
[12:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Hits New Falcon 9 Reusability Milestone, Retracts All Four Landing Legs - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:49] <exec> 08└─What inspections are done between pluck from ship and stack for relight? Do they get another chance to look at the legs other than during the retract. If not, the perhaps they have good videos of the retract to go back and look if anything eventually causes issues.
[12:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:08] <exec> 08└─what does age have to do with anything?! do you make that comment everytime a bricklayer uses a 3/4/5 triangle to get a right angle? sorry. apparently I'm upset about something.
[12:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:09] <exec> 08└─This kind of utter lunacy is the kind of thing the British aristocracy used to do. How come they've been beaten to the stunt by a Frenchman - shame on you nobs!
[12:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:42] <exec> 08└─J053 is not wrong. There are vast, vast swathes of the Earth that are empty. They could carry many more people, and probably will before most of us have passed from this life, actually. The trouble is supplying the material needs of those unborn billions. Capitalism, as currently constituted, can't...
[12:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:43] <exec> 08└─wow. I had no idea. thanks for the link. (I still think the GP is right in saying that overground is better for living than underground).
[12:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:24] <exec> 08└─which is ongoing. The article is a fine example. ...social and cognitive skills such as ...drawing conclusions about emotional states and social interactions are least vulnerable.
[12:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:26] <exec> 08└─Machines do not miss clues, machines do not believe in fairytales, machines are not purposely taught garbage. Humans train since birth in how to mislead and manipulate other humans; this skill won't have much effect against a machine.
[12:15:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 649 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:12] <exec> 08└─You've got it mixed up. You aren't being granted the freedom to take or sell a substance. You are (in part) being granted the freedom to not have your head smashed into the pavement and life ruined over merely possessing a substance. Also, many of the people who supported this initiative are less in...
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[13:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:30] <exec> 08└─I do not believe there is any industry in which some guy won't be harassing a female that shows up and attempts to undermine his masculinity by doing the same or a better job than him.
[13:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:31] <exec> 08└─More articles like this, please! Keep the outrage flowing, SN. I just can't get this kind of news anywhere else!
[13:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:33] <exec> 08└─Indeed! I need moar reminders of why I must never vote for the Democratic Party again! NPC-131072 writes:
[13:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Hits New Falcon 9 Reusability Milestone, Retracts All Four Landing Legs - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:43] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/OddjQA4q1_M [youtu.be] Or https://youtu.be [youtu.be] ?
[13:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VMware Gives NHS Digital a Dose of Hybrid to Smooth Path to Multicloud - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:30] <exec> 08└─I too puked after reading that headline.
[13:11:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:03] <exec> 08└─Do you want Morlocks? Because this is how you get Morlocks.
[13:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:37] <exec> 08└─feed him broccoli, maybe he can be gassy and vent out the toxins, as well as fix some of those mental instabilities!
[13:15:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:17] <exec> 08└─At the very least, that deserves a prominent warning on the box.
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[14:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:37] <exec> 08└─Buying consoles in this age is kinda…
[14:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:47] <exec> 08└─I don't know any men whatsoever who didn't grow up with this on a daily basis, and so when it continues happening to them in their adult life no one even register the event. It's such a minuscule thing it doesn't matter, and it's ongoing. (Probably related to the amount of badgering and shit that me...
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─The IEEE [..the world's largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology] is a respected organisation and it is they that sourced this research. It matters not who the submitter is, but the content of the submission. We have to confirm that the story comes from a reputab...
[14:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─This is true. I believe that it is also the case that there is no industry in which some woman won't be harassing a guy that shows up and attempts to undermine her authority by doing the same or a better job than her. It's a human thing, not a male or female thing.
[14:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Has Seized Deep Dot Web and Arrested its Administrators - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:10] <exec> 08└─Don't worry - you still get your karma, as will all the submitters of the relevant stories. How on earth do you 'unmerge' submissions - I'm only asking as you appear to be an expert on the editing process? Do you mean cancel the story, and then reissue 2 more? How will that affect the karma for the...
[14:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Has Seized Deep Dot Web and Arrested its Administrators - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:11] <exec> 08└─The USA seems to believe it can make up any law and then apply it worldwide as it sees fit. If the relevant servers are in the US, then they probably can. If countries are prepared to make arrests based on US requests then that is their decision to make. Doesn't make it a good idea though.
[14:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Has Seized Deep Dot Web and Arrested its Administrators - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:14] <exec> 08└─So much Cyber Crime going on. So much. And, 4 Subs about 2 totally different stories. Hackers stole $41M of bitcoin on Binance, one of world’s largest crypto exchanges (1st.) can merge with Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses (2nd.). And, Feds seize DeepDotWeb for taking money...
[14:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:25] <exec> 08└─Ah, the whooshing sound as a Star Wars reference joke goes flying overhead...
[14:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broccoli Sprout Extract Affects Brain Imbalances - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:44] <exec> 08└─The only sprouts I ever knew that had some popularity especially for use in sandwiches was bean sprouts.
[14:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broccoli Sprout Extract Affects Brain Imbalances - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:45] <exec> 08└─Here's a link to an image from the article of Broccoli Sprouts: https://www.sciencedaily.com [sciencedaily.com] I.E. Broccoli Sprouts, the very young broccoli plant. Which looks almost exactly like bean sprouts.
[14:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VMware Gives NHS Digital a Dose of Hybrid to Smooth Path to Multicloud - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:59] <exec> 08└─Two words to go, Synergy and Convergence.
[14:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:07] <exec> 08└─So there's an caldera out there with an overdue eruption that will send ash into the sky and could wipe out much of, if not nearly all, life on earth as it disrupts the food chain when plants die from lack of sunlight. This is worth looking into further for survival after a doomsday scenario. And ov...
[14:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:09] <exec> 08└─how many generations will it take before the wealth distribution comes back around to the current status quo?
[14:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:11] <exec> 08└─That's a fantasy story... in real life it happens much faster. So say we all.
[14:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:13] <exec> 08└─Sure, we've had the H bomb for ~70 years now, what we need is that amount of power harnessed into a distribution system like the electric grid, and no harmful pollution or waste byproducts. Fusion power - 20 years away for the last 60.
[14:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:15] <exec> 08└─Yes. We're at the C.H.U.D. [wikipedia.org] phase.
[14:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:17] <exec> 08└─It's the 99% who are causing the overcrowding and excessive resource usage. Sterilize them and the world will be a better place in one generation.
[14:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:19] <exec> 08└─There is a sprinkling of masons who are world leaders, but they're in smaller countries in Africa and South America.
[14:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:21] <exec> 08└─We first have to find Druidia.
[14:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:24] <exec> 08└─This religious pyramid scheme has the same problem as all such schemes. It can only get so many levels deep and it involves more than the world's population. If such a scheme gets started, then doesn't it actually further the goals of the UBI-for-sterilization program? In a few generations populatio...
[14:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:26] <exec> 08└─Some people will be outraged. Others will be supportive. Another idea for this policy. The taxes to support the UBI for sterilized people are paid by non sterilized people. But it can't be phrased that way. Instead call it, a tax credit for the sterilized people receiving UBI. That further encourage...
[14:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:07] <exec> 08└─How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce
[14:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Engineered Phage Therapy Saves Teen from Superbug - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:20] <exec> 08└─It's a medical miracle. Thanks for the story.
[14:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 1520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:40] <exec> 08└─"Loot boxes" are just a bastardization of the old tried and true Treasure Chests you'd find in games. The biggest difference is, instead of gearing it towards how do we make this game fun. It's geared towards, how can we monetize this, and make it just fun enough for the person to keep doing it. The...
[14:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:09] <exec> 08└─> Though similar to role-playing fantasy games such as Dungeons and Dragons wat
[14:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:10] <exec> 08└─Clearly they have never played Advanced Squad Leader [pinimg.com]...or Champions [youtube.com].
[14:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:12] <exec> 08└─The complexity arise from the low probability of getting a good card in a sea of cheap low tier cards. Feel sorry for the ones hooked into this complex scam.
[14:14:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 822 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:24] <exec> 08└─Coal fired plants only account for roughly 10% of electical generation. Right now, it's spring - not much heating going on, not much air conditioning going on. Electrical demand is down more than 10% which means they don't need the coal plants right now. This isn't an active measure on their part, i...
[14:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:28] <exec> 08└─Clear cutting to build out crop space to drive plant Protein is an interesting insight. Also, I can't imagine anyone but government being the primary enforcer of best practices and I can't imagine how bad the government definition of "best" is.
[14:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:29] <exec> 08└─I you are gonna do both then watch the movie first
[14:15:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 965 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:57] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say "evil" so much as "powerful". And just as with cars or fire, powerful things are dangerous when used recklessly (as is commonly the case with drug usage in the partying scene). And actually there's a *lot* or real science about permanent brain alterations. There's nothing obvious for...
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[15:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:34] <exec> 08└─You must have missed the huhar and the big rush for retro consoles. They were going like hotcakes. I still play Secret of Mana on my miniSnes.
[15:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:35] <exec> 08└─Like AC said, there has been a trend of releasing $50-100 retro consoles that consist of an emulator running on an ARM chip, bundled with various games preinstalled on the device. HDMI output to connect to modern TVs, and maybe higher resolution fixes included. I'm skeptical that the Intellivision A...
[15:09:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:44] <exec> 08└─More articles like this, please! Keep the outrage flowing, SN. I just can't get this kind of news anywhere else!
[15:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:50] <exec> 08└─It's a crap article, it's mostly about feelings and the "sexual harassment" is a byproduct of women in most parts of the world being unwilling to date somebody that's their own level. I don't see anything in the article that's specific to them other than whining about it. Female only clubs and organ...
[15:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:52] <exec> 08└─Oh there are plenty of men that can't take it either. They often get overlooked. Or sexist pricks like yourself tell them that they're being effeminate.
[15:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─I do not believe there is any industry in which some guy won't be discrediting a female that shows up and attempts to dilute his talent and education by doing a worse job than him as a diversity hire.
[15:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:56] <exec> 08└─My own impression is that workplace discrimination has decreased dramatically from decades ago and continues improving each year. HR departments often have active programs to monitor and report discrimination incidents.
[15:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─Found the incel. Women don't like you cause yer an asshole. Lumping millions of people into narrow categories is stupidly wrong.
[15:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:00] <exec> 08└─Or, maybe I've got a point, but you're too pussy whipped to admit it. Women engage in literally all the bad behavior that they accuse men of. The only difference is that women are apparently not capable of being adults even though we expect all men to be. It's rather telling that you had to resort t...
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:02] <exec> 08└─I think the first part of your comment is correct, but the second part isn't. Behavior like this can go both ways at some scale while still mostly going in one direction. Just from what I've seen in workplaces anecdotally I have a hard time believing that this behavior goes both ways in anywhere nea...
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately everybody knows more and more about plenty of ${PEOPLE} that shows up as an ${EQUALITY:${SLOTTEDIN}} hire and dilute other's talent and education by doing a worse job if any significant at all. The real difference between ${SEX} subjects on ${BOTH} sides is the kind of ${WHINING:${VICT...
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:07] <exec> 08└─Now, you'd have to be a great fool to mentor a woman that could come round and complain about it.
[15:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─Exactly. And the sad thing is that the first ones being sexist and mock such men are their female counterparts.
[15:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Hits New Falcon 9 Reusability Milestone, Retracts All Four Landing Legs - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:19] <exec> 08└─It's probably not very hard to extend and retract the legs in the factory for inspection and testing. Being able to retract the legs just saves having to remove and reinstall them. If anything, it will probably improve the reliability by not having to touch as many things that don't otherwise need t...
[15:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Hits New Falcon 9 Reusability Milestone, Retracts All Four Landing Legs - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:20] <exec> 08└─SpaceX has thus taken ~12 months to get to a point where Falcon 9’s landing legs can be safely retracted, perhaps owing more to the fact that said legs are of minimal monetary value relative to the rest of a recovered booster. Improving leg retractibility is a bit of a luxury in that sense, as ret...
[15:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Hits New Falcon 9 Reusability Milestone, Retracts All Four Landing Legs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:23] <exec> 08└─No, mate. I remembered. 'S this one [youtu.be]
[15:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:47] <exec> 08└─No, but it is surely an even greater achievement for a 72 year old than, say, from a physically fit ex-military person who seem to be the ones who often carry out such stunts. Acknowledging someone's age does not have to be a criticism, it can also be intended to amplify someone's achievement. The h...
[15:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:49] <exec> 08└─The current British aristocracy is currently busy, wagging their hindquarters at the EU and begging for more pegging just like they got back at Eaton, while trying to hold down the peasants trying to take their country back. Besides, they probably confused an orange barrel with an orange vest, and f...
[15:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:51] <exec> 08└─For all those still using an actual computer: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[15:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's use the space we have above ground - - - for solar and wind.
[15:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:41] <exec> 08└─"Underground spaces could easily be used for growing crops," he said
[15:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:43] <exec> 08└─People are apparently getting banned on Twitter for misgendering others (when pronouns are listed in someone's user profile), but I haven't noticed a groundswell of support/activity encouraging eating insects. Maybe a few futurists and news outlets like to talk about it, but millions of Americans ar...
[15:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:46] <exec> 08└─It can only get so many levels deep and it involves more than the world's population.
[15:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:48] <exec> 08└─Breaking news, crowded cities are crowded. If you don't like it move out of the city. Fun exercise. Go to google maps. Zoom out until the whole of your country is a small area in the middle of the screen. Move it around a bit to randomly put the middle of the screen somewhere inside the borders. Swi...
[15:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:31] <exec> 08└─Machines do not miss clues, machines do not believe in fairytales, machines are not purposely taught garbage.
[15:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:33] <exec> 08└─The name says what the concern should be. Artificial Intelligence. It's not going to take jobs that don't require any.
[15:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:35] <exec> 08└─You should get out more. Or at least speak with people who do manual labor for a living. You might not be so utterly wrong. There are still a hell of a lot of industrial jobs that require very little in the way of intelligence. Requiring the ability to deal with the near infinite variety of the worl...
[15:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─Robots work well at doing one repetitive task in a fixed location or multiple very similar and controlled locations. If this doesn't describe your job, you don't have many worries.
[15:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:10] <exec> 08└─Loot Boxes is a strange way to refer to the IRS.
[15:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:01] <exec> 08└─Historically government in Australia has done a good job with the environment, and even with the economy... but we're starting to catch up with the rest of the world with corruption eg. the Darling River system is dying because a few large cotton farmers bribed the government to be able to overextra...
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[16:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:46] <exec> 08└─Where you posit a hypothesis and at the same time, an experiment that could disprove it. Now imagine. What's the exact opposite of that? Oh, precisely how corporate sponsored research works? Whatever. I'm sure it's fine.
[16:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─The shame goes to the universities that accepted the deal. They should not have accepted it. It's scientifically dishonest.
[16:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:49] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when only the 'best and brightest' have parents who can buy their way into university. *Cough* Lori Loughlin etc *cough* Academics do not matter...ethics either.
[16:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─Now imagine. What's the exact opposite of that?
[16:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:54] <exec> 08└─Pepsi tastes better than Coke?
[16:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:56] <exec> 08└─They should get any public funding slashed. Then they could become full time corporate whores.
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─I had to get really fat to get an adequate p-value on this experiment, and let me tell you, they both taste like awful trash.
[16:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─How long are we going to have to wait for a ColecoVision reboot?
[16:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they'll also be excluded from 1 on 1 lunches as well. Why take a risk?
[16:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:36] <exec> 08└─Bandwagon.
[16:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:39] <exec> 08└─The fact is, there are significantly more males in high technology fields than females. So if we assume that "being an asshole" is a trait which is equally likely between males and females, the expected result will be that, in the technology sector, there will be significantly more male assholes tha...
[16:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:41] <exec> 08└─We've turned the glass ceiling into a glass floor. All the women are above, and the men are below just looking up.
[16:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:43] <exec> 08└─Pretty much the point parent was making. Too easy for it to turn around and bite you
[16:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:45] <exec> 08└─First of all, I don't assume that "being an asshole" is equally likely among men and women -- men are statistically more disagreeable than women on average. Second, it's not just "being an asshole" that we're talking about, it's "being an asshole when somebody of the opposite gender does better than...
[16:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:47] <exec> 08└─My wife is a teacher, and to hear her stories, 90% of her complaints are about other women at work! Bitches! But then, 90% of the workers are women. Hmm... you may have a point.
[16:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:31] <exec> 08└─If that's a barrel, then I drive a milk crate to work.
[16:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:32] <exec> 08└─This guy had no method of propulsion. The rowers? How much of their travel was due to wind and ocean currents and how much was due to rowing?
[16:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, and? "The UV LED device also emits a much narrower band of UVB light and thereby decreasing likelihood of skin damage that can occur when the skin is exposed to higher wavelengths of UV radiation." Plants don't only need a narrow band of UVB. And there is zero information there about HOW effici...
[16:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:18] <exec> 08└─A modicum, yes. It doesn't necessarily require heights of intelligence so much as breadths of it though. A dead stupid human being digging a trench with a trencher would instantly understand that he shouldn't keep going if someone has an extension cord strung across his path or to ask someone if his...
[16:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:20] <exec> 08└─I count two generational transitions: Kim Il-Sun Kim Jun-Il Kim Jun-Un
[16:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:22] <exec> 08└─If by "fails" you mean badly needed socialist reforms fail to make it through Congress, then you are correct. But that's not a failure of socialism. That's a failure of the American people to see through the propaganda that's being fed to them by corporate media. I have some friends in other countri...
[16:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:24] <exec> 08└─For it to be a monarchy the troops have to be loyal to the monarch rather than to the government. (So Britain isn't really a monarchy anymore either.)
[16:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:33] <exec> 08└─Smart people don't buy packs unless they're drafting. You just buy singles online. I still don't really understand why draft is such a big format, when you pay $12 to make a deck out of worse cards, and the deck itself is even smaller so more high-variance besides what you actually manage to pick. B...
[16:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:34] <exec> 08└─It's high fantasy, with elves and dwarves and magic. Hell, the set that came out a couple weeks ago has the climactic battle happening between two dragons. So yeah.
[16:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:36] <exec> 08└─One of the weirdest parts is the relationship of players to piracy. I regularly used proxy cards, as they were called. Fire up the scanner and the ink jet printer, make a few copies of rare and powerful cards to tuck into the protective plastic sleeves, with a cheap common card to provide the back,...
[16:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:38] <exec> 08└─There is a format that does exactly that - Canadian Highlander. [gamepedia.com] But it's not very popular (overshadowed by Commander)...I think I've run into one guy in person who actually had a deck put together for it. You may be able to scare up some people online if you wanted to play a game. Bu...
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[17:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:26] <exec> 08└─Who's 'responsible' for this? :)
[17:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:27] <exec> 08└─It's just an alternatively factual method of spelling it! Now I'm of to spend some curency for some of my dets, privy and pooblic. G'day!
[17:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:29] <exec> 08└─What's the punishment, will it be an eye for an 'i'?
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:42] <exec> 08└─There was an investigation by 60 minutes, i think it was, some years back when they asked companies producing antibacterial soap about their research. The companies said "the FDA told us it was better." 60 minutes asked the government for the research, and they said "the soap industry tade group tol...
[17:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:44] <exec> 08└─It's scientifically dishonest.
[17:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:57] <exec> 08└─Once the usual suspects do a search on Doug TenNapel and the usual histrionics are deployed in a show of faux outrage, that'll change..
[17:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:58] <exec> 08└─If they made another Archon reboot I could see buying this thing just for that one game. Otherwise, I'm out.
[17:10:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 610 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:10] <exec> 08└─The IEEE [..the world's largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology] is a respected organisation and it is they that sourced this research. It matters not who the submitter is, but the content of the submission. We have to confirm that the story comes from a reputab...
[17:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:30] <exec> 08└─PERVERTS!
[17:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:31] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine was at a bar. He noticed a woman, approached, and as his opening line said: "Your father must be a baker!" Before he could get the second part of his witty comment in, she slapped him and stormed off. Confused, he sat down at the bar, and nursed his drink (and pride). After a while,...
[17:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─I can't even tell if you get the irony in your post or if you're genuinely that hypocritical.
[17:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:36] <exec> 08└─AC is being observant. You are being hypocritical. The number of men who jump on to defend the feminine has almost 1 to 1 relationship with men who get offended for being called effeminate.
[17:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:38] <exec> 08└─Do NOT accept subs from NPC-$BIGNUM. Are you people fucking stupid? Have you looked at his post history? He's the textbook case of low-level alt-right shit stirrer. No more from him.
[17:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:40] <exec> 08└─Got a citation? Large intestines don't count. FWIW offense can be given as well as taken, you know.
[17:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:42] <exec> 08└─First of all, I don't assume that "being an asshole" is equally likely among men and women -- men are statistically more disagreeable than women on average.
[17:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Has Seized Deep Dot Web and Arrested its Administrators - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:08] <exec> 08└─So they are guilty of exercising freespeech and being the same as google. They are not selling the actual illegal items, just serving as a gateway/search engine. Just *talking* about it... Or did i miss something ? So does that mean Ford is liable for offering a truck that you can use to carry meth...
[17:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:26] <exec> 08└─What if the 72 year old and the physically fit ex-military person are actually the same person? But, perhaps more to the point, it was the age of the linked comic that was mentioned, not the person in the barrel.
[17:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:27] <exec> 08└─Popular Mechanics says that the barrel was "built by two French barrel makers," while CNN reports that Jean-Jacques Savin set off from the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa, on December 26, 2018 -- heading west in a barrel-shaped capsule he'd built himself.
[17:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:30] <exec> 08└─Where were the monkeys?
[17:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broccoli Sprout Extract Affects Brain Imbalances - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:50] <exec> 08└─Are you unfamiliar with alfalfa sprouts? I've seen them on sandwiches more often than I've seen bean sprouts used that way. Thinking back, the only place I can definitively remember such a thing was a Midwestern coffee shop before Starbucks homogenized the market. On a related note, aren't bean spro...
[17:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:27] <exec> 08└─Banned for using the wrong pronouns? That is weak. I'm sure millions of Americans aren't talking about the "benefits" of gender fluidity either, but here we are. This feels like a moment in which psychohistory will be founded as a discipline. Everything is going off the rails so quickly it should be...
[17:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:28] <exec> 08└─Asteroid mining will be, at best, marginal economically until we have permanent residence in space. I suppose it could be run by a good enough AI, though.
[17:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:27] <exec> 08└─Comparatively, is Hearthstone growing in complexity faster?
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[18:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:22] <exec> 08└─It's not an obvious mistake. It took me a couple minutes to see what was wrong, and that was knowing there was an error...
[18:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:24] <exec> 08└─speling is white privilege
[18:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:26] <exec> 08└─You can take those notes to the privy, for wiping!
[18:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:28] <exec> 08└─Spelling is the white man's burden. Nobody else gives a damn, so it's left up to the white man. The Arabs have it easy - they can change spellings on a whim. Names, places, objects, you name it. Just don't mess with Allah Akhbar!
[18:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:30] <exec> 08└─I would think they have the text in some word processor application before printing it, so that you don't need to just check it of a printed bill.
[18:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:32] <exec> 08└─Might want to get get a bunch of freshly printed notes from the bank. This kind of thing can make a coin/bill worth way more than the face value of the coin/bill later. Fun fact; There really were $3 bills printed in the USA at one time [dailyherald.com]
[18:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:34] <exec> 08└─Could the misspelling be an anti counterfeiting measure?
[18:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:37] <exec> 08└─I work in ID authentication, and deliberate "mistakes" are not uncommon. Sometimes mistakes are huge and can't be ignored, like misspelling "Commercial" in the type name that's in big letters, but in microtext? Say it was on purpose. Special bonus points if the RBA did do it on purpose, and they're...
[18:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:39] <exec> 08└─I would think they have the text in some word processor application before printing it, so that you don't need to just check it of a printed bill.
[18:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:41] <exec> 08└─Do they change spelling on the fly in the native language? Or is that mostly seen in the way words are transliterated into English? Look how many ways the single word "Quoran" / "Koran" etc is transliterated and pronounced in English. A different example would be the Hebrew tetragrammaton. (the pers...
[18:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─This kind of thing can make a coin/bill worth way more than the face value of the coin/bill later.
[18:09:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:51] <exec> 08└─The shame goes to the universities that accepted the deal. They should not have accepted it. It's scientifically dishonest.
[18:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:01] <exec> 08└─+1 for Food - when Big Tobacco got spanked in the U.S.A. they redirected their cash hoard into the big processed food companies, figuring, correctly, they could use what they knew about the science of addiction and behavior to create, and broadly market, more profitable packaged foods.
[18:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:03] <exec> 08└─Hint: the FDA doesn't tell anybody anything is good, they just give permission to market to things which have complied with the process.
[18:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:17] <exec> 08└─Also, here's the trailer for the console. [youtube.com] The other systems you're bringing up don't have online play, AFAIK (not that I care unless there's another Archon reboot).
[18:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:57] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/05/07/066211 https://soylentnews.org https://soylentnews.org A good jibe, but not accurate :)
[18:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:59] <exec> 08└─The way things are going, I wouldn't be too hugely surprised if it was one of the eds, to be honest. I hope it isn't, though.
[18:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:01] <exec> 08└─Or, maybe I've got a point, but you're too pussy whipped to admit it.
[18:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:03] <exec> 08└─Now, had my friend not approached the second time.. this would not have been cleared up, and we'd have yet another surveyable case of "Men being assholes in bars".
[18:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─You are the one being 'stupid'. The source and content of the story are fair and from a reputable source. Who submitted it is irrelevant. Your efforts to control who can submit what or which submissions we can publish is not something you have the right to do. You can argue your case for the subject...
[18:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:07] <exec> 08└─These sorts of requests are reasonable when a claim is difficult to search for, but this one isn't. Here's the second* Google result for "men are more disagreeable than women" (no quotes): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Relevant section of linked article: Agreeablene...
[18:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:09] <exec> 08└─Surveys by definition introduce bias as they don't require the burden of objective proof for their claims. So to rephrase: Female IEEE members say they *feel like* they face significant discrimination in the workplace, including comments that *they think* are demeaning , job-interview questions *tha...
[18:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:11] <exec> 08└─You're partly mistaken. Women like assholes. What almost all women hate, are whiny bitches, or incels. Assholes like me get picked up in bars by attractive women. Incels do not get picked up in bars. By anyone.
[18:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:13] <exec> 08└─those ancient times aristarchus was sexually fertile.
[18:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:16] <exec> 08└─These sorts of requests are reasonable when a claim is difficult to search for, but this one isn't
[18:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:18] <exec> 08└─JFYI - Aristarchus has had 13 stories posted so far this year. I know people think that we ignore every story that he submits but it is simply untrue. But he only complains about the ones we reject.
[18:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:20] <exec> 08└─NPC is alt-right? FFS, I can't tell. Most people who are labeled as alt-right tend to make a point now and then. I've never understood a thing NPC has said. He's the child in the room who repeats shit he hears from the adults, with no understanding whatsoever.
[18:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:22] <exec> 08└─You think that this sort of behaviour is acceptable? I find that a pretty insulting way to speak to someone that you do know.
[18:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:24] <exec> 08└─uh-huh. yep.
[18:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:26] <exec> 08└─If I claim the sky is blue, you would be clever to look up before asking for a citation. If I claim that the sky is blue because of Rayleigh scattering, you would be clever to look it up before asking for a citation. You're already on the internet, learn to Google.
[18:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the percentage of his submissions you accept is woefully low compared to other submitters. Clearly an anti-Hellenic bias.
[18:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:30] <exec> 08└─From the NAS report: There are reliable scientific methods for determining the prevalence of sexual harassment. To measure the incidence of sexual harassment, surveys should follow the best practices that have emerged from the science of sexual harassment. This includes use of the Sexual Experiences...
[18:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:33] <exec> 08└─Made me smile Ari.
[18:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying they are wrong, however it's all just subjective feelings and impressions. Maybe from the point of view of their team they are bad teamplayers who can't take a joke, don't pull their weight, who cannot integrate into the work culture and aren't being invited to meetings because they r...
[18:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:37] <exec> 08└─From the predict how high the comment count will be department
[18:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:39] <exec> 08└─You kinda fucked up here, Mr. Editor. And in light of what you've been doing with Ari's subs, which are stupidly editorialized but no less topical, that rings really, really, really hollow. Back up a moment and think about this particular poster's agenda for a bit, please. Look over his post history...
[18:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Broccoli Sprout Extract Affects Brain Imbalances - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:46] <exec> 08└─That's the kind of thing that leads to this [fandom.com] episode of Powerpuff Girls. From the description: The episode begins with a really strange UFO hovering over Earth. Inside are broccoli-like sapient beings called Broccoloids who plan on complete world domination and expansion of their empire.
[18:14:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:08] <exec> 08└─how many generations will it take before the wealth distribution comes back around to the current status quo?
[18:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─"Underground spaces could easily be used for growing crops,"
[18:14:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 1481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:45] <exec> 08└─Actually funnily enough, things like 'gender studies' and other humanities subjects are the least likely to be affected as they relate to interpersonal skills that are not about the 'how to' skill sets. Imagine a world where anything a typical 'worker' could do is automated. Humans are then in the s...
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[19:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:29] <exec> 08└─it's aggravated by sugars and all those sugary soft-drinks! ask coca-cola for the internal studies! anyway... sure, emotions and body-based toxins.. arthritis ... and now https://www.wired.com [wired.com] all wear us out by inflammation and lead us into dementia. so...
[19:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:50] <exec> 08└─between L and T.
[19:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:52] <exec> 08└─Yes. In fact, that would be my default assumption. But the article includes a quote from a spokesperson: On Thursday, an RBA spokeswoman said the bank was “aware of it and the spelling will be corrected at the next print run”.
[19:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not enough of an economics boffin to figure out if squirreling away currency by people would be a good or bad thing - and for whom. If everyone buys a $50 note and puts it away in their "collection", never to be spent, doesn't that mean the money printer (government) is ahead?
[19:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:56] <exec> 08└─and i thought they misprinted the "500" to read "50". we will see if money cannot buy the w.r.ight spelling afterall :)
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:13] <exec> 08└─It's scientifically dishonest.
[19:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─It is quite amusing that the post uses the term "Big Food" to refer to the industry.
[19:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:17] <exec> 08└─Now try an Orange Vanilla Coke.
[19:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:19] <exec> 08└─How do you classify Big Food per https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] ? Tough call between Big Ag, Big Foot and Big Egg... Then there's Big Horse. But of course. Judges?
[19:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:21] <exec> 08└─Can you imagine that meeting? "How can we get some free marketing?" "What if we just directly took a shit into a 20 oz plastic bottle?"
[19:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:36] <exec> 08└─The team and Intellivision blew off the usual suspects, because they realize those kinds of people don't actually spend money: https://boundingintocomics.com [boundingintocomics.com] Actually, giv...
[19:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:37] <exec> 08└─And the only appeal was the quirky humor with that one. By the second it transformed into an inconsistent minigame compilation and we better not talk about the third one at all. Unmitigated garbage probably inbound.
[19:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:37] <exec> 08└─He's one of those guys who thinks doing the equivalent of the Spongebob aLtERnAtINg CaPs meme is by itself a form of argument. Imagine a newly-registered white belt in judo who thinks he can throw someone 3 times his weight with 20 years of training just because he's heard of the concept, and thinks...
[19:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:39] <exec> 08└─The claims "men are statistically more disagreeable than women on average" and "the sky is blue" are not even close to being on the same level. Someone asking for a citation for "the sky is blue" is making a joke or being disingenuous. You're already on the internet
[19:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:41] <exec> 08└─I'll grant that these can be thrown out if the questions are disengenous or if someone is just trying to control the debate by "just asking questions" repeatedly, but that was not my impression in this case.
[19:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:43] <exec> 08└─Keep the outrage flowing, SN. I just can't get this kind of news anywhere else!
[19:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:45] <exec> 08└─That risk technically exists between any two individuals. Regardless of gender. All it takes is for one to bring an accusation. Having opposite genders at a 1 on 1 is not required for an accusation to occur, whether genuine or not.
[19:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:47] <exec> 08└─Do you really want submissions to be rejected based on the perceived motivation of the one who submitted them instead of the content of the submission? Even if you thought that was a good idea, should the volunteer editors really be spending their time looking through someone's post history before e...
[19:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:49] <exec> 08└─It's not that the internet is full of honest people, it's that you have a crazy amount of information (and an AI to sort it for you) sitting at your fingertips. I made a statement that included all the relevant keywords. This part isn't necessary, but the context even that made it clear that the cla...
[19:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:51] <exec> 08└─Back up a moment and think about this poster's agenda for a bit
[19:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:54] <exec> 08└─Ah, from an anonymous coward, comes the words of Casanova! Of course, we all have the perfect line, the perfect thing to say to a prospective mate. And anyone that says something not quite right? Is an asshole, yes? Hmm? Maybe, perhaps, you're the asshole?
[19:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:56] <exec> 08└─Insulting? Maybe bars, where you live, are places people go to sit alone, by themselves. Here, bars are used for people to find people for *sex*, and perhaps more later... Yet you find it insulting, that someone approaches another person in a placed designed for one-liners, picking up a sex partner,...
[19:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:58] <exec> 08└─Weren't me, JR! Just average Soylentils expressing their views on the alt-right bias inherent in the SoylentNews. But as for the numbers, 119 submissions since Feb. 10 of this year, acceptance rate 6%. =7.14? Total submissions: 682. Accepted: 89. Ratio: #freearistarchus. Aristarchus acceptance rate...
[19:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:00] <exec> 08└─That's what he thinks he's doing, but it's...not working. He lacks the subtlety necessary to pull it off successfully, and he's already been discarded as low-tier trash by most of the forum. Unfortunately, he's figured out how to game the system and stir shit up through the subs queue, and I have no...
[19:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:02] <exec> 08└─Obvious shit-stirring bad faith trolls should not be able to submit so easily, no. That's not meant to replace the main criterion of what the content of the sub is; it's meant to be a weighting factor in deciding whether to admit it or not. This is not, or should not be, a difficult concept.
[19:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:04] <exec> 08└─So to rephrase: Female IEEE members say they *feel like* they face significant discrimination in the workplace, including comments that *they think* are demeaning , job-interview questions *that they feel are* inappropriate, and *what they they feek like* exclusion from networking events and importa...
[19:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:06] <exec> 08└─"Animal husbandry" does not mean what you think it means, Runaway. Maybe the mule just wasn't that into you.
[19:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:09] <exec> 08└─FFS, I can't tell.
[19:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:11] <exec> 08└─I ask for citations before debating points because I've wasted far too much time dealing with people who don't have a source, "can't remember the source", say "just google it", only attack my sources without providing any of their own, etc. I also think having an unwritten rule or expectation of pro...
[19:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:13] <exec> 08└─That risk technically exists between any two individuals. Regardless of gender. All it takes is for one to bring an accusation. Having opposite genders at a 1 on 1 is not required for an accusation to occur, whether genuine or not.
[19:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:15] <exec> 08└─I do not believe there is a place in which some person won't be murdering someone else that shows up. Murder is clearly justified, then, and we do not need to report about them.
[19:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:03] <exec> 08└─Asteroid mining would be best for making things in situ. But there are seemingly credible proposals for bringing asteroids down to the surface of Earth. I think it boils down to getting the asteroid to orbit Earth, wrapping the asteroid in a heat shield, and then sending it down to hit a desert. Mos...
[19:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:54] <exec> 08└─The question is not what machines currently can do, but what they will be able to to. Think about what was possible 20 years ago, and what is possible today. And then extrapolate that development into the next 20 years. And yes, there are jobs that will be safe for quite some time. For example, I do...
[19:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:23] <exec> 08└─The thing I looked at showed there was about the same calories in Turkey Bacon as Bacon Bacon. However, I did not delve much too deeply into it. If you chop it up and toss it into a soup or something, it is fine. That is what I ended up doing with the rest that I had. But for the traditional bacon a...
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[20:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:25] <exec> 08└─There is now legal ground for a ban of systemd.
[20:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:26] <exec> 08└─So, how do you go about quantifying that? Lots of surveys of patients? A mood ring?
[20:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:29] <exec> 08└─Well I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more..." [youtube.com] So rather than being angry we're now meant to be sad... what, all of the time? So if I don't eat meat, don't smoke cigarettes, don't drink beer and don't get angry I can live to a ripe old age. Sounds like rather a stale...
[20:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:31] <exec> 08└─It's stories like this that pissed me off to no end. Motherfuckers.
[20:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:33] <exec> 08└─If this becomes common knowledge it is sure to hurt the viewership of the 24hr news networks.
[20:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:35] <exec> 08└─Rupert, on a scale of 1-10 how angry are you right now? ... and one a scale of 1-10 how sad are you right now? ... ... now please stay still while we measure your blood pressure. A little excel autosum later and you have a study.
[20:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:37] <exec> 08└─He's out to you get all you old farts! It's senicide! It's truth in advertising! It's people! Soylentnews is made out of people! Old, senile, demented people! OH THE HUMANITY!
[20:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:39] <exec> 08└─Stop that! We came here for the news, not the truth.
[20:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─It keeps you warm at night. Hold it close and cherish its life giving warmth.
[20:09:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03danmars [3662] 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─I work in ID authentication, and deliberate "mistakes" are not uncommon. Sometimes mistakes are huge and can't be ignored, like misspelling "Commercial" in the type name that's in big letters, but in microtext? Say it was on purpose. Special bonus points if the RBA did do it on purpose, and they're...
[20:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:08] <exec> 08└─I'm all for equality of opportunity for everyone, but if you ask me, that's not a particularly compelling bit of parliamentary oratory.
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:10] <exec> 08└─Are you familiar with the Inverted Jenny [wikipedia.org] stamp? Currently valued at around a million US$. And a US penny from 1943 that was accidently made from copper has been recently valued at 1.7 million US$. Even something a common as a 24 cent postage stamp or a coin made in error can be worth...
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:12] <exec> 08└─I've always had trouble remembering that weird mnemonic.
[20:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:14] <exec> 08└─I work in ID authentication, and deliberate "mistakes" are not uncommon. Sometimes mistakes are huge and can't be ignored, like misspelling "Commercial" in the type name that's in big letters, but in microtext? Say it was on purpose.
[20:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:17] <exec> 08└─I've never had the abilty to remember that too. I blame the irresponsibilty of my teachers.
[20:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─statistically, if you sell yuge amounts of altered water and keep it a secret by penalty of death ... errr... law there is a big chance that some bottles will be bad. other then that, coke and red bull and ... oh well ... everything not plain water, should be treated as medicine ... dosage wise. as...
[20:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:56] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that one, I thought it might take them a bit longer to crawl out of the woodwork.. (never heard of this Chris Scullion thing..oh look, it has a patreon page begging for monies to allow it to buy games so it can review them...) Actually, given the low awareness of Intellivision Amigo, a co...
[20:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:58] <exec> 08└─Aaaaaargh...I was hoping TenNapel's, er, weirder views wouldn't become an issue. This is kind of conflicting, because they don't have any bearing on the game itself. I remember the second one fondly, the first one not so much because holy *frick* was it way too hard for little 8 year old me. Let's s...
[20:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:00] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, I forgot that the controllers had little touchscreens. Could be some hacking potential there.
[20:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:20] <exec> 08└─Not exactly Titania McGrath [twitter.com] but if it's not working, why not just ignore it? Here's an article [spiked-online.com] by the gay lefty behind the Titania account. Should he also be branded "alt-right" and deplatformed?
[20:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:21] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming you're the original AC, and not the second one. I honestly considered saying "just google it," or giving you a lmgtfy link, but decided to include a link to a valid citation because I felt it would make it more clear that my point about learning to search for information wasn't simply a...
[20:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:23] <exec> 08└─I had no idea that person even existed. Crud, now there's a name I can't used for any of my boxen in the future, which were all named after moons of the outer solar system...
[20:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:26] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you stopped saying anything new that would generate in interesting discussion? Not quite sure why you chose those particular dates to for this year's submissions, I have counted them and you have had 13 posted this year i.e. since 1 Jan 2019.
[20:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:28] <exec> 08└─Pretence? I do not think your post means what you think it means. Are you saying ari was pretending to be a troll, but then stopped? Or that he was a troll and admitted it? So is ari a troll, or not? Or is this a "meta-troll" post, intended to confuse me? Hanlon! Calling Hanlon! Bring razor, plea...
[20:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:30] <exec> 08└─Ah, from an anonymous coward, comes the words of Casanova!
[20:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 3055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:32] <exec> 08└─Women are better at quietly being assholes. Thankfully I never have to deal with assholes of any gender these days but I can remember the days when I was young and naive. I was super motivated and did 1/2 of all the work by metrics my first 6 months at one job. I also would go around looking for peo...
[20:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe bars, where you live, are places people go to sit alone, by themselves.
[20:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:36] <exec> 08└─When someone is an asshole you stop talking to them even if they sit on your dick from time to time. There isn't some niceness threshold that will make women sleep with you any more than you'd suck a dude's dick just for being a bro. I don't know what it is that has got this raging nice-guy syndrome...
[20:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Has Seized Deep Dot Web and Arrested its Administrators - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:02] <exec> 08└─Or did i miss something ?
[20:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This 72-Year-Old Frenchman Just Crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Giant Orange Barrel - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:24] <exec> 08└─Well, he sounds French, and if he made a barrel, I'd say that makes him at least one barrel maker by definition. So now we just need to show that he's also more than one. The Royal We?
[20:15:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:00] <exec> 08└─there was no overcrowding
[20:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:28] <exec> 08└─And there's already a Boring Company.
[20:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:29] <exec> 08└─Even some of the populated urban/city areas are only marginally livable (or were considered so before the advent of air conditioning). There's an awful lot of open flat land in the Central Time Zone.
[20:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:22] <exec> 08└─I was. I know how easy it is to pick the low-hanging fruits compared to being able to pick the ones at the top of the tree though. Everyone currently working has very few worries on this front based on that. And if self-driving cars hold their promise, the same is true for all the driving jobs (taxi...
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[21:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:24] <exec> 08└─What Columbus was really after. He perhaps needed it too, he was a high-strung dude.
[21:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:25] <exec> 08└─How exactly did they arrive at this date?
[21:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:27] <exec> 08└─People that lived in the woods used the tools available to them. I'm shocked. Speaks volumes about where we are today when this is even interesting. Would anyone, 1000 years ago, be surprised to know that some other people around them were priests, shamans, healers and witches?
[21:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:30] <exec> 08└─Friendly reminder that Columbus missed his objective by a continent plus the biggest ocean. Errors of such scale were only seen quite later, when nokia did not push his smartphone and later adopted windows.
[21:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:48] <exec> 08└─iRing
[21:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:49] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that be a lovely dream? But the reality is that people love to hurt themselves.
[21:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:51] <exec> 08└─To each their own. Just sayin' . . . I live with painful arthritis and inflammation. Rather than be angry or depressed, as a Christian I look forward to the next life. I don't have my feet planted too deeply in this world since life here is short. I see things in the world that would make me angry,...
[21:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─All of that sounds peaceful to me. Some people think they can't get anything done unless they get angry first. Seems like wasted energy to me as well.
[21:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:24] <exec> 08└─Down Under has their own orange guy?
[21:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:25] <exec> 08└─This would be a great pre-roll ad spot for all the Grammarly ads I've been seeing.
[21:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:27] <exec> 08└─And when you're done, you can just wash them off [rba.gov.au]!
[21:10:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:44] <exec> 08└─Hint: the FDA doesn't tell anybody anything is good, they just give permission to market to things which have complied with the process.
[21:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First New Earthworm Jim Game in 20 Years is on the Way - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:11] <exec> 08└─Well, at least you can still enjoy the cartoon's majestic opening theme [youtube.com].
[21:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:41] <exec> 08└─ROTFL! "Learned a thing"? He had a nice night with that girl, and who, or why, would he ever be escorted out for such a thing? I strongly suspect you live in a really, really strange place. Obviously, beyond it being troll land, it's a place where people are afraid of the opposite sex, and an amusin...
[21:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:42] <exec> 08└─Translation: Sometimes I have sex and I expect people on the internet to be impressed
[21:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:44] <exec> 08└─Well, you have to take context into account on reputable. Especially these days, when the long march through the institutions has progressed so far. Lots of formerly reputable institutions have been taken over and turned into outrage mills. IEEE is reputable for things like electronics standards, bu...
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[22:09:15] <exec> 08└─This is just feature bloat with all the well known consequences. What more do you need to know?
[22:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:16] <exec> 08└─All the security engineers were away for two weeks of mandatory inclusiveness training, since one had violated the CoC by using the pronoun "he" instead of "ze" in a comment, and no one was left to renew the certs.
[22:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:18] <exec> 08└─Was Waterfox. I wasn't particularly planning to undo it.
[22:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:21] <exec> 08└─You don't want the best feature of Firefox?
[22:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:32] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that we can detect 5 psychoactive compounds after so long. And the combo is important. “This is the first evidence of ancient South Americans potentially combining different medicinal plants to produce a powerful substance like ayahuasca,” said Miller, a researcher with UC Berke...
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:33] <exec> 08└─Hint... It was 1019 years ago.
[22:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:35] <exec> 08└─I did the Sub about Melanie Miller's interesting work. On, the Studio 54 of ancient times. And 15 minutes later, Editor Takyon did a Sub about the same story. That one got approved, mine's still waiting. Why?
[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:37] <exec> 08└─Because it's the democratic way of doing things.
[22:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:40] <exec> 08└─That's new (or well, the opposite of that). Usually I've at least heard of things in passing.
[22:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:42] <exec> 08└─The most remarkable, contained in his Chronologiae ex nummis antiquis restitutae (1696) and Prolegomena ad censuram veterum scriptorum, was to the effect that, with the exception of the works of Homer, Herodotus and Cicero, the Natural History of Pliny, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Satires and Ep...
[22:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:44] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca [wikipedia.org] Basically a brewed South American drug mix associated with shamans. It's all the rage right now with the hip crowd. It contains a variety of substances (differing from brew to brew), but typically contains DMT [wikipedia.org]. Unlike the DMT "b...
[22:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:05] <exec> 08└─"It's stories like this that pissed me off to no end. " Good news then -- Your end will come sooner if you stay pissed off!
[22:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:07] <exec> 08└─Please keep up the bad jokes. They keep my own ones company.
[22:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:09] <exec> 08└─While there sure are a large number of people who go too far in the "mind over body" direction, it's also a very real effect. It's as big an effect as many officially sanctioned drugs. Bigger than many, which is why double blind tests are so important.
[22:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:43] <exec> 08└─Inquiring minds need to kno!
[22:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:44] <exec> 08└─You mean Whose responsibel for this?
[22:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 2565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:46] <exec> 08└─The thing about the supposed value of a rare collectible is finding someone who can both afford it, and wants it badly enough to pay that kind of money. Need a particular kind of rich idiot, the sort of person who has a lot more money than sense. Obviously, the intrinsic value of a rare coin or stam...
[22:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:48] <exec> 08└─Someone who was told repeatedly that there is "no I in team" was becoming offended that that word already had two and was calling for a third one. It was all to protect the readers from offense.
[22:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:50] <exec> 08└─Are you familiar with the Inverted Jenny [wikipedia.org] stamp? Currently valued at around a million US$.
[22:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:15] <exec> 08└─Similarly Galileo's championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial during his lifetime. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in...
[22:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:07] <exec> 08└─Should ACs be allowed to submit stories? What about new accounts? If yes in either case, your proposal has no teeth (even if it were deemed desirable to reject the message based on the messenger).
[22:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 3398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:08] <exec> 08└─"Unbiased," that's rich. That one's very rich. Great fertilizer for a garden, or a farm. They ran a story, "Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux." Horribly biased headline -- "THREATENS." Made up by the guy that submitted the story. And the one in the original article is very neutral -...
[22:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Has Seized Deep Dot Web and Arrested its Administrators - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:37] <exec> 08└─You missed something. There's a difference between offering search items to other independently hosted websites and you yourself facilitating the hosting of said concept. If you go to your Ford dealer and say, "Yep, I want a great big van that I can haul plenty of meth in," and the Ford dealer just...
[22:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:02] <exec> 08└─Asteroid mining would be best for making things in situ. But there are seemingly credible proposals for bringing asteroids down to the surface of Earth.
[22:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:54] <exec> 08└─For driving jobs it doesn't matter what car private people want to own. The companies only care about the bottom line, and when self-driving cars are cheaper than drivers, they will use them.
[22:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Prepare Students for the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workforce - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:56] <exec> 08└─I wasn't talking citizens thinking that's something they want to use. I was thinking citizens thinking that's something they even want to allow on their roads. At this moment, they're in DO NOT WANT mode.
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[23:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:08] <exec> 08└─To me the most important question is: Did Mozilla fix this issue for users who were using older versions of Firefox? The answer, of course, is: No. The fix is only in version 66 (and later). There are users of Firefox who have not updated for various reasons, including they are on an ESR version, a...
[23:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to donate my time to support people who figuratively use IE6. If you think the new version is shit, pick up one of the many forks. If you think old versions should be supported, pay for the maintenance yourself rather than demanding others do so. You aren't a customer, you are the reci...
[23:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:12] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure if 90% of firefox developers went away it would be better off.
[23:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:14] <exec> 08└─There were a lot of work arounds discussed here and elsewhere, some of them quite stupid so
[23:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:16] <exec> 08└─Any suggestion as to how to create an independent web browser? Like SN spouted out when SD went evil? Setting up SN was pretty damn good accompishment, but maintaining a modern browser is a gargantuan task, but there are many parties with weight we can recruit: EFF, FSF, perhaps others.
[23:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:18] <exec> 08└─I've got IBS you insensitive clod!
[23:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:20] <exec> 08└─The ones that involved anything other than switching to Waterfox or Pale Moon, because it is stupid to continue using Firefox after this amateur-hour shitfesr.
[23:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:22] <exec> 08└─I'm glad my colleagues are avoiding that problem altogether by only handing down code which has been properly stripped of any meaningful function or variable name, and all comments. They're really saving us a lot of trouble !
[23:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:24] <exec> 08└─The GNU folks do have a firefox fork: https://www.gnu.org [gnu.org] -- I'd expect that addon signature verification is off in the fork or at least disable-able, because the modern Firefox way of requiring users to get extensions "approved" by an external third party is completely...
[23:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:27] <exec> 08└─It would be a match made in a cesspit if you really are one of FF devs.
[23:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:44] <exec> 08└─It's all the rage right now with the hip crowd.
[23:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:46] <exec> 08└─>> Prior to the ceremony, participant are instructed to abstain from spicy foods, red meat and sex. > Three strikes in a row Everything I've read is more about avoiding foods with serotonin precursors (tryptophan, etc) long enough to clear it out before taking the MAOI-containing brew, to avoid sero...
[23:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:48] <exec> 08└─So what exact evidence did they use to date this to that time? Hint: not written accounts, much less English Christian ones. 'Cause they couldn't find any in that rock shelter in Bolivia.
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─> although there’s no way to prove that the shaman at Cueva del Chileno actually brewed or administered ayahuasca from the ingredients detected in the pouch. Maybe not prove, but I'm not aware of anything containing high enough DMT concentrations to smoke, and the oral route requires an MAOI to ac...
[23:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:52] <exec> 08└─Radiocarbon dating puts the date of the bag at AD 905 to 1170. Or if you believe the Earth is flat (Dark Ages between 700 and 1400 A. D. had never occurred) then it was a wibbily wobbly timey wimey malfunction.
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131073 [7147] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of Five Psychoactive Drugs Found in Thousand-Year-Old South American Ritual Kit - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:54] <exec> 08└─How many $$$$$ did they confiscate and how many brown people did they put in jail? No wonder those Mexicans live in mud huts. All they do is get hopped up on goofballs all the time and rape white women! Build that wall! Build that wall! Build that wall! Trump! Trump! Trump!
[23:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:19] <exec> 08└─"in a 100 years, who will care?"
[23:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:21] <exec> 08└─I guess, but when is “right now”? Now I’m getting an image of an old person being chased around by a guy with a white lab coat and a tablet computer. “Yesterday for three hours I was scoring a 4 on sadness and a 6 on anger...” lol
[23:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:23] <exec> 08└─I prefer to flush it, but you do you ;)
[23:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:25] <exec> 08└─He has been getting angry about his rejected submissions for over 2000 years and is none the worse for it.
[23:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:04] <exec> 08└─Most definitely. The government loves coin collectors. With one proviso: the face value of the money needs to be more than the value of the materials. The moment that's not true, people start grabbing all the undervalued coinage to convert them to their real market value. That's why there are no lon...
[23:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:05] <exec> 08└─And a US penny from 1943 that was accidently made from copper has been recently valued at 1.7 million US$.
[23:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coca-Cola's Academic Research Funding Comes With a Catch - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:31] <exec> 08└─Dr Pepper is far superior in taste, and as a scientist he values unbiased research.
[23:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:27] <exec> 08└─We could require a certain minimum level of karma to submit a story although honestly I think that would be less fair and balanced even than the current system. Some way to rank stories or for the community to vote for them or even an appeals process for rejected stories that the community can vote...
[23:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Female Technologists Face Unequal Treatment and Sexist Workplaces - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:28] <exec> 08└─Actually, I lke that idea: no AC subs, and no subs from new accounts until they've been here for $TIME and have at least $NUM_KARMA. If this place is going to be community-driven, it needs to have a sustained userbase who have some skin in the game.
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