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[00:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:37] <exec> 08└─5E is a hell of a lot better than 4E. On par or slightly better than 3E/3.5E, depending on your nit picks.
[00:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:38] <exec> 08└─You can summon one on plenty of street corners by waving pictures of dead presidents.
[00:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Investigate if Mysteries of Antimatter and Dark Matter are Linked - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:47] <exec> 08└─#DarkMatterMatters. Okay, couldn't resist.
[00:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Investigate if Mysteries of Antimatter and Dark Matter are Linked - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:49] <exec> 08└─Does antimatter exhibit the same Spectra as it's matter counterpart? Is there a such thing as anti photons? How do we know an adjacent star system or Galaxy is not antimatter? Do we really know supernovae are not unfortunate encounters between matters of opposite sex? I am not a physicist. These may...
[00:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bicycle Transforms Mid-Ride - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:26] <exec> 08└─Well said - I thought it was great. I'm actually kinda jealous, I'd love one of those now. I pretty much walk everywhere, and the few places I bus to are very convenient for bikes, so it would have a practical side, and not just be cool. I wanted to buy a Sinclair A-bike a few years ago, their websi...
[00:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bicycle Transforms Mid-Ride - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:27] <exec> 08└─Wrong perspective. Consider what ten year old you would have thought about it.
[00:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bicycle Transforms Mid-Ride - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:30] <exec> 08└─There's a "more than meets the eye" joke to be made there but it's not coming to me.
[00:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Will Build a "Gigafactory" Near Berlin, Germany - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:57] <exec> 08└─Wake me up when they build a Yottafactory They're building those in Israel. Three of them
[00:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Court Ruling Ends Random Searches of Phones (and Other Devices) at U.S. Airports and Borders - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:38] <exec> 08└─While this case has been working its way through the courts, the three-letter agencies have had approximately 18 years to search people illegally. So what I fully expect them to do is change their "random" searches to some form of "targeted" searches that are legally distinct but functionally identi...
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[01:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physics Experiment With Ultrafast Laser Pulses Produces A Previously Unseen Phase Of Matter - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:21] <exec> 08└─That's like, interesting, eh? Very interesting - bombard shit with high energy photons, and the shit act up. Hey, jan (and other "editors") What do you expect from a post like this? A decent discussion? Just filling up the posting quota?
[01:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physics Experiment With Ultrafast Laser Pulses Produces A Previously Unseen Phase Of Matter - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:22] <exec> 08└─Bombard #CrookedHillary's email server with high energy photos and see if any more dead bodies show up!
[01:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physics Experiment With Ultrafast Laser Pulses Produces A Previously Unseen Phase Of Matter - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:25] <exec> 08└─Her email server has been hidden next to Jimmy Hoffa.
[01:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:44] <exec> 08└─On par or slightly better than 3E/3.5E, depending on your nit picks
[01:29:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Federal Judge Strikes Down DoJ's Deal with Defense Distributed - 317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:04] <exec> 08└─Gun control is one thing. That operates at the material level. But this censorship of mere plans-- even apart from the infringement on our freedoms, do authorities seriously expect that to be effective? Law enforcers are always pushing the boundaries on this stuff, and their zealousness has to be co...
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[02:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X Reviewed - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:20] <exec> 08└─There's only so much porn you can watch simultaneously.
[02:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:52] <exec> 08└─Try it. They're very similar, really. 5E just has slightly more streamlined math.
[02:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDoS Attack Targets UK Labour Party Weeks Ahead of Election - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:12] <exec> 08└─Nostrovia! Now tell me again who will benefit from the break up of the EU, Comrade.
[02:28:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Bicycle Transforms Mid-Ride - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:38] <exec> 08└─Isn't this sort of thing why we all come here? I mean, I get it, you're not really into bikes, and think this project looks a bit dorky, but still. Turning a normal bike into a stupid transformer-lite bike is a kind of cool, silly project I might like to do one day, when I have more time. There i...
[02:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bicycle Transforms Mid-Ride - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:42] <exec> 08└─I've never ridden a chopper bike, motor or pedal, but I did have one of the late '80s "highly maneuverable" early mountain bikes. For a very short time what they did to set these bikes apart was give them really low caster angles - close to straight up and down. It made it almost impossible to ride...
[02:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Judge Strikes Down DoJ's Deal with Defense Distributed - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:38] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a productive use of your time.
[02:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Now Has an Ebola Vaccine - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:18] <exec> 08└─In my generation, everyone had that smallpox vaccine scar, usually on the right shoulder and about half an inch across. We regarded it as a sign of civilization.
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[03:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Tests Crew Dragon with Redesigned SuperDraco Thrusters - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:12] <exec> 08└─Aside from verifying that SpaceX has successfully redesigned Crew Dragon to mitigate the failure mode that caused capsule C201's catastrophic explosion in April 2019,
[03:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Tests Crew Dragon with Redesigned SuperDraco Thrusters - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:14] <exec> 08└─An explosive success.
[03:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physics Experiment With Ultrafast Laser Pulses Produces A Previously Unseen Phase Of Matter - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:30] <exec> 08└─You're speaking for yourself as far as the editorial complaints and bitching about article quality. That, and you must have zero imagination. I had all sorts of questions here and I do expect a decent discussion. My take away is that they've figured out a way to access different phases of matter tha...
[03:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Investigate if Mysteries of Antimatter and Dark Matter are Linked - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:01] <exec> 08└─Where is the "-1 Groan" mod?
[03:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Investigate if Mysteries of Antimatter and Dark Matter are Linked - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:03] <exec> 08└─unfortunate encounters between matters of opposite sex?
[03:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDoS Attack Targets UK Labour Party Weeks Ahead of Election - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:15] <exec> 08└─The UK? US? Everyone but the taker countries of the EU?
[03:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bicycle Transforms Mid-Ride - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:46] <exec> 08└─No, there isn't
[03:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bicycle Transforms Mid-Ride - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:48] <exec> 08└─Get an electric one - 400 quid, but they look like fun. They don't ship to AU or USA though. I wonder if it's because of the lithium battery. http://a-bike.co.uk [a-bike.co.uk]
[03:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bicycle Transforms Mid-Ride - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:50] <exec> 08└─We want mech suits.
[03:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Strikes Down DoJ's Deal with Defense Distributed - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:45] <exec> 08└─Wasn't this the gun that has a reasonable chance of blowing up in your hand? So an active mass shooter might off himself before the police even get there?
[03:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Now Has an Ebola Vaccine - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:27] <exec> 08└─For those who (like myself) find this fascinating, somewhere in this 7 hour recording (which starts a ways in; they didn't edit out dead time) of the Maurice Hilleman Vaccine Symposium, you will find a segment on early ebola vaccine research. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[04:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) Starts "14nm" FinFET Volume Production - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:10] <exec> 08└─Cheaper IoT light bulbs. Btw, feel free to spare us the double quotes when mentioning nodes add just add something like a footnote saying something like "All quoted node sizes are per the manufacturer's own definition and change according to their whims and fancies between product releases".
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[05:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:14] <exec> 08└─Pretty much by deginition: a non-profit should be nearly worthless, since they cannot ever make money. Yeah, naive. A lot if non-profits exist to enrich their top management, to launder money, or for other unfortunate reasons. Which is it in this case?
[05:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) Starts "14nm" FinFET Volume Production - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:22] <exec> 08└─This is great news. The only reason NVidea and AMD make any significant progress is because they're competing. I can't wait to see what Intel is going to offer. I hope Jingjia gives NVidea and AMD a kick in the butt.
[05:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physics Experiment With Ultrafast Laser Pulses Produces A Previously Unseen Phase Of Matter - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:49] <exec> 08└─Along with Trump's tax records...
[05:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:12] <exec> 08└─I find the ones with no paint/contrast for the numbers to be especially obnoxious. Nobody would want to steal those. :P
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[06:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:13] <exec> 08└─Well, at least if they want to register PIR.COM, it seems to be available for a measly $75k.
[06:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:14] <exec> 08└─Just to let everyone know, the words "Ethos" and "Ethics" are only tangentially related. ἦθος [wikipedia.org] in Greek can mean customary, and thus usual, somewhat like the word mores [wikipedia.org] in Latin, but then also related to the Greek νόμος, ('law'). ἠθικός [wikipedia.or...
[06:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Tests Crew Dragon with Redesigned SuperDraco Thrusters - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:31] <exec> 08└─Exactly. This is the reason testing is performed. They found the problem and fixed it. Hydrazine and N2O4 are not play things. That stuff is dangerous. Been there and done that. Burst discs are a good thing in this case.
[06:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X Reviewed - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:39] <exec> 08└─8 cores to render the VR sex dungeon, 8 cores to live stream your webcam.
[06:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:14] <exec> 08└─But, no it's just an inset sapphire for bling potential. Might be good for D&D players that love 'gangsta' rap culture though. Look good with some oversize untied Nikes and heavily branded clothing.
[06:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Strikes Down DoJ's Deal with Defense Distributed - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:07] <exec> 08└─In the "off-season" now, are we, khallow? Nothing to do, but foment Vienna Circle libertatianism until the snow melts and the passes open in the spring? Living off of socialist "unemployment insurance", are we? Unemployment from your "Deep State" contracting job? Q is on to you!!!
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[07:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X Reviewed - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:46] <exec> 08└─I just love how many insightful comments we get on hard-core tech articles! Nothing can be more hard core than CPUs, unless it is porn, apparently. Maybe the wrong people came over from the site-which-must-not-be-named? SoylentNews could be like South Africa, where the Dutch sent all their less-in...
[07:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:22] <exec> 08└─Are you thinking of second edition? Math? This is basic addition and subtraction not Attack Vector: Tactical
[07:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Investigate if Mysteries of Antimatter and Dark Matter are Linked - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:34] <exec> 08└─Does antimatter exhibit the same Spectra as it's matter counterpart?
[07:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Will Build a "Gigafactory" Near Berlin, Germany - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:49] <exec> 08└─What would he be shipping by plane?
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[08:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:12] <exec> 08└─Launch, otherwise you'll be missing the revenue from the buyers with a budget set aside for Black Friday. Miss it and the budget is gone on other things. Don't think Google is so desperate for income, must be that the head of Stadia/gaming division has his Christmas bonus bound by the sale results.
[08:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:14] <exec> 08└─But there was a Slashdot article discussing this. Stadia Launch Developer Says Game Makers Are Worried 'Google Is Just Going To Cancel It' https://games.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] Comments...
[08:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:22] <exec> 08└─But AppleCard representatives did not want to hear any of this. I was given no explanation. No way to make my case.
[08:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Tests Crew Dragon with Redesigned SuperDraco Thrusters - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:48] <exec> 08└─I'd actually somewhat agree with this presumable sarcasm. I think failing a public test is one thing, but private tests should fail. That's where you push your product to the max, and then pump it up a few notches higher. The public test is where you already know exactly what your product is capable...
[08:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Phage Therapy Shows Promise for Alcoholic Liver Disease - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:39] <exec> 08└─Saw the Nature paper, very cool.
[08:30:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Federal Judge Strikes Down DoJ's Deal with Defense Distributed - 1540 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:25] <exec> 08└─The license for the DD files noted on defcad is GPL v3.0: https://github.com [github.com] That includes the original Liberator. I'm not easily finding what license Cody Wilson initially used, but given his anarchic views and his multiple public statements about "releasing them...
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[09:27:12] <exec> 08└─I find it humorous that the page is literally blank for me. After redirecting to the mobile version, it gives my browser a page that has the standard opening tags and then just stops in the middle of their standard header tags. Must have hit some bug in their decision logic on what header tags to gi...
[09:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:13] <exec> 08└─What do game developers have to do? Is Google going to force them to support Linux in their games [theverge.com] or just use WINE?
[09:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03WeekendMonkey [5209] (Score: 1) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:30] <exec> 08└─I suspect "deginition" is definition, 'g' and 'f' being adjacent on the keyboard.
[09:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:31] <exec> 08└─Pretty much by deginition: a non-profit should be nearly worthless, since they cannot ever make money.
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[10:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mated Female Mosquitoes Are More Likely to Transmit Malaria Parasites - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:07] <exec> 08└─Following on from my comment in https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Again, how the hell does anyone even think to investigate this stuff? Researcher #1: Hey guys, so I was thinking about malaria right? Researcher #2: Uh huh. Researcher #3: Yup Researcher #1: And...
[10:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:17] <exec> 08└─Does anyone see any advantage? Because I do not. To me, this looks more like a desperate pre-cancel public dump of the project, rather than a serious release. No chance against real consoles, beacause high quality non-4K games can run on any average hardware today, including miniconsoles. TES5: Skyr...
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[10:27:36] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus BTW would like to have a very adjacent gf.
[10:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:38] <exec> 08└─Which is why TMB is doing it, since he likes Faux News so much :) Seriously though, some people liked 3E, plenty of plebs like 4e or 5e, but if you wanted the 'Gygax Experience' that died between 1e and 2e, and 2e, as expensive as it was, was still the closest to the last time it was not a money gra...
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[11:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Games to Grunts Offering Free Games to Military and Veterans - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:11] <exec> 08└─You should be practicing your sharpshooting and hand to hand combat instead.
[11:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mated Female Mosquitoes Are More Likely to Transmit Malaria Parasites - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:20] <exec> 08└─The slut mosquitoes have collected the strongest parasites available.
[11:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mated Female Mosquitoes Are More Likely to Transmit Malaria Parasites - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:22] <exec> 08└─They're trying to gather investors for their mosquito chastity belt manufacturing company.
[11:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:33] <exec> 08└─Being able to run games at high rendering settings without having to buy a high-end graphics card would be an advantage for me. While The Witcher 3 on Switch is impressive, it still looks better on PC and it is a game released on PC a few years ago. Cyberpunk 2077 is going to require better hardware...
[11:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:53] <exec> 08└─Το πληκτρολόγιό μου είναι στα Ελληνικά
[11:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDoS Attack Targets UK Labour Party Weeks Ahead of Election - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:22] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you think it's coincidence that Boris Johnson (Mr Brexit himself) has just this week suppressed a report into Russian meddling in the 2016 referendum. Right before an election. No, nothing suspicious about that at all. Carry on voters, nothing to see here.
[11:31:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google: Not a Bank? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:59] <exec> 08└─They don't need to. They already have enough information on you to know how you will vote.
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[12:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Games to Grunts Offering Free Games to Military and Veterans - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:14] <exec> 08└─LOL cardboard boardgame axis and allies was insanely popular in the unit I was in, organized tournaments during downtime.... Also this probably dates me pretty bad as this being a really long time ago, but "all of us" played wing commander as kids. And everyone played this new game "Doom" on their P...
[12:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:36] <exec> 08└─One day when this half-assed copy-cat idea fails, I would like to know how much money and resources were wasted so that one group of rich people could shout threats about market dominance at another group of rich people. And then they will claim it demonstrates how totally possible innovation is in...
[12:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:57] <exec> 08└─Επίσης στο ελληνικό πληκτρολόγιο υπάρχουν φ και γ δίπλα-δίπλα.
[12:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 1842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:59] <exec> 08└─so the section of the internet that was for public interest has been purchased by a nebulous(no wiki page, marketspeak homepage with no specifics) financial entity. Erik Brooks Nora Abusitta-Ouri Exactly the type of people I don't trust with anything at all like this, as they have no demonstrated hi...
[12:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X Reviewed - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:27] <exec> 08└─Yea, Takyon is pretty good but besides that it is mostly crickets here unless they is some angle where idiots can spew their orange man bad bs. For awhile I was submitting stories about ASML, etc but they didn't really take. Personally I awaiting for the new threadrippers.
[12:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bicycle Transforms Mid-Ride - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:03] <exec> 08└─We all? I don't come for this type of things. But then, I would also not go to the cinema (or to a web site) for a Transformers movie either.
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[13:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:15] <exec> 08└─I don't know enough about him to know whether he'll "succeed" or not in the state enterprise, but I envy anyone who can just give up their job for a hobby.
[13:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:17] <exec> 08└─Can he do it?
[13:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:19] <exec> 08└─I mean he started by stealing resources while at Softdisk, then ousted founding employees in a bid to control more shares when they sold out to EA (which fell through, only to instead sell out to Zenimax a few years later when Doom3's id tech4 failed in the marketplace for licensing purposes.) Then...
[13:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:21] <exec> 08└─The highlights of his career include making Commander Keen, open sourcing Doom 3, and collecting that Facefook bread. He has done plenty.
[13:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:23] <exec> 08└─The more people and groups working on artificial general intelligence, the better. Artificial general intelligence has probably been created already. It's just languishing under military control.
[13:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Games to Grunts Offering Free Games to Military and Veterans - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:33] <exec> 08└─Spaceships and space marines will all be automated by bots. But we will have waves and waves of Generals to use as laser cannon fodder.
[13:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:56] <exec> 08└─Play games on non-Windows systems. Anything that can stream video could be able to play. Play games on cheap hardware. An $89 PC capable of 720p VP9 hardware decode is good enough. You could use a phone hooked up to a display. No Denuvo or other nasty DRM from game companies has to touch your system...
[13:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:57] <exec> 08└─That Apple exec is just salty that schools aren't buying as much of Apple's overpriced crap. Not as many $1 billion contracts to indoctrinate Los Angeles schoolkids. All most schoolkids need is a web browser and word processor. Chromebook fills that role and more.
[13:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:06] <exec> 08└─As a guy with a pretty large net worth I don't understand the mindset (beyond the usual political BS and grandstanding) I do not have any debts.
[13:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:09] <exec> 08└─Algorithm gives a better interest rate to a breadwinner instead of a stay at home mom. Feminists cry that the algorithm is sexist. The mystery is solved. No need to bother Apple with your complaints. BTW, Karen does not need to know about David's Swiss bank account.
[13:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:25] <exec> 08└─since they cannot ever make money
[13:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:26] <exec> 08└─They are teaching us a hard lesson: domain names and other centralized systems are bad. Switch to onions or something.
[13:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X Reviewed - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:55] <exec> 08└─Interesting. So you don't consider "SoylentNews could be like South Africa, where the Dutch sent all their less-intelligent funamentalists, and so evolved into a liberal-progressive nation!!" to be as jingoistic and bad as the "orange man bad," that you referenced? Don't rip conservatives, but denou...
[13:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X Reviewed - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:57] <exec> 08└─Uh, no. This entire thread is empty of any content except my short sentence about "I am waiting for the new threadrippers". I am literally the only one who has contributed to this thread.
[13:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:35] <exec> 08└─Life was simpler a couple years ago; 4E sucked so everyone used Pathfinder Now its complicated; 5E is way better and Pathfinder is internally self destructing with the whole 2nd edition situation. I'm certainly not buying anything Pathfinder until the 1st/2nd edition thing settles out; that kind of...
[13:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:37] <exec> 08└─Its been 5 years of 5E, the optimist says 5E will make it to 50, the pessimist says cash grab time will commence and it'll be 6E by then. Different mindset than the old days; I'm old enough to remember AD+D and people bought it as a one time thing; the idea of buying the game over and over again wit...
[13:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDoS Attack Targets UK Labour Party Weeks Ahead of Election - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:03] <exec> 08└─The english speaking world is under attack by people who want to turn the english speaking world into feuding vassal states. The philosophy of John Locke is under attack also, by proximity. The labor party is the force of progress in the UK, so all of the forces who hate progress and new ideas, and...
[13:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Account Fraud Harder to Detect as Criminals Move From Bots to 'Sweat Shops' - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:11] <exec> 08└─You take all of our jobs, we play to our strength: being imperfect. We are the Mechanical Jerks.
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[14:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:20] <exec> 08└─Please stop using the "AI" terminology for dumb things. Asimov had a clear definition of AI: deterministic logic system, with predesigned methods to treat arbitrary situations by arguments based on a few basic principles. It's artificial because it's not intelligence, but essentially a predetermined...
[14:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Games to Grunts Offering Free Games to Military and Veterans - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:30] <exec> 08└─Good on them.
[14:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:55] <exec> 08└─I like the added point about data caps. Innovation in America is being held back, badly, in a thousand ways, by our ISPs.
[14:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:57] <exec> 08└─Computers are getting really cheap. We just picked up a new rig for my wife. It was supposed to be basically a lazy starter kit so we went as cheap as possible. It was $180 for everything: the system, monitor, peripherals, shipping etc. Turns out that little thing alone is sufficient to run GTA V! A...
[14:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:59] <exec> 08└─$180 for everything sound like you got a Raspberry pi 4. Otherwise this must be a special deal. I would be interested in the detailed specs.
[14:28:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 799 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:16] <exec> 08└─Just to let everyone know, the words "Ethos" and "Ethics" are only tangentially related. ἦθος [wikipedia.org] in Greek can mean customary, and thus usual, somewhat like the word mores [wikipedia.org] in Latin, but then also related to the Greek νόμος, ('law'). ἠθικός [wikipedia.or...
[14:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X Reviewed - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:56] <exec> 08└─That is one heck of a chip. I'm not in the market for a $750 CPU, but for those who are . . . especially those who already have an AM4 motherboard . . . woohoo!
[14:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Judge Strikes Down DoJ's Deal with Defense Distributed - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:36] <exec> 08└─Living off of socialist "unemployment insurance", are we?
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[15:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:36] <exec> 08└─This is rambling nonsense. No one crowned Issac Asimov king of all AI because he wrote some fun mysteries about them. AI is the study, in part or in whole, of replicating human intelligence with man-made machines. No more, no less. A shitty neural net that's only ability is to classify animals: that...
[15:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 2134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:14] <exec> 08└─Ditto on your specs list. I'm guessing several of those components were second-hand. Which is fine. CPU is typically not the bottleneck, and as long as lower resolutions are supported, games can scale really well. 4K is 9 times more pixels per second than 720p. Targeting to the lowest common denomin...
[15:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:24] <exec> 08└─I am also a millionaire, but I understand that creditors (and Apple is just the face here, the real creditor is someone else) have arbitrary and capricious rules on how they will extend it. I don't recall net worth ever being a field on an application. Jamie, you are fortunate not to need credit. Si...
[15:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:43] <exec> 08└─no, no onions. cakes. everyones likes cakes. parfaits, too.
[15:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:44] <exec> 08└─"instead of stock option incentives they have to pay higher salaries." I work at a non-profit and my salary is 1/2 of what it was at a for-profit.
[15:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:56] <exec> 08└─Meh...
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[16:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Particle Analysis Technique Paves Way For Better Air Pollution Monitoring - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:09] <exec> 08└─What we lack is the political will to impose even an approximation of the true costs of pollution on the polluters.
[16:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─it's not rambling nonsense. if a future man-made machine shows human-like intelligence it should have human rights. if you guys start out by calling it "artificial", it will have strong repercussions for legal discussions. and yes, I think animal rights in general should also depend on level of inte...
[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:30] <exec> 08└─Good luck John, any relevance you had is long since passed. 5-10 years of stardom sure has allowed you 20 years of coasting! Not unlike my dad.
[16:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:32] <exec> 08└─I think animal rights in general should also depend on level of intelligence.
[16:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 1471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:35] <exec> 08└─I think the key to singularity is the ability to understand how abstraction levels in the brain work. On a purely "flat" network level, we're pretty much sorted. A classic experiment is the chimpanzee who has to assemble a long stick out of two short ones to get the banana - which all comes down to...
[16:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:12] <exec> 08└─Starlink [wikipedia.org] could make all the difference, especially for rural internet users. We may be able to get gigabit connections nearly everywhere on the planet. If cheaper tiers are offered, 100 Mbps would also be just fine, and even 10 Mbps (no data cap = 3 terabytes a month theoretically, a...
[16:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:13] <exec> 08└─Picked it up on Lazada [lazada.com]. You can find numerous comparably priced rigs under: Electronic Devices -> Desktops -> Gaming. I'm not sure how much regional prices change. However, we're currently in Southeast Asia, and electronics prices here are generally higher than stateside. The specs list...
[16:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:44] <exec> 08└─They are adjacent at the end of his arms.
[16:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:45] <exec> 08└─I've had it in the back of my mind for quite some time. A DNS alternative, that could work alongside DNS in whatever apps decide to support it. I though of how it'd work and came close to implementing a version of it in C++/boost.asio. Improving on DNS by learning from DNSCurve, DNScrypt, etc. Lack...
[16:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:47] <exec> 08└─If you're not reengineering at least half of the protocol stack with it, there isn't much of a point. DNS is busted. But so is TCP. No sense in writing in writing a new set of sockets unless you're going to do both.
[16:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X Reviewed - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:19] <exec> 08└─The price point is pretty amazing. My current workstation has a $2,000 18/32 core/thread i9 7980xe. This nearly matches to beats (depending on the application) that processor for less than 1/2 the price. Intel is really behind the 8-ball here and I'm loving it.
[16:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X Reviewed - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:20] <exec> 08└─You can do a lot with that socket. You could pick up the 2-core Athlon 3000G for $50, put that on an AM4 motherboard, then get a 16-core and discrete GPU after the prices drop. There could be some motherboard issues but you can let the world beta test for you. It will be interesting to see when the...
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[16:30:01] <exec> 08└─D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style
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[17:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian State of Odisha Releases 21 Dictionaries Under CC BY 4.0 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:13] <exec> 08└─Your dictionary have virus
[17:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Indian State of Odisha Releases 21 Dictionaries Under CC BY 4.0 - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:14] <exec> 08└─It's a new Rosetta Stone. Never heard of the Attribution 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org [creativecommons.org] One of CC’s goals is ensuring that all of its legal tools w...
[17:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Particle Analysis Technique Paves Way For Better Air Pollution Monitoring - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:23] <exec> 08└─The article (open access!) says Since the optical trapping prevents particles from adhering to the core wall, the system also offers very long (perhaps unlimited) operating lifetimes
[17:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Particle Analysis Technique Paves Way For Better Air Pollution Monitoring - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:25] <exec> 08└─> After detection, the particle simply ejects from the fiber without degrading the device. This might work most of the time, but some of those particles could be sticky. Maybe they also envision some kind of trap upsteam of the hollow fiber optic to keep it clean. Pretty hard to imagine a way to cle...
[17:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Particle Analysis Technique Paves Way For Better Air Pollution Monitoring - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:27] <exec> 08└─Wonder if it will clog if there is a power interruption and the laser is turned off for awhile?
[17:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Joker's Stash Puts $130M Price Tag on Credit Card Database - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:35] <exec> 08└─How the hell can consumer data be worth $100 per card? Perhaps to a buyer who sells it to someone else for >$100 per card, like a pyramid scheme until it reaches some sucker at the end of the line.
[17:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:53] <exec> 08└─Can he do it?
[17:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:34] <exec> 08└─I misspoke on my card. It's an RX 570. Apologies there for any confusion. Blame the wine and my lack of hardware knowledge. I can install whatever, looking up benchmarks every once in a blue moon when something fries to see what a currently nice $/performance replacement is, and make sure my PSU has...
[17:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that is a decent card at a low price. I think RX 570 @ $100(?) [slickdeals.net] was mentioned specifically in a Moore's Law is Dead [youtube.com] video the other day. https://www.tomshardware.com [tomshardware.com]
[17:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:47] <exec> 08└─That women's brains are wired different? But... now it's sexist that we point that out and use it in algorithms. I pay my bills in full every month, no CC debt, house paid off, cars paid off, and retired early with a nest egg. I helped a good female friend get out of debt but she immediately ran her...
[17:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:49] <exec> 08└─I had a career and was successful prior to meeting David, and while I am now a mother of three children — a "homemaker"
[17:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) Starts "14nm" FinFET Volume Production - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:19] <exec> 08└─I think the deal is that Intel will offer 128 EU for mobile, and 256 and 512 EU discrete options. Compare to the 24 EUs they have typically had for mobile, with 64 EU only coming recently [anandtech.com] with Ice Lake. Obviously there will be performance improvements for discrete cards that aren't l...
[17:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X Reviewed - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:45] <exec> 08└─AMD is now just competing with itself. Initial Threadripper 3 prices are very high, they didn't need to release it at all, and the 16-core 3950X is 50% more than the 12-core 3900X. Supposedly, Intel will not be able to mount a serious challenge whatsoever in 2020, while Zen 3 will increase performan...
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[18:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Ejected from Milky Way's 'Heart of Darkness' Reaches Mind-Blowing Speed - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:09] <exec> 08└─watch out for galactic speed traps.
[18:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Ejected from Milky Way's 'Heart of Darkness' Reaches Mind-Blowing Speed - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:10] <exec> 08└─Not really "launched out" of a black hole, since that's impossible. I assume they mean gravitationally sling-shotted *by* a black hole.
[18:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian State of Odisha Releases 21 Dictionaries Under CC BY 4.0 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:20] <exec> 08└─It's a sad day when a dictionary has any type of copyright attached. Who's going to steal a word and profit from it?
[18:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian State of Odisha Releases 21 Dictionaries Under CC BY 4.0 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:22] <exec> 08└─Who's going to steal a word and profit from it?
[18:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Particle Analysis Technique Paves Way For Better Air Pollution Monitoring - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:33] <exec> 08└─I imagine the tubes are also rather cheap to make, and can be replaced periodically in a practical device.
[18:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Particle Analysis Technique Paves Way For Better Air Pollution Monitoring - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:34] <exec> 08└─Until those danged environmentalist types start being able to bribe congresscritters and presidents the way most industries can, or we somehow manage to make or keep holders of political office non-corrupt, I'm not going to be optimistic. Especially since the current administration wants to make it...
[18:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:01] <exec> 08└─In a limited sense, I think a multi-layer artificial neural network can already develop a stack of abstractions, where the outputs of one layer are inputs to various neurons on the next one. I think maybe one way that differs from a chimpanzee or human brain is that we have an attention that we can...
[18:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:02] <exec> 08└─In my opinion the secret sauce of individuals like Carmack is not any particular thing, but simply the overall skill set and brain that enables him to do what he does. For instance, imagine Carmack had chosen to pursue e.g. cosmological research instead of software development, I would generally exp...
[18:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Games to Grunts Offering Free Games to Military and Veterans - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:13] <exec> 08└─You ain't that old then. I was 31 in 1990 when Wing Commander appeared. I didn't own a PC at that time and played it for the first time on the Sega CD in 1994. That version added voice acting and was the first to synchronize lip movement and voice. It was considered to be the best version of the ori...
[18:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:59] <exec> 08└─Oh, husbands & wives ... nevermind.
[18:29:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 1842 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:14] <exec> 08└─so the section of the internet that was for public interest has been purchased by a nebulous(no wiki page, marketspeak homepage with no specifics) financial entity. Erik Brooks Nora Abusitta-Ouri Exactly the type of people I don't trust with anything at all like this, as they have no demonstrated hi...
[18:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03webnut77 [5994] (Score: 1) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:23] <exec> 08└─For example, a for-profit might disburse a surplus to shareholders as dividends, but a non-profit cannot do this.
[18:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:25] <exec> 08└─The cake is a lie
[18:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03webnut77 [5994] (Score: 1) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:27] <exec> 08└─So the TLD is at the beginning? You must program in Java. Use the tilde in the URL? You'd have to escape that when you use that URL with lynx on the command line.
[18:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) Starts "14nm" FinFET Volume Production - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:38] <exec> 08└─used to make solarcells too? link: https://www.reuters.com [reuters.com] just saw some a while back but didn't test them. their solar cells looked mighty fancy ... proud enough to etch their initials in for everybody who cared to look to see. i think they were...
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[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─Never let facts get in the way of a good click-bait title
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[19:27:15] <exec> 08└─鳴門ラン
[19:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian State of Odisha Releases 21 Dictionaries Under CC BY 4.0 - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:26] <exec> 08└─An American dictionary printed in 1948 had some interesting definitions. I had no idea a dictionary could be anything other than strictly factual, until I saw these whoppers. "Masturbate" was a real short entry: "self-pollution". That's it. It also had an entry for "yellow peril", and the definition...
[19:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian State of Odisha Releases 21 Dictionaries Under CC BY 4.0 - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:28] <exec> 08└─Ideas are explicitly not copyrightable. The most common translation of a simple word, such as Italian or Spanish casa meaning English "house," isn't copyrightable either because the law considers the idea and expression to have merged. But the exact explanation of a term with a complex and nuanced m...
[19:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:07] <exec> 08└─whatever it is but it can cook, clean and tell me every day what a great guy i am ... well i would be inclined to call that intelligent ^_^
[19:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:09] <exec> 08└─Well, with the brain it's not the classic punched-card-deck-to-line-printer flow that was imagined when computers were new. Cf. the quote of Asimov's AI definition elsewhere, or the ST:TOS "The ultimate computer" script, or an original 1951 vintage brochure about the Ferranti Nimrod computer that wa...
[19:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 2519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:11] <exec> 08└─I used to take a not dissimilar view. Then I ended up working with neural network based systems for a couple of years. Now I think anything vaguely resembling intelligence is probably impossible with current techniques, and we're most likely on our way to another AI winter once full self driving veh...
[19:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:06] <exec> 08└─I'd guess it is because women are statistically less likely to pay their debts. It's just like how statistically men get injured more and die earlier than women. It doesn't matter that you eat a healthy diet, exercise, and always drive the speed limit; while your female neighbor only eats sweet pota...
[19:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, the tilde is illegal in DNS domain names, so I thought it'd be good for backwards compatibility. Any other good symbols to use that are illegal in DNS names?
[19:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:35] <exec> 08└─It could go over bluetooth, probably. My goal is that it doesn't really care about what the layer below is. Although I'd probably use UDP instead of TCP, for the actual server. I think the server could have a socket abstraction layer. Replacing TCP with another protocol via UDP might be interesting...
[19:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:37] <exec> 08└─Look here funny man, soylent news is for serious discussions only! Yes yes one of the admins is a huge offender, but he is simy too fat for us to move. Please respect the standards of journalism and discussion.
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[20:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injectable, Flexible Electrode Could Replace Rigid Nerve-Stimulating Implants - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:15] <exec> 08└─Looks like Neuralink [wikipedia.org] has competition.
[20:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03zwmm [8762] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Star Ejected from Milky Way's 'Heart of Darkness' Reaches Mind-Blowing Speed - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:26] <exec> 08└─Probably being driven by a Grey Lensman.
[20:27:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06New Particle Analysis Technique Paves Way For Better Air Pollution Monitoring - 398 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:50] <exec> 08└─Until those danged environmentalist types start being able to bribe congresscritters and presidents the way most industries can, or we somehow manage to make or keep holders of political office non-corrupt, I'm not going to be optimistic. Especially since the current administration wants to make it...
[20:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:04] <exec> 08└─The advantage is control, which is the main goal of big tech. Us filthy peasants being able to control our data and software without their approval is unacceptablr to their intended business model. It's a slow, gradual process as our computers are taken away, bit by bit, and this removes physical ci...
[20:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:06] <exec> 08└─As others have noted, try 5E. I was in your shoes as well, until I visited a long lost group of gaming friends and sat in on a session. I was shocked because I never thought they would be the type. Turns out I was wrong, and it is great. 5E gets the hell out of the way and lets you play. It lets DMs...
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[21:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Injectable, Flexible Electrode Could Replace Rigid Nerve-Stimulating Implants - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:20] <exec> 08└─Unfair. This research may actually lead to some innovation.
[21:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Particle Analysis Technique Paves Way For Better Air Pollution Monitoring - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:55] <exec> 08└─There's a very old philosophical concept 2-3 millennia at least, billions of believers - many actual adherents, it goes something like this (in any one of a thousand languages): Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you. With the coming robot revolution and the attendant hordes o...
[21:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:26] <exec> 08└─AI is the study, in part or in whole, of replicating human intelligence with man-made machines. No more, no less.
[21:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:53] <exec> 08└─So the TLD is at the beginning? You must program in Java.
[21:31:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:00] <exec> 08└─You can summon one on plenty of street corners by waving pictures of dead presidents.
[21:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06D&D Sapphire Anniversary Dice Set Celebrates 25 Years in Style - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:13] <exec> 08└─Pick your favorite color schemes [kickstarter.com] from these extra purty options for a sixth the price. Three weeks until the kickstarter ends!
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[22:27:39] <exec> 08└─When I think of dictionaries, I think of the show Fune wo Amu. The English title is The Great Passage which is a travesty. "Fune wo Amu" means "To Weave a Boat". Individuals are like islands stranded across a great sea, and dictionaries provide the boats that allow us to reach each other, the words...
[22:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indian State of Odisha Releases 21 Dictionaries Under CC BY 4.0 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:41] <exec> 08└─Would be great if all indigenous languages were given similar treatment. Related- Many schools in Australia are beginning to have classes in the local tongue and it's working to bring communities together.
[22:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:26] <exec> 08└─They attempt to replicate one aspect of human intelligence, that's why I said part or whole. Whether the technologies contained therein can scale up to replicate all of it is irrelevant.
[22:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:26] <exec> 08└─I've applied for credit far in excess of what I will ever use. I used to not care, but when I bought a house I was hurt my local bank's credit card still being at the default 4k credit line, and having 3.5k charged to it. My other account had a 15k limit with no balance. You get penalized for "close...
[22:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:27] <exec> 08└─Of course it is systemic. The ratings agencies and underwriters have identified women, blacks, foreigners, whoever as systemic risks to repayment, so anyone in that class is going to get shittier terms, no matter if they are most responsible. Like young people for car insurance. Or men for life insu...
[22:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06.ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:58] <exec> 08└─Disbursements that personally enrich the executive staff or BoD that are contingent on revenue or profit are one of the few things non-profits cannot do. In addition, PIR is a registered support organization of unclassified type, which limits their use of the money even more than the standard non-pr...
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[22:31:18] <exec> 08└─This guy did [wikipedia.org], somehow. Not to disparage his wife, though.
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[23:27:10] <exec> 08└─Some bullshit like that.
[23:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Ape From Germany Was a Pioneer of Two-Legged Walking - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:12] <exec> 08└─Always have been, always will be. No surprise that a German scientist delivered this gem... not because she's a Nazi, but because you couldn't publish this in the U.S. of S.J.W.A.
[23:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Ape From Germany Was a Pioneer of Two-Legged Walking - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:14] <exec> 08└─This must have been Trump's great great great great great great [...] great grandfather.
[23:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:21] <exec> 08└─The whole contractor/employee distinction needs to end. You hire someone, you pay them, they are your employee. Maybe "employee rights" have gone too far and need to take a step back, but the whole "contractor" class is being used as giant loophole. How many states have "Employment at will"? If that...
[23:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:24] <exec> 08└─But that's wrong. Contracting company C hires you. Other company B contracts C for work, so you do work that is ultimately for B. Why should B have to pay taxes for you? Why should the government get double taxes for contractors, paid by both B and C? If paying taxes is too expensive for C, then the...
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[23:27:26] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. Was the last hooker you hired your employee? You hired her, you paid her...
[23:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:28] <exec> 08└─So is New Jersey worried these uber drivers are going to collect disability they didn't know they were eligible for years ago? Or previous unemployment when they couldn't find any uber riders back in February? These might be "owed" in a legal sense, but its not like their absence caused a loss to th...
[23:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Ejected from Milky Way's 'Heart of Darkness' Reaches Mind-Blowing Speed - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:47] <exec> 08└─But everything's relative. I assume that velocity is relative to Sag A*. What is our velocity rotating about Sag A*? Our or Milky Way moving through space. Quick calc, it's going at 0.0055c. Doesn't sound that fast now, but would be interesting to be in an orbit around that star.
[23:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Ejected from Milky Way's 'Heart of Darkness' Reaches Mind-Blowing Speed - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:48] <exec> 08└─0.0055C relative to what? ;-) The article I read said it was moving about 10x faster than normal stars, and was on an escape trajectory from the Milky Way... fast, but hardly mind blowing, particularly if you've ever run a black hole orbital sim... Maybe impressive that it held together while achiev...
[23:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Ejected from Milky Way's 'Heart of Darkness' Reaches Mind-Blowing Speed - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:50] <exec> 08└─It says "As humankind's ancestors were learning to walk upright". The star was ejected about 4.8 million years ago. There's another SN submission today that talks about an ape walking upright in Germany 11.9 million years ago. Humanity. Always monkeying around with history.
[23:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indian State of Odisha Releases 21 Dictionaries Under CC BY 4.0 - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:04] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, this state contains significant area of so-called "tribal" settlement - hill peoples who have not been assimilated into Hindu caste system. Adding their languages to the dictionary would be a remarkable feat.
[23:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Investigate if Mysteries of Antimatter and Dark Matter are Linked - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:51] <exec> 08└─It's what happens when I should be scarfing some sweets instead of getting ready to pass out - low blood sugar makes me more stupid than normal.
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