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[00:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:01] <exec> 08└─Cost is about $75,000... they're clearly after people with more money than brains.
[00:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40&osCsid=p8539pgn18n02eckhq1ebg2k34 [evwest.com]
[00:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:04] <exec> 08└─The website offers a re-built original Mini (front drive) with electric conversion, http://webshop.swindonpowertrain.com [swindonpowertrain.com] UKP £79,000 + local taxes -- this is getting up into Tesla territory, but with much less rang...
[00:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:06] <exec> 08└─UKP £79,000 + local taxes -- Their blog entry notes that you can avoid the ICE fees to enter London and other restricted zones...
[00:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:15] <exec> 08└─Schizophrenia used to conjure up images of a person hearing voices. Now it means "disagreeing with the majority"
[00:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:31] <exec> 08└─Actor A does something, Actor B figures out how to get around it. Actor A fixes the workaround, Actor B finds another workaround. As long as neither Actor is using plutonium tipped umbrellas, isn't this the way things are supposed to work?
[00:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, possibly. But Facebook has just deleted NSO employees Facebook accounts for breaching Facebook's terms of service (or whatever). So the NSO people are discovering that there might be consequences for poor behavior. But od course they whining about it as if they're somehow the good guys being t...
[00:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:34] <exec> 08└─Khazar vs Reformed?
[00:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:36] <exec> 08└─A day after Facebook-owned WhatsApp sued NSO Group, the social media platform has permanently deleted the accounts of employees who work at the Israel-based spyware maker, according to message boards and a security researcher who spoke to one worker. "Your account has been deleted for not following...
[00:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:55] <exec> 08└─Here is a paper calling them "minor nova like outbursts": The flash heating, if it originated from the sun, which was overhead at the time in the lunar region in question, thus requires that the sun's luminosity flared up for a period of between 10 and 100 seconds to a luminosity of more than 100 ti...
[00:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:56] <exec> 08└─From the 2019 link: Since then more have been found with bolometric energies up to 1036 erg in both ground-based observations and in data from the Kepler space telescope such as de- scribed by Schaefer et al. (2000); Maehara et al. (2012) and Candelaresi et al. (2014). The Kepler data have been ana-...
[00:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:58] <exec> 08└─From the 1989 link: The existence of a glazing on the top surfaces of lunar rocks has been used as a strong argument for a “solar outburst” where the Sun increased its luminosity by over 100 times for 10 to 100 s within the last 30,000 years (Gold 1969; see also Mueller and Hinsch 1970). Critici...
[00:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:12] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, remember 'dsniff' ?
[00:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:58] <exec> 08└─That exactly. The gun rights supporters have been saying it for a long long time. Ever more draconian laws, ever more obtuse, confusing laws DO NOT make people safer. Lawbreakers are going to break the laws, no matter how liberal the laws are, or how draconian. You can stack the mystical, the dracon...
[00:25:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Uber Sues Los Angeles to Keep Scooter Location Data Private - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:39] <exec> 08└─That's the Facebook strategy. They could also do the Google strategy of hoarding as much user data as possible and then pinky-swear that their algorithm takes it into account when hooking up with advertisers. I like the consistency of users being screwed though. It's nice to have something you can c...
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[01:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Built A Zombie Fungus Cannon To Test How Spores Spread - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:21] <exec> 08└─"infectious spore dispersal using a soft water cannon" Oh no, I'm not touching that one....
[01:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:35] <exec> 08└─I will leave the calculation of how many times you need to enter London to get return on investment as an exercise for the reader. Well, if they set the fees right, once or twice oughta do it.
[01:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:44] <exec> 08└─And to illustrate the point read the other two comments in the thread.
[01:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:46] <exec> 08└─Jokes on you!!!1!!
[01:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:07] <exec> 08└─Could be Musky Space Jews.
[01:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:08] <exec> 08└─I think you're close, but not quite there. Facebook expects to be PAID FOR spying on users. Facebook has invested a lot of money to domesticate the sheep, and they expect to share in any profits from shearing the sheep, or for outright slaughter of those sheep. Sheep are valuable commodities, and Fa...
[01:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:31] <exec> 08└─Are we calling solar flares "micro-novas" now? I guess that proves the electric universe theory then.
[01:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:32] <exec> 08└─No, we are not. Did you read any of those links?
[01:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:34] <exec> 08└─How do you think platinum is formed if not at the center of a star?
[01:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:04] <exec> 08└─"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger." ---Nietszche
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[01:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:31] <exec> 08└─Hey BSD, is that you hiding over there?
[01:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:48] <exec> 08└─The big difference between GMO, and genetically *selected*, is where the genes come from. In-vitro selection takes all the possibilities that a set of parents could have. It's literally taking sperm, 100% natural from the parent, combining it with eggs, 100% natural from the mother, gestating them,...
[01:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:49] <exec> 08└─You're really out there. When GMO humanity arrives, people of average intelligence today (about 100 IQ), will be like *retards*. Have you ever interacted with the severely mentally disabled? How about with a dog. A dog is great, but have you seen that doc solve complex mechanical problems? Build a c...
[01:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:51] <exec> 08└─Don't you understand? It's a Troy horse. It's a way to expand the use if modified crops by farmers. Even if the patent expires they can make a modification and file a new patent. And even if they don't have t7pay the "tax" they will only sell sterile seeds so farmers will have to buy seeds every yea...
[01:25:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Amazon is Saying Nothing About the DDoS Attack That Took Down AWS, but Others Are - 1746 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:23] <exec> 08└─Before being smug, you may stop and think a bit. Here are some points: If a complex system is designed for resilience, it has high chances to survive a partial failure, no matter the cause of it - DDoS included. If you only would be actually more interested or just curious than to "display your musc...
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[02:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Built A Zombie Fungus Cannon To Test How Spores Spread - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:03] <exec> 08└─So now the zombies and plants team up against the bugs, who eventually request help from ... the birds and pigs? Who will win?
[02:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Built A Zombie Fungus Cannon To Test How Spores Spread - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:04] <exec> 08└─I saw Zombie Fungus Cannon in a grotty pub in the early 90's. They were drunk as usual, but put on quite the show. Loud though.
[02:19:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 578 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:13] <exec> 08└─I own a diesel panel van. Nothing fancy, but it's in good condition, and being long-wheelbase, it suits my loading needs. I really wish I could turn it into an EV because there is no extended wheelbase electric minivan on the market, and it seems wasteful to ditch an old but workable vehicle that's...
[02:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:21] <exec> 08└─I have a 14-year-old Toyota Camry. The garage figures I can use it for another ten years before it'll need a new engine. I'd like the new engine to be electric.
[02:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:23] <exec> 08└─Do you use your Camry with no drama -- turn the key and go places? This works because of a massive system engineering effort during the design and development stages, before production. In addition to some obvious things, there is a great deal of subtlety as well. For example, various rubber mounted...
[02:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:35] <exec> 08└─MY PRECIOUS threads!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[02:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:35] <exec> 08└─Above or below? Inability to tell directions is another marker...
[02:19:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:46] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know why these blatant crimes aren't being prosecuted by state actors. The US should care if its citizens are being spied on. Same goes for any other country out there. Pretty sure every single country has anti-hacking laws that have been broken here.
[02:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:58] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between logging into Facebook and sharing your information voluntarily and some Israeli douchebags hacking you without your knowledge and reading your private emails and Lord knows what else.
[02:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:59] <exec> 08└─But Facebook has just deleted NSO employees Facebook accounts ... So the NSO people are discovering that there might be consequences for poor behavior.
[02:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:01] <exec> 08└─Then you have nothing to worry about, as long as your phone's operating system isn't Android or IOS.
[02:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, it was much more likely to be a solar micronova.
[02:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:29] <exec> 08└─Yes. (Apart from the ones that require a login) None of them say what you seem to believe. None of those links explain how the heavy elements got where they are if they didn't arrive on a comet or asteroid. Nobody seriously believes the Moon was molten in "geologically recent times." TFA is about...
[02:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:31] <exec> 08└─Why do solar micronovas product so much platinum, and not much of anything else, particularly iron?
[02:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:33] <exec> 08└─Why do solar micronovas product so much platinum, and not much of anything else, particularly iron?
[02:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:35] <exec> 08└─That is an excellent question,
[02:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:37] <exec> 08└─Nobody seriously believes the Moon was molten in "geologically recent times."
[02:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:39] <exec> 08└─*less common
[02:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:06] <exec> 08└─I used to live in an apartment in a low-density development, where each unit had almost immediate access to the outdoors. I had a lot of trick or treaters, and I would hand out Linux boot disks.
[02:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Poisoned Candy and Razor Blades. Here's the Real Halloween Horror - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:07] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the reason why the rules for DST were changed (in most of USAnia) to delay its departure until the first week of November?
[02:22:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:18] <exec> 08└─My job really is, in the end, is to say 'no.'
[02:22:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Debvgger [545] 02 - 06GitLab Rolls Back Plans for Telemetry - 441 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:48] <exec> 08└─Ok, I didn't know about their plans to spy on users. But now, what I know is that I'll never use or even try their services. They could be cashing big on the lack of trust many people have in Github after Microsoft bought it, even more now that we get to slowly know about projects being censored, co...
[02:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:00] <exec> 08└─Trojan Horse. "only a few patented technologies, all of which have been made available for humanitarian purposes free of charge." These are not terminator seeds, they continue to grow and germinate generation after generation. It is also worth noting that terminator seeds or 'GURT' "has never...
[02:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Claim: Block on Golden Rice "Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness" - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure you're replying to the post you think you're replying to. At the very least, I'm pretty sure you didn't comprehend the meaning of my post. I don't care about golden rice or technological progress. I'm talking purely about people having kids they can't feed. The goal of science isn't to...
[02:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google ".new" Shortcut Domains Appear - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:12] <exec> 08└─The dot at the end makes it a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). This is technically a different name because the resolver will add the system search domain when looking up a name when not a FQDN. For example, you can have a search domain of "internal.corporate.example." When you type "soylentnews....
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[03:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Built A Zombie Fungus Cannon To Test How Spores Spread - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:13] <exec> 08└─I saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's And his hair was perfect
[03:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:31] <exec> 08└─I'm not a mechanic, but if you have to replace the powertrain, then it's not a drop in replacement engine is it?
[03:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:32] <exec> 08└─Nah they mean you just have to "drop in" to the garage and they'll replace it for you.
[03:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:34] <exec> 08└─Other AC link above gives a price list for their conversion kits. All about $7500, and includes a wide variety of vehicles. You might be able to make something fit.
[03:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:47] <exec> 08└─I keep all my lost hair in date labeled jars!
[03:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:48] <exec> 08└─I keep all of YOUR hairs in MY jar. They are MINE now!
[03:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:14] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between logging into Facebook and sharing your information voluntarily and some Israeli douchebags hacking you without your knowledge and reading your private emails and Lord knows what else.
[03:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:15] <exec> 08└─Too soon, man, too soon.
[03:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:49] <exec> 08└─It was a strawman khallow made up. How does that make it an excellent question?
[03:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:50] <exec> 08└─And TFA is about tiny extra amounts they detected, it produced much more iron.
[03:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:52] <exec> 08└─The micronova obviously generated iron-rich microspherules
[03:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:54] <exec> 08└─Where's the evidence?
[03:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:56] <exec> 08└─Why would a micronova not generate more iron than platinum? Even that you brought that up shows you didn't think about this at all. Of course there was more iron, and that is what the evidence shows. Now explain how a meteor strike on Earth managed to melt the surface of the moon. Oh, I guess you de...
[03:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:58] <exec> 08└─No need for space invasion bull - probably tree hugger liberal mastodons got the upper hand.
[03:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:01] <exec> 08└─There is no evidence at all in any of those links that the Moon was molten 13,000 years ago. There is also no evidence anywhere that the Sun has ever deposited heavy elements like Platinum directly on the Earth. There is plenty of evidence that meteors have, however. It is more evidence you only h...
[03:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:03] <exec> 08└─There is no evidence at all in any of those links that the Moon was molten 13,000 years ago.
[03:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:35] <exec> 08└─I didn't know he was still alive
[03:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:05] <exec> 08└─At 50 that was true. Perhaps at 60. Not these days. Short term memory declines. It's not noticeable if I'm not doing something like programming, and I'm probably still better at it than most, but I'm no longer even nearly as good as I was. Small pieces I might be better at, and overall design, but n...
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[04:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:53] <exec> 08└─"AT&T already got much of the 5G spending out of the way by purchasing spectrum licenses" Locking out the competition. Sweet.. No hurry to DO anything with that valuable asset now.
[04:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:55] <exec> 08└─This means they will be cutting my bills? /sarcasm
[04:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:56] <exec> 08└─Cut your own bills by porting your number to a competitor that charges less. There's no shortage of MVNOs for you to choose from. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Sort the table by Host Network if you want to stay on AT&T for signal...
[04:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:58] <exec> 08└─No, not AT&T, the America. It's the same old story - it rots from the inside.
[04:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:00] <exec> 08└─Americans have become lazy unskilled bums who would rather be fishing than working and who complain bitterly that they would have to pay taxes if they did work. In other words, America is a whole country of "Mighty" Buzzards.
[04:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:36] <exec> 08└─There isn't necessarily a big difference between the drivetrain of a van vs. a car. Old rear-drive Ford/GM vans were available with small block V8s that were basically the same as the ones used in sedans and muscle cars. Probably the same transmissions and differentials too, just a different length...
[04:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:51] <exec> 08└─Leave now... and never come back! (not that there's much hair left)
[04:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:19] <exec> 08└─Boys, and their humor. QOTD at bottom of page? Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. -- Woody Allen
[04:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:20] <exec> 08└─When one state actor prosecutes another state actor, isn't that called a war?
[04:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:22] <exec> 08└─Ideally, you would log in to Facebook, and share one thing with your daughter, another with your son, and something entirely different with your spouse, and yet something else with all friends and acquantances - and all of that would remain private between private individuals. Only the public post w...
[04:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:24] <exec> 08└─Boys, and their humor.
[04:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:07] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as that, it's either reproducible/predictable or it isn't. Now, perhaps it's only predictable in XYZ scenario, but '"tiny" bit predictable' seems like any oxymoron.
[04:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:09] <exec> 08└─What's stopping the FSF from making the superior GNU Hurd? It's only been DECADES already. They should form a procrastinators' club with the Perl people.
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[05:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UniCredit Suffers Third Breach Despite Investing Billions in Cybersecurity - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:02] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, Nats.
[05:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:15] <exec> 08└─Verizon is the true heir of the original Bell Telephone Company. The newly named AT&T is formerly known as shitty Southwestern Bell.
[05:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Announces a RISC-V Core With an Out-of-Order Microarchitecture - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:22] <exec> 08└─How many instructions executed at once? Or are these still single pipe? In the x86 timeline, superscalar came first.
[05:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Built A Zombie Fungus Cannon To Test How Spores Spread - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:35] <exec> 08└─And he was doing the Monster Mash! It was a graveyard smash!
[05:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Built A Zombie Fungus Cannon To Test How Spores Spread - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:35] <exec> 08└─Crazy Dave.
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[06:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:10] <exec> 08└─AT&T's done this before... they'll cut spending, then, several years later it's like "How did our network get so bad?" When the iphone came out as an AT&T exclusive AT&T's network rather comprehensively crashed and burned. The news narrative was that "no carrier" could have handled this surge... but...
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[06:19:17] <exec> 08└─I'm curious about that too. But honestly, I'd rather not even go down the rabbit hole of branch prediction and OOO execution. Haven't we had enough MELTDOWNs and SPECTREs yet? What good is a more MIPS when all you're doing is running insecure code faster and faster?
[06:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:36] <exec> 08└─On today's internet, even simple arithmetic is a disputed conspiracy theory.
[06:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:17] <exec> 08└─Smilodon (saber tooth cat) went extinct 10,000 years ago. The woolly mammoth went extinct 4000 years ago. The largest smilodon was probably a bit smaller than the largest modern wild tiger, and so doesn't qualify as "giant".
[06:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying he made the only OS - but his kernel work is still significant.
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[07:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:59] <exec> 08└─Paltry compared to what some would pay to suppress an aristarchus submission. We know. We have seen the balance books. They really do not want you to see the aristarchus submissions! I wonder why, but, then again, I do not.
[07:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:20] <exec> 08└─So there will be a reduction in good paying blue collar jobs just in time for the election and to depress the economy and favor whoever challenges Trump.
[07:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:01] <exec> 08└─You are out on the price by a factor of 100. $7598.00 is a typical price; notice the decimal point in the there.
[07:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:02] <exec> 08└─...then I noticed that the advertisement is very misleading - what they are quoting is a deposit. I can see this advert being taken down by ASA very quickly.
[07:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:19] <exec> 08└─Well the definition of has changed quite a lot over the years. Most people probably have no idea what schizophrenia is.
[07:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:35] <exec> 08└─One of the kernel configuration options is whether or not to trust the CPU's RNG. It would not make sense to attempt to test this on the fly, as if it were that easy to detect, someone would have already done so. If the RNG is compromised, it has to be done in such a way that no one can prove it.
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[08:19:03] <exec> 08└─numbers on a computer system for a real physical object? Sounds like a real bargain.
[08:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UniCredit Suffers Third Breach Despite Investing Billions in Cybersecurity - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:07] <exec> 08└─Two billion euros and they are still hacked. It almost seems to me that the more they spend and the more people that have access to the cybersecurity, the more likely they are to have a mole in their midst.
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[09:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:57] <exec> 08└─Some 15 years ago: "Here are the new Diesels." And then, Dieselgate. So in another 15 years time we can expect WifiGate. We can neither confirm or deny these cars were sending data to third-party servers. We can neither confirm or deny our data retention policy. We can neither confirm or deny..........
[09:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:28] <exec> 08└─Can someone explain again how allowing more mergers and slashing network neutrality will surely increase investment in infrastructure?
[09:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:28] <exec> 08└─Baldness precludes the test. No new drugs for me! Good thing I'm too crazy to care much.
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[10:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:56] <exec> 08└─Worse than that. Rather than Big Brother using a network of cameras to track a car's movement, the car will just broadcast its position. Easier for the the government that way.
[10:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:11] <exec> 08└─For that you need a 19th century steam loco.
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[11:19:13] <exec> 08└─And the crooks. a WiFi enabled car stopped by faking an emergency. Never mind that most people will stop nonetheless if they perceive an accident.
[11:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:14] <exec> 08└─"This is an unmarked police car" "Get out of the fucking way" "This car is out of control" "Get out of the fucking way" "The BMW at {co-ordinates} has a bomb on board" "Get out of the fucking way" ...
[11:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:16] <exec> 08└─Cars taking advantage of algorithms to get other cars to give them preference could potentially lead to an increase in efficiency of one group of vehicles at the expense of overall efficiency. And there is certainly precedent for gaming the system. But...how do you market the fact that you are...
[11:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UniCredit Suffers Third Breach Despite Investing Billions in Cybersecurity - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:33] <exec> 08└─Despite investing 2.4 billion euros since 2016
[11:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:49] <exec> 08└─Well, it lets you pay hundreds of millions to the CEO's and board members. How can you expect them to produce their best work without an incentive?
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[12:18:55] <exec> 08└─had to be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero to have a good chance of seeing correlated electron behavior — at higher temperatures the electrons move too energetically to have a chance to strongly interact.
[12:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:14] <exec> 08└─..."There's a sucker born every minute." And when the going gets hard, you can eat your credit card.
[12:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:16] <exec> 08└─They could have had Eagle Prime [youtu.be]
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[13:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Cyber Command Hosts AvengerCon IV - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:15] <exec> 08└─ZERO COMMENTS means NEEDS MORE NIGGERS! Too long have our patriotic niggers slaved at a segregated Cyber Command. We demand the White And Nerdy and the Black And Nerdy work on the same team.
[13:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:35] <exec> 08└─I already have a fitting name for the IoT enabled Golf: "Hole in one"
[13:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:36] <exec> 08└─ob disc: I work in the e-car industry. we're planning on support v2x on our new design. I'm told that there can be 2000 messages/sec that the cpu will have to process. mostly will be filtered out, but the cpu has to process a lot of 'noise' data. we're trying to understand if we need a 2nd cpu for t...
[13:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:24] <exec> 08└─I already cited the most relevant quotes
[13:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:26] <exec> 08└─Why would a micronova not generate more iron than platinum?
[13:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:32] <exec> 08└─That's not very eco-friendly. Do you know how many tourists it takes to grow a bear or wolf to full size, and what the carbon footprint of that many tourists is? It is much better to eat the tourists directly.
[13:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:33] <exec> 08└─Get a few friends together, start up the Project Masters Institute and issue your own certifications. Now, for testing : Ask her for a sandwich. - If it's a good sandwich, make her a Project Management Professional - If it's a crappy sandwich make her a Project Management Consultant - If she gets th...
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[14:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switchable Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:12] <exec> 08└─No worries, sentient machines will have no problems with adaptation to different physical domains, I am sure. Humanity is only an ephemeral implementation in a very narrow interval of physical reality. A bootstrap.
[14:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:36] <exec> 08└─I can think of bragging rights I'd rather have. For example, "dude, I don't have a mortgage."
[14:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:38] <exec> 08└─Investment seems weird, but people pay odd prices for what they consider art. Something tells me that this one will never be shuffled in a deck in competition....
[14:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:40] <exec> 08└─If it brings the buyer or seller happiness to do such a thing, and doesn't harm anyone, who are we to judge?
[14:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:06] <exec> 08└─AT&T had two lines (multiple twisted copper pairs) running to my house when I bought it in 2012. I doubt the previous owner used their service, I never have. 6 months ago a branch fell from a neighbor's tree and cut those lines - boo hoo. I don't see them coming out to fix them, and I suspect they h...
[14:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:07] <exec> 08└─Somehow, any company that carries the name AT&T also carries the inherently evil spirit that grew in the original monopoly. Let it die, it's entirely redundant these days.
[14:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Built A Zombie Fungus Cannon To Test How Spores Spread - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:28] <exec> 08└─TACOOOOOO!!!
[14:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─Heretic!
[14:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:38] <exec> 08└─My knees. Back. Shoulder. Neck.
[14:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tuberculosis Vaccine Unveiled - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─Looking at those posts, it seems clear that "[Langmuir] became director of the epidemiology branch of the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, a position he held for over 20 years." Though it is true he was never CDC director, only director of epidemiology at the CDC.
[14:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:29] <exec> 08└─Oh dear, I thought that the 2nd ROT13 undid the scuff marks from the first round. I wonder how ROT13 is affected when run in the Southern hemisphere where the bits circle the other direction and boolean values are inverted.
[14:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:30] <exec> 08└─So, wait . . . you're saying I should vote for the lesser of two evils?
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[15:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:04] <exec> 08└─I had to stop wearing contacts because I slept with them in too much. Putting stuff in your eye is an inherently dangerous activity. So Idon't see what FDA approved has to do with anything. I've seen people lose a FDA approved contact onto the bathroom floor then rinse it off and put it in their eye...
[15:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:06] <exec> 08└─Things could have been much worse for Patient 11 if she had been in the same boat as Patient 2. While Patient 11 told doctors that she regularly cleaned her black-market lenses, Patient 2—a 16-year-old girl—kept hers in dirty cases with obvious debris and continued to use them after doctors told...
[15:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:08] <exec> 08└─Shocking news! You should stick cheap gadgets bought at the flea market in or on delicate, precious and irreplaceable body parts. News at 11.
[15:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the problem does seem to be just one of the poor hygiene of the vain rather than an intrinsic property of the lenses. However, consumer protection laws are there for a reason, and there's never an excuse for flouting them so. Well, either that or we could just drop that inconvenient law that's...
[15:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:12] <exec> 08└─So a dumbass who didn't clean her lenses or the carrying case and probably never refreshed her cleaning solution. The source of the lenses wasn't the problem there. @GP Shoddily made lenses or improper handling by the manufacturer or distributor can be just as dangerous, so due caution when purchasi...
[15:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switchable Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:32] <exec> 08└─Still a pretty fucking cool reality hack.
[15:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switchable Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:34] <exec> 08└─by scientists from Spain, the U.S., China and Japan shows that superconductivity can be turned on or off with a small voltage change, increasing its usefulness for electronic devices.
[15:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switchable Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:36] <exec> 08└─A bootstrap
[15:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switchable Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:38] <exec> 08└─Also, even if it doesn't have the greatly desired applications, it may have other useful applications. How much of today's technology is based on useless scientific discoveries and parlor tricks in the past.
[15:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 1759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, just like lane-tracking vehicles were going to be the downfall of civilisation because jokers would go out painting lines in the road to fool them. Face it, there just aren't enough arseholes in the world to validate your concerns. Yes, what you suggest is technically possible, but right now i...
[15:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:53] <exec> 08└─Dieselgate.
[15:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:55] <exec> 08└─I think pedestrians should be equipped with V2X. That way cars could signal them to get out of the way NOW because pedestrians never have the right of way! Back in my youth, when we saw pedestrians, someone would call out "2 points!" or "5 points!" or similar. This could bring new meaning to that. a...
[15:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:57] <exec> 08└─"The BMW at {co-ordinates} has a bomb on board" "Get out of the fucking way"
[15:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:59] <exec> 08└─how do you market the fact that you are cheating without being found out?
[15:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:01] <exec> 08└─how do you market the fact that you are cheating without being found out?
[15:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:16] <exec> 08└─Only if you can get those numbers on the right computers!
[15:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:17] <exec> 08└─He who is without sin, let him cast the frist post . . . err... something like that. Seriously, though, it's not likely to have rendered said person destitute. I'm guessing this is more like random piece of art sold for $250,000. This is only significant, because it's a card game. Also, it's a reall...
[15:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:19] <exec> 08└─Someone who can afford to spend $200k on a Pokemon card probably doesn't have a mortgage, at least on their primary residence.
[15:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:21] <exec> 08└─The much smarter way to do it is don't buy packs at all; buy the individual cards you need online and get them shipped to you. But yes, TCGs are a money pit, especially if you play the rotating formats.
[15:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UniCredit Suffers Third Breach Despite Investing Billions in Cybersecurity - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:32] <exec> 08└─From the description it was probably an old mailing list sitting on somebody's workstation. Either that machine got hacked or somebody at the company inherited that machine and found it.
[15:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─Nice denial. "Quotes from scientific literature describing evidence are not evidence". Wtf? What else could you possibly be asking for on an internet forum?
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─So, basically all you can do is totally ignore the new information I provided to you and keep parroting what you read in a textbook. Exactly like I originally said.
[15:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:11] <exec> 08└─Evidence distinguishes between hypotheses. Any fraud can generate ""quotes from scientific literature". Especially if one never quotes the quotes! So you having "quotes from scientific literature" doesn't mean a thing in itself. What else could you possibly be asking for on an internet forum?
[15:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─I will leave it to any reader to decide for themselves who is correct on that ridiculously obvious point.
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─You have not provided information. I've run across these sorts of game before. For example, what's in those links that have been provided and for which you can't even provide a brief summary? You just signaled that it's a waste of my time. and keep parroting
[15:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:17] <exec> 08└─Also, notice what I said about regolith. Your micronova model doesn't explain old information. That's evidence that rejects your model.
[15:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pwn2Own Expands Into Industrial Control Systems Hacking - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you can only defend against stupid so much.
[15:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:27] <exec> 08└─As always, it's more complex than that. People will indeed continue to break laws no matter what occurs, true. But one can and does find that with increased penalties individuals might start considering whether they might consider paying the price for a given crime. Utility is real, although it does...
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[16:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:56] <exec> 08└─Between that and them considering any non-Progressive speech a hate crime, there shouldn't be much wrongthink left and everyone can live in a shiny, happy Twitterverse.
[16:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:58] <exec> 08└─This is going to cause them headaches. Maybe time to short Twitter. I see they are already down about 40% this month though.
[16:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:00] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind political ads if they weren't so full of hate and dis-information. I wouldn't mind seeing an ad that says "Person[x] is running for a seat in your district. They're in [x] party. Vote!" Instead we see ads describing how the world will come to a screeching halt if you vote wrong. We...
[16:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:02] <exec> 08└─Facebook bans telling the truth in political advertising.
[16:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:04] <exec> 08└─Twitter also goes after the left so basically, this a huge gambit to support the HRC wing of the Democrat party.
[16:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:06] <exec> 08└─The cia democrats: https://www.wsws.org [wsws.org] Also known as the "neocons", ie the warmongering republicrats.
[16:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:08] <exec> 08└─The Twitterverse will never be happy. Remove all the wrongthink and they will just make up new wrongthink and eat each other alive. Also, Twitter isn't banning political advertising on the platform. They just aren't getting paid for it. They are kneecapping their own business so that they can't be b...
[16:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:11] <exec> 08└─It is funny seeing the political ads after moving out of Illinois. The budget/debt/tax problems they make a big deal about here are tiny compared to what I am used to seeing.
[16:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:13] <exec> 08└─truth & political should never be used in the same sentence.
[16:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:15] <exec> 08└─Not unless there is a negative qualifier such as "bans".
[16:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:27] <exec> 08└─The FDA reduces your level of caution, it has the opposite effect.
[16:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:28] <exec> 08└─Just read the Amazon reviews, it is just as good as the FDA.
[16:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:30] <exec> 08└─It made me think there was a particular reason not to wear them while having your picture taken. "- with graphic pictures" would more clearly convey that the article contains pictures.
[16:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Stabilizing Disordered Proteins May Lead To The Next Generation Of Medical Applications - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:38] <exec> 08└─The things that normally shape the proteins are called prions. Usually they're only noticed when they get out of whack and cause something like scrapie or mad cow disease. So I'd be a bit careful about using this for wound healing.
[16:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Cyber Command Hosts AvengerCon IV - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:47] <exec> 08└─I only live a few miles from there!
[16:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switchable Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:00] <exec> 08└─OK, what's "GPa". Google kept insisting on grade point average, and that makes no sense in context.
[16:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switchable Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:02] <exec> 08└─gigapascal https://en.wikipedia.org(unit) [wikipedia.org] Approximate Young's modulus for common substances nylon 6 = 2–4 GPa hemp fibre = 35 GPa aluminium = 69 GPa tooth enamel = 83 GPa copper = 117 GPa structural steel = 200 GPa diamond = 1220 GPa
[16:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:23] <exec> 08└─Rather than Big Brother using a network of cameras to track a car's movement, the car will just broadcast its position. Easier for the the government that way.
[16:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 1629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:25] <exec> 08└─> Yes, what you suggest is technically possible, but right now it's technically possible for someone to put blue lights and a siren on a car an impersonate a police car. How often does that happen IRL? More than "never" I'm sure but it's hardly an epidemic. I used to see it almost every day when I l...
[16:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:26] <exec> 08└─> But...how do you market the fact that you are cheating without being found out? Simple, change the laws so its perfectly legal to do so. I can imagine a future, where this technology is adapted as a kind of "pay per mile" toll system. There must be traffic priorities built into the system, because...
[16:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:44] <exec> 08└─And I think the most expensive individual pack of MtG was around $15, but that was a uniquely expensive set, Ultimate Masters. Your run-of-the-mill set packs are only $4 each.
[16:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:46] <exec> 08└─> I can think of bragging rights I'd rather have. For example, "dude, I don't have a mortgage." To be fair, whoever bought this probably never had (or needed) a mortgage. I doubt the card was bought by an average Joe. The people who spend this kind of money on collectables generally have all their o...
[16:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UniCredit Suffers Third Breach Despite Investing Billions in Cybersecurity - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:57] <exec> 08└─more likely they are to have a mole in their midst.
[16:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:17] <exec> 08└─Hey AT&T, What if instead of fighting net neutrality, adding hidden fees, taking subsidies for things you don't do, and other bad things, what if you tried something different. Stop interfering with customer's packets and traffic. No tracking. No deep packet inspection. No extra "services". DO NOT b...
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[16:21:26] <exec> 08└─Indeed, also I think superscalar architecture is not as desirable now as it was back when it came out for x86. Superscalar came out to mass adoption with the original "Pentium" processor in the 90s. That was a ~60MHz single core CPU, and it was expensive. So if you could make more efficient use of y...
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[16:21:28] <exec> 08└─I vaguely remember back in the 90's learning a little about Power PC (on classic Mac). The conditional branch instruction could specify whether the developer (or compiler) expected the branch to be more likely to be taken or not. I could go for that. If that bit in the instruction is wrong once the...
[16:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:07] <exec> 08└─Cost is about $75,000... they're clearly after people with more money than brains.
[16:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:08] <exec> 08└─I have heard it said that the phrase "I blew a tranny" means something totally different to an auto mechanic.
[16:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:49] <exec> 08└─The existence of a glazing on the top surfaces of lunar rocks has been used as a strong argument for a “solar outburst” where the Sun increased its luminosity by over 100 times for 10 to 100 s within the last 30,000 years (Gold 1969; see also Mueller and Hinsch 1970).
[16:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:50] <exec> 08└─. I've run across these sorts of game before.
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─Wtf are you talking about? The micronova model is perfectly consistent with regolith and every other observation about the moon. In fact, dating the micronova event assumes a constant rate of micrometeorite impacts. Read the papers instead of making up a series of strawmen to argue with.
[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─Actually read the sources I provided to you so you can stop talking out of your ass.
[16:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:57] <exec> 08└─The "game" where someone quotes a scientific journal article that describes some evidence and you come up with excuses to ignore it?
[16:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:59] <exec> 08└─The micronova model is perfectly consistent with regolith
[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:01] <exec> 08└─There will always be "sources" for any theory. You need evidence not sources.
[16:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:13] <exec> 08└─I don't believe it's as complex as you make it sound. People who fear and/or don't like guns want to pass laws making guns illegal. People who fear and/or don't like encryption want to make effective encryption illegal. In both cases, We the People need to send a message to Washington. We will not c...
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[17:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:08] <exec> 08└─Most of present day emoji look like crap, though, so I'm not exactly sure why one would use them.
[17:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─that's not a taco, it's arby's.
[17:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:10] <exec> 08└─Is sending an elephant symbol to someone now considered a hate crime?
[17:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─All of this wasted energy, and you still can't get an ROC flag on your iphone in Hong Kong.
[17:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:15] <exec> 08└─🐘
[17:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:17] <exec> 08└─It's a PostgreSQL advertisement.
[17:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:19] <exec> 08└─It's neither. It's another name for a taco, clam, or a cat... the new Apple fanboi emoji.
[17:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:21] <exec> 08└─https://emojipedia.org/flag-for-taiwan/ [emojipedia.org] This Taiwanese flag is hidden from the emoji keyboard on iOS devices when the region is set to China mainland or (as of iOS 13.1.2) Hong Kong or Macau. Chinese-model iPhones will not display this emoji and will instead show a missing character...
[17:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:38] <exec> 08└─They are kneecapping their own business
[17:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:39] <exec> 08└─Between that and them considering any non-Progressive speech a hate crime,
[17:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:41] <exec> 08└─It is quite a day when a corporation has to step in because the rhetoric is so terrible they'd prefer not to take the cash over their beliefs.
[17:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:43] <exec> 08└─Well, this looks like political advertising to me: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] So what exactly did they "ban"?
[17:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:46] <exec> 08└─Twitter is not getting paid to artificially promote political ads and give political advertisers access to analytics: Internet political ads, he said, presented "entirely new challenges to civic discourse". These challenges included "machine learning-based optimisation of messaging", "micro-targetin...
[17:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:48] <exec> 08└─Trump is a progressive. He was democrat until he ran as a republican... Haven't you noticed the national debt doubling under him the same as Obama?
[17:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:50] <exec> 08└─Common sense doesn't work on the crazies that have a martyr complex. Not only do they have the crazy part, but they are emotionally invested in their own idess of persecution.
[17:19:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 892 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:59] <exec> 08└─Things could have been much worse for Patient 11 if she had been in the same boat as Patient 2. While Patient 11 told doctors that she regularly cleaned her black-market lenses, Patient 2—a 16-year-old girl—kept hers in dirty cases with obvious debris and continued to use them after doctors told...
[17:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:07] <exec> 08└─So Idon't see what FDA approved has to do with anything.
[17:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:09] <exec> 08└─make sure the lenses you get are not already harboring microbes for one.
[17:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:12] <exec> 08└─Did you hear about the guy who got drunk and put his dick in a tube hooked up to a helium tank? When the air pumped in it got stuck in the tube then he panicked and knocked the tank over while trying to turn it off...
[17:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:14] <exec> 08└─Which won't do anything if their porosity means the bacteria can remain attached to them despite the rinsing.
[17:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:16] <exec> 08└─Sure, because otherwise you'd be all about doing your own quality control testing like exposing them to bacteria and making sure that rinsing clears them off fully, placing them in animal eyes to be sure that they don't contain irritants, that the manufacturer remains available for any product quest...
[17:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, too many people have good enough vision right now, what we need is to allow all players in and let the market handle the product liability issues, you betcha.
[17:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:20] <exec> 08└─"film" at 11. In the old days it took a while to get "moving pictures" about the news item so the news event was reported in audio only while the news team rounded up video. Nowadays you would have to work at it to only have audio without an accompanying video. Yeah. I'm retired now so I have lots o...
[17:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:12] <exec> 08└─Detect that the vehicle is at a specific government testing agency, and destroy the feature leaving no trace of it. The prick BMW owner must later have vehicle "serviced" to re-enable the cheat feature.
[17:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:14] <exec> 08└─This is depressingly realistic.
[17:21:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:24] <exec> 08└─..."There's a sucker born every minute." And when the going gets hard, you can eat your credit card.
[17:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Announces a RISC-V Core With an Out-of-Order Microarchitecture - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─They get what takes the other fabless 5years done under 3 or even 2 years and with a small team. And they deliver with an open source compiler... Mighty impressive.
[17:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:15] <exec> 08└─Schizophrenia is a word used by doctors to mean "we know something is wrong, but have not a clue what it is". In some cases it is obviously chemical - in others it would appear to be poor or lack of parenting or education. The medical profession has very little clue about "software failures" and doe...
[17:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:48] <exec> 08└─Israel is trying to take over the united states and europe by first taking over their networks, and this is part of their attack on the immune system as all forms of functioning civil society in the united states are obstacles to their plans. When a foreign country is attacking your journalists, the...
[17:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:49] <exec> 08└─They are selling this to the highest bidder also, and then once anyone has it its traded around, until it is just on the darknet in a hundred places. I no longer trust anything out of israel, words, software, hardware, people, it is the only way to react to the evidence. Now if we could get NCR to s...
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Speaks Out in Favor of Strong Encryption - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─Look for a third, then you can vote for the least evil. Of course you know there is no requirement to vote for evil at all.
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[18:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:30] <exec> 08└─I don't understand why people gloss Republic of China to Taiwan. You can say Taiwan is shorter to type or say but it can't compete with RoC for typeability and it's little if any easier to pronounce than Arosee. There are actual Taiwanese people, about 2.5% of the population, as in many other countr...
[18:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:30] <exec> 08└─Why does stuff say "Made in Taiwan" on it? Isn't that written by people from there who might care which it says?
[18:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:30] <exec> 08└─I can see why the PRC prefers it that way but why is the rest of the world coöperating with that?
[18:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:31] <exec> 08└─"Taiwan and Hong Kong were ceded to China, according to a treaty." Hong Kong was handed over from the UK. Taiwan is an entirely different situation. "Short of war, there is nothing that can be done about it now. Unless we are willing to commit to war, any intercession by us will only make the takeov...
[18:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:32] <exec> 08└─It usually says "Made in Taiwan, R.O.C" actually.
[18:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:33] <exec> 08└─The bulk of HongKong was never ‘owned ‘ by Britain, the Bulk of the land , the New Territory, was a 99 year lease that expired in 1997. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Taiwan is not scheduled to return to China, it has been in permanent limbo for decades, no...
[18:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:56] <exec> 08└─...but we already saw that last night. Nationals, World Series champs. Booyah!
[18:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:21] <exec> 08└─Somebody would, and you would see the certifications/reviews. It is a non-problem.
[18:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:22] <exec> 08└─And even soaking them in acid won't do anything if they are made out of formaldehyde! Thank god for the FDA or people would be putting random objects in their eyes. Oh wait, those same people are doing that anyway. The FDA does nothing.
[18:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:24] <exec> 08└─...let the market handle the product liability issues.
[18:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 1587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:23] <exec> 08└─> Problem is, you can't be sure if the car in question is a legit undercover police car, or someone just put some blue lights and a siren in their car to bypass the rush hour traffic, Indeed. That fact kind of pisses on the rest of your anecdote, though. > I just see one normally dressed person in t...
[18:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:42] <exec> 08└─Really disgusting. So many problems in the world that need funding.
[18:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:42] <exec> 08└─Fallacy. The person getting the fifth of a million can choose to donate to charity. Money is meant to move around.
[18:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:44] <exec> 08└─Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to drop in the battery pack while you're at it... I'm sure it'll fit as easily as everything else.
[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─The definition of "other two comments in this thread" has also changed, but more recently.
[18:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:00] <exec> 08└─When it comes to simple internet arithmetic, only the alt-right doesn't add up. Neither do democrats and republicans, but they win. The problem isn't the organizations themselves, it's the credibility given to them by the audience.
[18:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:01] <exec> 08└─A very famous movie was written around that theme: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) "What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassin? They lie. They lie, and we have to be merciful, for those who lie."
[18:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:04] <exec> 08└─:-) Well, good morning to you too! You're in top form today...
[18:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Platinum Spikes Support Hypothesis of Impact Event and Extinctions 12,800 Years Ago - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:02] <exec> 08└─Not this ridiculous cycle of making unfounded assertions and then vacuously claiming that the right people will bother to research it and reach the right conclusions.
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[19:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel to Launch 48-Core "14nm" Cooper Lake and 38-Core "10nm" Ice Lake Xeons in 2020 - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:59] <exec> 08└─TDP of 400 W... and that is using inlet's definition (basically power usage while idle). So the real TDP when in use is going to be more like 800 W. This was true, you really do need a 1 horsepower (~740 W) cooler: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel to Launch 48-Core "14nm" Cooper Lake and 38-Core "10nm" Ice Lake Xeons in 2020 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:00] <exec> 08└─Intel is feeling the heat.
[19:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:21] <exec> 08└─I just had a *COLORED* emoji show up in my xterm the other day while on IRC. The new content is completely wrecking both the standardization on 8x16 and 16x32 font formats, as well as adding color in what needs to be a monochromatic or at worst greyscale standard in order to ensure theming and platf...
[19:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:23] <exec> 08└─They're called "African American" nowadays.
[19:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─I learned a new word [wiktionary.org] today. Thanks, SoylentNews!
[19:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:27] <exec> 08└─Anytime I find something is advertised as "inclusive" - it's the opposite. If something is actually inclusive, you'll find most people won't even bother to advertise it because it's simply not needed. Think along the lines of Person A:"Hey, let's go to Taco Bell". PersonB: "Do they have inclusive me...
[19:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:52] <exec> 08└─Someone should stab Ed Stack to death.
[19:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:53] <exec> 08└─Democratic front-runner Joe Biden, said: "When faced with a choice between ad dollars and the integrity of our democracy, it is encouraging that, for once, revenue did not win out." how convenient since ole' uncle trumpy raised way more money than the democratic candidates have.
[19:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:55] <exec> 08└─Trump is a progressive.
[19:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:58] <exec> 08└─Someone should shoot Ed Stack to death with a star-spangled AR15.
[19:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:00] <exec> 08└─So, a fascist is a progressive now?
[19:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:25] <exec> 08└─I bought a shelving unit from amazon and it cut my finger, other reviews mentioned the same problem. Out of the hundreds of thousands of people who got cut and caused a public burden, one got infected and had to go to the hospital. That is why the FDA should regulate shelving units too.
[19:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Stabilizing Disordered Proteins May Lead To The Next Generation Of Medical Applications - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:33] <exec> 08└─Proteins are shaped by how certain amino acids within the protein interact (ie: bond) with other amino acids within the protein and by what other proteins/particles/chemicals exist in their environment and how those proteins interact with the environment. Factors such as pH and temperature may also...
[19:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:46] <exec> 08└─Also, becoming a collector of anything is a great way to spend a lot of money on something that isn't useful or really even fun. Really, you don't gotta catch 'em all. It will be OK, even if you've caught absolutely none of 'em.
[19:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UniCredit Suffers Third Breach Despite Investing Billions in Cybersecurity - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:59] <exec> 08└─stop hiring windows users as your IT staff and/or cybersecurity contractors.
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[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─we need open designs, not licensed designs. change your usurious business model.
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[19:22:31] <exec> 08└─You can do that now. Both the developer and the compiler can determine how the conditional jumps are likely to execute (through things like explicit marking or PGO). The compiler then selects the proper jump instruction based on the expected outcome. The problem is that even if you have this sort of...
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[20:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:07] <exec> 08└─http://www.centernyc.org/new-york-citys-15-minimum-wage [centernyc.org] The New York State minimum wage rose in phases from $7.25 an hour at the end of 2013 to $13.50 during 2018. During this period, New York City has seen a strong economic expansion of the restaurant industry, outpacing national gr...
[20:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:08] <exec> 08└─So shitty businesses closed and made way and made workers available for better run businesses? Imagine that!! If your business only survives because you don't pay your workers, maybe it's time to re-evaluate its viability, product and/or management
[20:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:10] <exec> 08└─It looks more like academics in their ivory tower only look at government-manipulated statistics that tell a different story than what restaurant owners are experiencing in reality.
[20:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:13] <exec> 08└─Reality is a troll to some people: The picture painted by the latest available government data shows a vibrant New York City restaurant sector.
[20:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:15] <exec> 08└─So here's the part that caught my eye: "And yet, even this high level of sales wasn't enough to inoculate the business from the rising cost of rent and wages in New York. Coffee Shop co-owner and president Charlies Milite told Forbes that rent had become "unusually high," accounting for close to 27%...
[20:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:49] <exec> 08└─And who *requires* you to use such "inclusive" emojis? Is there a burly guy who follows you around and beats you if you don't use them? Has your boss complained that you don't use the "drop of menstrual blood" emoji enough, and if you don't start *right now* you're fired? Have any of your friends or...
[20:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:50] <exec> 08└─1- The emoji police 2- Yes 3- Yes 4- Yes
[20:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:52] <exec> 08└─Wow. Rough life. Perhaps you should just kill yourself.
[20:20:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:02] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind political ads if they weren't so full of hate and dis-information. I wouldn't mind seeing an ad that says "Person[x] is running for a seat in your district. They're in [x] party. Vote!" Instead we see ads describing how the world will come to a screeching halt if you vote wrong. We...
[20:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Cyber Command Hosts AvengerCon IV - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:04] <exec> 08└─You weren't invited
[20:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Paid $195,000 for a Pokémon Card - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:11] <exec> 08└─See, here's where my Bullshit Detector™ (© 1977 Joe Strummer) sounds off: spending that kind of cash on Art or Classic Cars I can theoretically justify: they're both an investment with a virtually guaranteed return, better than stocks in most cases. This example is another bubble. Wait five years...
[20:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─Just be big, dumb, pipes.
[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe things have changed. Once upon a time, doing something the best, better than your competitors, was a way to get ahead. Win loyal customers. Those customers are your best and free salespeople.
[20:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Announces a RISC-V Core With an Out-of-Order Microarchitecture - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:59] <exec> 08└─+1 Thanks
[20:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biomarker for Schizophrenia Can be Detected in Human Hair - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:00] <exec> 08└─thanks for posting this. schizophrenia is "real funny" until someone you love develops it. very interesting study.
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[21:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:58] <exec> 08└─Let us look where the data is coming from: Covered" employment refers broadly to both private-sector employees as well as state, county, and municipal government employees insured under the New York State Unemployment Insurance (UI) Act. Federal employees are insured under separate laws, but are con...
[21:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:59] <exec> 08└─Here is the part that caught my eye: Add in the scheduled $2-per-hour minimum wage hike set to take place on December 31—an increase that, across Coffee Shop's 150 employees and multiple dayparts of service, would have added $46,000 to the monthly payroll—made it impossible to break even by cutt...
[21:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:01] <exec> 08└─$14.3 million in sales 27% is rent, so $3.86m a year in rent Why don't they simply pay a lower rent - pay 10% less rent, and that leaves the money to pay the staff.
[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:03] <exec> 08└─That's a really interesting number that they bring up: 150 employees x 38 hours per week x 4 weeks x $2.00 per hour = $45,600.00 That's a lot of staff to have at minumum wage. I would have expected that key holders and shift managers would already be getting paid more.
[21:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's working great. Businesses are letting employees go until they're one employee short of the number needed to conform to the $15/hr law. So you now have a short staff, under $15/hr, part time, no benefits, and pissed off cunstomers because there's only one person at the register and the she...
[21:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 5039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:07] <exec> 08└─More details: Sec. 511. Employment. 1. General definition. "Employment" means (a) any service under any contract of employment for hire, express or implied, written, or oral and (b) any service by a person for an employer [...] 4. Other included work. The term "employment" shall include (a) Serv...
[21:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:10] <exec> 08└─A rightwing newspaper (the NY Post) and a pro-business magazine (Forbes) find stories that raising minimum wage is bad. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you... The fact that they found a few individual stories of closing restaurants shouldn't be a surprise. Restaurants fail all the time. I remember heari...
[21:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:12] <exec> 08└─Anecdotes are better than BS massaged or misinterpreted data.
[21:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:14] <exec> 08└─So we agree are of one mind? (the AC hive-mind)
[21:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel to Launch 48-Core "14nm" Cooper Lake and 38-Core "10nm" Ice Lake Xeons in 2020 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─These things would kill two birds with one stone in the winter.
[21:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:51] <exec> 08└─a gorgeous menstrual-red blood drop. [...] a luscious, dignified and highly yonic oyster emoji, replete with a pearly clit
[21:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:53] <exec> 08└─Is sending an elephant symbol to someone now considered a hate crime?
[21:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:55] <exec> 08└─That's funny, last one I looked at said, "Made in Help! I'm trapped in a DVD factory!" The weird thing is I was buying shoes...
[21:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:24] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind seeing an ad that says "Person[x] is running for a seat in your district. They're in [x] party. Vote!"
[21:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Switchable Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:22] <exec> 08└─Thanks
[21:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SiFive Announces a RISC-V Core With an Out-of-Order Microarchitecture - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:01] <exec> 08└─I agree. It's the same old argument and history playing out but in hardware. fanboy: "But Windows isn't that expensive, in fact it's include on the PC and subsidized by the included malware. It's great!" But I believed even in 2000 that open source would win. Trying to stop it is like trying to stop...
[21:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drop-In Motor Converts Car To EV - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:41] <exec> 08└─At a glance, you're getting a lot more than just a powertrain for 75k quid. That's a full road-ready car.
[21:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:40] <exec> 08└─Neither do democrats and republicans,
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[22:19:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:28] <exec> 08└─So here's the part that caught my eye: "And yet, even this high level of sales wasn't enough to inoculate the business from the rising cost of rent and wages in New York. Coffee Shop co-owner and president Charlies Milite told Forbes that rent had become "unusually high," accounting for close to 27%...
[22:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:38] <exec> 08└─NYC is so pricey that $15/hr is still not a living wage. Other costs are so high that for many businesses doubling the salary was a small percentage of their costs that they were usually able to pass on to customers. The economy is booming, so that additional cost was sustainable. Now try raising mi...
[22:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:40] <exec> 08└─How is that not working great? Businesses that won't pay their employees, that don't seem to mind that they are short staffed, don't care if customers are pissed off, probably shouldn't be in business in the first place. Let them disappear to be replaced by better run businesses. Companies will do a...
[22:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:41] <exec> 08└─So shitty businesses closed and made way and made workers available for better run businesses?
[22:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:44] <exec> 08└─Why don't they simply pay a lower rent - pay 10% less rent, and that leaves the money to pay the staff.
[22:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:46] <exec> 08└─So destroy a business to make way for another one that costs even more to run. You do realize that is 100% the broken window fallacy, right? right?.... Right?
[22:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:28] <exec> 08└─That's nice.
[22:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:28] <exec> 08└─Actually I agree. Many of these "inclusive" things just separate people into smaller and smaller groups. To be inclusive of other people is to include them in a larger group without needing to point out their differences. Would someone prefer to be referred to as "Fred, the disabled guy down the str...
[22:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:30] <exec> 08└─Probably. These days almost everything is in one way or another. And if it isn't, it eventually will be (see: frogs).
[22:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:32] <exec> 08└─There's being general but still phobic internally - which really is just being pretentious and still being influenced by our prejudices in little ways, but they stack up to be significant for those on the receiving end. Or there being general but genuinely so. However to get there lets start with be...
[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:04] <exec> 08└─Well, if Stack isn't sorry then he couldn't have cost Dick's Sporting Goods that much money with his anti-gun stance. Saying "lost out on millions of dollars" is saying that's money you didn't make from selling guns, not that you lost revenue from selling other goods because people don't want to sho...
[22:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:05] <exec> 08└─Twitter’s Head of Censorship, Vijaya Gadde, is responsible for deciding what is considered an illegal political twitter ad. These are some of the Twitter groups she follows: Flip States Blue, Swing Left, SPLC, ACLU, David Hogg, Women's March (actually anti-woman due to Islamic leaders but whatever...
[22:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:07] <exec> 08└─I think this policy is Twitter's attempt to square the circle. They would really like to censor Trump, but they know that if he stops using their platform their business would implode. So they are going to try to shadow-ban conservative voices under the auspices of this policy while allowing progres...
[22:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:09] <exec> 08└─It's almost like the entire state of politics is rotten and needs all stakeholders to step back and take a breath and fix the fucking rules of conduct.
[22:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, funny that, Joe. People should get rich the old fashioned way, have the government hand them a giant pile of money, right?
[22:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:13] <exec> 08└─Words mean what idiots want them to mean (see the guy's reply to you below..."fascism was a progressive movement," what the actual fuck...).
[22:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:15] <exec> 08└─An update: 250 billion: https://www.pghcitypaper.com [pghcitypaper.com]
[22:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:18] <exec> 08└─M, not B -- MILLION, not billion.
[22:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's Why You Should Never Use Decorative Contact Lenses—in Graphic Pictures - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:44] <exec> 08└─Because private certification worked so well with automobiles...
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[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─we need open designs, not licensed designs.
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[23:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extracting Hidden Quantum Information From a Light Source - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:06] <exec> 08└─I don't like these quantum articles. I know I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree, but these articles make me feel extraordinarily stupid. 😟
[23:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extracting Hidden Quantum Information From a Light Source - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:08] <exec> 08└─You’re supposed to feel awestruck, and not actually try to parse the article for scientific meaning. It’s bad journalism.
[23:19:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:16] <exec> 08└─So shitty businesses closed and made way and made workers available for better run businesses? Imagine that!! If your business only survives because you don't pay your workers, maybe it's time to re-evaluate its viability, product and/or management
[23:19:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 594 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:27] <exec> 08└─A rightwing newspaper (the NY Post) and a pro-business magazine (Forbes) find stories that raising minimum wage is bad. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you... The fact that they found a few individual stories of closing restaurants shouldn't be a surprise. Restaurants fail all the time. I remember heari...
[23:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minimum Wages and the Local Economy - Both Sides of the Argument - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:36] <exec> 08└─How the hell is this offtopic? It shows you what they measured to come to the conclusion that restaurant jobs are growing. Someone moderating this thread can't draw conclusions from themselves and needs to be told what to think apparently.
[23:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel to Launch 48-Core "14nm" Cooper Lake and 38-Core "10nm" Ice Lake Xeons in 2020 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:46] <exec> 08└─3 if you keep a pet parrot.
[23:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel to Launch 48-Core "14nm" Cooper Lake and 38-Core "10nm" Ice Lake Xeons in 2020 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:49] <exec> 08└─These CPUs can simultaneously send your data to every intelligence agency in the world.
[23:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:24] <exec> 08└─Menstrual blood tends to be chunky at times. I'm baffled by how we got to this point, using the UTF codepoints for basically the hospital console from Idiocracy. We've gone down the wrong leg of the trousers of time again...
[23:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's iOS 13.2 Update Includes 398 New and Inclusive Emoji - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:26] <exec> 08└─Any place full of Chinamen is part of China, duh.
[23:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:06] <exec> 08└─Obama was so progressive he created the right of the president to execute US citizens without trial. I'd like to call that a fascist policy but that would violate the formula that says only Republicans are fascists and that no matter what Democrats do, who they kill, who they spy on, and whose money...
[23:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:07] <exec> 08└─What's the saying? A fool and his money are easily parted?
[23:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:09] <exec> 08└─Words mean what idiots want them to mean (see the guy's reply to you below..."fascism was a progressive movement," what the actual fuck...).
[23:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:11] <exec> 08└─Did you even read the reply you linked to me? Good grief, by the "logic" employed in that post, *anyone* who attempts to improve peoples' lot is a "progressive" regardless of what their social, economic, or political position is. That's utterly, utterly vacuous.
[23:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:13] <exec> 08└─Good grief, by the "logic" employed in that post, *anyone* who attempts to improve peoples' lot is a "progressive" regardless of what their social, economic, or political position is.
[23:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:15] <exec> 08└─Do you have a point somewhere? Because all I'm seeing is "people who said they wanted to improve life for others did evil shit, therefore wharrrrgabl progressives as a whole are evil." This doesn't even rise to the level of a reasoned argument.
[23:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Bans Political Advertising - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:17] <exec> 08└─The point is that Fascism was a Progressive movement. Like I said originally.
[23:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Golfs in Europe Will Communicate With Wireless Safety Tech - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─Then finally, I can imagine a world where you can pay for "priority access"
[23:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T to Cut Capital Investments by $3 Billion in 2020 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:42] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, doing something the best, better than your competitors, was a way to get ahead. Win loyal customers. Those customers are your best and free salespeople.
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