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[00:32:58] <exec> 08└─I had a cuntstomer refuse to pay the quoted price on fanbelt replacement after the work was done. Manager pulls out a knife and cuts the belts off his car, gave him directions to the nearest beach and told him to pound sand up his ass.
[00:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:15] <exec> 08└─Wake me up when the neural net has learned to reflect on what it has learned, and can justify its decision output.
[00:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:16] <exec> 08└─I suspect we will have AI "translators" for animal vocalizations sooner than we have one analyzing and comparing books.
[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─There's always the North Park Rainbow newspaper that's delivered by library drag queens.
[00:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─Why are they "clearly" not employees? I'm an independent contractor too, but some of the things that define my relationship with my clients that are plainly different from the relationship between ride-sharing drivers and Uber/Lyft: - I have more than 1 client, so I don't answer to a single organiza...
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:56] <exec> 08└─Try getting a ride-share at a reasonable price during a crisis. Taxi fares are fixed - no surge pricing. Competition ensured that there were enough cabs around at a low enough price that everyone benefits. The drivers could earn a living, and the people needing a ride were able to get one. People...
[00:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready to be Probed by the Antitrust Voltron, Google: Attorneys General Combine - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:01] <exec> 08└─Shit don't work that way in other places, not even in the Trump land.
[00:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready to be Probed by the Antitrust Voltron, Google: Attorneys General Combine - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:02] <exec> 08└─Send armed police teams (with shoot to kill orders on anyone not cooperating) and confiscate their records of illegal activity and arrest all those present at the premises. Shut the thing down until an investigation can be complete, or use government employees and contractors to run the thing under...
[00:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:03] <exec> 08└─Your ex was too small to see with the naked eye? Did you, like, keep her in a matchbox or something? Wouldn't you lose her down the back of the sofa?
[00:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this. Again.
[00:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:07] <exec> 08└─I think we decided (as a species, pretty much) that because there is no obvious financial gain to be made from space it became not worth bothering with.
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[01:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Settlement Found In Forests Of British Columbia - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:56] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when "Chinatown" decides to go off-grid. (Yes, yes, huge difference between China and Japan - but the concept of a foreign enclave is consistent.)
[01:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:04] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with this mayor that a chainsaw wouldn't fix ...
[01:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:06] <exec> 08└─Mayor is drunk on screech half the time and buggering moose the other half. Who would want to visit that godawful shithole. And they don't even have a mosque.
[01:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:08] <exec> 08└─There is this thing called a legal system and courts for dealing with money disputes, that doesn't violate the human right to running water. Anyone involved with this should be arrested and charged with human rights abuse, jailed, without bail.
[01:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:10] <exec> 08└─Water? Pfft. Now electricity and internet, those are human rights not to be violated.
[01:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:13] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with this mayor that a chainsaw wouldn't fix ...
[01:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:31] <exec> 08└─Same reason Muslim women can't drive... the Quran doesn't authorize it.
[01:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:32] <exec> 08└─OCR isn't reading though - it's just converting text from analog to digital format. No different in concept from digitizing a cassette tape to MP3 From the summary (not even the article): > If we could give computers one capability that they don't already have, it would be the ability to genuinely u...
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[01:33:34] <exec> 08└─I'd be praying The Bot doesn't have his appendage wrapped around a rock or a sledge hammer.
[01:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:37] <exec> 08└─This is the reason not a single muslim, either male or female, use the internet. The Quran doesn't explicitly authorise it. This is just like the US constitution that enumerates specific powers to the federal government, with all other powers falling to states. That's why the Bill of Rights was deem...
[01:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:15] <exec> 08└─The problem is that cities have traditionally limited the number of taxi's allowed on the streets. Then address that problem. Why should a predatory comercial entity get a... ummm... free ride on it?
[01:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Leaf Produces First Drugs Using Sunlight - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:48] <exec> 08└─Well, it IS leaf shaped... as if that has anything to do with what it does or how it works. In other words, the fact that they made it leaf-shaped and showed pretty pictures suggests strongly to me that it’s junk science.
[01:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready to be Probed by the Antitrust Voltron, Google: Attorneys General Combine - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:24] <exec> 08└─Why do you think they had to spin off Alphabet? You really know for sure when they spin off a company called: "Google, dark mode."
[01:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:28] <exec> 08└─I think you're grossly overestimating how much interstellar dust there is. The Local Cloud - a gas cloud about 60 ly across that our solar system is currently passing through, has an average density of about 1 atom of hydrogen per 10 cubic centimeters, or 100,000 atoms per cubic meter. Assuming you'...
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[02:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:13] <exec> 08└─This is what I thought too. Further, this is destructive, "an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind" justice. It's like settling an ownership dispute by destroying the property in question so that neither disputant gets it. How much does it cost to dig up sewer and water lines, and then re...
[02:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:36] <exec> 08└─Who told you computers were smart? They certainly are stupid as hell. Precise and fast, yes. But nowhere near as smart.
[02:33:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:47] <exec> 08└─InB4 any snorky comments - presumably these taxi divers all drive Scubarus! Let's hope autopirate system helps them with the bends. Am I forgiven for the typo yet?
[02:33:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 929 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─If the business could only exist because of unicorn drug-addled investors dumping billions into it, then it's going to die anyway. If there's sufficient demand to employ people at a fair wage without unicorn money, then the business will continue to exist even after the employees are classified as...
[02:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:16] <exec> 08└─Uber's business model depends on them exploiting someone. If they can't exploit the customers then they need to exploit the drivers because if they don't they have no unique selling point. Where I live we deregulated our taxi industry 20 years ago, and it was a total shit-show for a couple of year...
[02:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:18] <exec> 08└─North Park Rainbow newspaper that's delivered by library drag queens.
[02:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:20] <exec> 08└─If that is the test, it is going to show that Uber/Lyft drivers are contractors. They may choose to offer their competence not to one, but to two companies at the same time per my observations - they carry both Uber and Lyft stickers and answer calls from both. They are free to agree to work a call...
[02:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:22] <exec> 08└─Try getting a ride-share at a reasonable price during a crisis. Taxi fares are fixed - no surge pricing.
[02:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UN Nuclear Watchdog Finds Uranium 'Traces' At Iran Site - 1533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:22] <exec> 08└─Actually.... Iran is probably more secular than the USA, though of course noone inside or outside of Iran can admit that - admission into the civil service depends on ones "strong religious commitment" for instance. It's probably the same reason England is so secular - after overthrowing their monar...
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[03:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:58] <exec> 08└─There is an old saying: three can keep a secret if two are dead. When an app is being used, there are three people who have the data: the user, the app, and anyone/anything that has access to the app's data store (okay, so maybe more, a LOT more, than three people). Why does anyone feel the need to...
[03:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:59] <exec> 08└─Come on fellas, how about we cut out the specific pronouns here and stick with something approved as gender neutral. If a person identifies as he, then their menstrual cycle should be tagged as such. Sheez. Do we really have to remind everyone all the plurry time.
[03:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:02] <exec> 08└─Can I ask facebook if it is safe to fuck her procreation wise? For a few bucks...
[03:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:22] <exec> 08└─They can get their water from a drinking fountain. Human rights are not part of the dispute.
[03:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:24] <exec> 08└─There won't be any lawsuits. Cities are entitled to dig up the water and sewer lines at the property line and cap the sewer pipe in cases of non-payment of taxes. Same as they can dig up the driveway the pipes are under. It's less than half an hour for a backhoe and a plumber. Restoring the water an...
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[03:33:47] <exec> 08└─While walking along in desert sand, you suddenly look down and see a tortoise crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over onto its back. The tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it cannot do so without your help. You are not...
[03:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:48] <exec> 08└─Except Muslim women do drive. Even in Saudi Arabia-- that country has ended its prohibition on women driving (which had to nothing to do with Islam, and everything to do with being run by a bunch of misogynist ignorant morons [you obviously have more in common with them than you may realize]). All r...
[03:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:33] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, most drivers are uber and lift at the same time. Is it OK for an employee to share her time with another company? It is a real question for me. I work mostly from home. Can I legally work from home for two different companies full time?
[03:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:46] <exec> 08└─You've got a very low average dust, 1 atom per ?, but it's not evenly distributed. Some of it's in the form of grains of sand, some in the form of meteors, etc. And I doubt that we know enough to say how sparse the average dust is. (Well, unless you are really only counting dust particles small enou...
[03:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:47] <exec> 08└─Nope. Arc welder. Ask how my neighbor knows. ;)
[03:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:49] <exec> 08└─among the first powerful signals emitted from Earth were public radio broadcasts, and they will have reached quite a few stars by now.
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[04:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but this should still be illegal; a lot of people fall for this nonsense, and even give away other people's data. Privacy regulations should be so strict that companies like Facebook can no longer afford to exist.
[04:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:03] <exec> 08└─I don't have anything to worry about here!!! Well, because I don't have a facebook account, you know?
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[04:33:05] <exec> 08└─Wow. This is a serious fail. I know you were trying to be obnoxious and hammer the whole "gender identity" thing. The really amusing part is that TFS didn't use any pronouns at all. Rather they referred to the folks with functioning uteri as "users" and didn't apply any gendered pronouns *at all*. D...
[04:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:07] <exec> 08└─The really amusing part is that TFS didn't use any pronouns at all. Rather they referred to the folks with functioning uteri as "users" and didn't apply any gendered pronouns *at all*.
[04:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:09] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, use a Free app that respects you. My wife uses this one [arnowelzel.de]. I use apps from F-Droid as often as possible.
[04:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:31] <exec> 08└─Don't want to pay taxes? Go somewhere that doesn't charge them. Otherwise, shut the fuck up. I'm sure there are many places in the Mojave desert or up in the Northern Territories where no taxes are levied. Good luck with that.
[04:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds pretty simple. The gig economy companies stay out of the city and then the residents start complaining about how primitive and backwards their transportation and hotel industries are compared to the shinier cities that do allow for such companies as Uber or Airbnb.
[04:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:35] <exec> 08└─Why don't you shut the fuck up? I bet you've whined long and hard about those corporate interests that are spending your tax money. Funny how your pet social project excuses all that corruption. But that's how they buy votes. Keep funding our taxi cartel or the local school gets it.
[04:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:59] <exec> 08└─Animals have "common sense". It's not that special in terms of intelligence. I always noticed people who claim "common sense" are thick as shit.
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[04:34:01] <exec> 08└─Thanks for thinking of Alan. You seem nice - I bet you would have been friends.
[04:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DMVs In The U.S. Are Selling Drivers’ Information To Private Investigators - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:35] <exec> 08└─Easy. Step 1: Bend over Step 2: ...
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[05:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:55] <exec> 08└─Serves them right, dang fools.
[05:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:56] <exec> 08└─This happens when you don't apply firmware updates over Monster Cables.
[05:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:58] <exec> 08└─Read that clever headline and thought I was on the wrong site!
[05:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:00] <exec> 08└─Support staff have also suggested rebooting the speaker every time the TV is turned on
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[05:33:15] <exec> 08└─We all know everything is being mined and shared. The majority of people don't care and they continue using these services/apps regardless of how many articles like this they read. I'm not even sure the problem can be resolved with legislation at this point. Hell, Facebook was recently dragged befor...
[05:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Settlement Found In Forests Of British Columbia - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:24] <exec> 08└─I'm about 40 miles east of this site, the hills are full of remains of Japanese logging camps. It all ended when they were rounded up and put in camps during the war. Perhaps these people tried to avoid the rounding up. In the interior I've stumbled on Russian (Doukhobor) camps where they hid when t...
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[05:33:43] <exec> 08└─"bread-and-breakfast ins" what that?
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[05:33:45] <exec> 08└─Why don't you shut the fuck up?
[05:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:47] <exec> 08└─And I'm entitled to build a honey-bucket and a trebuchet.
[05:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:49] <exec> 08└─Under a grand to dig up a driveway and then replace a driveway? Is your "grand" the same as my "grand?" That would be close to ten grand in my world.
[05:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:16] <exec> 08└─Because I'm on my phone writing an app for you, boss.
[05:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:18] <exec> 08└─AI translator for cat is not needed, while for dog it would be like this: Dog: *bark* Translator: the threshold for emitting a bark has been reached, for whatever reason if any. But I guess it would be immensely useful for other species.
[05:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:03] <exec> 08└─Where I live we deregulated our taxi industry 20 years ago, and it was a total shit-show for a couple of years as every man and his dog with a smoke-belching old wreck decided they were a taxi driver
[05:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Why People Gain Weight as They Get Older - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:02] <exec> 08└─I'm 64 years old. And my BMI is around 21. Today I did 9 chin ups, 39 push ups, and a 7 1/2 minute plank. And that isn't my best effort this year.
[05:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:20] <exec> 08└─Doesn't even need to be rare. Just very very far apart. A few light days is effectively infinite distance away, unless you go sci-fi.
[05:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunsetting Python 2 - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:58] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of a language that targets Android and/or iOS, to provide native access to twice as many devices or more. That at least makes a stronger argument for breaking compatibility than just, "we can't get volunteer-based security fixes on the old stuff".
[05:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Talks Fail, Purdue Bankruptcy Filing Expected - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:31] <exec> 08└─I'm teaching my brain to ignore stupid posts but it won't stick. Any suggestions?
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[06:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:51] <exec> 08└─TFA is a *press release* directly from the folks who *claim* to have broken SHA256. No evidence is provided and no supporting documentation. To avoid breaking the world, they aren't releasing any details. Trust us, we know best! In that spirit, I am announcing that I have built and tested an Alcubie...
[06:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:52] <exec> 08└─According to https://www.ssllabs.com [ssllabs.com] SHA-256 is used by over 99% of websites on the web. In addition, many clients don't support most of the alternative signature algorithms. You are probably lucky if you have SHA-384 or SHA-512 support, let alone any of the others.
[06:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:04] <exec> 08└─Well done to those Bose customers who had the bravery to call out the stupidity of this, and to admit to themselves that this may not actually be the best product on the planet. My experience with Bang & Olufsen a few years ago confirmed that the emperor really has no clothes. My wife bought me a se...
[06:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:21] <exec> 08└─Don't worry - they have one for you. https://boingboing.net [boingboing.net]
[06:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:22] <exec> 08└─I don't have to worry because I don't have a sex life!
[06:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Settlement Found In Forests Of British Columbia - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:32] <exec> 08└─TFS looked at first like it would be interesting. I recall reading on wiki that survivors of a Japanese shipwreck were once encountered by a Russian ship somewhere around the Aleutian islands and that the Japanese captain traveled with them all the way back to Europe and met with Catherine the great...
[06:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japanese Settlement Found In Forests Of British Columbia - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:35] <exec> 08└─"Snow Falling on Cedars" [imdb.com]
[06:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:58] <exec> 08└─Just because cities can get away with this doesn't mean it's a smart move. It's counter productive and could come back to bite them. Let's say the property value isn't all that high to begin with, and now the owner is stuck with back taxes, penalties, and a repair bill for damage caused by the city....
[06:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:59] <exec> 08└─No, because the next guy will buy the property at a significantly reduced value, pay to have the services reconnected and repairs made. Then either sell the property at face value, or turn it into a B&B and afford to pay taxes since he's probably not mortgaged to the hilt after overpaying for the pr...
[06:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:01] <exec> 08└─Unless you own your property outright, you'll probably find that your mortgage excludes renting out your house commercially. That could get you a bank fraud indictment if you are associated with Trump.
[06:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:03] <exec> 08└─Poor khallow is butthurt again! Makes you wonder why he sticks around. . . unless he enjoys it?
[06:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:32] <exec> 08└─I wasn't wowed by the thought of interpreting what dogs or cats are "saying" -- though your point is well taken especially with respect to chihuahuas -- I meant the notion that even something as limited as a pet-universal-translator would be easier than getting a computer understanding at a human le...
[06:34:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 1058 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:59] <exec> 08└─They're employees. They don't have the same right to refuse to pick up a client that a gig coder has to refuse a job. The ride-share companies are quick to penalize drivers who they think aren't hustling enought. They've also unilaterally cut rates, and instead of taking less profit, they've taken i...
[06:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:18] <exec> 08└─Without the negotiation of a contract between the client and the driver, the drivers are simply not contractors.
[06:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:20] <exec> 08└─They do in Oz now as well as New Zombieland. I would guess that was the best thing to come out of Uber. It forced the taxi companies to modernize and co-operate to provide a better service.
[06:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:22] <exec> 08└─At the moment Uber needs a one driver to to one fare ratio. You can't sack 1 in 3 drivers and tell the other two to drive a car and a half like they do in factories. As soon as Uber can use self-driving cars to get rid of drivers they are all fired anyway, may as well get reasonable pay until then.
[06:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:24] <exec> 08└─Medallions? In California? What are you, some East Coast idiot? Get your facts straight if you want to have any credibility, you scabby Uber driver contractor looser, you!
[06:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:42] <exec> 08└─Bones are even less durable and we find evidence of them going back for 100's of millions of years. The same or similar processes such as mineral replacement could preserve concrete, metal and even plastic.
[06:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sunsetting Python 2 - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:22] <exec> 08└─python 2: 5 / 2 == 2 # int / int returns int python 3: 5 / 2 == 2.5 # int / int returns float python 2: round(0.5) == 1.0 # round(float) returns float Half-away-from-zero python 3: round(0.5) == 0 # round(float) returns int Half-towards-even python 2: 010 + 1 == 9 python 3: 010 + 1 raises SyntaxE...
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[07:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, great! Looks like I'm going to have to encrypt the White Album again!
[07:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:54] <exec> 08└─I have heard an independent third party claim it was breakable, although it was still computationally expensive to do. Real-time website handshaking is impractical for now, but any long term signature verification requiring more than a few months of hash security should be looked at as suspect, or i...
[07:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:56] <exec> 08└─it is not our intention to bring down Bitcoin
[07:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:58] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: this is not financial advice.
[07:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:00] <exec> 08└─Breaking SHA256 means that you have a method to generate a specific hash with significantly better than brute force efficiency. Which means that you have put in less work than you "proved". If you are the only one who has it, it certainly gives you a distinct advantage in mining, and might be enough...
[07:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:03] <exec> 08└─Real estate isn't money either (it doesn't even pretend to be), yet advice for or against buying real estate is generally considered financial advice.
[07:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:05] <exec> 08└─Real estate is highly liquid in real money. Bitcoin - not so much.
[07:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:17] <exec> 08└─The "clever headline" is just a variation on a very old audio catch phrase,         "No highs, no lows, must be Bose." Must have heard this for the first time c.1980(?)
[07:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:35] <exec> 08└─Show of hands, who here closed their FB account after the last major scandal?
[07:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 1223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:36] <exec> 08└─I use apps from F-Droid when possible as well. But phones are pretty opaque about the difference between data that's private and data that's shared with the world. I'm not sure how to do better about that: any app that is granted internet access can share its data with the world and that's pretty mu...
[07:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:38] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone feel the need to do this? If it must be done, why not use an Excel spreadsheet or something? Know what I call MY period tracker? A calendar!
[07:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:32] <exec> 08└─You're confused by your own presuppositions of employeeness. The client I refer to is Uber/Lyft. Passengers aren't clients, they're just jobs that the client wants them to do.
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[08:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:48] <exec> 08└─Parsing: "Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, [and] Solar [Will Get Crushed] by 2035". Like in a game of "Gas, Wind, Solar, 2035".
[08:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:04] <exec> 08└─Breaking SHA256 means that you have a method to generate a specific hash with significantly better than brute force efficiency.
[08:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:05] <exec> 08└─The problem with combining hash functions is two fold: First, you may get weird interactions between the two that can make it even weaker than the system should be in theory. Second is that your hash is only as secure as the weakest hash because you can exploit the weaknesses in that hash to control...
[08:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:07] <exec> 08└─This is not a collision attack, but a preimage attack. This means that you can take an arbitrary hash and compute a plaintext that when hashed produces the output you want. For Bitcoin, rather than having to repeatedly guess what input will meet your proof of work output, you can work backwards from...
[08:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:09] <exec> 08└─1) It's not 2) "Broken" doesn't always mean useless, sometimes it just means they've reduced the time required to produce a specific hash value from hojillions of years to zillions of years (but it is a warning sign that everyone needs to move to a new hash sooner rather than later) 3) Bitcoin uses...
[08:33:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 423 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:29] <exec> 08└─There is an old saying: three can keep a secret if two are dead. When an app is being used, there are three people who have the data: the user, the app, and anyone/anything that has access to the app's data store (okay, so maybe more, a LOT more, than three people). Why does anyone feel the need to...
[08:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:18] <exec> 08└─human right to running water
[08:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:20] <exec> 08└─Yes you are, but you are not entitled to use it against anyone. Even spreading the contents of your honey bucket will probably be breaking several health and environmental laws. But I do hope you enjoy building it... Pics or it didn't happen!
[08:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft President Says US Government Isn't Being Open About Huawei Ban - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:14] <exec> 08└─Their products have a pretty solid reputation in China, but that doesn't really transfer here.
[08:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:01] <exec> 08└─once you bury it in mud and you bury the mud under more mud, it will leave a lasting trace. just like bones and wood and feathers.
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[09:33:14] <exec> 08└─The "independent third party" I would trust would be a respected peer-reviewed cryptography journal. Which is noticeably absent in both your comment and TFPR (yes, it is a press release). So I'm with the "pump & dump" school here.
[09:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:49] <exec> 08└─What about people with neither?
[09:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why People Gain Weight as They Get Older - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:49] <exec> 08└─Average BMI for someone my height, weight, and waist size
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[10:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Receives First Corneal Transplant Made from iPS Cells  - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:49] <exec> 08└─I see! Velly intelesting!
[10:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:56] <exec> 08└─Notice how they include the phrase "together with conservation efforts" in order to accomplish these mental gymnastics. This means they put in a nebulous fudge factor cutting the needed power for their solar/wind operation. And there's no mention of the massive land area needed for 68gw of panels. A...
[10:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:59] <exec> 08└─Could happen sooner, if the subsidies [wikipedia.org] were abolished [theguardian.com]
[10:33:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 763 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:11] <exec> 08└─Breaking SHA256 means that you have a method to generate a specific hash with significantly better than brute force efficiency. Which means that you have put in less work than you "proved". If you are the only one who has it, it certainly gives you a distinct advantage in mining, and might be enough...
[10:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:19] <exec> 08└─This kind of financial scam "news" should not be on SN. You're just propping up the con artists. https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com]
[10:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:54] <exec> 08└─I am not GP, and I am not attempting to troll or flame, although I agree that GP was. Your point is a good one that TFA does stay appropriately gender neutral. But the lame attempt does bring up one thing to consider: In the transsexual world there are Female to Male transitioners who have not had s...
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[10:34:33] <exec> 08└─Poor khallow is butthurt again!
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[11:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:52] <exec> 08└─The presumption of innocence is a foundation of civil society.
[11:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:54] <exec> 08└─"Music fans should feel safe and respected at festivals and shows, not subjected to invasive biometric surveillance." Every citizen should feel safe and respected everywhere, not subjected to invasive biometric surveillance.
[11:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:11] <exec> 08└─Oh, yes, the "subsidies." Oil "subsidies" include things like: * Depreciation on equipment and oil fields * Tax deductions for money spent on R&D (which are deductible by every industry) * Not paying special surcharge taxes that leftists have imagined they should pay * General tax deductions applica...
[11:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:13] <exec> 08└─TFA says they "... analyzed the costs of construction, fuel and anticipated operations for 68 gigawatts of gas plants proposed across the U.S. They compared those costs to building a combination of solar farms, wind plants and battery systems that, together with conservation efforts, could supply th...
[11:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:15] <exec> 08└─And there's no mention of the massive land area needed for 68gw of panels. A single gigawatt facility requires an incredible 400+ square kilometers of panels
[11:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:17] <exec> 08└─Oil "subsidies" include things like:
[11:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:19] <exec> 08└─"together with conservation efforts" is in the Bloomberg article, but not in the original document. There is no fudge factor. Maybe the thing Bloomberg was talking about is what the report describes as "demand-side management," i.e. reducing peak load by shifting power consumption to off-peak times,...
[11:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:21] <exec> 08└─You're way off. In the real world, existing constructions are very often anything but energy-efficient. It is rather normal by now to renovate in such a way as to improve that situation, leading to much less waste (heating, cooling). New constructions should be or already are (where I live) regulate...
[11:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:43] <exec> 08└─I'll bet I can sell a bitcoin faster than you can sell a house.
[11:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:59] <exec> 08└─Not to mention your homeowner's insurance. You rent out your place and the renter accidentally burns it down? Too bad, we don't cover commercial uses of your house.
[11:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:29] <exec> 08└─To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes: computers read, but they do not observe.
[11:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Leaf Produces First Drugs Using Sunlight - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:54] <exec> 08└─plants make drugs!? why am I learning about this just now!? I think in all seriousness it would be an upgrade thought to just leave a plank of drug inducing cells in the backyard for the afternoon and then go out for a good lick session like it was an amazonian frog. I'm not sure, but according to m...
[11:37:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Get Ready to be Probed by the Antitrust Voltron, Google: Attorneys General Combine - 235 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:09] <exec> 08└─If these states are concerned about goog's anticompetitive behavior (they should be), maybe they could start by REMOVING all of the google-analytics, googletagmanager, google-apis, and recaptcha shit from their own GOVERNMENT websites?
[11:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready to be Probed by the Antitrust Voltron, Google: Attorneys General Combine - 3081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:31] <exec> 08└─what if I told you google was started by a DARPA project? How are you so easily triggered? How is this a cliche? Do you know the meaning of that word? Or Soft sell? do you not think any usa police officer can get access to any gmail account without even having to ask? And all 50+ spy agencies that a...
[11:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why People Gain Weight as They Get Older - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:24] <exec> 08└─I'm about half your age, but tall, skinny, and with a BMI that borders between Underweight and Severely Underweight. My father has told me "I was your shape until I was your age, then I started filling out". The trouble is he's been telling me that for two decades. If I do eventually start filing ou...
[11:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why People Gain Weight as They Get Older - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:25] <exec> 08└─Fair nuff. In which case it's not really a useful metric at all unless you're near average in muscle mass to fat mass ratio as well, which I'm not. I'm not hugely bulked up except for my legs but I've got plenty of muscle and it's all working muscle rather than show muscle (More dense and slower to...
[11:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why People Gain Weight as They Get Older - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:27] <exec> 08└─Or to account for the fact that muscle weighs significantly more than fat, yeah.
[11:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping Doesn't Violate Anti-Hacking Law, Appeals Court Rules - 1407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:48] <exec> 08└─Who is "you" here? you Why do you not consider "password protected" to be a two-word phrase? i stand corrected, replace word with 'two word phrase' plz thx, has this quibble really brought anything of value though? What is "it" here? my messages that the software clearly labelled private, causing m...
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[12:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:57] <exec> 08└─A free citizen in context of an Empire is a contradiction. Citizens of any Empire are not free. Something like that never happened. And never will happen. Freedom is delimited by Empire. Enjoy your Empire's freedom.
[12:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:59] <exec> 08└─I agree with your statement but I feel that you may have missed the point. ... fans for harassment, deportation or arrest.
[12:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:22] <exec> 08└─Instead of "twice the size of Connecticut," maybe "10% of the area of Arizona" or "0.2% of the area of the contiguous US" (they're all equally true) sounds less extreme. Because it really is not all that much land.
[12:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:23] <exec> 08└─Now toss in your fancy electric car which would require a hundred or more panels and constant sunlight to maintain. Then factor in the inefficiency of battery charging so you still have power when its dark. Add in the maintenance of the panels and batteries which have a limited lifespan. Not to ment...
[12:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:25] <exec> 08└─What's also ignored is the role of natural gas in the above system. It makes for an excellent smoothing out/load balancing source that eliminates the need for expensive battery systems in the above. What the study really should be comparing is " combination of solar farms, wind plants and battery sy...
[12:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:27] <exec> 08└─I see the ignorance in your link right away: In the US tax code, a firm investing in a capital project—say a new factory or office computers—typically depreciates the investment costs over the useful life of the capital. In contrast, oil and gas firms expense all or most of their drilling-relate...
[12:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:29] <exec> 08└─Parsing: Construction industry giggles with glee and continues their extensive lobbying efforts to encourage the building of facilities that are budgeted for 50+ year lifetimes but will be decommissioned in about 25.
[12:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:32] <exec> 08└─The subsidies have always decided the economics: it's why we grow corn for fuel, it's why solar scaled up to become economical in the first place, and it's why we've developed an automobile based society.
[12:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:54] <exec> 08└─Having 2 or more individual hashes, from different ciphers or techniques should not interact in the way you describe. This does mean that tiy either need multiple passes over the data or a specially optimized set of functions that can iterate the data through multiple ciphers side by side, allowing...
[12:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:55] <exec> 08└─On the plus side, breaking hash functions is now worthy of financial scamming. We've come a long way, baby.
[12:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:58] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing they're referencing https://security.googleblog.com [googleblog.com] . Most distros switched away from MD5 and SHA256 around that time so that's something I suppose. Btw, Secure Boot uses SHA256... :D
[12:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:00] <exec> 08└─I bet I can sell a deck of Magic the Gathering cards faster than you can sell a house. Beanie babies, maybe not. They've reached past due date.
[12:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:02] <exec> 08└─Definitely trust but verify. Show two different hash inputs that make the same output. That should not divulge (much) about what they did. (Unless there is some other sense of the word 'break' associated with a hash?)
[12:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:17] <exec> 08└─Wow.. just... wow. I haven't seen more -1 offtopic, cursing, swearing, yelling and screaming about a topic, related to the number of non-troll postings, in a long time here. Why? The city charges, via taxes, for sewer and water. My tax bill even shows the percentages paid. All across the US and Cana...
[12:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:19] <exec> 08└─And now the smug "the law is the law" talk. There are two things to note. First, the government need not actually be following the law. While it might not be an issue in the story above, it remains that elected governments break the law all the time. However, I find it telling that the town is ratio...
[12:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:21] <exec> 08└─Cities are entitled to dig up the water and sewer lines at the property line and cap the sewer pipe in cases of non-payment of taxes.
[12:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:23] <exec> 08└─They are ranting because they use Airbnb, and they don't want the prices to go up. It baffles me why anyone should logically think that Airbnb should be exempt from business taxes and other requirements (including safety provisions).
[12:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:44] <exec> 08└─IANAL; but I suggest you verify the contract texts. If it contains working hours you'll probably run into issues, if they don't contain working hours and only describe what work is expected to be done and completed you're probably fine. Either way, much depends on the boss, if he/she finds out and i...
[12:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Leaf Produces First Drugs Using Sunlight - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:20] <exec> 08└─I came here to say something similar. I'm guessing the 'leaf' is taking in some pretty complicated drug precursors and photo-catalyzing them. Unless the 'leaf' is creating drugs by taking in only CO2, water, and light (ok, plus micronutrients), then it's just a simple, inefficient bioreactor.
[12:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft President Says US Government Isn't Being Open About Huawei Ban - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:23] <exec> 08└─Microsoft and Huawei are both making prison intercom software, why would you ever use anything either of them make for your own communications if you are not in prison? thesesystemsarefailing.net
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[13:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:50] <exec> 08└─I switched to the latest version of mint from an unupdated windows 7 and can definately notice a difference in performance. How do I turn this off?
[13:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:52] <exec> 08└─a difference in performance
[13:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:30] <exec> 08└─Alternately, the people making those plants are thinking more short term. Just because something might not be profitable in 2035 as the study claims, doesn't mean it can't be profitable before then.
[13:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:32] <exec> 08└─You can say REAL in all caps, that doesn't make it real. I like how everything listed in your article are exactly items from my list even though you're yelling about how real those subsidies are even though they are obviously not real at all. "Intangible drilling costs" are R&D, wages, and professio...
[13:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:34] <exec> 08└─Citation for your numbers, they smell like bullshit. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 1GW is 24 square km.
[13:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:36] <exec> 08└─Solar farms and wind plants may not have fuel costs, but they don't have "anticipated operation" costs? Please.
[13:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:38] <exec> 08└─And there's no mention of the massive land area needed for 68gw of panels.
[13:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:40] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the toxic materials that go into making said panels
[13:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe. What it says is that by 2035 it will begin to be more economical to go solar/wind. That means rolling out the gas plants should go on for now, but they can be built at a lower cost to last less long.
[13:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:10] <exec> 08└─> Show two different hash inputs that make the same output. This is not an unreasonable bar for credibility for someone making a claim of a collision break.
[13:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:12] <exec> 08└─The evidence of it being broken seems rather homeopathic. Something mathematical was created, then pass thru 256 rounds of journalist dilution, and you end up with distilled water containing statistically likely less than one line's worth of actual mathematical proof. Still, the lack of anything in...
[13:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:14] <exec> 08└─A lack of proof for something makes it even more likely in my opinion.
[13:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:16] <exec> 08└─Bonus points if the two inputs show that you can make the hash collision by only changing a few bits selected bits. (For example, flip the first bit in the input and then fix the hash by adjusting the last N bits in the input, when N is about the same size as the hash.) Finding a random looking hash...
[13:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:18] <exec> 08└─This was already discussed by Satoshi, just switch to a new algo, the end
[13:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:32] <exec> 08└─Life lesson. Don't let the wife buy you your toys. Lest you get pretty instead of functional. I bet you look cute with that little cloth wire dangling from your pierced ears. ;) Gordon
[13:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:56] <exec> 08└─So logging what goes in and out and how we feel is a useful medical information gathering process, it can lead to a better understanding of what to do to feel better, or why we feel bad even if we are unwilling to change. That said, why on earth would one choose to do it on a platform that has the r...
[13:35:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 602 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:20] <exec> 08└─This is what I thought too. Further, this is destructive, "an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind" justice. It's like settling an ownership dispute by destroying the property in question so that neither disputant gets it. How much does it cost to dig up sewer and water lines, and then re...
[13:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 1858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:43] <exec> 08└─If the people doing Airbnb had declared their income, there would have been no problem. Declare your income, get the necessary permits, pay your taxes. Airbnb is a huge tax dodge at all levels of government. Most hosts don't declare their income, even when they're running 100 properties. Why should...
[13:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:44] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Airbnb, by not paying legitimate taxes, erode the tax base. Airbnb destroys communities when it takes over entire city blocks. Temporary visitors don't buy monthly bus passes, don't do their weekly grocery orders, don't volunteer with local community groups, and they increase costs to the ta...
[13:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 1990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:47] <exec> 08└─What the hell does your anti-government rant have to do with cities not wanting illegal short-term rentals ruining their neighbourhoods by not paying their fair share of taxes? The city is spending $10 billion on public transit improvements over the next 5 years. We've already upgraded the bus flee...
[13:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:37] <exec> 08└─Most of your analysis is spot-on, but I have to disagree with the way you used this factoid. In comparison, the total power of Earth's radio emissions is about 0.1 GW.
[13:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fermi Paradox Paper: Aliens Could Take Their Time Settling the Galaxy - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that'll be it. And the pursuits that are built around financial gain very often aren't the ones that I'd consider moments of brilliance for humanity. I suppose you have charities and non-profit organizations doing great things and also billionaire pet projects like SpaceX but arguably nothing...
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[14:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:50] <exec> 08└─I can't believe anyone could read this and think it reflected reality. Fake news.
[14:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:52] <exec> 08└─​
[14:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:54] <exec> 08└─whatever the CEOs of Google or Facebook might think
[14:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:56] <exec> 08└─Fake news is the only news we get, always has been, likely always will be. Go witness an event firsthand, then travel 1000 miles away and learn as much as you can about that event from the available media - tell me how often the story you observed is fairly, objectively, accurately, and completely c...
[14:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:58] <exec> 08└─You're saying your experience of the event is objective, complete and accurate? Since it's certainly not, is it fair that you should talk about it?
[14:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:00] <exec> 08└─How dare you?! The voters (who paid the most) *are* getting what they want.
[14:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:02] <exec> 08└─Same thing happened to me when I started recording my friends' conversations, reading their emails, logging their movements and (allegedly) activating the camera on their phones.
[14:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:12] <exec> 08└─Generally Linux was always a bit slower in responsiveness than equivalent Windows, but faster at computation. This is usually connected to different time allocation (you aren't used kernel built for servers?) as well as some device drivers which have really poor routines while handling some data str...
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[14:33:15] <exec> 08└─Using N4200 embedded board in my latest robotic contraption, running a full FreeBSD on it. With a couple of hardware glitches, as usual in experimental work. But this news makes me very sad, it is like announcing a lethal disease of my pet tank. Well, it was the last drop to the cup. No more buying...
[14:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:17] <exec> 08└─Linux is also poor in efficiency while using hardware ports and this is by design. It is just not possible to use ports in realtime, you need to purchase another computer or microcontroller for it.
[14:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:19] <exec> 08└─Well, on windows I tried to view some nazi content and when I left the room for a moment the computer restarted itself. On linux it just let me view the content.
[14:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:21] <exec> 08└─No, no! It's totally AMD [tomshardware.com] you have to watch out for!
[14:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:24] <exec> 08└─Does that mean the SPLC and ADL use Linux? They can't have their computers rebooting every time they want to track the Nahtzees.
[14:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:26] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the FUD that Intel was spreading last week about early failure of AMD Ryzen (without providing any evidence, and with no one corroborating), was PR preparation for the announcement that their own processors are failing early. Every time you think Intel can't fall any further, they prove...
[14:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─Waaayyy to go, Arik and Jan! Are you suggesting that music concerts are a place that the law and police have no jurisdiction or role to play?
[14:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:38] <exec> 08└─True, but if each profession would do what musicians do now, then maybe we'll get to the point of "every citizen". Watch your step, lest you gets bits of the Nirvana fallacy on your shoes.
[14:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:14] <exec> 08└─And, the Mojave is a damned good place to plant a lot of photovoltaic plants. I'm sure that I must have seen a cloudy day there, at least once, but I can't recall it.
[14:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:15] <exec> 08└─Pie in the sky predictions just don't cut it.
[14:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:13] <exec> 08└─The law is being applied to illegal Airbnb operators who don't pay their taxes. How is using Airbnb listings to find illegal operators any different from looking on Kijiji or Amazon to catch illegal counterfeit knockoffs? First rule of breaking the law - don't do it in public, because you're more l...
[14:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:15] <exec> 08└─Canada doesn't have the equivalent of "Citizens United." Businesses are not people (wtf was wrong with your courts and your politicians to allow this shit of "businesses are people too")? Since businesses aren't people, there is no standing for a business to bring a human rights complaint. Humans...
[14:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:17] <exec> 08└─"Mayor is drunk on screech half the time ..."
[14:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:19] <exec> 08└─While I agree with your sentiments, I don't agree that the city should have dug up the sewer+water. They want to get their back taxes, then take it to the courts.
[14:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:50] <exec> 08└─You can read, without comprehension. Which is essentially what OCR+Text-to-Speech is, reading without comprehension. The computer doesn't comprehend anything, it just does what it's programmed to do.
[14:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:52] <exec> 08└─Correct, the issue is comprehension. Something, a computer can only simulate as a programmer has told them. OCR+Text-to-Speech are rudimentary sensory apparatus, which would be good enough, if the computer could actually comprehend.
[14:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover More Evidence of That Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:02] <exec> 08└─it will be the same mammals that made it before: mice and related tiny things. same as small birds and lizards will make it. by the way. I keep hearing that only things under 5kg (or 2kg or something small anyway) survived. but alligators/crocodiles are bigger than that... and they've been around si...
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[15:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:56] <exec> 08└─I don't know Joe personally. It's possible that he's deaf, dumb, and blind. He could be the male reincarnation of Helen Keller for all I know. And, I'd still favor his eyewitness account of an incident over media reporting. I have also witnessed events that were later reported in the news. Not even...
[15:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:57] <exec> 08└─BINGO!!! Of all the potential D presidents in 2016, which one was able to reach out, and communicate with the voters? Certainly not Hillary. Of all the potential D presidents in 2020, which is able to communicate? I think that O'Crazio and Beat-off O'rourke are the most capable of doing so, but they...
[15:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:59] <exec> 08└─The oligarchs companies have expanded tremendously by hiring borderline autists from the best tech schools of the country. So socially inexperienced that they don't understand that people don't choose whom to vote for like they were programmed, so selfrighteous from being smart, that every choice co...
[15:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:02] <exec> 08└─Go witness an event firsthand, then travel 1000 miles away and learn as much as you can about that event from the available media - tell me how often the story you observed is fairly, objectively, accurately, and completely covered by the media. In my experience: never.
[15:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:04] <exec> 08└─So ... trogluddites?
[15:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:06] <exec> 08└─how about you quit playing the power optimization games shooting for a 50.1% electoral win while maximizing lobbyist funding output, and just run a campaign that gives the voters what they want?
[15:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:08] <exec> 08└─They didn't fall in love with you over how you showed an intensely detailed personal interest in their life?!! Pfft - they don't deserve you as a friend (or lover).
[15:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:10] <exec> 08└─I'm still your friend. I kind of have to be, because you know everything about me, but then again, the government does too, and I only return their calls out of civility.
[15:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:12] <exec> 08└─3rd and later generations, yes. They are still mostly separate species.
[15:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:15] <exec> 08└─Well, the dude does sleep in the graveyard. Terrible morning breath that lasts all day. Smells of decay, leaves a trail of decay behind him. And, he has the most pasty complexion anyone has ever seen. I wouldn't want to call him "creepy" or anything like that, but, I've heard other people use that w...
[15:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 1792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:17] <exec> 08└─Because despite people being somehow divided into 2 discrete buckets, we all have incredibly multi-dimensional political beliefs. If one party changes a position, that might sway some % of voters into their bucket. But it will piss off some of their voters, leading to an opening for the other party...
[15:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:32] <exec> 08└─I've been voting for AMD, since I bought my first computer. Essentially, Intel has always been the overpriced "fashion brand" / "no one ever got fired for buying x company's products". I priced out decent builds for Intel vs AMD over the years and consistently ended up with Intel being much more exp...
[15:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:45] <exec> 08└─Si this is a rage against the (face recognition) machine? :-)
[15:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Receives First Corneal Transplant Made from iPS Cells  - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─Gaaalk is so excitable, huh.
[15:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:25] <exec> 08└─They also fail to mention the weight of all these solar panels dragging on the earth's rotation and causing the day to become longer. Those on the "slow" side of the rotation will burn up under the Sun's gaze and those on the "fast" side will be ejected off the surface into the Sun. Instant slow pai...
[15:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:27] <exec> 08└─If your gas plants are crushed by wind, maybe you should build your gas plants less brittle. There are lots of building that survive quite a lot of wind. ;-)
[15:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:29] <exec> 08└─Nontoxic like nuclear?
[15:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 2307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:31] <exec> 08└─There isn't a nation on earth right now that has the resources to build that many solar panels. By the time you had mined enough raw materials, polluted the waterways with the toxins needed to etch them, and installed them all, the first half of what you installed would already be at end of life, an...
[15:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:04] <exec> 08└─Not releasing details is exactly what any responsible party would do when finding something like this, because there is so much of this stuff in use. So them not releasing any details does not harm their credibility. Once details are released, it could become trivial since off the shelve programs wo...
[15:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:05] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that these people, if they feel that the actual method they used to crack SHA-256 is too risky to publish, ought to still be able to give conclusive proof that they've really cracked SHA-1, in the form of a collision for some SHA-256 hash. Let's see them give a preimage for A6:DC:A5:...
[15:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:21] <exec> 08└─Could it be the fine article, were you to hover over the link if not actually read it, actually links to the register? and here i thought dns prefetching was bad. user apathy is worse
[15:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:36] <exec> 08└─Northern Somalia is actually quite nice. My nephew and his father recently visited, and had a great time. https://www.google.com [google.com] As for southern Somalia...
[15:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:37] <exec> 08└─Courts take years. This is faster, because the mortgage bank will foreclose immediately, because the property is no longer fit to live in. Another kick in the ass for the owner.
[15:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:12] <exec> 08└─I didn't say it was exclusive to humans. It's not that special in terms of intelligence.
[15:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:13] <exec> 08└─Can you really? Okay, yeah, most dictionaries do have something along the lines of "to utter written words aloud" as one of the definitions of "read", but it's typically buried under a host of definitions making some reference to comprehension or understanding, including of non-written things. It's...
[15:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:15] <exec> 08└─[horse] a species so stupid some otherwise unexceptional members of which are unwilling to double back on themselves after they've seen a trough of water ahead when thirsty. (Death ensued
[15:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:17] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Nobody considers a pocket calculator to be smart, and a computer is essentially just a very, very fast calculator. And stupidity is still stupidity, no matter how fast you do it. You may be able to get intelligent outcomes, but not intelligence. E.g. evolution isn't even stupid, just random,...
[15:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:09] <exec> 08└─that whole sentence sounds like a politicans sentence, one which intends to indicate that anyone that disagrees is somehow without sense or a grasp of simple things. it could be the state law is clarifying what they believe the terms mean, and making it so -- much to the disappointment of the exploi...
[15:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Leaf Produces First Drugs Using Sunlight - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:47] <exec> 08└─doing hard thyme.
[15:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready to be Probed by the Antitrust Voltron, Google: Attorneys General Combine - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:25] <exec> 08└─It seems to be just fine to create your own news outlet to suit your tastes for facts. FoxNews It seems to be just find to create an alternate encyclopedia with facts adjusted to taste. Conservapedia Why not create an alternate search engine?
[15:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready to be Probed by the Antitrust Voltron, Google: Attorneys General Combine - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company [wikipedia.org]
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[16:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:55] <exec> 08└─That's all fine and good but what if you like getting your prostate checked? Asking for a friend...
[16:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:56] <exec> 08└─Damn, Buzzard! We'll start thinking that you're a left-coaster if you keep this up!
[16:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:58] <exec> 08└─I'm Gonna Do What's Called a Pro Gamer Move.
[16:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:01] <exec> 08└─I think you mean the finger test, not the biopsy. Then again, there are some seriously kinky people out there.
[16:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:03] <exec> 08└─IIRC, the finger test is done every ten years after age 55. If your friend would like the test performed more frequently, he should express to his physician concerns that would lead to another test being done. In the US, insurance may have something to say about that. Unless he can find a doctor, or...
[16:33:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:13] <exec> 08└─whatever the CEOs of Google or Facebook might think
[16:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:29] <exec> 08└─Dude you have no clue. You're like the 8 year old who wants to be King of England so he can eat candy all day and NOBODY will be able to stop him.
[16:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:30] <exec> 08└─Turns out that Trump found the "screw the other guy" bucket was particularly attractive. No other bucket necessary.
[16:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:32] <exec> 08└─"On the right, the fact that Trump could get elected while breaking from some pretty serious orthodoxies — at least superficially on economic matters — meant that maybe there was more room to criticize corporate business practices than conservatives had previously thought."
[16:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:34] <exec> 08└─Hah, no, the government does not know everything about you. At least not "the government" as some monolithic entity. Sure, the NSA probably knows everything about you. But they don't share, not even with local cops. Not even with the IRS. Getting information to flow between two government organizati...
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─I was once the subject of a feature story in the Thanksgiving edition of our local paper about hosting two children from Guatemala in our home for facial surgery from a charity organization. Despite the totally friendly and favorable nature of the coverage, I was surprised by the number of inaccurac...
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─Both buckets have "screw the other guy" supporters. Those are the people who have long since forgotten what issue they cared about and simply identify with the political party. Ideally, though, these supporters get off their asses and get into party business. It's surprisingly easy to rise to the to...
[16:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:41] <exec> 08└─What gets me is the number of people who don't even identify with a party OR an issue. It's just "God i hate party A: i'm voting for party B!" Then it's "God party B is shit...i'm voting party A!" Back and forth. Definition of insanity. They never once think "Hey, maybe i'll vote party C and see wha...
[16:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:57] <exec> 08└─Some Intel products have superiority, but almost never in price/performance.
[16:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:59] <exec> 08└─No one ever got fired for buying a CPU that dies in 4 years.
[16:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:01] <exec> 08└─I've been voting for AMD, since I bought my first computer.
[16:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:03] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, we worried about software vulnerabilities. Now we worry about hardware vulnerabilities. Once upon a time, the software was how the empire might spy on you. Now the hardware is how the empire spy on you.
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─I'm with Tom Morello. I'd have my fans pay cash at the door, and use facepaint or masks or whatever. Ticketmaster can pound sand. I hate those bastards.
[16:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Receives First Corneal Transplant Made from iPS Cells  - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:26] <exec> 08└─Ah so!
[16:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, and all of the other deserts in that area of the US. The problem that people keep raising is how to efficiently move the energy to far away cities. Maybe factories like steel-making could be built there.
[16:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:04] <exec> 08└─That institute is an advocacy (AKA special interest) group. Do not believe a word they write. Check how well wind power is doing in Germany now. Neighbors hate it, installation rates are way down, and electricity is the most expensive in Europe.
[16:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:06] <exec> 08└─Not a bad idea. They could also move a bunch of Californians in, and house them underground. Eliminating the transmission lines would save bundles of money. Put the work there, put the people there, all they need is water!
[16:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:08] <exec> 08└─Fukushima.
[16:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:10] <exec> 08└─Rocky Mountain Institute is the organization headed by Amory Lovins. He has a long track record of making predictions that don't pan out. A few years back he and RMI put out a study earnestly saying that nuclear power plants used more land than wind farms. Back in the 1970s, he was asked in an inter...
[16:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:13] <exec> 08└─Just because the battery systems are "expensive" doesn't mean that fossil fuel plants are cheaper. Power plants are really "expensive", especially in recurring operation costs that are order of magnitude smaller for wind and solar, even with battery systems.
[16:35:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:21] <exec> 08└─TFA is a *press release* directly from the folks who *claim* to have broken SHA256. No evidence is provided and no supporting documentation. To avoid breaking the world, they aren't releasing any details. Trust us, we know best! In that spirit, I am announcing that I have built and tested an Alcubie...
[16:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:48] <exec> 08└─SHA-1 is known to be broken for some time. SHA-256 is not SHA-1, and it seems like people think SHA-256 still considered secure.
[16:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:28] <exec> 08└─Better question... Is it chicken or fish on the menu today?
[16:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:29] <exec> 08└─Why isn't it called Stealing ? Everyone on their block shared their car radio with a hooded guy sometime last night at about 2 AM.
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:23] <exec> 08└─Less than $1,000 Canadian. It's an hour's work to dig up and cut the services, just over an hour to restore them. Count travelling time for a backhoe and a pickup, and you're still under a grand. Digging up and replacing existing sewer lines between the city boundary and a home is only a one-day jo...
[16:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:25] <exec> 08└─You make some good points. There's a house two doors down from me that is an AirBnB. The "poor" owner drives a Maserati.
[16:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:03] <exec> 08└─Try this one on for size: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] Except insert "Artificial Intelligence" wherever you see "Voting Machines". Machine Learning: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] End Result: https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[16:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:04] <exec> 08└─RTFS. It's not about literal "reading". It's about reading comprehension.
[16:38:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:25] <exec> 08└─First, most California residents aren't coders. Second, most SJWs aren't coders. The people sleeping on the streets in San Francisco very well could be coders, given the use of contractors and the lack of housing.
[16:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:58] <exec> 08└─Your argument has been mooted - the measure passed, and as of the new year, uber and lyft drivers are employees. What I find funny is that the rideshare companies think that drivers would vote against this in a ballot measure. Not a chance. You're going to vote against vacation pay, health care ben...
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[17:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:57] <exec> 08└─Relativity is weird stuff. How can a particle's gluons differ just because it's traveling near light speed relative to a lot of other, nearby mass? From its point of view, why don't gluons multiply in all that other matter? I can only suppose it's acceleration itself that's providing the energy for...
[17:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:58] <exec> 08└─Near misses? You had one job, collider!
[17:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:11] <exec> 08└─Just make sure that when you're getting the finger test the doctor doesn't have both hands on your shoulders.
[17:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:12] <exec> 08└─A good joke is far more important than politics.
[17:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─I was interviewed by a business rag about our product, I mentioned to the reporter that our technology - as commercialized by a different company - had been used on the Space Shuttle, once. That was the only mention of space or NASA, and I certainly never made any projections about our future busine...
[17:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:46] <exec> 08└─It's not fake news because it isn't really even news. It's really more like an opinion piece: this person was quoted as having this opinion about how the major parties view Silicon Valley. It's interesting, but it isn't news.
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─Which is why mass generated media like Facebook, etc. is so revolutionary / scary for the establishment. Sure, everybody has an angle, prejudices, color on their commentary, but... with BILLIONS of sources, you get a statistically analyzable sample with everyone's biases out there to see. No longer...
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─There's usually a digestible narrative - almost never easy, and lots of nuance, and real life is usually in the end boring, or maybe not - how do Oprah et. al. make their living? In large part by taking "ordinary" people with "ordinary" stories and slapping them up on stage for America to gasp in ho...
[17:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─Crazy old man rant, you need some lawn flair.
[17:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:55] <exec> 08└─The distrust of silicon valley is more to do, IMHO, with the aggregation and sale of personal data. Politicians are now beginning to see the danger of putting so much information available to the highest bidder, without any controls over who can have it, what they can use if for, and the rights of t...
[17:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:29] <exec> 08└─Nirvana. I like them because they knocked Michael Jackson of the local radio station. Looove Nirvana.
[17:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─The best that they can do is stop employing companies that want to replace tickets with biometric data because, without musicians paying them, such companies will soon disappear.
[17:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─You should move to Germany, I hear they tend to place the verb at the end of the sentence. Have you heard about executive summary?
[17:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─Where can we see AC live and in concert?
[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:26] <exec> 08└─The finance wizards can start pricing this into any future planned power plants. It will get more expensive to finance them, as the risk of default is higher. That could lead to methods to reduce the cost by reducing the lifetime. It all evens out in the end, if this new information is taken into ac...
[17:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:28] <exec> 08└─There isn't a nation on earth right now that has the resources to build that many solar panels.
[17:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:30] <exec> 08└─yah, i would rather spend a night at a silicon panel dump site then the prestine beaches at daiichi, non? someones nuclear shill and dumping the toxic waste specter all over green and red site. everything "toxic" in silicon panels was toxic before it captured light and made electricity. with nuclear...
[17:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe factories like steel-making could be built there.
[17:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:34] <exec> 08└─Fukushima deaths were from the tsunami. There's probably an increased cancer risk that actuaries can translate into equivalent deaths, but they haven't occurred yet.
[17:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:37] <exec> 08└─well good. but let's not advertise this too much. we little people-solar are decentralized and dont have a central evil head -aka- ceo like centralized power producers have and that can draw on massive war-chest like funds to pay for sabotage, bad mouthing and lobbying. only centralized power produc...
[17:35:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:57] <exec> 08└─This kind of financial scam "news" should not be on SN. You're just propping up the con artists. https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com]
[17:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:12] <exec> 08└─Than why wait over a year to announce it?
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:28] <exec> 08└─Engineering fuckups come in all shapes and sizes, but DOA firmware updates are very high on the list of Big Ones, second only to issues that affect customer safety (such as fires, for example). This is a symptom of major dysfunction and lack of visibility and control in engineering and operations. A...
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─You don't dig up the whole driveway. Just a 3'x3' patch to get down to the pipes and cap them. Only someone looking for an argument would suggest digging up the whole driveway. Bad faith arguments are bad faith arguments.
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─It's what gets typed when you're half blind and use a text-only browser with no context-sensitive spell check. Old school, but it mostly works.
[17:38:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:05] <exec> 08└─Keep believing that, meatbags.
[17:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:31] <exec> 08└─You beat me to it! Who is saying computers are smart? They're as dumb as a player piano. Way back when an early microcomputer manufacturer complained about the price of Bill Gates' BASIC, he said, without my software, your computer is just a dumb box with blinking lights. In a magazine article of th...
[17:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 1992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:33] <exec> 08└─Everyone seems to make the same mistake when it comes to AI: you think you're different. We are all probability machines. We learn correlations. We feel our way through the world according to our past experiences. If it weren't for language processing, we'd be in the same boat. But language processi...
[17:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe outcomes are useful rather than intelligent. Present day AI technology is useful. Amazing things done just by asking. Hey Alexa, how do I get Siri and Google into an argument? We have useful speech recognition. Speech synthesis that is a far cry from "votrax" or the TEE ARE ESSS EIGHTTTY SPEEE...
[17:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:37] <exec> 08└─Keep believing that, meatbags.
[17:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe, *maybe* AlphaZero actually understands the games it learns to play - but it seems far more likely that it just recognizes strategic and tactical threats and opportunities.
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[18:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:15] <exec> 08└─Can we just put someone's hand in the collider again?
[18:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:16] <exec> 08└─it doesn't make sense to have even more stillness than total stillness.
[18:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:18] <exec> 08└─Temperature is the derivative of energy with respect to entropy. So if you have a physical system in which there is a maximum possible particle energy (and there are quantum-mechanical systems with this property), when the energy gets close to the maximum there is the same paucity of available state...
[18:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:20] <exec> 08└─Not clear to me whether the increased gluon presence is during acceleration or after it, i.e., when velocity is near light-speed. If it's the latter, we'll be near light-speed in the proton's reference frame. so the protons would see *our* protons has having extra gluons as well.
[18:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:23] <exec> 08└─Good point. Sorry no mod points left for a Touche. Just like how contraction (foreshortening) of length works both ways. <sarcasm>but since we are "at rest", our protons should have extra gluons as seen from the protons moving near light speed</sarcasm> Based on my layman's understanding, an electro...
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[18:33:25] <exec> 08└─The heavy nuclei bit is a clue. There is a mismatch in our terminology, but I wouldn't call it "bad." It just doesn't describe the physics very intuitively, but it does describe our everyday experiences more intuitively than tensors do.
[18:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:38] <exec> 08└─Babies born on 9/11/2001 are not old enough to drink today.
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I was laid over in the Chicago airport a while after 9/11. I don't remember exactly. Was sitting there reading the Chicago Tribune and there was an article in Section B or C about a Kenyan running for the Illinois State Senate. Had a picture of Barry Obama. I remember it because his name wa...
[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:21] <exec> 08└─I used to follow Scott Adams blog. In it, he related a very personal story about his bout of verbal aphasia - he had a great deal of trouble speaking for a while, which he eventually started to cure by sing-song repeating a word. As the story developed, he shared details of his struggles and progres...
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:23] <exec> 08└─Knowledge is power, and the government tends to be interested in power - controlling the accumulation of power in all its forms, whether military, financial, political, ideological...
[18:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─The industry in Silicon Valley is progressive to the core. The fact that Trump got elected was pure miscalculation by the Swamp. Normally, candidates are pre-selected and the voters do what they're told. 2016 was supposed to be between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton. Remember when he slipped and said...
[18:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:04] <exec> 08└─I'm innocent! Innocent I say!! That was just someone who looks like me at that Nickelback concert, I SWEAR!!!
[18:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:03] <exec> 08└─Protest the march of progress all you want. Progress doesn't give a fuck and will march right over you.
[18:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 1461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:04] <exec> 08└─The Fukushima plant was designed in the early 1960's. Think about that and where engineering and computing was back then. And frankly, if they'd had a containment vessel like we require in the US, it would have been about the same as 3 Mile Island accident which is to say no one was harmed and the f...
[18:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:06] <exec> 08└─[Citation needed]
[18:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:08] <exec> 08└─Progress would be a major push towards nuclear. No one in their right mind should be protesting that if they really want viable clean solutions to our energy problems. Solar and wind are a niche energy source, they will never be able to provide the power needed to fill the fossil fuel gap.
[18:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:45] <exec> 08└─(turns to Beanie Baby collection) "Don't you listen to teh bad Acabatag, I still love you all my little schnookemsus. There, there, now come and give me a huggles!"
[18:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:47] <exec> 08└─SHA256 hasnt been cracked. But there are shortcuts that yield a better than brute force method of achieving a given hash. And the fact they are using this to market a bitcoin miner just proves it isnt about preimage or collision. Lets examine what a bitcoin miner does using math. Given mem = mempool...
[18:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:04] <exec> 08└─Jealous much?
[18:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Lows At Bose As Firmware Update Woes Infuriate Soundbar Bros - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:06] <exec> 08└─Had the cables in backwards? The bits only go that way: ---->
[18:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─What about people with neither?
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─Triggered by his own shadow!
[18:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:33] <exec> 08└─fuck the city and their tax base. fuck a business tax. what people do to make money is none of the parasites' business. Why don't those pieces of shit learn a skill and get a fucking job? those goddamn thieves have more than enough money already.
[18:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:35] <exec> 08└─fuck you, you suck ass whore. as soon as you move and do all the work to build the place up, some leach piece of shit moves in and starts "improving things". just look at alaska. counties with no property tax and canadian and american state socialist scum moving in and running up the taxes everywher...
[18:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:37] <exec> 08└─fuck you and your fucking taxes, you stupid fucking slave.
[18:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:22] <exec> 08└─You don't want Bot to have any fun?
[18:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:23] <exec> 08└─Seems like an awfully optimistic point of view. I'm more concerned with the though of my computer becoming truly smart. Because then it would find ways to manipulate me instead of vice versa.
[18:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:25] <exec> 08└─I would let a smart sex bot manipulate me.
[18:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:28] <exec> 08└─Bahá'í seems OK.
[18:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:30] <exec> 08└─Here's a fun game. Try and figure out which of these quotes are from a Christian Senator and which are from a fundamentalist Islamic cleric: Richard Mourdock or Abu Hamza? [slate.com]
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[19:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:51] <exec> 08└─Management knows they're in trouble (thanks in no small part to recent legislation [soylentnews.org]) and doing everything they can to grab the money and run.
[19:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:07] <exec> 08└─Obviously there are more gluons near light speed - you need more glue to, um, glue the matter together.
[19:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:08] <exec> 08└─Obligatory Onion: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:23] <exec> 08└─My impression was that the finger test happens a lot more often around here.
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─I blame the Paypal Mafia, those who were in at the ground level for online payments, made mega-bucks, and used ti for nefarius right-wing cray-cray political influence. Vampires. Palantir. Pure evil.
[19:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:09] <exec> 08└─the aggregation and sale of personal data.
[19:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:11] <exec> 08└─But if you don't vote for a lizard the wrong lizard might get in.
[19:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:31] <exec> 08└─Nobody now has windows on a machine they "own" - rent/posses/purchase-electricity-and-parts-for sure, but not "own".
[19:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:33] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, we ran closed source software on closed hardware. Now we run open source software on closed hardware.
[19:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:53] <exec> 08└─And another important thing to point out that makes your statistics meaningless. Totall world power production today is around 26.6 million GW/h. Your 2 billion panels would produce around 5.5 million GW/h, or only about 20% of the current energy needs, assuming the sun was shining at full intensit...
[19:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:32] <exec> 08└─If you are talking about something like H1(H2(password)), H1(password)||H2(password), H1(password) xor H2(password), etc. then they absolutely do interact that way. There are numerous papers that prove that, which I can find when off work, if you'd like.
[19:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: SHA-256 has been Broken - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:34] <exec> 08└─A lack of proof for something makes it even more likely in my opinion.
[19:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:20] <exec> 08└─We all know everything is being mined and shared.
[19:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:22] <exec> 08└─While it's good that you at least recognize that bad law should be changed, this often is done by breaking it.
[19:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 5074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:05] <exec> 08└─From https://www.oregon.gov [oregon.gov] they give a good summary of the IRS 20 point test for contractor vs. employee plus the other evaluating factors. (Keeping in mind that the criteria are not absolute b...
[19:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber, Lyft Poised to Lose Fight Against California Bill That Would Label Drivers as Employees - 1801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:07] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but doubtful on a couple of grounds. The taxi company's job, they will say, is not actually providing transport itself but also leasing you your cab and providing the dispatch services for it. The rates you charge are (usually) regulated by law and neither the company nor you has a dire...
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[20:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:57] <exec> 08└─Dangle the hangers on over the shark tank - hm? I would say: you get what you deserve, working for a volatile labor abusing startup like Uber, but... having worked for a couple of volatile startups myself (some labor abusing, some not), Uber management doesn't really have to be such assholes, it's m...
[20:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:59] <exec> 08└─"Today, we're making some changes to get us back on track, which include reducing the size of some teams to ensure we are staffed appropriately against our top priorities." I've never heard it put that way before: reducing headcount to ensure appropriate staffing levels.. These guys must be manageme...
[20:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:01] <exec> 08└─...why does Uber layoff these employees when they could offer to transfer them to driver positions? Oh wait, the drivers aren't employees; they're contractors. I wonder how many of these former employees will opt to start driving for Uber?
[20:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:03] <exec> 08└─If I were foolish enough to take a job with Uber to help develop self-driving cars, I'd expect to take home in a day approximately what an Uber driver can earn in a couple of weeks... so... I'd call that option a hard pass.
[20:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:05] <exec> 08└─Uber's share price is still at something like $33 so, management might be in trouble but there are evidently still shareholders holding out hope that some backwoods rube with a lot of money* will bail them out.     * Seems like a small market to aim at to me.
[20:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:07] <exec> 08└─Is it really necessary to have engineers and product teams in order to operate a successful high tech company?
[20:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:24] <exec> 08└─This is how I think of all of this. To me it seems to make sense in terms of a wave. If a Gluon is accelerated, the potential energy rises, so therefore the gluon-wave/particle will resonate at a higher frequency, thereby allowing it to split into smaller "gluons." I simply have trouble imagining...
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[20:33:40] <exec> 08└─Really? I haven't heard of instances of the finger protocol [wikipedia.org] for several decades. Running a finger daemon would be insecure. Not only could you be fingered, the daemon could provide a back door system vulnerability.
[20:33:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 897 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─I don't know Joe personally. It's possible that he's deaf, dumb, and blind. He could be the male reincarnation of Helen Keller for all I know. And, I'd still favor his eyewitness account of an incident over media reporting. I have also witnessed events that were later reported in the news. Not even...
[20:34:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:14] <exec> 08└─It's not fake news because it isn't really even news. It's really more like an opinion piece: this person was quoted as having this opinion about how the major parties view Silicon Valley. It's interesting, but it isn't news.
[20:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:27] <exec> 08└─But it has equally to do with right wing believing that they're biased against by the industry and left wing believing that hatred is just allowed to flourish unchecked. And how the tech industry is complicit with that (on both sides).
[20:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─The closed hardware of old was more open than today's closed hardware. Especially the further back you go. The IBM PC, and earlier computers uses common IC chips. A decade earlier you're talking low density ICs and discrete transistors and other components.
[20:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:11] <exec> 08└─Thus causing literal stampedes for the tickets. But yes you could buy your tickets from online source and just print them and have it scanned at the door. That's plenty fast enough.
[20:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:13] <exec> 08└─Euuuh....No, but yes. Nuclear reactors (except breeders) consume radioactive materials and convert them to electricity. The problem is that there are a lot of "waste products" that are hard to deal with. The ones that are radioactively dangerous have a relatively short half-life...but some of them t...
[20:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:14] <exec> 08└─I think steel making uses a lot of water, and so do most other industries. It's probably easier to move the electricity.
[20:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:16] <exec> 08└─Radiation is also not the innocent that you would portray it as. I'll accept that only 54 people directly died at Chernobyl, but the radioactive cloud spread over much of Europe, and that has probably (proof is not available) shortened many thousands of people's lives by a year or two. IIRC that clo...
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[21:32:58] <exec> 08└─Firing their engineers will be a big help in creating more lethal autonomous taxis.
[21:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:00] <exec> 08└─No [wikipedia.org]
[21:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:18] <exec> 08└─I supposed they could be a mixed state whose eigenstates have different counts. Those eigenstates would of course be the eigenstates of the "count 'em" operator.
[21:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:20] <exec> 08└─Based on my layman's understanding, an electron "orbiting" a nucleus, is not really at any single physical location. It is really at all points around the nucleus at the same time, just with higher probabilities of being at certain locations.
[21:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:22] <exec> 08└─The temperature is an illusion all the way down. It is actually a phenomenon of speed, a movement. Zero means, there is no movement. Absolutely negative temperature would mean a negative speed, movement in negative space, which has no physical interpretation currently.
[21:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:24] <exec> 08└─I like the so-called multiple universes interpretation, because that's a direct interpretation of the mathematics. Though I like to call it relative state theory, because I like to emphasize that the state of any system is relative to the observer. And if you assume that there's essentially one obse...
[21:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:26] <exec> 08└─I did notice that the electron could be inside the proton. Of course, it's just the probability that the electron is there.
[21:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:28] <exec> 08└─>the density of gluons inside them increases very rapidly So is this the cause of relativistic mass increase?
[21:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:45] <exec> 08└─Good one, Buzz.
[21:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer is Highly-Accurate and Avoids Invasive Biopsies - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:46] <exec> 08└─So.... you're saying that's not someone's finger I'm feeling right now. ooooookay.....
[21:34:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─The distrust of silicon valley is more to do, IMHO, with the aggregation and sale of personal data. Politicians are now beginning to see the danger of putting so much information available to the highest bidder, without any controls over who can have it, what they can use if for, and the rights of t...
[21:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:35] <exec> 08└─Well, the dude does sleep in the graveyard. Terrible morning breath that lasts all day...
[21:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:36] <exec> 08└─The industry in Silicon Valley is progressive to the core.
[21:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Faces its Own Degradation Issue, and a New Vulnerability - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:01] <exec> 08└─nobody has ever used it before.
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[21:35:22] <exec> 08└─Is that related to summary execution?
[21:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:24] <exec> 08└─Si señor.
[21:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:30] <exec> 08└─You are overly optimistic. I would agree that solar panels *CAN* be recycled, but this doesn't mean that they ever are, or that there's any organization to do so. (If so I'd like to hear of it.) There are many different varieties of solar panel, including one in a lab that's made entirely (hah!) fro...
[21:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:31] <exec> 08└─And the real subsidy to the oil business is the US military involvement in, say, the middle East. All the others are relatively minor. (And in "all the others" I'm including things like the Interstate Highway network.) If you want to assert that most of the subsidies benefit more than one party, I'l...
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[22:33:09] <exec> 08└─Is it really necessary to have engineers and product teams in order to operate a successful high tech company?
[22:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:10] <exec> 08└─Wish I had a Touche mod point.
[22:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:12] <exec> 08└─(based on an old Dilbert cartoon . . .) What could go wrong? Just fire more engineers! It always works. Its like printing money! You can do it forever. Nothing could go wrong.
[22:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:15] <exec> 08└─No tragedy, the first investors grabbed their money; doesn't matter if the unicorn they nursed is an old donkey kept for ages on life support. The fucks that bought the shares at IPO can be fucked at their own time, who cares about them? Your pension fund included.
[22:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:17] <exec> 08└─Uber management doesn't really have to be such assholes, it's more of a choice / preference / lack of experience or ability to manage issue.
[22:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:19] <exec> 08└─Firing their engineers will be a big help in creating more lethal autonomous taxis.
[22:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:43] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there's any relationship to Unruh radiation, which is radiation you see while you are being accelerated. likely not, but ...
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Near Misses At Large Hadron Collider Shed Light On The Onset Of Gluon-Dominated Protons - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:45] <exec> 08└─But like absolute zero temperature, can you ever really quite get there?
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[22:34:04] <exec> 08└─Running a finger daemon would be insecure. Not only could you be fingered, the daemon could provide a back door system vulnerability.
[22:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:41] <exec> 08└─>Rage Against the Machine -.-
[22:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:43] <exec> 08└─Isn’t this just a special case of the more general question of the benefits of using facial recognition technologies (e.g. more effective law enforcement) versus the drawbacks (e.g. loss of privacy)? Chances are that fans will be picked up on security cameras anyway...
[22:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:45] <exec> 08└─Guilty if nationalist, though. Because "natives first" is always a matter of irrational and obsolete hate towards immigrants which is a prelude to fascism, and a possibly trollish outspoken hater is proof enough. Right? Well better safe than sorry I guess, but then I would apply the same metric to a...
[22:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:52] <exec> 08└─Chavez giving away gasoline for virtually free in Venezuela was not an altogether dumb strategic move... free energy for the people means the people do more stuff, which, generally speaking, is good for the economy. At least if you want to emulate the US economy, where we're all running around doing...
[22:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:54] <exec> 08└─the economics of pipelines will suffer
[22:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:56] <exec> 08└─he and RMI put out a study earnestly saying that nuclear power plants used more land than wind farms.
[22:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 2562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:58] <exec> 08└─With Fukushima and Chernobyl however, as I have previously mentioned, we were dealing with early 1960's era technology. Very primitive by todays standards. Neither plant can be held up as an example of the safety record of modern designs. Even Three Mile Island, which was designed in the 70's, prove...
[22:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:00] <exec> 08└─Generally speaking, wind power blows. Bad for birds, bad for noise, and people hate change so they hate the way the turbines look. The only way it gets sold into a lot of communities is with "spinning fees" which, if properly shared around, change attitudes to "oh, that noise, that's the sound of mo...
[22:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:02] <exec> 08└─Reference: the three little pigs, don't build with sticks and twigs if the big bad wolf is going to huff and puff to blow your house down.
[22:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:04] <exec> 08└─with nuclear fission we are producing MORE radioactif materials then were present before!
[22:39:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:01] <exec> 08└─Why don't you shut the fuck up?
[22:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:33] <exec> 08└─Right to water. Sure. Even clean, potable water that one has access to. OK! Right to running water? Who said that? That aside, why does a business deserve that as a right? Because that's what someone running an airBnB is doing: running a business, specifically a hostelry. A business can pay its deb...
[22:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:35] <exec> 08└─[khallow:] While it's good that you at least recognize that bad law should be changed
[22:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If Computers Are So Smart, How Come They Can’t Read? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:25] <exec> 08└─“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.” - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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[23:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Manufacturer Most Recent Target Of Lokibot Malspam Campaign - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:56] <exec> 08└─While the email is “simple in appearance,” it contained language that appears to be written by a non-native English speaker and contained spelling errors. For instance, the email states, “Please see ‘attache'”, when referring to an “RFQ” (or a “request for quotation”).
[23:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:19] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately they do have to be assholes.
[23:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:20] <exec> 08└─So this Meyhofer guy can’t explain the basis for the estimates that his own team generated? And he refers to the team members as “they” rather than “we”? Wow...
[23:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:22] <exec> 08└─The Uber Unicorn was of the Ringling Brothers' variety (I saw it live in 1985!) Noone is allowed to look at it too closely, or for very long, or while it is standing still, that's what keeps the magic alive.
[23:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:24] <exec> 08└─See, the benefit of the age? You can see signs others can't.
[23:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:27] <exec> 08└─With a gradual pivot to higher end user costs, and higher net pay for their drivers, they could make a sustainable business out of the brand they have built.
[23:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:29] <exec> 08└─Management: "Hey thanks for building us our money machine. Now fuck off and die."
[23:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off Hundreds More, This Time From its Engineering and Product Teams - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:31] <exec> 08└─All that it take for a fast death is the various municipalities to release the artificial scarcity introduced by limiting the number of cabs.
[23:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:04] <exec> 08└─Or don't vote at all, but do all the bitching and complaining.
[23:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silicon Valley Went From an Industry With No Enemies to One With No Friends - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:06] <exec> 08└─Somewhere around 40% of Americans don't vote even in presidential general elections. They're the largest voting block by far. And they have this strange idea that there's nothing they can do except complain about politicians ignoring them when they're the ones ignoring the political process.
[23:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Musicians Call for Facial Recognition Ban at Gigs - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:57] <exec> 08└─To me, this is creation of yet another database of records of names, payment credentials, detailed facial images, and whatever else they ask for to purchase entry to their concert. Yet another database circulated amongst God knows who.
[23:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:11] <exec> 08└─OK, but 3 months loss of lifespan for how many people? If it's only 1200 that's (arguably) equivalent to 400 years of lifespan. If you guess that otherwise people would live to be 80, and that everyone affected was an infant, that's 50 deaths. (And that's using "spherical cow" figuring.) But a lot m...
[23:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49344595 [bbc.com] Vanguard 1's solar panels produced half a watt at a cost of countless thousands of dollars. By the mid-1970s solar panels were down to $100 (£81) a watt - but that still meant $10,000 for enough panels to power a light bulb. Yet the cost kept dro...
[23:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:14] <exec> 08└─Both solar panels and batteries are getting cheaper and more efficient.
[23:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:17] <exec> 08└─Your 2 billion panels would produce around 5.5 million GW/h...
[23:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sex Lives Of App Users 'Shared With Facebook' - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:44] <exec> 08└─Paper calendar. And, your points are fair, but they also serve to highlight just how dirty people are being done by these companies. I don't see a solution, as "big data" is making too much money for too many people for virtually no effort, and money is the same thing as political power these days :...
[23:39:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 233 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:29] <exec> 08└─They are ranting because they use Airbnb, and they don't want the prices to go up. It baffles me why anyone should logically think that Airbnb should be exempt from business taxes and other requirements (including safety provisions).
[23:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbnb Host? Don't Pay Business Taxes? City Digs Up Your Sewer and Water. - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:49] <exec> 08└─If the people doing Airbnb had declared their income, there would have been no problem.
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