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[00:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stadia Will Use AI to Achieve Negative Latency in Games - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:20] <exec> 08└─It looks like you're trying to fire your weapon, would you like help with that? (don't upmod me, parent post's actually making the joke, I'm just explaining it for idiots like myself)
[00:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stadia Will Use AI to Achieve Negative Latency in Games - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:22] <exec> 08└─Predicting user input also doesn't sound broadly applicable to all games out there.
[00:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stadia Will Use AI to Achieve Negative Latency in Games - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:24] <exec> 08└─It's probably not as dumb as it sounds. MS has been "cheating" for years by repositioning bullets to account for latency. Basically repositioning the bullet so that it hits the thing that appeared to be aimed at when the player pressed the button to fire, even if the player's display was slightly ou...
[00:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stadia Will Use AI to Achieve Negative Latency in Games - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:26] <exec> 08└─Most online games already have latency compensation that is better than this could ever get. The ideal solution for those games on Stadia is to run their prediction engines *ahead* of the Stadia endpoint, to make up for the latency between Stadia and the user. Machine learning is just going to take...
[00:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stadia Will Use AI to Achieve Negative Latency in Games - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:28] <exec> 08└─If the player looks disadvantaged, give them an artificial advantage by giving them the benefit of the doubt. Who could ever have predicted that that would go wrong... (Nope, I have decided to not draw comparisons with "Ms. Monopoly" in this post.)
[00:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:06] <exec> 08└─This isn't a mail room. The state can order a server be unplugged, they do it all the time. Having a server with some legal content doesn't stop them as long as there's illegal content. They do it all the time. Ask Kim Dot Com. There's no freedom of speech issues that when you are the conduit of il...
[00:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:08] <exec> 08└─Whitepapers seem to be expected for blockchain stuff. They seem to have one, sort of. https://whitepaper.audius.co [audius.co] If you read the bitcoin whitepaper, you are left with a thought out understanding from soup to nuts. Pretty cool and a high bar. If you read the audius...
[00:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:10] <exec> 08└─And they can certainly seize all the letters in the mailroom so they can conduct a search for the target. If the target is crazy-glued to others, it gets seized too Now since there's no way to delete just the illegal content, it all gets seized. Tough shit proving damage since you should have your o...
[00:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:12] <exec> 08└─And as the article points out, p2p still has problems. Just get a USB key already. Sneakernet is safe and fast. Even sneakernet over USPS can transfer 100 gigs in 2 days for a buck.
[00:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:53] <exec> 08└─A cousin of mine worked for a lab in which they tested the radiation emitted by products the company was designing. I'm not privy to information about exactly what products he was testing, but he worked in a division that was working on the about to explode (not literally of course) home and busines...
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[01:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:26] <exec> 08└─Think "hate speech" is still good there and defamation/harassment have to be proved in court. Someone's copyrighted work is a much easier battle.
[01:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:27] <exec> 08└─Untrue. Researchers like the taste of black holes. [vice.com]
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[02:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Donald Trump Joins Twitch, Amazon's Game-Streaming Service - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:04] <exec> 08└─People write about Nazis and fascism and other people give them a hard time for not knowing what they're talking about. Now you want to throw sarcasm into the toxic mess? Think for a second whether that makes any sense. Just say what you mean and get over yourself.
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[03:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Protein Promotes Maintenance of Chronic Pain - 2335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:52] <exec> 08└─There has always been a solution to pain on earth, it is called the poppy plant, and the united states government and associated mucky mucks have a near total monopoly on its production, but same entity declares it completely illegal and covertly traffics the raw material because it turns out the cu...
[03:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unlike Blizzard, Epic Games Says It Won’t Ban Players for Political Speech - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a failed trip to the dictionary.
[03:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Solve 50-year-old Puzzle in Signal Processing - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:49] <exec> 08└─What actual applications will this help with? Am I right to think this will enable emf based radar, imagining, rangefinding, and triangulation to be more accurate over distance with less power?
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[04:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tired of Waiting for TSA? 'Clear' Has an Alternative at 50 USA Airports - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:22] <exec> 08└─The Jews did this. To make money at your expense, as usual.
[04:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tired of Waiting for TSA? 'Clear' Has an Alternative at 50 USA Airports - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:23] <exec> 08└─So clear is the Uber of security clearance! Almost as good an idea as "for profit prisons", or "Blackwater war crimes contractors"! Has the United States really lost sight of what the purpose and function of a government is? It is not about making money, or pro squid, or squid going pro, or quid quo...
[04:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tired of Waiting for TSA? 'Clear' Has an Alternative at 50 USA Airports - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:25] <exec> 08└─Great Soyvertisement, Eds, may you be trapped in a hell of infinite TSA gropings!
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[05:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tired of Waiting for TSA? 'Clear' Has an Alternative at 50 USA Airports - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:36] <exec> 08└─Or, how about we just abolish the TSA, or otherwise 'repeal and replace' it with something that doesn't violate the Constitution and people's rights? If it makes the cowards in our country feel better, we could even pay anti-terrorism "experts" to stand around looking for suspicious people in airpor...
[05:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault With Boeing and F.A.A. - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:47] <exec> 08└─It's not like "stripped of his title" means a damn thing either. Golden parachutes and ridiculous compensation packages means it's nothing like getting fired from a minimum wage job with an average 2 weeks or less savings. Fully translated it means, "Go enjoy your money and privilege more with those...
[05:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stadia Will Use AI to Achieve Negative Latency in Games - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's predicting action and only using the action if it matches actual action. It's kind of like predictive execution on chips. It may even pre-render multiple actions so it's ready with the right one.
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[05:14:10] <exec> 08└─since it's the states and not the feds that control criminal laws in each state, and the 1st amendment only limits the feds from passing such laws, you're wrong as a matter of law.
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[06:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tired of Waiting for TSA? 'Clear' Has an Alternative at 50 USA Airports - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:30] <exec> 08└─Israel has a better system. They just profile people. It works. If you have an Arabic name, you can expect more attention, and if you have Jewish name, you may reasonably expect less attention. If you wear clothing that could easily hide a suicide vest, you can expect more attention, and if you wear...
[06:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tired of Waiting for TSA? 'Clear' Has an Alternative at 50 USA Airports - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:32] <exec> 08└─that is 100% artificial, and only exists because it relies on the deficiencies of the administration. Kind of like attorneys really: lawyers interface ordinary people with the absurdly complicated legal system, when the law should be readily understandable by the citizenry. And just like attorneys,...
[06:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Businesses Serving More Than Just Their Shareholders - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:36] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter what they want, it matters what they offer the company paying them. See, that's how employment works: The company offers them money in exchange for tasks that the company wants done, hopefully with the values being round about equal. So, if they offer labor of little value, it is comp...
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[08:13:18] <exec> 08└─Not so much of a concern for multiplayer games. Those have already proven they can do lag comp well if the lag is not that bad and horrendously if you go too far. The real exiting frightening prospect is seeing your single player experience lag.
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[09:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:17] <exec> 08└─Magnetic fields change the trajectory of the electrons. With monochrome CRTs, that just causes a distortion of the image, and whatever fields came from your TV were probably small enough to make those distortions non-noticeable. Colour CRTs, however, have phosphors for different colours close to eac...
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[09:17:19] <exec> 08└─and to get 1600 vertical I have to go to 5k HD
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[10:16:32] <exec> 08└─Just market them as “videophile equipment” and I'm sure you'll find a market. It's a tube, after all!
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[11:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT CSAIL Unveils AI that Can Detect Human Actions through Walls and in the Dark - 1942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:28] <exec> 08└─'Their "RF-Action" AI model is an end-to-end deep neural network that recognizes human actions from wireless signals. The model uses radio frequency (RF) signals as input, generates 3D human "skeletons" ' I have been wondering if the continuos wave rumors from the snowden docs are real, and why no o...
[11:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tired of Waiting for TSA? 'Clear' Has an Alternative at 50 USA Airports - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:57] <exec> 08└─The "pre check" and "known traveler" stuff is complete nonsense. You go through the same phony security theater, you just have a shorter line. The line is shorter because most people are not paying the fee. It is exactly the same as toll lanes, except that traffic delays are a real problem, and secu...
[11:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stadia Will Use AI to Achieve Negative Latency in Games - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:37] <exec> 08└─Google Stadia doesn't have access to your brain waves... yet, and incorrectly predicted user input could lead to janky results.
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[12:13:06] <exec> 08└─Or you can live somewhere other than the United States of Total Paranoia, where the security lines are 5-10 minutes long even on busy days.
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[13:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota’s e-Palette Will Transport Athletes During the 2020 Summer Olympics - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:20] <exec> 08└─Really? Is this really necessary and/or beneficial to anyone (but Toyota)? This is the side of technology and "progress" that truly disgusts me. Unfortunately, that side seems to grow by leaps and bounds every year. Despite its many recent slips/controversies (and Jim Nance/Bob Costas notwithstandin...
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[13:12:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we should take the wheelchairs away from the cripples too.
[13:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT CSAIL Unveils AI that Can Detect Human Actions through Walls and in the Dark - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:36] <exec> 08└─> Until now there have been virtually no public scientific articles about consumer bands of the emf spectrum being used as radar, but this is proof of concept. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I don't know if there have been public scientific articles themselves, but the t...
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[13:14:49] <exec> 08└─States rights means that individual states are free to pass their own laws. That's why every state has its own criminal code, and why what's legal in one state may be criminal in another. To people who live in a country where only the federal government can make criminal laws it seems strange, but...
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[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─14th amendment doesn't apply in such cases. Ask anyone convicted of distributing kiddie porn how their 1st amendment rights arguments worked out.
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[14:12:40] <exec> 08└─Passive radar has been around for decades, and discussed quite openly. It has been used by military and civilian organisations so can hardly be classed as a military secret. If you have been 'suspecting' that such a thing existed you could have looked at the science journals decades ago, or perhaps...
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[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─No not nonsense. There is no point in getting rich if you can't use the money. Taking advantage of this public resource lets the few enjoy being the few. In moderation, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is a useful outcome. To be fair, everybody should have to wait in the same line. (Perha...
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[14:13:57] <exec> 08└─I suspect that all the journalists (and commenters here) speaking about player predictions, negative latencies and all that, are just wildly speculating and that it's absolutely NOT what Google engineers do. The quality of tech journalism is simply awful, guessing and extrapolating from one or two w...
[14:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Intelligence Follows British Lead in Warning of Serious VPN Vulnerabilities - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:19] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. But you still have to wonder about motive, and who started that fire at the bottom of the hill in the first place. The NSA has deliberately broken [columbia.edu] encryption standards/software before and currently insists on neutering all civilian encryption software. How do we know they're...
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[15:12:58] <exec> 08└─The "really good filtering" that impressed me first was for audio: arrays of microphones delay-tuned to superimpose on a particular point in the room, actually really simple and they were doing it in the 1960s to listen in on a table in the middle of a crowded noisy restaurant, 100 microphones laid...
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[15:13:35] <exec> 08└─Last time I flew, I got precheck without ever signing up.
[15:17:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:11] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray_tube#21st_century_usage [wikipedia.org] https://www.neowin.net [neowin.net] https://www.thomaselectronics.com [thomaselectronics.com] If CRT desktop monitors aren't dead, they're close to it. But...
[15:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Played Modern Games on a CRT Monitor - and the Results are Phenomenal - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:24] <exec> 08└─Knobs. KNOBS! Geez yes. Gimme a damn knob, or button, enough with the crappy onscreen controls already!
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[16:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:19] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the ethos of open source pretty much the same thing? And isn't it foundering because there's plenty of ways to exploit open source financially, but few ways to make a living creating open source software? The marketplace makes plenty of bad decisions, but things like systemd are a demonstrat...
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[16:12:21] <exec> 08└─more bureaucracy will save us
[16:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:23] <exec> 08└─What the hell is a technologist? It sounds like another fake job.
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[16:12:47] <exec> 08└─Meh, limeys did it before.
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[16:13:09] <exec> 08└─http://freegifmaker.me/images/2fWis/ [freegifmaker.me]
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[17:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:21] <exec> 08└─"Hi! Thanks for being our PIT. We're super-excited that you decided to join us as a PIT so that we can have a whole team of PITs helping us do ... things. What exactly do you do?" "I do tech stuff! But only inasmuch as it improves the lives of the forgotten margins of society." "... hang on, isn't t...
[17:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:23] <exec> 08└─But otherwise yes there is a desperate need for: Scientists to tackle problems whose solution produces NO PROFIT Because those problems cannot be solved by capitalism
[17:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:25] <exec> 08└─If that were all true, I would expect to cruise through the ghetto, and find "poor" people in possession of crazily modified cars, sporting huge 20 inch wheels costing thousands of dollars, wearing lots of bling, name brand "designer" clothing, snorting coke, drinking their favorite alcoholic bevera...
[17:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:27] <exec> 08└─Problem: profit is a production of surplus value value is in the eye of the beholder It's not just a matter of counting more beans when you finished than when you started. In other words, capitalism offers no breadth of variety, if you have a population with no breadth of variety. When you find such...
[17:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault With Boeing and F.A.A. - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:04] <exec> 08└─the idea, development and implementation of MCAS was most certainly done on windows computers. one could call it a off-spring ^_^
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[18:13:37] <exec> 08└─sulforaphane
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[19:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigators Report Arsonists Using Snack Foods to Start Fires - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:31] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of one of my birthdays where a friend of mine — who was working in a movie theatre — gave me a huge sackful of popcorn. My partner and I could only eat so much popcorn a day so they ended up slightly soggy after a few days and not a pleasure to eat. That was when I repurposed the...
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[20:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:11] <exec> 08└─Pollyanna is an odd name for a buzzard.
[20:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:13] <exec> 08└─Redhat do sell software, it is called Red Hat Enterprise Linux and there is a "buy it" button right there on their site.
[20:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:15] <exec> 08└─And how sustainable do you think this is? And what happens when the factors that allowed this to happen change? THAT'S the point he's making. I never understood why people reply to arguments along the lines of "We can't keep this up, we need to change course" with "well look what it *already* did."...
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[21:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Compiler Makes Quantum Computers Two Times Faster - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:23] <exec> 08└─Two Times. 2 Freaking Times.
[21:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Investigators Report Arsonists Using Snack Foods to Start Fires - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:41] <exec> 08└─That one wouldn't load for me. I suspect it's too dank. This one [iotwreport.com] worked.
[21:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:24] <exec> 08└─That's me, just one big fucking ray of sunshine.
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:25] <exec> 08└─Don't allow just anyone to work on your car, make sure he is a social justice warrior who will consider your car's feelings!!
[21:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT CSAIL Unveils AI that Can Detect Human Actions through Walls and in the Dark - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:16] <exec> 08└─There is also unconfirmed (at least publicly) speculation that the F117 shot down during the Balkan wars was a result of a passive radar detection i.e. the tracking radar detecting an echo from the target from a entirely separate RF source.
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[22:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Compiler Makes Quantum Computers Two Times Faster - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:24] <exec> 08└─"can be executed on near-term hardware" "Can" has present aspect and tense here. "near-term" and "promising candidates" kinda sound like forward-looking statements rather than right-now facts. And the killer seems to be the first line of the abstract of the paper: "Quantum computing is on the cusp o...
[22:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:36] <exec> 08└─I dunno, there's still a need for the middle class, maybe a lot less, but someone's gotta maintain the robots, help to think and invent new shit. Until the robots think for themselves and invent new shit of course, but when that happens what need do they have for meat bags, rich or poor? Now on to t...
[22:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:37] <exec> 08└─Someone who has found a way to get paid to prognosticate on things without actually doing anything.
[22:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crowdsourcing Consumer Loans can Bolster Business Growth and Reduce Crime - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:52] <exec> 08└─Yea Madoff had the right idea, just the wrong execution...
[22:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crowdsourcing Consumer Loans can Bolster Business Growth and Reduce Crime - 1931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:53] <exec> 08└─Credit Union is the only kind of bank I can consider using - the commercial banks are so blatant with their fee grabbing and benefit squeezing. No, these seem to be more oriented toward credit for those who can't get loans from Credit Unions - I'm not sure who they appeal to other than those who "be...
[22:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota’s e-Palette Will Transport Athletes During the 2020 Summer Olympics - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:09] <exec> 08└─Just like the new trains here in Sydney when you're stuck in commute, you're essentially in a tuna can with no escape. I missed the days where public transport had manual windows and doors...
[22:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insights on Treatment and Prognosis of Male Breast Cancer - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:18] <exec> 08└─One of those icky topics people don't respond to, even though in a population of 325 million, 162,500 men will get breast cancer. If you know 100 men, there's a 1 in 10 chance on of them will get it. Still, it could be worse. Prostate cancer can be treated with testosterone blockers, one sign of wh...
[22:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tired of Waiting for TSA? 'Clear' Has an Alternative at 50 USA Airports - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:16] <exec> 08└─Also it is cheaper than this 'clear' company (85 bucks). https://www.tsa.gov [tsa.gov]
[22:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:14] <exec> 08└─And yet states have criminalized all those things you say are protected by the 1st amendment.
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[23:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Adobe Backtracks, Will Refund Customers After Canceling Their Accounts - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:18] <exec> 08└─They stand for nothing but profit. I guess that is what they are supposed to do, so I can't call it cowardice, right?
[23:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Backtracks, Will Refund Customers After Canceling Their Accounts - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:20] <exec> 08└─So one guy says "I don't like those people" and nobody is allowed to sell them anything? That is just stupid.
[23:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Investigators Report Arsonists Using Snack Foods to Start Fires - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:55] <exec> 08└─Salami rocket [metalab.at] is definitely a thing [wikipedia.org]
[23:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota’s e-Palette Will Transport Athletes During the 2020 Summer Olympics - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but we liberated it from them during the great amexit of 1776.
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