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[00:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:13] <exec> 08└─Your roomies already know you watch Blacked Teen Step Daughters.
[00:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:14] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu (and probably other Linux distros, if not the kernel itself) had bigger, blacker problems years before this "feature of convenience" was implemented.
[00:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:16] <exec> 08└─Why did they make DLNA when you can stream files from a SMB shared folder? I'm totally ignorant about this, and you people are the ones to ask. Thanks in advance for any info.
[00:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:18] <exec> 08└─A "content discovery device like a smart tv or games console" expects DLNA.
[00:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:48] <exec> 08└─Usually there is two phases that go into residential apartments, so you can make 220v to power stoves and dryers, try finding an outlet on the other phase and plug into that. On breaker panels the phases alternate every other breaker, so if there is a double breaker somewhere in there you will have...
[00:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:50] <exec> 08└─I mean the UPS is basically a "battery buffer".
[00:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:52] <exec> 08└─100W of christmas lights? Get some LEDs FCOL
[00:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:54] <exec> 08└─Very informative, thanks.
[00:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:56] <exec> 08└─In my experience they just don't have the same ambiance... If you could recommend a strand that does I will try it.
[00:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:58] <exec> 08└─Other than putting the AC on a separate phase, as was already suggested, borrow another UPS and put the AC on its own on it. If this works, buy the UPS.
[00:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:00] <exec> 08└─I actually do have another one in a separate room, I'll try that but even if it works that is a somewhat expensive solution.
[00:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:02] <exec> 08└─1) put the AC unit on a dedicated circuit. if the AC unit is already on a separate circuit from your computer and lights, then ensure the two circuits are on separate legs/phases. this is as simple as moving one of the circuit breakers over one position in the load center (breaker box). otherwise ge...
[00:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 1624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:05] <exec> 08└─Well, I live in Europe, where we have 230v mains and those problems are 1/4 of the US ones by design. Then again, I have Christmas lights spanning the whole garden and they hardly reach 30-35W total. They are all LED, of course. Most of them have 30v switching-mode power brick and will happily run o...
[00:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:07] <exec> 08└─If it's happening when the AC is switching, there's an abnormal power draw. You could check with a decent (safe) multi-meter if you have one? Fixed something like this last month on an air compressor, contactor was sticking and needed cleaning and re-greasing but the compressor was also on an old wi...
[00:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:09] <exec> 08└─I would upvote if not AC, thanks. Espescially #2.
[00:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:11] <exec> 08└─As for the other electronics: modern PCs, monitors and the likes are generally insensitive to short (and most of them even to extended) brownouts.
[00:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:13] <exec> 08└─They're growing pot. After they jump this initial hurdle, their next two battles are nicely affixing tin foil to their windows and stopping their neighbors from burdening animal control with reports of unseen skunks running loose throughout the neighborhood.
[00:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:26] <exec> 08└─NASA delivered when it mattered. and the country gave a shit that it was being done. SLS is just pork.
[00:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:28] <exec> 08└─Musk didn't get $150 billion (yet).
[00:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0666 Million Year Old Dinosaur Battle Continues in Court - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:26] <exec> 08└─"Fossils are not mined, processed, milled or smelted." What an ridiculous argument!
[00:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 0666 Million Year Old Dinosaur Battle Continues in Court - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:27] <exec> 08└─So, what you're saying is if I can win the case and pay the lawyers LESS than three million dollars, I'll be ahead right? Great, lets make this happen. Problem is both sides have this attitude.
[00:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sounds of Mosquito Mating Rituals Could Lead to Quieter Drones - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:49] <exec> 08└─Mating foxes aren't quiet either... ...and when you live in a house in a (mostly) natural amphitheatre favoured by sex mad vulpines...and mating season is rapidly approaching...and, thanks to freaky acoustics and luck, your house is close to the focal point for reflections of any sounds generated in...
[00:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In U.S. First, Scientists Safely Edit Cancer Patients’ Cells With CRISPR - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:31] <exec> 08└─I was surprised that CRISPR use is not more explored in cancer research.
[00:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could the World Cope If GPS Stopped Working? - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:28] <exec> 08└─Thirded. When I started driving truck, consumer GPS didn't even exist yet. Well, that's not technically true, most GPS receivers looked like this: http://retro-gps.info [retro-gps.info] Expensive, bulky, not very practical, and you still had to be able to read a map to use one. I...
[00:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Road to Recovery after a Minor Stroke - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:15] <exec> 08└─Obesity in children never lets their heart develop properly. An immature heart isn't going to be able to tolerate lugging around 200 pounds 24/7, doesn't matter the source of calories. The cure is to charge the parents with child abuse. There's no excuse for an 8-year old kid to weigh 200-300 pounds...
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[01:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:18] <exec> 08└─This is a good time to say "fuck off ubuntu" and avoid stuff under corporate control. Linux Mint works fine, shouldn't have this issue.
[01:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:20] <exec> 08└─>is supposed to be disabled by default This statement has a different meaning now that systemd takes care of services. It used to mean "I disabled this service so I am reasonably confident it doesn't start" to "I followed the instruction to let systemd know I don't wont to start this service, so cro...
[01:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:22] <exec> 08└─I ran ubuntu last month. Looks like a toy OS, slow, big icons. MX linux or ubuntu 6 itself (the latest version I recall having used) run circles around it. Imagine void or alpine. I didn't even find that many apps. Do the devs all have octacores with ssd? Well, not my prob really.
[01:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:24] <exec> 08└─So what should the plebes who are looking for something better do? The kernel is pozzed with AIDS and anything that depends on it will be pozzed as such. Should we go back to 2007 or are there good alternatives? Are there not any good alternatives in this timeline?
[01:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:26] <exec> 08└─There are not any good alternatives in this timeline, for we live in the bad future.
[01:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:28] <exec> 08└─Using simple file/folder sharing on all versions of Windows of any folder in the users directory, it creates a $user share on the LAN. If you open $user everything has been shared including Documents, Photos, Video, etc.
[01:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:31] <exec> 08└─Stop being salty and start by suggesting a course of action to the rest of us.
[01:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:33] <exec> 08└─Problems start when your SO and your kids know it too.
[01:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:35] <exec> 08└─OK... switch to Windows 10. You'll have no more systemd problems.
[01:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:37] <exec> 08└─Gentoo. Warning, user may need to get some aftermarket cojones to install Gentoo if not already sufficiently equipped.
[01:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:39] <exec> 08└─start by suggesting a course of action to the rest of us.
[01:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:41] <exec> 08└─Especially when your teen step daughter learns your secret fetish.
[01:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:25] <exec> 08└─This, but unfortunately, a report to both the landlords and the power company may possibly somehow cause the original questioners's rent to rise as that nasty wiring has to be brought up to code, and the landlord is going to face the heat of the city for bringing said place up to code. And that's go...
[01:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 1839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:26] <exec> 08└─Umm, a cord with a pug on one end and one or more outlets on the other? Says "Extension Cord" in large letters on the packaging when you see it in the store? And there's nothing wrong with using one for heavy loads - you just need to make sure they're rated for whatever amperage your AC is pulling....
[01:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:28] <exec> 08└─There are also "line interactive" power supplies, which are essentially offline UPS systems, but they also include a power conditioner to improve the power quality and buffer the cutover from wall power to battery power. I have one of these, it's pretty nice.
[01:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:31] <exec> 08└─My friends air conditioner would blow the breaker. He smoked a lot he said he took the AC apart and it was just caked with resin. After cleaning it all out, the problem was solved.
[01:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:33] <exec> 08└─I would put those in the standby/cut-over class. They may provide a less nasty cut-over and may filter more crap out of the supply power than a low end device, but they are still nowhere near an online UPS.
[01:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:35] <exec> 08└─Assuming USA? The article mentioned Christmas lights and A/C. Now, that could mean 1 of 3 things: 1) They are in the southern hemisphere. 2) They like Christmas lights so much they use them at any time of the year. 3) Global Warming has gotten really bad. I would guess southern hemisphere, and that...
[01:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals Tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:33] <exec> 08└─It's not likely that password obnoxiousness is the cause of the problem. It's more likely that the problem is caused by new systems replacing old ones, which cause the staff to be unfamiliar with them and thus less effective. Or possibly some systems that are deemed "insecure" stop existing at all,...
[01:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 0666 Million Year Old Dinosaur Battle Continues in Court - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:50] <exec> 08└─Minerals are inorganic
[01:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could the World Cope If GPS Stopped Working? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:52] <exec> 08└─I can see it now, endless streams of millennial's and whatever the next gen is called endlessly circling in search of avocado toast and home.... This is not as ridiculous as it sounds, in a post above I detail a former co-worker who literally cannot find the house she has lived in her entire life wi...
[01:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06On the Road to Recovery after a Minor Stroke - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:39] <exec> 08└─A few hail marys in his career I'm sure but not nearly as important a player as Hannah Mouncey. [wikipedia.org] Stunning and brave!
[01:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06On the Road to Recovery after a Minor Stroke - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:41] <exec> 08└─Diet doesn't beat genetics, no matter how much we wish that we could control outcomes by changing lifestyle.
[01:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Road to Recovery after a Minor Stroke - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:43] <exec> 08└─Adding a stent puts martyb at risk of all sorts of stent-related trouble. It could migrate. It can be a site for infection to develop. It is itself a location to collect gunk. For the rest of his life, martyb will need to take blood thinners, putting him at risk of bleeding to death from minor injur...
[01:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Road to Recovery after a Minor Stroke - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:45] <exec> 08└─Or was it Nathan Hale, who only had one life, etc., etc., when he was hung by the Brits in retaliation for the execution of John André by the American rebels? Capitalization is a clue here, and is important, as in the sentence "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse." "Hale" in my post was not a proper...
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[02:27:08] <exec> 08└─I used in a quiz in January 2018. The following is from an abstract from the scientific paper the popular reports were based on: We document Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and non-Indigenous observations of intentional fire-spreading by the fire-foraging raptors Black Kite (Milvus migrans), Whistli...
[02:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:31] <exec> 08└─Stop being salty and start by suggesting a course of action to the rest of us.
[02:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:33] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't things like this make it impossible to prove willing copyright infringement?
[02:28:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:05] <exec> 08└─I mean the UPS is basically a "battery buffer".
[02:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:23] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of LED Christmas lights are done as cheaply as possible - they just wire up the LEDs in series directly to the 115 AC outlet, with maybe a current limiting resistor in there. The result is the lights flicker at 60 Hz, which makes them unsuitable for any kind of ambience lighting, a...
[02:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:25] <exec> 08└─We don't grease contactors. Grease attracts dust and dirt, making the contactor stick worse. Be aware that the contactor points generate the dust that you find in there. Most greases are also flammable, which will start a fire. Unless you meant dielectric grease? Contactors should be bare-assed copp...
[02:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:27] <exec> 08└─Air Conditioning Unit.
[02:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:29] <exec> 08└─South Africa uses 240V AC, with European style outlets
[02:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:31] <exec> 08└─UPSes can be broadly divided between standby/cut-over and online types.
[02:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:33] <exec> 08└─Regarding loose screws and lugs - we routinely tighten them in our electrical equipment at annual PM's. I can go through the whole electrical cabinet, tightening 480 lugs, 220, 120, and even the AC terminals. Come back a year later, and I'll find loose lugs. The higher energy circuits seem to be wor...
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[02:28:35] <exec> 08└─I think putting the AC on a UPS is a bad idea for the same reason you aren't supposed to put a printer on a UPS, the surge current will exceed the capacity of the UPS. https://superuser.com [superuser.com]
[02:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:38] <exec> 08└─Pretty good buying guide here https://www.homedepot.com [homedepot.com] No worries, you can read HD's guide, and buy somewhere else, using the information as a guide. But, good extension cords are exensive! Most people would...
[02:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paris Agreement: The Shifting Landscape Of CO2 Reduction - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:34] <exec> 08└─No, I didn't. Literally the third sentence in that article, and in my quote: He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
[02:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paris Agreement: The Shifting Landscape Of CO2 Reduction - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:35] <exec> 08└─Ahhh!! I think I see the mistake you might be making. This is what the first sentence actually says: A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2030 2000.
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[03:27:13] <exec> 08└─Yep, me too. And you'd think if they're going to recycle such old news, they'd at least have time to make a decent pun. That should be "...out of the fire and into the flying pan"
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[03:27:15] <exec> 08└─Burn it all down.
[03:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:17] <exec> 08└─Drop bears, giant spiders, and now fire-starting birds! Monster Hunter must be actually just a virtual wildlife tour of Australia!
[03:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:42] <exec> 08└─Do millennials still come with cojones? Can they still be installed?
[03:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:43] <exec> 08└─www.devuan.org
[03:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:45] <exec> 08└─PCLinuxOS. Because Gentoo is too much work, and we're Lazy.
[03:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:47] <exec> 08└─No, you have to get a second system, called the "bull".
[03:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:50] <exec> 08└─The time to say "fuck off Ubuntu" was when they pushed the Unity desktop so very hard. The combination of Unity and a female CEO who chose a purple color scheme was more than enough to chase me away! A color blind man with a purple desktop? WTF?
[03:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:47] <exec> 08└─Very much. Voltage should affect everything on the same circuit. The problem is likely related to either inrush current & inductive spiking from the AC or power delivery to your unit having too much inductance. Possibly both. I have a feeling this is because of inrush current, if it only happens whe...
[03:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:48] <exec> 08└─Oh gosh, agreed- NEVER grease contacts! That said, I bet someone has some kind of compound for contacts, but normal contact arcing would turn anything into quarks, muons, and neutrinos. You might argue in favor of using an anti-corrosion paste on the wires in the terminals / lugs, but never on the c...
[03:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:51] <exec> 08└─Doing the math, if it's a 15A circuit, ~900 for electronics + lights and adding in the the window unit, you're probably at or a little beyond the circuit's rating. especially when the compressor is starting. Given that, it's no wonder the voltage is dropping under load. Best answer if to move some o...
[03:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:53] <exec> 08└─Cleaned the mechanism and greased electrical contacts using petroleum jelly to prevent arcing. Tested out of circuit using a bench supply and variac - problem was a buildup of crud (oxidization and contaminants) slowing the mechanism from engaging. The rubber seal on the control cabinet had perished...
[03:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, same here, I'm always finding and tightening loose lugs and wire terminal screws. Occasionally they're already really tight. For those who don't do this stuff, on bigger wires you use a torque wrench, which measures how much rotational force you're putting into the screw / lug. It's always a lo...
[03:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:57] <exec> 08└─Also make sure you unroll it. A tightly wound cord can't dissipate heat very well.
[03:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:12] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if they are crystallizing yet, but if we can get some dilythium crystals out of it, all our energy problems are solved.
[03:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:14] <exec> 08└─I don't want to see Musk get $150 billion, but I do want to see his space endeavors get that kind of investment. I know, the difference may be too subtle for some of our readers.
[03:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Info to Tech Support Scammers - 2957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:46] <exec> 08└─Wages are based on little more than supply and demand. Increasing wages represents either an increased demand or reduced supply for a given type of work. Huge numbers of jobs have the capability to cause immense damage if somebody actually wanted to. That doesn't factor into wages outside of the red...
[03:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could the World Cope If GPS Stopped Working? - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:19] <exec> 08└─I'll be perfectly honest. Roundabouts always take me by surprise the first time I come to it. It's not a daily thing, they are unexpected, and they require something "different" on my part. Instead of stopping, then making a turn, I have to merge into traffic, while maintaining some minimal speed, t...
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[04:27:17] <exec> 08└─Snakes, scorpions, kangaroos, dingoes, cane toads, emus. Australia is a real hell that can't be adequately described by fiction.
[04:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:18] <exec> 08└─Australia is the origin of the phrase "you go to hell and you die" ?
[04:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:49] <exec> 08└─Try Ubuntu Mate 18.04 I am trialling Manjaro as a potential replacement but so far I miss apt
[04:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:54] <exec> 08└─Oh gosh, agreed- NEVER grease contacts! That said, I bet someone has some kind of compound for contacts, but normal contact arcing would turn anything into quarks, muons, and neutrinos.
[04:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:55] <exec> 08└─What, you're derailing this discussion with math? Never let the facts get in the way of a great theoretical discussion. :} But yeah, what sjames wrote. And others have mentioned that an AC can draw quite a startup surge. But it depends on how big and how old. New small ones are pretty efficient. I'v...
[04:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:57] <exec> 08└─Those are sub-types. That's why I said 'broadly'.
[04:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF4WDVVDTp0 [youtube.com]
[04:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Road to Recovery after a Minor Stroke - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:15] <exec> 08└─Gee, Marty. Can't take our eyes off you for a minute without having to call in Roto-Rooter, can we? ;) More seriously: I'm very glad it was minor and it was caught quickly. Keep on healing up!
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[05:27:13] <exec> 08└─North American gold miners have been using mercury for a century without any problems. Safe use of mercury in mining [artisanalgold.org] means pre-processing the ore so that the minimum amount of ore needs to be exposed to mercury to recover the gold, and containment and recovery of the mercury that...
[05:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:26] <exec> 08└─Add to those: - over 1000 toxic species of plants [australiangeographic.com.au] - toxic and venomous fishes [australiangeographic.com.au] - algal blooms that kill livestock [theconversation.com] - venomous platypuses [wikipedia.org], goannas [wikipedia.org] and lizards [theconversation.com] - 1cm3 j...
[05:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:57] <exec> 08└─Sharing is caring, it's a feature.
[05:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:59] <exec> 08└─http://www.slackware.com/
[05:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:07] <exec> 08└─We don't grease contactors.
[05:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:25] <exec> 08└─Is it just a meme-mash? Is that what they call it now? [youtube.com]
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[06:27:11] <exec> 08└─There is absolutely no need for any mercury to be released into the environment when using modern, environmentally sound mining techniques. The problem is that environmentalists don't want to make mining safe, they want to make it impossible, and enlist governments to help them. So it moves to other...
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[06:27:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I understand your point. North American medium and large scale miners have largely phased out mercury in favor of cyanide leaching (which doesn't sound much better, but it really is). New technology promises to eventually eliminate the need even for that. Small scale miners still use it...
[06:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:15] <exec> 08└─There will always be those who will gladly exploit people and destroy their lives for a profit. The US economic system has been based on that fact long before we were a country. Our Constitution was mainly designed to preserve and enhance slavery and oligarchy, and a surprising amount of the actual...
[06:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:17] <exec> 08└─This is hardly limited to the USA, my friend.
[06:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:19] <exec> 08└─Small scale miners still use it, but they release little or no mercury to the environment in the process.
[06:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:21] <exec> 08└─Be as it may, but USA really perfected the art of greed. See? They even call it democracy now - just look in their political life and tell me with a straight face it ain't so. (grin)
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[07:27:25] <exec> 08└─"Developed country" - a term to describe the profitability and state of organization for exploitation of others and the environment.
[07:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:26] <exec> 08└─The problem is that environmentalists don't want to make mining safe, they want to make it impossible, and enlist governments to help them. [...] The problem is not mercury, it's corruption, bad regulation and inadequate property rights.
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[07:27:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.iisd.org/sites/default/files/publications/igf-asm-global-trends.pdf [iisd.org] (page 15, 16, and 17). The best environmental practices are found in the Americas, including Latin America. Brazil and Colombia actually come in ranked a little better than Mexico (which came as a surprise to...
[07:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:30] <exec> 08└─Oh and also widespread literacy, technical innovation, live-extending advances, and freedom of speech. For some reason you Commies hate all those things. Just look at the backwards hellholes you guys champion. Only in righteous Venezuela can an oil-rich nation turn into a starving wasteland.
[07:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah. And it's just brown people anyway, so who cares? I know you wanted to say that but were afraid to do so. You're welcome.
[07:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:35] <exec> 08└─"They do this with their bare hands." And it poses virtually no risk to them, unless they have open wounds or get it trapped under their fingernails before lunch time. With proper precautions the stuff is easy to work with. Normally that means gloves, but outside the lab no one bothers, what they wo...
[07:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:48] <exec> 08└─If none of them kills you, you are free to try Victoria Bitter [wikipedia.org] - if you persist in drinking it (for whatever reasons, most of the time is peer pressure, aka friendly coercion) for as little time as a whole day, you'll either commit suicide (to escape the torture) or get to like it an...
[07:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing it mentioned anywhere that write access is granted.
[07:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:32] <exec> 08└─Not "phases"... What goes into a residence is the two output poles from a 240V center tapped transformer, plus the center tab, and the center tap is where the neutral connects. So you get 120v measured from the center tap to either pole, or 240v when measured across both poles of the transformer. Bu...
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[07:29:33] <exec> 08└─1) Place AC on separate, dedicated, circuit from the breaker box. Note the word "dedicated", that word is very important and must not be overlooked. Did problem go away -- if yes then good. If no -- then that means you've exhausted what you can do and you are going to have to contact the power compa...
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[08:27:09] <exec> 08└─Every lawyer knows this. It's just that you retarded programmers don't listen to anybody but yourselves. This was mentioned in the "gpl is revocable" debate on the lkml, and everywhere else, (in addition to the arguments regarding revoking non-exclusive gratis licenses) https://lists.gnu.org
[08:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:29] <exec> 08└─Mercury-based mining is not used in Canada or the United States at all,
[08:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:31] <exec> 08└─And it poses virtually no risk to them, unless they have open wounds or get it trapped under their fingernails before lunch time.
[08:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:45] <exec> 08└─This is one of those types of knowledge you can't acquire by strict analytical means and where direct unmediated experience is absolutely necessary. Fortunately, it doesn't take as long as attaining a Zen state.
[08:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:47] <exec> 08└─We'll drink a Foster's to honor your sacrifice.
[08:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:49] <exec> 08└─Heh, I neither suicides nor morphed into a bogan, so no sacrifice here. This being said, feel free to drink whatever booze you like and for whatever reasons.
[08:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:51] <exec> 08└─Call me a bogan then, I've happy memories of getting pleasantly drunk on tinnies and stubbies of VB down in London a couple of decades back...ok, so I wasn't actually paying for the stuff myself (customer supplied refreshment on the job...happier days), maybe that clouds my judgement (and time dulls...
[08:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:53] <exec> 08└─Highly likely you started on VB after you got the equiv of beer goggles on you tongue. Actually, I have no idea how the VB sold in Pommy pubs tastes like, but somewhere around 90% of Melbournians hate what's available here (and the rest of 10% are bogans. Large grin)
[08:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:27] <exec> 08└─*grabs popcorn* So, what did you do next when that happened?
[08:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:29] <exec> 08└─Fucked yo momma, she's quite a screamer. Wanna see the videos?
[08:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:40] <exec> 08└─This seems to be the best solution... But now I see the nearest outlet in the hallway is worthless because it is too close to the floor. A grounded plug won't fit.
[08:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:41] <exec> 08└─That's probably the same circuit. If you pop the breaker for one and they both go out it's definitely the same circuit. Note, most household appliances are not compensated for as well as industrial ones because households aren't billed for apparent power. So you've definitely got an inductive load a...
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[08:29:43] <exec> 08└─Also, according to the UPS the electronics +lights are using 4-6 Amps. And a killawatt told me the AC is using about 50 W and 0.5 Amps, but I couldn't catch a surge for whatever reason (I'm guess I need to wait for the capacitors to drain). But could it really be surging 10 Amps?
[08:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:46] <exec> 08└─There's no grease in there, now is there? If/when a fumble-fingered tech gets his fingers inside of there, the contactor is no longer good for anything other than recycling.
[08:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06On the Road to Recovery after a Minor Stroke - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:02] <exec> 08└─Way to shift the goal posts. You said that atherosclerosis only occurred in humans. That is wrong, and your only counter is that "most heart disease" has different causes. Which, if anything, is an admission that atherosclerosis occurs in other animals because "most" isn't all. But I'll just leave t...
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[08:35:03] <exec> 08└─What are these "current practices" that are cruel and unsustainable? Most of the time I hear people say this, they have no idea what actually goes on in a farm beyond those out-of-context PETA videos.
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[09:27:37] <exec> 08└─But because it is increasingly difficult to actually operate mines in North America, mining operations move to countries where there is no concern for the environment at all, resulting in more pollution than if the environmentalists had just stayed out of the way.
[09:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:38] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid in the 70s, our physics teacher had a big bowl full of mercury, and had us plunge our hands in it to feel its density. And she did a bunch of experiments with it on the lab bench with us kids gathered around and staring closely at the strange stuff. All she told us was to avoid gett...
[09:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:59] <exec> 08└─Anything but XXXX [wikipedia.org] Fosters [wikipedia.org] isn't really Australian, anymore.
[09:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:35] <exec> 08└─I use mx linux and alpine, void is still alive, gentoo and slackware too. Packages might have problems, see for example the quite infrastructural ecryptfs being removed from debian because of an issue during logout (maybe the culprit is the butler, alias systemd-logind? my bet is on it) https://bugs...
[09:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:37] <exec> 08└─"Just like windows" is a viable definition of buggy software, though.
[09:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:39] <exec> 08└─"oh no, dad will end up watching my episode too eventually!!!"
[09:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:54] <exec> 08└─That kill-a-watt is busted or the AC wasn't on then. Fridgidare's website says that model uses 5.4 amps and 560 watts. Probably has a 5 amp compressor in it and the 0.4 is the fan on its 1000 CFM speed. The problem is that compressor could easily take a start spike of twice that and the electrical c...
[09:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:56] <exec> 08└─Mylar, not tin foil.
[09:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:58] <exec> 08└─The AC is shit. It should be soft start compressor. But since there is no law for that in America, at least not few years ago, they just hammer the line on start. So, either connect the AC to a different circuit, or a different side of the half-phase (US has 240V phase, but is split in half for 120V...
[09:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:00] <exec> 08└─Wait another month and by then you won't need the AC either. Problem solved ;)
[09:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:02] <exec> 08└─You mean the flickering? That's what you're trying to stop. And the question remains why christmas lights are up before thanksgiving
[09:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:04] <exec> 08└─Assuming USA? The article mentioned Christmas lights and A/C.
[09:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:23] <exec> 08└─I don't want to see Musk get $150 billion, but I do want to see his space endeavors get that kind of investment.
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[10:27:18] <exec> 08└─In all honesty, after all, it is a Runaway1956 submission, and he knows very little. That could be why.
[10:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:43] <exec> 08└─All the "rogue" gold mining in Arkansaws, and resulting pollution of toxic metals which caused a 34.3% drop in intelligence among school children there, and explains how they voted both for Clinton and Trump.
[10:27:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 832 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:56] <exec> 08└─Add to those: - over 1000 toxic species of plants [australiangeographic.com.au] - toxic and venomous fishes [australiangeographic.com.au] - algal blooms that kill livestock [theconversation.com] - venomous platypuses [wikipedia.org], goannas [wikipedia.org] and lizards [theconversation.com] - 1cm3 j...
[10:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:04] <exec> 08└─XXXX in England tastes like XXXX Fosters tastes even more watery. Why would you drink either? [beercrawl.com.au]
[10:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:06] <exec> 08└─I ain't in Australia. That's why it has to be a Foster's.
[10:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:46] <exec> 08└─One man's bug is another man's feature.
[10:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:08] <exec> 08└─Makes sense, thanks. You were right, it was just the fan. With AC on it was 360 W and 3.2 Amps.
[10:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Road to Recovery after a Minor Stroke - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:29] <exec> 08└─I guess you are stuck in the US media bubble, where the major investigative news programs on tv don't want to offend viewers. Self-censorship in the media is a terrible thing, but it has a long history.
[10:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Road to Recovery after a Minor Stroke - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:31] <exec> 08└─Next you'll be quoting that other quack, Dr Oz. Stents provide an immediate fix, unlike any changes to lifestyle or eating. Same with bypass surgery. Do you want a stent or multiple bypass now or are you willing (and physically able) to exercise more without?
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[11:27:24] <exec> 08└─I only skimmed the security advisory, but I gather that this malware is usually installed via a brute-force attack on the admin account. Which means that the admin account is exposed to the Internet. Um... I know there are all sorts of use-cases out there, but, really? Why would you expose the web i...
[11:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QNAP Warns Users to Secure Devices Against QSnatch Malware - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:25] <exec> 08└─Oh, I meant to add a rant: The "malware remover" doesn't tell you what it's findings are. I went through a phase where it claimed to have found something, but it provides zero information on what it has actually found. Zip, nada, nothing. It just tells you that it found something and removed it. In...
[11:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:35] <exec> 08└─Licensed. Not sold. The distinction is the whole point.
[11:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 1989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:00] <exec> 08└─I believe that some red tape is necessary. https://www.epa.gov [epa.gov] Those superfund sites are what happens with zero regulation, and no oversight. The shit was hitting the fan the year I graduated from high school, and it was pretty ugly. Corporations had dumped pois...
[11:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:01] <exec> 08└─You poor fool. Wherever you live, there are retarded children playing in a lot nearby. But, you know that, because you play with them whenever Mommy chases your stinky ass out of the house.
[11:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:25] <exec> 08└─Why would you drink either?
[11:29:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03idiot_king [6587] 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:22] <exec> 08└─We should have a lot of experts on that topic on here then...
[11:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06On the Road to Recovery after a Minor Stroke - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:50] <exec> 08└─The stent isn't just to stop current blockage. It's also to help keep the artery open despite any further deterioration of same. Also, not everyone stays on blood thinners. Like any drug, it's a personal decision that they make after being given the information they need to make an informed choice....
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[12:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:11] <exec> 08└─because the GPU wasn't powerful enough to recreate Elvis.
[12:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:13] <exec> 08└─Everyone thinks they know how Elvis looked No one alive would be able to pick Mr Dean in a crowd
[12:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:31] <exec> 08└─We could all chip in to buy you a little step stool, so you can climb up high enough to kiss Runaway's ass. Would that make you feel better?
[12:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:59] <exec> 08└─Over here they used cyanide to extract gold in huge vats a bit over a century ago. Once they were done with it, they flushed it into a nearby river. Turned the river a lovely blue colour. May have killed a few things too.
[12:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:23] <exec> 08└─VB's made its way to northern Europe - noone's safe!
[12:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:04] <exec> 08└─I've been using Void Linux happily for years on all my computers. Works very well and no systemd. Boot times btw are incredibly fast, and YOU decide what services are running.
[12:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:47] <exec> 08└─> the lander system that astronauts would use to return to the Moon in 2024 > the ambitious Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter > 150 tons to orbit Turns out Jupiter is a long way from earth orbit.
[12:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Could the World Cope If GPS Stopped Working? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwBoa-NbNL8 [youtube.com]
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[13:27:14] <exec> 08└─No one alive would be able to pick Mr Dean in a crowd
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[13:27:16] <exec> 08└─Black Mirror predicted it.
[13:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06QNAP Warns Users to Secure Devices Against QSnatch Malware - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:25] <exec> 08└─«Update QTS to the latest version.» Uh... Last time I did this, the NAS crashed and I had to connect video and keyboard and manually (CLI) correct the mess. I'm a "little" reluctant... CYA
[13:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:35] <exec> 08└─Trying to revoke the GPL is really difficult as normally in a project there is not only a lone developer but a bunch of them, most of the time at best the developer can retract the license for it's code or change it even if he is the founder.
[13:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:37] <exec> 08└─Why? You reckon the hot air Runaway is so full with is finally enough to lift him off from this world?
[13:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:39] <exec> 08└─Wishful thinking, fren. Runaway has a concrete head, literally, as heavy and intelligent as a bucket of gravel bound with cement.
[13:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, I don't know. He's so full of hot air he farts from his fingers over intertubes into S/N.
[13:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:09] <exec> 08└─There is no known safe level of exposure because it would be unethical to conduct the experiments necessary to determine a safe level.
[13:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paris Agreement: The Shifting Landscape Of CO2 Reduction - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:43] <exec> 08└─And I find your reading comprehension skills ... interesting.
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[14:27:13] <exec> 08└─Seriously. Email has been 100% spam for at least ten years. I don't even open any email anymore. Important communication is done by phone or Slack. Email is totally worthless.
[14:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:25] <exec> 08└─Magic City Films, the company producing the movie, obtained the rights to Dean's image from his family.
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[14:27:26] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one who thinks that show is terrible? It's like someone watched all the Twilight Zone episodes and then tried to copy the idea but poorly. The writer has no idea how to end an episode.
[14:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:28] <exec> 08└─Fat-Elvis would take up to much storage space.
[14:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:31] <exec> 08└─You're just accustomed to the Twilight Zone formula which includes a cruel twist ending. Not every episode of Black Mirror follows the formula, but that doesn't make Black Mirror any less insightful about modern technology.
[14:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:33] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Exactly what rights did they purchase? And why did they think this was necessary? Does each person have a copyright on their own face? The guy has been dead for decades.
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[14:28:15] <exec> 08└─Mercury-based mining is not used in Canada or the United States at all,
[14:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:25] <exec> 08└─There will always be those who will gladly exploit people and destroy their lives for a profit. The US economic system has been based on that fact long before we were a country. Our Constitution was mainly designed to preserve and enhance slavery and oligarchy, and a surprising amount of the actual...
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[14:28:27] <exec> 08└─Any use of the phrase "no safe level" is pseudoscience.
[14:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:29] <exec> 08└─I was talking about the handling of it, and you knew that. But you skipped the rest of the comment to hit reply so you could go straight to the "nuh-uh mercury bad" spiel because you're trying to win on the internet. Have fun being you for the rest of your life.
[14:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:31] <exec> 08└─Oh, yes. I reckon you'd simply hate to live in the social-democratic hellhole that is Norway. Just think about it: 42% GDP is collected in taxes, extremely unfriendly corporate taxation - 23% of profit but going into 51%-78% in some industries [wikipedia.org], social security contributions at 53% of...
[14:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:33] <exec> 08└─And I think you great underestimate the virtue of systems that are aware of and come up with rules for ...
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[14:31:00] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that's very interesting. I tend to avoid risk, so I'd rather not put anything on the contacts which might leave a residue. But if it's helpful, I'll try it. But I'm curious- if it melts off, how is it helpful after the first contact?
[14:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:02] <exec> 08└─> There's no grease in there, now is there? That, and the wiki doesn't mention it, but I suspect it's under pressure- certainly could build up pressure. And it's a sealed system. The point is, there's no air around the contacts for oxidation / burning to occur.
[14:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 1950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:05] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, I overlooked the explicit mention of 115. Officially, mains in the US are 120V, not 115V. But I often hear 110V thrown around. The US does have places where it does not get cold during the Christmas season, such as the coast of southern California, Florida, the Gulf Coast, and Hawaii, other...
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[14:31:25] <exec> 08└─Comparing the price of building the SLS to the cost of flying a SpaceX starship? I've seen estimates for Starship that put the cost to design and build it at over $10 billion. "A single Starship will expend about $900,000 worth of fuel and oxygen for pressurization to send "at least 100 tons, probab...
[14:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:26] <exec> 08└─"tons to orbit" is a measurement of the performance of a rocket. Starship + Super Heavy is fully capable of sending payloads to the Moon or Jupiter. SLS is an untested rocket. You can test a Starship hundreds of times (including some explosions) for the price of a single crispy SLS. The first launch...
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[14:35:16] <exec> 08└─Feel free to elaborate if you think you have any particular insight. I'm quite happy to change my views in light of evidence that contradicts my biases or misunderstandings, unlike most. So a few questions: 1) You suggest, quote, "the article takes some pains to indicate these are long term effects...
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[15:27:24] <exec> 08└─E-mail is not locked in to a specific technology or vendor. It offers versatilely that is not available elsewhere. E-mail is extremely valuable to those that know what they are doing.
[15:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:41] <exec> 08└─that doesn't make Black Mirror any less insightful about modern technology.
[15:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:42] <exec> 08└─I wonder if he had to audition.
[15:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:44] <exec> 08└─The Congress [wikipedia.org], except for real and they don't have to pay Dean's family all that much -- since he's dead.
[15:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:46] <exec> 08└─He was a diversity hire.
[15:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:48] <exec> 08└─After reading the (mostly) amusing banter here, no one has even touched the question... Why? It's not as if James Dean's digital-or-otherwise presence is even remotely integral to the plot mentioned in TFS. It's a Vietnam-era story, roughly 10-12 years after his death. And iconic as Dean was, is he...
[15:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 1643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:51] <exec> 08└─Sure, dogs are nice but I am sick of movies like this. Hacksaw Ridge, the Code Talkers, to some extent Hidden Figures, where the history of the united states is sanitized by recasting the minority ethnicity or animals as the hero and white guys as oblivious enforcers of a heavy handedly presented im...
[15:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:53] <exec> 08└─Why not? Here's what you will see in the future: virtual actors animated, rendered, and voiced using desktop/workstation grade equipment. This could involve a blend of several living/dead actors or actresses, or any living or dead individual. Ask yourself why any particular actor gets a role. Why us...
[15:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:17] <exec> 08└─There are basically three ways to "sell" a copyright work. Transfer (also called 'assignment'), where you are the original holder and you transfer the copyright and all associated rights to a third party. License, where you are again the original holder, and you grant license to the work to a third...
[15:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:52] <exec> 08└─I was talking about the handling of it, and you knew that.
[15:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:54] <exec> 08└─Awww, you forgot to end the phrase in "Dixit!" while thumping your foot on the floor! Come on, try again, maybe you can get it right this time. (large grin) (should I remind you that vaccines preservatives actually use a mercury compound, so that "there you have it! Either vaccines are unsafe or her...
[15:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:19] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you'll luck out and someone will start shipping this stuff [taphunter.com] down to you folks. Cuz it's *classy*. It even has its own screed: This is an aggressive beer. You probably won't like it. It is quite doubtful you have the taste or sophistication to be able to appreciate an ale of th...
[15:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:01] <exec> 08└─It's been a good time to say "fuck off Ubuntu" for a while now. They started off pretty decent, but then got NIH syndrome and started throwing in all sorts of odd changes that tended to: a) be worse than what they were replacing, and b) not last long enough to get better.
[15:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:02] <exec> 08└─Oblig: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[15:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:29] <exec> 08└─This room is on the gulf coast. This is the power supply: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Also, it is a rental so I really do not want to replace the window AC unit.
[15:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:53] <exec> 08└─Starship development has also been estimated to cost $2 billion. A cost the U.S. government is NOT paying for, mind you. That estimate was made before a switch to stainless steel, which has allowed prototypes to be built outside, with hastily constructed facilities. Cargo capability is based on an e...
[15:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:54] <exec> 08└─Women seem to be front and center during the Starlink launch coverage this morning. Must be a ruse Musky conceived while smonking dank weed.
[15:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:57] <exec> 08└─> "tons to orbit" is a measurement of the performance of a rocket. I realise that; my point is that reusability, and hence cost, depends on the delta velocity. A space probe accelerated to escape trajectory is much different to a satellite in low earth orbit, so the comparison in TFS is unfair. I am...
[15:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could the World Cope If GPS Stopped Working? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:08] <exec> 08└─Laughs at you in British. Come to Swindon and try this: https://en.wikipedia.org(Swindon) [wikipedia.org]
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[16:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DarkUniverse APT Uses Just-in-Time Malware Creation - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─SMS is also an open protocol. The entire extent of vendor lock-in for SMS comes from how expensive the hardware is.
[16:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DarkUniverse APT Uses Just-in-Time Malware Creation - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:22] <exec> 08└─Windows can be keylogged with one misclick, even to this day. I swear I saw this article regarding ME in 2002. Windows is the malware, at this point they are just throwing it in our face to watch our helpless rage. thesesystemsarefailing.net
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DarkUniverse APT Uses Just-in-Time Malware Creation - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─I don't think they meant something like apt install malware
[16:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPNyNr2Kp4w [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) I lol at war movies, especially ones with animal heroes. Have some triggers.
[16:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:48] <exec> 08└─Tugg Speedman was just WAYY better in those Scorcher movies, man...
[16:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, well, over 6% I prefer rum. Otherwise, if you are after Guinness Book of Records (rather than the Guinness stout) you may like to look at at a 67.6 ABV ale [laughingsquid.com]? (I know I don't).
[16:29:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:36] <exec> 08└─Stop being salty and start by suggesting a course of action to the rest of us.
[16:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:57] <exec> 08└─Came here to say this. I really, really want to like ubuntu but the model of this development has over and over again lead to things like this. Even if it didn't look malicious, and systemd, it is so incompetent that the entire organization must be run very poorly. And these are for bells and whistl...
[16:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:58] <exec> 08└─I ran ubuntu last month. Looks like a toy OS, slow, big icons.
[16:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:00] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with sharing. Data wants to be free! (no, it's his brother that wants to be free)
[16:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:52] <exec> 08└─The other big factor is in-orbit refueling, which will allow Starship to surpass any delta-v SLS could reach, even with the honking payload. So SLS can get 20-something tons into lunar orbit, while Starship can get 100-150 tons there, or land it directly on the Moon.
[16:32:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 0666 Million Year Old Dinosaur Battle Continues in Court - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:44] <exec> 08└─From the summary, emphasis by me: "Montana has never recognized dinosaur fossils as a mineral" like it has oil, coal or gold, he said Minerals are inorganic
[16:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Info to Tech Support Scammers - 4667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:25] <exec> 08└─Interesting thoughts here thanks for responding. I think you are overlooking in your wage analysis the simple fact, any database admin has the keys to the kingdom, the entire kingdom. What once only the king could have, now the king has to have a team of a few dozen people who share those keys. That...
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[17:27:19] <exec> 08└─Then don't use Windows! If a secure system existed, everybody would be using it!
[17:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:45] <exec> 08└─#DeadLivesMatter
[17:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:47] <exec> 08└─Why? Boomer nostalgia.. Come to think of it, so is all that Marvel shit... Can we get a CGI Reagan?
[17:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:11] <exec> 08└─So how does it work? The summary doesn't say. In reading the article, it sounds like, "after 25 years, the original creator can say, 'I want to revoke license/sale,' then at the 35 years they get it back. Done." Is it really that easy? Can any legal experts (preferably lawyers, albeit amateur enthus...
[17:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:26] <exec> 08└─So much this. I am not one to really notice flicker but those cheap AC powered LED Christmas lights (especially the older ones) is just annoying. Newer ones are better but yea, get something with a proper AC to DC power supply.
[17:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:27] <exec> 08└─There's supposed to be a very big capacitor in the A/C unit for that very reason... To kick start the compressor without causing a voltage drop on the rest of the circuit. That capacitor simply went bad. I don't recommend changing it yourself unless you know what you are doing, it packs a lot of pun...
[17:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Could the World Cope If GPS Stopped Working? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:01] <exec> 08└─First, I have always declined driving anyplace where people drive on the wrong side of the road. Second, that thing could only have been dreamed up by a sadistic monster. And, only masochistic nutcases would venture into it. But, you'll have to upload a recording of you laughing in British. We could...
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[18:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06DarkUniverse APT Uses Just-in-Time Malware Creation - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:24] <exec> 08└─APT == "Advanced Persistent Threat" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I'm surprised you didn't know that. You're usually pretty well informed. Then again, InfoSec [wikipedia.org] isn't exactly mainstream.
[18:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DarkUniverse APT Uses Just-in-Time Malware Creation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:25] <exec> 08└─Important communication is done by phone or Slack.
[18:27:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:33] <exec> 08└─because the GPU wasn't powerful enough to recreate Elvis.
[18:27:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 601 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:46] <exec> 08└─After reading the (mostly) amusing banter here, no one has even touched the question... Why? It's not as if James Dean's digital-or-otherwise presence is even remotely integral to the plot mentioned in TFS. It's a Vietnam-era story, roughly 10-12 years after his death. And iconic as Dean was, is he...
[18:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:53] <exec> 08└─"River of Gods" - Ian McDonald. The endgame is 100% synthetic actors. You want Morgan Freeman's gravitas and Chris Pine's appeal for the part of 20-year-old Barak Obama. What to do? Cast one of your stable of synthetic actors, doesn't matter which, tweak the parameters for gravitas/appeal and the re...
[18:28:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:33] <exec> 08└─The problem is that environmentalists don't want to make mining safe, they want to make it impossible, and enlist governments to help them. [...] The problem is not mercury, it's corruption, bad regulation and inadequate property rights.
[18:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:54] <exec> 08└─Not so much. There are no safe levels of bullets to the brain. Let's shoot you in the head just once to demonstrate. It's all in the name of science, and since you're a worthless piece of shit, test subject would be a good use for you.
[18:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:00] <exec> 08└─The comparison is between a rocket that has been designed to be an expendable pork bundle, and a rocket that is designed for full reusability. The comparison is fair.
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[19:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:10] <exec> 08└─"Fly over deplorables" overthrew "liberal psychopaths" who are fighting back using "false news media" they control. Where is empathy here?
[19:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:12] <exec> 08└─I am sure this comment thread will be a bastion of good humour and reasoned discussion.
[19:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─More important than what is commented on the summary is their defintiion that, "We argue that, in practice, the experience of empathy is biased toward one’s ingroup and can actually exacerbate political polarization." Their design reflects this belief. I would question that belief, in that if empa...
[19:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:16] <exec> 08└─Hmm, so too much empathy drives left partisanship. What is it that drives the right? Pure hatred, or a mix of that and something else?
[19:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:18] <exec> 08└─Americans who scored high on an empathy scale...were also more likely to be amused by reports that students protesting the speech had injured a bystander...Students who had scored higher on the empathy scale were more likely to applaud efforts to deny the speaker...
[19:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:20] <exec> 08└─"Like many past studies, this one gauges people’s level of “empathic concern” by asking them how strongly they agree or disagree with a series of seven statements such as “I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.”"
[19:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:22] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me like the people that self-reported themselves being empathetic may not be as empathetic as they would like to be. People want to feel like they care about others and that they think about others first, but in so many cases this becomes about serving the identity they would like to pr...
[19:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:25] <exec> 08└─""Fly over deplorables" overthrew "liberal psychopaths" who are fighting back using "false news media" they control. Where is empathy here?" It's reserved for those that are on the same side, and that's the problem.
[19:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:27] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "Like many past studies, this one gauges people’s level of “empathic concern” by asking them how strongly they agree or disagree with a series of seven statements such as “I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.”"
[19:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:29] <exec> 08└─You got close, but the real answer is PURE EVIL. The Republican party is Satan's political party.
[19:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:31] <exec> 08└─How many people in either group are going to self-report a lack of empathy?
[19:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:33] <exec> 08└─If it's not... blame the democrats.
[19:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:36] <exec> 08└─The lack of empathy, of course. Goes right along with the "I got mine, fuck you" mentality.
[19:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:38] <exec> 08└─>Americans are as polarized as they've ever been. Could the problem be that we're caring for each other too much? Problem Caused by: Empathy 1% Partisan media propaganda 59% Economic squeeze 40% Btw is there a statistic that measures ‘economic squeeze ‘?
[19:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:40] <exec> 08└─"Hmm, so too much empathy drives left partisanship." That wasn't actually their conclusion, and the study does not appear to support that conclusion. They don't seem to have found any sort of difference between right and left on this. Only that they identify with a different 'in group' but not how i...
[19:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:42] <exec> 08└─I yelled "Die heretic scum!" and pushed him off the bridge. Yes, there is a message here.
[19:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:44] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me like the people that self-reported themselves being empathetic may not be as empathetic as they would like to be.
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[19:27:52] <exec> 08└─Siri, can you hack this computer for us?
[19:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DarkUniverse APT Uses Just-in-Time Malware Creation - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:07] <exec> 08└─Secure / Insecure systems. It is not a binary choice, but a gradient from Secure to Insecure. While there may be no system all the way over to the Secure side of the spectrum, there are systems much closer to it than Microsoft Windows / Office. Just because there are no totally secure systems is not...
[19:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DarkUniverse APT Uses Just-in-Time Malware Creation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:08] <exec> 08└─APT means they are patient and have lots of money.
[19:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:37] <exec> 08└─Why? It's not as if James Dean's digital-or-otherwise presence is even remotely integral to the plot mentioned in TFS.
[19:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:39] <exec> 08└─True indeed! Since dead people form an important demographic in election cycles.
[19:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:41] <exec> 08└─Kevin Bacon will forever be associated with "the six degrees". Rick Astley will forever be associated with, to be polite, I'll say: unintended video playbacks. Elvis will forever be almost but not quite in the building. James Dean may forever be cast in endless movies for the next three generations...
[19:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QNAP Warns Users to Secure Devices Against QSnatch Malware - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:51] <exec> 08└─The Qnap device I own has two NICs and can be used as the firewall, router, IPS/IDS DNS etc for the LAN. I choose to not use mine in that fashion however, as I don't really trust it. Mine is used as network disc space to back up to and it does that job fine, but not exposed to the Internet. To be f...
[19:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:08] <exec> 08└─It's doublespeak for "attorney paychecks"
[19:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:09] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but TFA references another post [lawyersrock.com] which seems to express the process well. The timeframe to notify of the intent to terminate requires some calculation, but yeah it reads pretty much like your description. The author sends a notice to the transferee that they intend to reclaim...
[19:29:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 1989 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:35] <exec> 08└─I believe that some red tape is necessary. https://www.epa.gov [epa.gov] Those superfund sites are what happens with zero regulation, and no oversight. The shit was hitting the fan the year I graduated from high school, and it was pretty ugly. Corporations had dumped pois...
[19:29:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 1608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, yes. I reckon you'd simply hate to live in the social-democratic hellhole that is Norway. Just think about it: 42% GDP is collected in taxes, extremely unfriendly corporate taxation - 23% of profit but going into 51%-78% in some industries [wikipedia.org], social security contributions at 53% of...
[19:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:48] <exec> 08└─And cell phone sales are through the roof there.
[19:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:51] <exec> 08└─On a related note, Sir Isaac Newton drunk quicksilver and managed to a respectable 84 - about twice the life expectation. He did went crazy at old age or so some say.
[19:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:53] <exec> 08└─Tertium datur, it is entirely feasible to consider TFA alarmist and the mercury contraband unacceptable.
[19:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:32] <exec> 08└─This happened to me too. My lights flickered when the washing machine was in a spin cycle. You could literally watch the lights in tune with the spinning sound. Our local electric company came out and said the buried neutral wire, several feet underground, was cut! Apparently rocks can move shift ar...
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[20:27:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:12] <exec> 08└─I am sure this comment thread will be a bastion of good humour and reasoned discussion.
[20:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:29] <exec> 08└─“I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.” That's an old commie trick. To be real, you have to go full biblical by asking them how strongly they agree or disagree with a series of statements such as “I often have tender, concerned feelings for people that hate...
[20:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:30] <exec> 08└─Life generally sucks, so in my empathy I put people out of their misery with lead. It's a difficult job, but I care so much that I kill people to ease their pain rather than shooting myself squarely in the head. Perhaps I should wear a cape and tights and play a fanfare for myself wherever I go. Yay...
[20:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:32] <exec> 08└─I think you're exactly right. People have been convinced by crooked politicians and the media that there's a huge division in the U.S., when in fact Americans on both sides want mostly the same things.
[20:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:34] <exec> 08└─Level: 6 Perception: 7 Intelligence: 5 You have studied other human beings, giving you the inside knowledge of their emotional reaction to you. You will see the reaction level of the person you are talking to, when involved in an in-depth conversation. I think Fallout got this projectively insightfu...
[20:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:37] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the victim card. Pretty myopic thinking, liberals are supposed to only be angels and still get shit on by conservatives. There was and still is plenty of empathy, but it has worn reaaaaally fucking thin by the election of a criminal conman and constant obstruction of progress the US sorely n...
[20:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:39] <exec> 08└─No, those sociopaths like to imagine they are altruistic realists.
[20:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:41] <exec> 08└─It's reserved for those that are on the same side, and that's the problem.
[20:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:43] <exec> 08└─Last week APSR—one of the alpha journals in political science—published a study
[20:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:46] <exec> 08└─the experience of empathy is biased toward one’s ingroup and can actually exacerbate political polarization
[20:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:48] <exec> 08└─"progress the US sorely needs" [redstate.com]
[20:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:50] <exec> 08└─To go full biblical, I would ask, do I think this person that hates me is redeemable? Or do I think God thinks they might be redeemable. If Jesus shed his blood for them, would I shed mine? That's a difficult path to follow. Something to strive for. But could I actually treat this way someone who ha...
[20:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:52] <exec> 08└─alpha journal
[20:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:54] <exec> 08└─I will admit there are people that I would have difficulty feeling empathy for. Especially if I rightly or wrongly perceive that they are somehow bad evil people.
[20:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:56] <exec> 08└─then turn around and say you like it when the people you disagree with get hurt
[20:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:58] <exec> 08└─Oh yes. My team is better than their team.
[20:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:53] <exec> 08└─CGI Reagan 2024! Let's make america great again, again!
[20:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QNAP Warns Users to Secure Devices Against QSnatch Malware - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:04] <exec> 08└─Our Qnap is also quite old, and I am pleasantly surprised that regular updates are available, sometime including significant new features. They do deserve a lot of credit for not abandoning older equipment, as so many other manufacturers seem to do. A company with a long-term perspective? Works for...
[20:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:23] <exec> 08└─Looks like aristarchus has finally pushed the Runaway over the edge, and now he is submitting crap non-stop. Even if we lose we will have won, for our enemies have adopted our methods.
[20:29:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 365 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:34] <exec> 08└─There will always be those who will gladly exploit people and destroy their lives for a profit. The US economic system has been based on that fact long before we were a country. Our Constitution was mainly designed to preserve and enhance slavery and oligarchy, and a surprising amount of the actual...
[20:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:05] <exec> 08└─you forgot to end the phrase in "Dixit!"
[20:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:06] <exec> 08└─If that were true, then why bother with the exercise? You don't need things like balance of power, freedom of speech, or due process.
[20:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:08] <exec> 08└─Captival seems to be spouting the US right-wing talking point that there are only two possibilities here: Unfettered capitalism, with minimal government oversight and minimal corporate taxation. (preferably none at all). This will bring about maximum freedom. Venezuela. Ignoring for the moment the...
[20:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:35] <exec> 08└─Oh, well, over 6% I prefer rum. Otherwise, if you are after Guinness Book of Records (rather than the Guinness stout) you may like to look at at a 67.6 ABV ale [laughingsquid.com]? (I know I don't).
[20:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:50] <exec> 08└─Easy test - if you cut the power into the UPS, do you hear a relay click as it switches over?
[20:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:52] <exec> 08└─The kill-a-watt is probably a few orders of magnitude too slow to measure the dip you are experiencing on line voltage. Inrush on a motor load will be 6x operating current, but for a few microseconds(? Not sure, don't quote time scale). You will dip the line voltage enough that your lights will see...
[20:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:54] <exec> 08└─If you put all your shit power factor stuff on one phase, you can get harmonics that overload your neutral. My dad was an electrician and said they used to go up a wire gauge on neutrals because the oldschool switchmode PSUs in PCs would ring the neutral and what came out was higher than what went i...
[20:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:56] <exec> 08└─Get one of those 1ft extender cords, just make sure it's appropriately sized for your load (14-12 awg should do) $10 or less on amazon
[20:33:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 0615,000 Year Old Mammoth Trap Found in Mexico - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:37] <exec> 08└─Oh come on, there's no way that was a 15,000 year old mammoth trap. You don't need a trap for 15,000 year old mammoths; you just need a shovel or a pick axe to get them out of whatever they're entombed in. Our ancestors might not have been as technologically advanced as we are today but they weren't...
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[21:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmISd0v7AdM
[21:27:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mobydisk [5472] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:27] <exec> 08└─Americans who scored high on an empathy scale...were also more likely to be amused by reports that students protesting the speech had injured a bystander...Students who had scored higher on the empathy scale were more likely to applaud efforts to deny the speaker...
[21:27:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:30] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me like the people that self-reported themselves being empathetic may not be as empathetic as they would like to be. People want to feel like they care about others and that they think about others first, but in so many cases this becomes about serving the identity they would like to pr...
[21:27:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:40] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me like the people that self-reported themselves being empathetic may not be as empathetic as they would like to be.
[21:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:56] <exec> 08└─So the crooked politicians have us fighting each other, when we should be looking at the crooked politicians.
[21:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:58] <exec> 08└─Probably because those policies affect us and our lives. Vi or Emacs? Tabs or Spaces? Strongly or Weakly typed? RISC or CISC? Intel or AMD? Windows or Linux? (Apple fans wonder why they are left out)
[21:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:00] <exec> 08└─In that article, it's not quite clear to me what the problem is. If I were the target audience, I'd probably be able to pick the right answer from "sins of the father", "Venezuela bad 'mkay", and "cops can and should solve poverty". Probably, though, it's "cops good povs bad", because as far as I ca...
[21:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:02] <exec> 08└─...and then change their view.
[21:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:04] <exec> 08└─As do the socialists! That's kinda the whole point. Everyone is the hero in their own story.
[21:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:07] <exec> 08└─Me too. I'm not going to give myself any glowing scores on the empathy-self-evaluation, though.
[21:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:09] <exec> 08└─When one side has built all its discourse, image, program, everything, on pure fearmongering delivered through appeal to authority, isn't it obvious what sort of people does self-select into the fold? Expecting any higher brain functions from the driven herd is as pointless as from any other stamped...
[21:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:11] <exec> 08└─To really go full biblical wouldn't you ask yourself if that person had seen something they shouldn't have? If they have, then they ought to be turned into a pillar of salt, of course.
[21:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:13] <exec> 08└─It is much deeper than that. MacOS or FreeBSD? Catholicism or Protestantism? West or East? Greybeards or Blades? 2B or 2A?
[21:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:15] <exec> 08└─You're confusing empathetic with pathetic. The Republican party is pathetic.
[21:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 4098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:18] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, it's worse than that. It's a system design problem, and the current system is inherently biased towards two parties. Additionally, it has recently been proven that even under a system of guaranteed fair trades and no variation in trading ability and equal start, over time economic wea...
[21:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:20] <exec> 08└─Nicaragua-style capitalist politics
[21:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:22] <exec> 08└─According to this study, people prone to empathy are prone to schadenfreude.
[21:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:24] <exec> 08└─In other words, they asked a bunch of questions testing for sympathy and called it empathy. Do you pity the fool? Sympathy. Is your heart open and accepting? Empathy. Sympathy seems to go hand in hand with some level of condescension, judgement and often hypocrisy. "Those poor gays, may god have mer...
[21:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:26] <exec> 08└─Here...Want some of my popcorn?
[21:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:28] <exec> 08└─"I'm sympathetic to their cause, but they're a bunch of pricks." "Such a nice bunch of guys deserving of so much better, but I'm totally unsympathetic to their cause."
[21:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:30] <exec> 08└─It's what's known as "In-group preference". To be honest, I think their "empathy scale" test needs re-evaluating, as if all it measures is in-group preference, I'd say it's failing to do what it says on the tin, for the reason you provide.
[21:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAEU-Lf60LA [youtube.com]
[21:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06QNAP Warns Users to Secure Devices Against QSnatch Malware - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:36] <exec> 08└─I agree. It is a pleasant surprise. Considering how old my device is, and how much it cost (free!) it has been pretty good value for money. When one of the junior Zombies moves out of home with his girlfriend I might give it to him so that we can do offsite backups to each other's storage over a V...
[21:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Little-known Aspect of US Copyright Law Means Creators Can Reclaim Their Work - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:57] <exec> 08└─Wading into the deep end, I see In the case of a grant executed by two or more authors of a joint work, termination of the grant may be effected by a majority of the authors who executed it;
[21:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:42] <exec> 08└─(should I remind you that vaccines preservatives actually use a mercury compound, so that "there you have it! Either vaccines are unsafe or here you have a lever of mercury that is actually safe"?
[21:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:43] <exec> 08└─And I think you grossly overestimate the value of that awareness and the existence of those rules so full of loopholes that they don't actually stop whoever is powerful enough to use lawyers.
[21:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:45] <exec> 08└─Zero bullets is pretty safe. And that's the dosage level for the vast majority of the population.
[21:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:48] <exec> 08└─None of those things exist in real life.
[21:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:50] <exec> 08└─Captival seems to be spouting the US right-wing talking point that there are only two possibilities here
[21:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:52] <exec> 08└─Depends on the metric - workplace injuries and deaths have gone down for decades despite the alleged loopholes. So has pollution per capita.
[21:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:54] <exec> 08└─Eye of beholder. Nobody as blind as the one who doesn't want to see.
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[22:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:18] <exec> 08└─All these "empathy" bullshit from that guy is ... disturbing. Get off the pill - it ain't the 90s and SN ain't no warehouse disco party.
[22:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:20] <exec> 08└─An interesting experiment, but to extend the observation to conclude that apes have false-belief understanding is quite a reach. This is clickbaity.
[22:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:22] <exec> 08└─You are tearing me apart, Lisa!
[22:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:33] <exec> 08└─More important than what is commented on the summary is their defintiion that, "We argue that, in practice, the experience of empathy is biased toward one’s ingroup and can actually exacerbate political polarization." Their design reflects this belief. I would question that belief, in that if empa...
[22:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:19] <exec> 08└─Is this a bizzaro world version of deathmonkey I'm agreeing with?
[22:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:21] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that Lot's wife liked her life in Sodom. She looked back at the life she was now leaving. That is why she turned to salt. So Lot ends up with his two daughters and no wife. The daughters take turns getting him drunk, copulating with him, and getting pregnant. [wikipedia.org] From...
[22:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:23] <exec> 08└─dissuade the non-committed
[22:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:25] <exec> 08└─And the lowest reliability question type is self-reporting about opining. (Is "pick a number between 1 and 10" is a more or less reliable?) How is ths conclusion not: Those who go to the most effort to present themselves as empathic are actually sociopaths?
[22:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:27] <exec> 08└─Bull fucking shit. Your monstrous inhumanity isn't some artifact of you being perceived to be on the "other side", it's the literal goddamn nazis you willingly abet, it's the goddamn fucking concentration camps, it's the absolute scourge of downright inexcusable "destroy the whole planet for trivial...
[22:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:29] <exec> 08└─We could hope that their stupidity, if they fail to shake it off, leads them to getting hurt. And we could double-hope that it's recorded, and uploaded to the internet too!
[22:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:32] <exec> 08└─> genuine free market will inevitably lead to a monopoly Only if commoditisation is taken to an impossible theoretical extreme (all suppliers' goods are equally available to all consumers, which would be an unstable equilibrium).
[22:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:34] <exec> 08└─Consider the current mess in Britain, where there are about 5 political parties represented in Parliament.
[22:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:36] <exec> 08└─One side? There are many sides.
[22:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:38] <exec> 08└─MacOS: Jobs died for our sins Catholicism: Better food and swanky rape dungeons Either No real choice in a Bethesda game https://www.the-doll-house.com [the-doll-house.com]
[22:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:41] <exec> 08└─Originally the Greek stressed appeals to reason as the method to achieve consensus between peers. The Roman orators disputed it arguing the political process is naturally adversarial and argumentum ad passiones (and argumentum ad misericordiam especially) should be used to divide and conquer the mas...
[22:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, the Bible is full of awful stories.
[22:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Will Fix macOS Flaw Exposing Portions of Encrypted Emails - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:51] <exec> 08└─just don't use Siri?
[22:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:40] <exec> 08└─But he's more easily approximated by a sphere.
[22:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:42] <exec> 08└─#WightLivesMatter
[22:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:05] <exec> 08└─In vase you didn't notice, so did the manufacturing and chem ind. I'll let you guess where and evaluate the pollution level there. So you're agreed with me and then moved the goalposts. Now we've expanded the scope from implicitly the US to the world.
[22:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:07] <exec> 08└─And yet, who is the one who "doesn't want to see"? Who is speaking in idiotic parables rather than presenting a rational argument?
[22:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:09] <exec> 08└─Oh and also widespread literacy, technical innovation, live-extending advances, and freedom of speech. For some reason you Commies hate all those things. Just look at the backwards hellholes you guys champion. Only in righteous Venezuela can an oil-rich nation turn into a starving wasteland.
[22:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:55] <exec> 08└─That isn't up to code to have an outlet that low. It may be grandfathered depending on how old the wiring is and where you live. If it is old enough to grandfather that, other issues may be present as well.
[22:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Best Way to Stop Lights From Flickering (and Burning Out) When AC Unit Compressor Turns On? - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:56] <exec> 08└─The current draw will vary depending on the temperature difference between inside and outside as well. Power factor could be in play as well. If the A/C has an inadequate run capacitor, the circuit will be stressed by reactive power that won't show on a simple meter. If you decide to try an extensio...
[22:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artemis Program Requires More Cash to Reach Moon by 2024; SLS Could Cost 1,000x More Than Starship - 2259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:25] <exec> 08└─I see no reason to believe that Starship will not be successfully reused, refueled in orbit (something Musk claims will be easy), and spammed repeatedly. That's what it's designed for. Today we saw the first "4th use" of a Falcon 9 Block 5 that was not designed to be reused hundreds of times. I will...
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[23:27:18] <exec> 08└─Even the orangutans?
[23:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Apes Pass a False-Belief Test, Hinting at a Theory of Mind - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:19] <exec> 08└─Runaway attempting to pass a Turing Test. I think he's cheating.
[23:28:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 723 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:20] <exec> 08└─Bull fucking shit. Your monstrous inhumanity isn't some artifact of you being perceived to be on the "other side", it's the literal goddamn nazis you willingly abet, it's the goddamn fucking concentration camps, it's the absolute scourge of downright inexcusable "destroy the whole planet for trivial...
[23:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:29] <exec> 08└─Some people give a damn, Some don't.
[23:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Empathy Is Tearing Us Apart - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:31] <exec> 08└─It's the reason Trump got into office. Everyone knew that political corruption was out of control prior to the 2016 election, and they were angry. It was a bipartisan anger, but Trump was able to take one side of the division and convince them that he was going to drain the swamp. At the same time h...
[23:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Will Fix macOS Flaw Exposing Portions of Encrypted Emails - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:40] <exec> 08└─I don't think they understand what encrypted means. But that's OK, as long as it means we get more Jennifer Lawrence nudie pix.
[23:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's trendy among old people to hate Black Mirror, and as usual, the real issue here is a generation gap. The Twilight Zone is about old technology like nuclear weapons, space travel, and airplanes. Black Mirror is about new technology like social media, video games, and drones. Congratulations...
[23:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Dean, Who Died in 1955, Just Landed a New Movie Role, Thanks to CGI - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:32] <exec> 08└─Or the quality declined when Netflix took the reins and tripled the episode count in under 2 years. lolololololololol ok boomer
[23:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:58] <exec> 08└─I just pointed your argument is inconclusive due to the disputable causal relationship (even if one accepts the metrics - which I didn't. Nor did I reject them, mind you)
[23:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:00] <exec> 08└─and doesn't convert to a biologically active form in the human body (hence why it's usable in medicines).
[23:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:02] <exec> 08└─Feasible (possible)? May be. Plausible or probable? That's something else.
[23:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:04] <exec> 08└─Doesn't seem that way to me.
[23:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hidden Cost of Gold: Birth Defects and Brain Damage - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:06] <exec> 08└─Must be they have quite low roofs there.
[23:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birds Using 'Tools' to Set Fires - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:34] <exec> 08└─The real deal is a 14% ABV Four Loko. It's not necessary to commit suicide with this [www.good.is].
[23:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Will Now Watch for Fraudsters on the World’s Largest Stock Exchange - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:49] <exec> 08└─I don't think you'll get a ticket for that [schlockmercenary.com].
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