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[01:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Comet Lake" Desktop CPUs: Skylake with up to 10 Cores - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:24] <exec> 08└─That got an actual out loud "holy crap!" from me. Are they going to bundle it with some kind of high-end water cooler or what?
[01:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Comet Lake" Desktop CPUs: Skylake with up to 10 Cores - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:26] <exec> 08└─They don't bundle coolers, but you'll probably need a liquid cooler to hit those high clock speeds for any length of time. Although these CPUs should be able to adjust up or down based on the available cooling and settings anyway. Perfect for your next laptop [notebookcheck.net].
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[01:02:35] <exec> 08└─I've been seeing monitors labeled as such, but in all my experience, HDR is when you take multiple exposures, usually incrementally stopped down, to create one photo. This effect usual works well on urban landscapes, or anything you want to look edgy or scary. With everything else it looks like crap...
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[01:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Study Discovers how Primordial Bacteria Adapted to Arsenic - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:06] <exec> 08└─I hear Aristarchus likes a bit of arse [twitter.com]
[01:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Study Discovers how Primordial Bacteria Adapted to Arsenic - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:07] <exec> 08└─I heard Aristarchus [twitter.com] loves some arse ..
[01:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Discovers how Primordial Bacteria Adapted to Arsenic - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:09] <exec> 08└─It's sometimes difficult to appreciate how popular this website is and how few casual readers appreciate Ari's love of arse [twitter.com]
[01:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Regenerate Neurons in Mice with Spinal Cord Injury and Optic Nerve Damage - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:18] <exec> 08└─It only makes spines and eyeballs.
[01:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Regenerate Neurons in Mice with Spinal Cord Injury and Optic Nerve Damage - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:20] <exec> 08└─Not them, their voters.
[02:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:52] <exec> 08└─We could also avoid posting misinformation that the hail measurements were a hoax.
[02:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DisplayPort Alt Mode Updated for USB 4, Allows Uncompressed 8K @ 60 Hz HDR Video Over a USB-C Cable - 1683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:37] <exec> 08└─Eye tracking could be an easier problem than you would expect. See this earlier comment [soylentnews.org] I made. That researcher used an off-the-shelf FOVE headset. There's also Tobii, which has made a 1200 Hz eye tracker for researchers and more modest hardware for VR: Tobii Pro Launches New Advan...
[02:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DisplayPort Alt Mode Updated for USB 4, Allows Uncompressed 8K @ 60 Hz HDR Video Over a USB-C Cable - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:39] <exec> 08└─It's High Dynamic Range. It doesn't actually require any kind of real world photography, e.g. a video game can render areas using HDR, using whatever techniques they want to in real time (including "ray-tracing" now). You can see some examples [resetera.com] here. Some games do it well, others suck...
[02:03:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:24] <exec> 08└─I'm going to guess that rock blasted off Mars has a slightly higher chance of hitting Earth, due to the Sun's gravity being so dominant in our solar system. Once a rock starts falling towards the sun, it has a (small) chance of being caught by our gravity well. The thing that caught my eye is that...
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[02:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:12] <exec> 08└─Twitter is srs bsns.
[02:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:14] <exec> 08└─He wasn't wrong... incredibly stupid yes, already been warned about this kind of thing before, but... he wasn't wrong.
[02:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:16] <exec> 08└─Several tweets actually, about the lockdown https://www.the [www.the] verge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science
[02:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Discovers how Primordial Bacteria Adapted to Arsenic - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:26] <exec> 08└─Organisms, including hoomans, evolved to fight off other things, and in the process, became vulnerable to arsenic, whereas for some bacterial lifeforms, arsenic was never an issue.
[02:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Discovers how Primordial Bacteria Adapted to Arsenic - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:28] <exec> 08└─and guess Arsenic figured out how to kill it's 2 main competitors, Oxygen and Carbon, without getting caught and being tossed into the hoosegow.
[03:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:04] <exec> 08└─I have the Samsung ML-1860 openprinting says Black & White printer, this is a Paperweight But installing using the Samsung CLP-310 Foomatic/foo2qpdl ppd it works, haven't tested all options. The 16xx seem more supported. They are old models though.
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[03:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:22] <exec> 08└─How stupid tho really? He has a squillion dollars whatever he does. If you had a squillion dollars would you give a crap what The Little Investors do or think? The highest form of entertainment to a squillionaire is sending them into a tizzy when you sneeze or "accidentally" tweet some shit. So shar...
[03:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:24] <exec> 08└─CEOs give guidance to the public all the time, though if it is negative, only if they have to. In this case, Musk even qualified his statement as opinion, which he is entitled to. The board of any public company that has enough votes to oust a CEO that talks down the stock would probably do so, but...
[03:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:26] <exec> 08└─Big Man could also come along and remove him from his company or jail him [cnbc.com]. If Trump still thinks Musk, "does good at the rockets" [cnn.com] then not much chance of that happening, I suppose. But if Trump forgets to put sugar in his coffee that morning maybe Musk will be raked over the coa...
[03:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Defining Geographic Regions with Commuter Data - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:11] <exec> 08└─Commuter data Is this what they're calling the spy data from our phones? Is it too much to ask that researches be honest about their collusion with proto Gestapos?
[04:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DisplayPort Alt Mode Updated for USB 4, Allows Uncompressed 8K @ 60 Hz HDR Video Over a USB-C Cable - 1152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:08] <exec> 08└─Hmm, you might be right. I hadn't actually run the numbers before, and I must admit I greatly overestimated the saccade speed - it seems that even with with very generous margins so that you're unlikely to ever focus outside the foveated render the benefits could be dramatic Saccade speeds can e...
[04:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DisplayPort Alt Mode Updated for USB 4, Allows Uncompressed 8K @ 60 Hz HDR Video Over a USB-C Cable - 2107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:10] <exec> 08└─You're describing "HDR effects", one way to generate HDR datafrom non-HDR originals, usually intentionally used to get fanciful effects. At its base though, HDR is really about how two different factors compare: the maximum difference between darkest and lightest part of the scene, and the smallest...
[04:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:21] <exec> 08└─There's a great case of a broken market. It's why I own a water filter and reuse water bottles.
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[04:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:14] <exec> 08└─Ooooh nooooes am I one of teh bad boyz now? pluueeez let me be a good boy pluuuueeeeeeez
[04:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:16] <exec> 08└─A bunch of twitter junkies just sold. Who bought?
[04:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Discovers how Primordial Bacteria Adapted to Arsenic - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:27] <exec> 08└─I guess anthropomorphism figured out how to get humans to attribute its actions to other things.
[05:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:06] <exec> 08└─The thread was about criticising journalism not science. TFS did a poor job of communicating any science. Having your post there instead would have been superior.
[05:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:08] <exec> 08└─FatPhil has been scored troll for being against journalists. Khallow, whilst taking up the other side of the argument, has also been scored troll. Was it for being khallow? Or for using the word "hoax"? Could this be a sign of things to come?
[05:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:07] <exec> 08└─About 20 years ago I bought a used Laserjet 4P. I'll probably never need to buy another printer again. I don't actually use it that much, but very recently used it to print out my state's tax return (I mail it in due to a lack of free electronic filing options). Still works great.
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[05:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:35] <exec> 08└─The smarter people.
[05:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Regenerate Neurons in Mice with Spinal Cord Injury and Optic Nerve Damage - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:58] <exec> 08└─Someone wrote in the comments a few days ago that power generation by nuclear fusion is 10 years away, and always will be. The same could be said for a cure for spinal cord injuries (the cure that is, not that spinal cord injuries will be generating power)
[05:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Regenerate Neurons in Mice with Spinal Cord Injury and Optic Nerve Damage - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:59] <exec> 08└─A cure for COVID-22 is 5 years away.
[06:01:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:21] <exec> 08└─/home wasn't around in 1975. Back then my home directory was at /usr/hendrik. So it's beem around for less than the full 50 years. -- hendrik
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[06:58:21] <exec> 08└─Not nearly even close.
[06:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:23] <exec> 08└─If your wealth can be ruined by a tweet, then it wasn't real. That's why stock market wealth is complete and utter fucking crap, and why Trump is probably worth a couple hundred million at best. Elizabeth Holmes went from being worth $4 billion personally to peanuts. All based on speculation, and mu...
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[07:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:27] <exec> 08└─The plant extracts included Barbados cherry (Acerola), prickly pear, ginkgo biloba, willow and ginger root. The vitamins and minerals included magnesium, potassium, sodium bicarbonate, zinc, riboflavin, thiamin and folic acid.
[07:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:29] <exec> 08└─In ancient Greece, we already figured this out. Do no drink too much. Simple solution, 100% effective. Oh, and drink lots of water.
[07:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:31] <exec> 08└─BMJ [bmj.com] satands for "British Medical Journal". The paper has been peer reviewed, even TFS says it was a "double-blind placebo-controlled intervention study". Tim Minchin said it best: "You know what they call "alternative medicine" That's been proved to work? Medicine." [youtube.com]
[08:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:12] <exec> 08└─You have tested positive, friend citizen. Please report to your nearest termination centre so that the issue may be corrected. And please refrain from smoking once terminated.
[08:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:48] <exec> 08└─I see khallow and I to be on the same side of the argument. I complained about the wording, and I see khallow repeatedly repeinforce my point.
[08:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03catholocism [8422] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:35] <exec> 08└─To be fair, if you read the wealth of nations, Adam Smith wasn't a capitalist and thought the division of labor produced brutish uneducated and incapable citizens, he was like Marx describing a system. One of the most misquoted motherfuckers in history.
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[08:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:41] <exec> 08└─You stuck at home: Learn to make bread, binge watch some stuff, teach your children, etc. Musk stuck at home: Whine about not being able to work, and accidentally Tweet away a few $billion.
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[09:58:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 957 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:48] <exec> 08└─If your wealth can be ruined by a tweet, then it wasn't real. That's why stock market wealth is complete and utter fucking crap, and why Trump is probably worth a couple hundred million at best. Elizabeth Holmes went from being worth $4 billion personally to peanuts. All based on speculation, and mu...
[09:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:50] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what your reporting cycles are, but we might find out in a month that some top execs were bearish and looking for a quick cycle, and/or now plan on doing stock buybacks. To be honest, this tweet looks absolutely totally infinitely more illegal than the one he got (correctly) fined for i...
[09:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:52] <exec> 08└─Not only bsns, the whole country is run via twitter.
[09:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Regenerate Neurons in Mice with Spinal Cord Injury and Optic Nerve Damage - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:15] <exec> 08└─Are the boffins going to work on creating a vaccine *before* they create the pathogen this time?
[09:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Regenerate Neurons in Mice with Spinal Cord Injury and Optic Nerve Damage - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:17] <exec> 08└─I had the job of clubbing the mice with a baseball bat. For science!
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[10:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:07] <exec> 08└─so Amazon employees/contractors/slaves use company listservs in their own time* to bitch about the company, and 'organise' (damned commies!) and think the company won't notice or care? (*because they keep telling everyone how busy they are at work, it couldn't be on work time) Don't they have enough...
[10:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:09] <exec> 08└─This is the gig economy and you can be replaced easily with unemployed Uber drivers. So be happy you have a job and don't have to sit at home complaining about how slow Amazon service is these days.
[10:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:17] <exec> 08└─This was ICANN going "Oh, shit, we got caught by the California A.G. who has the legal power to cost us money and legal trouble." They still flipped the evil bit and should be remapped to icann.rico.
[10:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:19] <exec> 08└─It doesn't happen as often as it should anymore, but they do get it right from time to time.
[10:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:21] <exec> 08└─At least for now. Those extensive conflicts of interest and big money are still out there waiting for a chance. And ICANN says nothing about correcting what led to this mess in the first place. My take is that PIR needs to be removed from the scene. Barring that, a serious housecleaning needs to hap...
[10:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:32] <exec> 08└─Good, but better avoid other ancient Greek customs, eh.
[10:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:52] <exec> 08└─this was nothing part from direct manipulation of the stock price, there's no joke way of interpretting it.
[10:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Discovers how Primordial Bacteria Adapted to Arsenic - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:05] <exec> 08└─Yet more demonstrations of the unguidedness of evolution. It only takes a few to adopt the successful strategy in adapt-or-die scenarios, and past toxins are rendered harmless. Bacteria or other organisms that can actually turn the prior toxin (remembering that oxygen can be considered as such) into...
[10:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Discovers how Primordial Bacteria Adapted to Arsenic - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:07] <exec> 08└─Given that arsenic is the one in the ground while oxygen and carbon remain prevalent, I think you have it backwards. But it was never a contest in the first place. Arsenic isn't even within two orders of magnitude [wikipedia.org] of the prevalence of carbon in the Earth's crust and oxygen is another...
[10:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:33] <exec> 08└─You have that backwards. Collapsing caves will cause quakes.
[10:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:35] <exec> 08└─Collapsing caves will cause quakes.
[11:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:58] <exec> 08└─It also appears that there was some melting of the hail by the time pictures were taken (at which time accurate measurements could be made, since there is a ruler in the picture). So I can see the "likely measured" wording as meaning the researchers were of the opinion that their estimates of origin...
[11:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:00] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that info - the paper was inaccessible to me. However, any discussion that is resolved by statements discussing what they probably meant does support my point that the press department of the university is doing a poor job at science communication. Probably their command of language was a...
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[11:58:16] <exec> 08└─Dear Shareholders, We got royally screwed by the California A.G., but we have learned our lesson from this. We have a three phase plan for improving our performance. 1. Use $2 million of your money to get that dope un-elected 2. Change our name to "Friendly Capital Corp." 3. Cut-and-paste the origin...
[11:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:28] <exec> 08└─Try them, Bot, you might like them! Bloody Romans! Always want to make it about killing people or building roads!!
[11:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:51] <exec> 08└─It cannot be true. It can be meaningless, but never true. Its price is its price, the cost at which a sale occurs, it is neither too high nor to low. No reference was made to value, we're presuming that's what the price is in comparison to. However, even then, its price is the perceived future value...
[11:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:52] <exec> 08└─They raised $2 billion last quarter and forgot to tell investors that it was overpriced before taking their money.
[11:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:54] <exec> 08└─It cannot be true. It can be meaningless, but never true. Its price is its price, the cost at which a sale occurs, it is neither too high nor to low. No reference was made to value, we're presuming that's what the price is in comparison to. However, even then, its price is the perceived future value...
[11:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:56] <exec> 08└─Last quarter was also before most of the present coronavirus mess. Things have changed.
[11:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03purdy [1863] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:59] <exec> 08└─It's pretty hard to argue that this tweet doesn't violate the consent decree with the SEC. Does anybody really think that the Designated Securities Counsel for Tesla (the 'tweet babysitter' required by the consent decree) would have approved this tweet? Not running this tweet by the DSC is a violati...
[11:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:41] <exec> 08└─Selenites, I tells ye, selenites....and they're finally coming!
[11:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:43] <exec> 08└─Seriously, there are thought to be huge lava tube caves in lunar mares, the mares are on the order of three billion years old which probably means the tubes are as well. It's a very different environment from Earth where virtually all caves are younger than a few hundred thousand years old with the...
[12:01:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 1246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:44] <exec> 08└─Here's why some of the systemd haters will hate, take that portable disk and plug it into a system without systemd, will it work? Will systemd-homed work with other init systems? If not, it is a broken design that should not be on a linux box. What if kerberos must be used for technical reasons or i...
[12:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:34] <exec> 08└─Interesting analysis, but much (most?) of the production is controlled by nation states. Did you factor that in?
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[12:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:14] <exec> 08└─I thought it was a protection mechanism so you wouldn't have to hear other peoples whine and bullshit anymore. Interesting tho if it's just the age related one, so nothing about brain plasticity if you are just "naturally" deaf or had some cause of deafening accident.
[12:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:15] <exec> 08└─So far, it hasn't been clear why.
[12:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:25] <exec> 08└─Robot warehouses are hoarding your hand sanitizer. Click here to dissolve the union.
[12:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:27] <exec> 08└─This is our responsibility. People like us on both sides of the Atlantic in relatively good middle-class jobs, who vote in our own short-term self-interest are to blame. It's why we have Trump and Boris and Brexit. People like us unthinkingly buy from Amazon without considering the wider cost to our...
[12:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:29] <exec> 08└─Actually, I tried to switch off Amazon to Ebay, and often I would buy off Ebay and then have it arrive in an Amazon package. So now I have to shop both sites, and only buy from Ebay if Ebay has a lower price. Otherwise, I'm still sending business to Amazon. The real trick is to avoid online shoppin...
[12:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:32] <exec> 08└─Spending money just puts it back into the economy. Let them spend it on yachts and mansions, and families still get fed.
[12:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:34] <exec> 08└─Your household decision will have no effect on Amazon. Just buy from the cheapest supplier without worrying about unions.
[12:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03purdy [1863] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:22] <exec> 08└─Can't edit, but I missed that the previous contempt charges were settled. But yesterday's tweet is still a violation of that settlement, which requires preclearance from DSC for any public, written communication containing information about: Tesla’s financial condition, statements, or results, inc...
[12:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:24] <exec> 08└─No, it just proves that Musk is mentally unstable.
[12:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03negrace [4010] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:26] <exec> 08└─Most likely he was on coke. Local rumours say it was coke + adderall. Not the first time. Listen to the last quarterly earnings call. He does sound like a habitual drug user, worse than a few years ago.
[12:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:28] <exec> 08└─So what? Isn't a large chunk of the "company value" also just based on Musk being Musk? If it had not been for him personally, and his outspokenness, the value of the company would probably have been a lot lower -- if the company had even existed since it appears most of them are just giant ego-proj...
[12:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:30] <exec> 08└─As my (small) company was tanking, I was quite relieved when they relieved me of the VP title. Nothing but liability in being an officer, plus: they had been doing just about the opposite of what I said should be done for over a year so I really didn't deserve liability to the shareholders for the d...
[12:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:32] <exec> 08└─Local rumours? Did Azealia Banks not get offered any LSD again?
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[13:58:10] <exec> 08└─> Like all other brain functions, ... Like all other functions, ... FTFY Stop using some muscle, it atrophies. Stop walking, leg bones lose bone mass, etc. Maybe not so surprising that brains respond the same way? There are some exceptions--if ol' Eth stopped using his kidneys to process all that al...
[13:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:11] <exec> 08└─What was that? This thing needs new batteries!!!
[13:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:26] <exec> 08└─It's one thing for the company to actively prevent Union organizing. (Think goon squads and firing organizers.) It's a whole other thing to expect the company to provide resources to help them. Just because it's fair, not sure if it is smart. The employees probably have other means which the c...
[13:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:27] <exec> 08└─This is our responsibility...Society is ours, and it is what we make it. Damn! When I say things like that, everyone jumps up and calls it "victim blaming"
[13:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:29] <exec> 08└─> Your household decision will have no effect on Amazon. Correct. However, millions of household decisions will. I made my decision when Amazon cost me money by being assholes (long story) and have never bought anything directly from them. (yes, have had the occasional Amazon fulfillment from an eBa...
[13:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:31] <exec> 08└─They don't spend enough though. Most of it get hoarded in tax havens.
[13:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:33] <exec> 08└─It's a whole other thing to expect the company to provide resources to help them.
[13:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:44] <exec> 08└─Friendly Capital ain't never done wrong by me.
[13:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:45] <exec> 08└─The likelyhood of this scam getting through the courts is/was low. ICANN is just trying to make sure it appears to be on the wrong side to appear authoritative.
[13:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:48] <exec> 08└─I take it that Friendly Capital didn't sell your mortgage to some sleazy mortgage broker?
[13:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:31] <exec> 08└─Tesla has been trading based upon magical thinking for years. The management, especially Musk, seem to know fuck all about the business that they're in and decisions seem to be more aimed at pretending to be ahead of things, rather than the reality that they're not dumping products on the market, ho...
[13:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:32] <exec> 08└─I'll keep on saying it - People in charge of large companies, or worse yet, the USA, should never even come close to Twitter. It is completely insane how people treat it as some kind of official announcement platform, yet use it to post about what they had for lunch or what their cat is doing. Peopl...
[13:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:35] <exec> 08└─That's a big step up from the previous srsl bnns.
[13:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:37] <exec> 08└─Who? And why should I care?
[13:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:39] <exec> 08└─Would the same thing happen if they posted the same comment on SoylentNews?
[14:01:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:27] <exec> 08└─This exists only to create problems, add pointless complexity, and cause incompatibilities. Imaginary "improvements" are the fig leaf, breaking things is the real purpose.
[14:01:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:30] <exec> 08└─>> Lennart Poettering has always considered systemd to be incomplete And he always will... until it takes over 100% of the functionality, at which point we will start calling it Lennux (as in, "I can't get my Lennux system to boot because of systemd").
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[14:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:21] <exec> 08└─It's about time that *someone* put *something* up there *somewhere* that it can observe any portion of the heavens, at any time. Geez, Louise, why isn't there something 3 months behind us in solar orbit, 6 months behind us, and 9 months behind us? OK, you don't much like that 6 months behind, becaus...
[14:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:23] <exec> 08└─That's the thing about space. Not much going on out there - better off right here.
[14:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:34] <exec> 08└─If you can't hear other folks, you're stuck with just the stupid inside your own head.
[14:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:36] <exec> 08└─The atrophy theory is good, but there may also be another negative effect from the mechanism trying to "fill in the blanks" of sensory deprivation, which could result in misinterpreted sentences at best and schizophrenia-like symptoms at worst. My liver and kidneys are made of steel. But fortunately...
[14:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:55] <exec> 08└─>> if the company treated its staff better, they wouldn't feel the need to organise "against" the company Bullshit... the most coddled employees of all, civil servants, have unions and continue to demand even more and even better benefits.
[14:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:56] <exec> 08└─I've heard that warehouse employees got a $2/hr pay boost and double-time for all OT worked. Of course that was only after significant prodding and bad PR. What we should have is a national law that doubles those employees' pay during designated times of need (like this pandemic) and provides free h...
[14:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:58] <exec> 08└─If we accept as true that public servants are the most coddled employees, how do you think they got there? Was it just the generosity of the government bureaucracy above them? Or, perhaps, was it something they did, some form of organized bargaining that gave them the power to demand better treatmen...
[14:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:01] <exec> 08└─Money is just numbers in a computer. It's not like there is a shortage of numbers, so if the hoarding bothers you just get the government to make some more numbers.
[14:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:03] <exec> 08└─Bullshit... the most coddled employees of all, civil servants, have unions and continue to demand even more and even better benefits.
[14:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:05] <exec> 08└─That reminds me to check my stonks to see if it's time to infect SN with the MONEY PRINTER GOES BRRR meme.
[14:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:29] <exec> 08└─Make bloody marys with V8 juice? Strawberry daiquiris with some acai berry? ??? Profit!!
[14:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:30] <exec> 08└─You might get your vitamins, but at the expense of extra heartburn. V8 juice and Orange juice aren't too kind on an inflammed esophagus even without the booze mixed in.
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:10] <exec> 08└─It has been a long time since the guy has spent some time away from it all. This may be true, may not be. But he does appear to be coming apart at the seams a little. He should take some time away from work. Another possibility, is he is looking for an excuse to leave Tesla, and would rather get the...
[15:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:11] <exec> 08└─Good question. Next story, please.
[15:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Defining Geographic Regions with Commuter Data - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:07] <exec> 08└─Could also be those insurance company dongles that plug into the OBD-II diagnostic port under the steering wheel. I pulled up behind a car at a light with this bumper sticker, "Speed monitored by GPS". Wrong car to get behind, it was strictly following the limit on a major road where traffic goes 5-...
[15:02:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 679 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:09] <exec> 08└─We all know that Bach is good. But here in the real world nearly everyone listens to top 40 anyway. We want to eat healthy, but choose fast food. In the same way, Poettering likes the idea of Linux but hates everything about it. So many people seem to feel the same way. Thanks to all those people, I...
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[15:58:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, here we have coronavirus and stuff to make things interesting.
[15:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:13] <exec> 08└─The motivation for sending infrared telescopes like Spitzer and JWST further from Earth than other space telescopes is to protect them from the Earth's heat. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] One of the most important advances of this redesign was an Earth-trailin...
[15:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:26] <exec> 08└─Actually it's so you can drive everyone else mad by yelling "Wha..?" right in the middle of their dull story, right at the moment they're savoring the punchline. WHA? SPEAK UP. HAVE YOU SEEN MY GLASSES? THAT REMINDS ME...
[15:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:27] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself.
[15:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they should go work for Amazon?
[15:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:54] <exec> 08└─> What we should have is a national law ... Socialist spotted!! (grin)
[15:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:08] <exec> 08└─Thank God!
[15:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:22] <exec> 08└─Vodka and the blood of your enemies?
[15:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:24] <exec> 08└─But it's got electrolytes.
[16:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:04] <exec> 08└─Musk is in full control. His believers are unstable! Millions of gossipy morons
[16:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds like he's embraced the Kim Jong Un principle that so many other of America's desperate celebrities have embraced: When something like a pandemic gets all the attention, you do something stupid and clownish to try to earn some of that attention back. Musk's dumb tweets, contrived "fake death"...
[16:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:08] <exec> 08└─Things have changed. No they haven't. They just repeat.
[16:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:10] <exec> 08└─That last line put an image in my mind of the way that AI really takes over. Forget Terminators, it's little electric buggies mowing down pedestrians.
[16:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:12] <exec> 08└─The taxpayer?
[16:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:15] <exec> 08└─Would the same thing happen if they posted the same comment on SoylentNews? For some reason, no. Could be because a hundred million people aren't following. Maybe if it's posted on a SoylentNews Twitter page it might get some notice? Moral of the story, don't become too popular, and you can say what...
[16:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:17] <exec> 08└─Not at all, literally everything I tweet gets completely ignored, like it isn’t even there
[16:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:19] <exec> 08└─Geez, what offensive privilege. There are people "stuck at home" that are out of work that have to worry where their next meal is coming from, while your lazy ass gets a paid staycation.
[16:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:21] <exec> 08└─No millions of coronavirus cases in February. No Tesla business shutdown in February.
[16:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Discovers how Primordial Bacteria Adapted to Arsenic - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:36] <exec> 08└─Life always finds a way - except on the Moon. Or Venus. Or Mars. Or anywhere else in the Universe that we know.
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[16:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah the hearing related brain regions will change if there's no input but is that really tied to short term memory? Age related hearing loss is due to stuff is breaking down faster (e.g. blood flow is not as good, your ear hair cells are dying, etc). Couldn't your short term memory also stop workin...
[16:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:36] <exec> 08└─So they mixed some stuff with Aspirin and called it a cure... I mean let's be honest the willow would probably work just as well by itself. The rest is flavoring.
[17:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:27] <exec> 08└─That almost made sense
[17:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:28] <exec> 08└─Try thinking. Business world doesn't cycle on three month periods.
[17:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:30] <exec> 08└─Always one to bring people down. Not even people starving want to hear that.
[17:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, so? Who said anything about three month business cycles? For them, it's a speed bump, and the government is bailing them out. Like I said, a repeat
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[17:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:08] <exec> 08└─Bezos will tell the truth, right?
[17:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right. Bezos [forbes.com] increased his personal fortune by $25 billion from the start of the pandemic. Billionaires are not in the same boat with the rest of us, as we try to navigate the treacherous currents of the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re smoothly sailing in luxury yachts, while most Am...
[17:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:11] <exec> 08└─are like the generic white label crap you find in the bargain bin at Dollar Tree.
[17:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:21] <exec> 08└─Oh if you like Coronavirus, you're gonna love living in a space pod for 8 years.
[17:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:37] <exec> 08└─When you start getting old, nothing works as well as it used to, including your ears and brain. However, a sample of one tells me the connection between hearing loss and Alzheimer's is suspect: my mom is 92, wears hearing aids, and has no hint of Alzheimer's.
[17:58:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 730 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:47] <exec> 08└─This is our responsibility. People like us on both sides of the Atlantic in relatively good middle-class jobs, who vote in our own short-term self-interest are to blame. It's why we have Trump and Boris and Brexit. People like us unthinkingly buy from Amazon without considering the wider cost to our...
[17:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:05] <exec> 08└─Plutocrats have been warned [ted.com], but they keep thinking they can get away with anything, therefore the pitchforks are coming! In particular, the current situation has laid bare the gross inequality and unfaireness of the current crony-capitalism. I'm in favor of free markets, this one is rigge...
[17:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:06] <exec> 08└─Rather than address the reasons behind employee dissatisfaction and high suicide rates, Foxconn's response was to install nets around the perimeter of the building to prevent "employees" from jumping off. https://blogs.wsj.com
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[18:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:23] <exec> 08└─I guarantee you Bezos was not sailing in a luxury yacht for the past few months. He's been busy delivering pep talks to employees to ensure that Americans get the goods they require while locked down at home. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he put in a few shifts in the warehouse to get packages...
[18:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:25] <exec> 08└─He probably bought a round of ale for the boys and posted shit about Amazon on the listserv. A regular guy.
[18:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:27] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, but some of the name brand products are just the bargain bin stuff with a logo on it. There are plenty of anecdotes from factory workers where the difference between one brand and a store brand is the box they drop the product into or the label that gets wrapped around the jar/can.
[18:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:39] <exec> 08└─Oh if you like Coronavirus, you're gonna love living in a space pod for 8 years.
[18:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:40] <exec> 08└─I honestly can't tell if you're trying to be funny. It sounds exactly like your normal self.
[18:59:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03helel [2949] 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 767 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:18] <exec> 08└─If we accept as true that public servants are the most coddled employees, how do you think they got there? Was it just the generosity of the government bureaucracy above them? Or, perhaps, was it something they did, some form of organized bargaining that gave them the power to demand better treatmen...
[18:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:26] <exec> 08└─To be fair, Cornell University installed those nets too. Perhaps that's the reason universities are hemming and hawing about the fall semester, yet oddly silent when it comes to lobbying for a return to normalcy: They think that students will continue to pay them $70k for lessons on Zoom, not have t...
[18:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:29] <exec> 08└─some quit literally on the spot when told to keep working Get 'em to quit so they don't get any severance or unemployment. What they should do is slow things down a bit. There's a million ways to do that with very low risk. And can they force you to work overtime?
[18:59:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crb3 [5919] 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:37] <exec> 08└─This was ICANN going "Oh, shit, we got caught by the California A.G. who has the legal power to cost us money and legal trouble." They still flipped the evil bit and should be remapped to icann.rico.
[18:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:46] <exec> 08└─God had nothing to do with it. He owns Ethos Capital stock.
[18:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─In a statement, it said Ethos Capital had "no meaningful plan to protect or serve the .org community".
[19:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:58] <exec> 08└─working link [theverge.com] i guess this is what happens when you dare speak out against the destruction of the country by seditious forces and useful idiots. I admire him for having the guts to say those things knowing it would cost him big money.
[19:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:00] <exec> 08└─So Musk pays a small fine. He’s got a lot more where that came from.
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[19:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:07] <exec> 08└─the solar economy will come crashing down in a rather spectacular fashion. It's not for tomorrow, or even the day after, but it's inevitable. Don't forget that if you're an investor looking for long-term returns.
[19:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:09] <exec> 08└─They've really decided to suck govt cock these days. The bbc used to be independent but now they shit themselves and write puff pieces about filo pastry recipes and what clouds look like if you squint your eyes. Here is the only evidence of any research done for this artice: "That efficiency might b...
[19:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:11] <exec> 08└─What kind of long-term return are you going to get when the $18.95 Mr Fusion at Walmart is powering every home and lasts forever?
[19:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bloodnok [2578] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:13] <exec> 08└─the solar economy will come crashing down in a rather spectacular fashion.
[19:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 1960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:15] <exec> 08└─this is good news. however 20%, for me, is good enough. i'd prefer (even) more robustness: more research into how to get "dirt" from sticking to the panels. a standard on the junctionbox. (even) more quality into the by-pass diodes. maybe even some notice that one is busted without having to remove...
[19:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:17] <exec> 08└─I think we're unlikely to ever have fusion "mastery", but certainly not this year, or this decade. Probably not this century. It's not enough to have fusion, or break even fusion, or efficient fusion. It has to be cheaper than the alternative. If current trends continue for another decade, roof top...
[19:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:20] <exec> 08└─Interesting that oil costs negative at the moment... even with the infrastructure built.
[19:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:45] <exec> 08└─Honestly, doesn't sound like something I should care about.
[19:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:33] <exec> 08└─Set up an external listserv for ex-employees, like IBM did. ExIngres was the first to do this - exingres@xyzzy.com, if I recall correctly, it's been a few decades - after Ingres was bought by CA, but surely not the last. ~childo
[19:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:34] <exec> 08└─Unions for civil servants are toothless.
[19:59:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 506 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:45] <exec> 08└─Dear Shareholders, We got royally screwed by the California A.G., but we have learned our lesson from this. We have a three phase plan for improving our performance. 1. Use $2 million of your money to get that dope un-elected 2. Change our name to "Friendly Capital Corp." 3. Cut-and-paste the origin...
[19:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:52] <exec> 08└─An open question. What could/should be done to prevent these shenanigans in the future?
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[20:58:29] <exec> 08└─> They've really decided to suck govt cock these days. You know, I said the same thing about the BBC back in the 90s (and in protest, I never had nor paid for a "TV licence". I will not voluntary pay to be lied to). Thing is, I noticed it back in the 90s, and now in the 2020's people are noticing it...
[20:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:30] <exec> 08└─*analize
[20:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:32] <exec> 08└─Solar so far has offered low-efficiency for very high up-front cost. Adding to the budget balancing formula, comes regular news of "the next big breakthrough." That way there is no incentive to put up tens of thousands for solar which you know is previous generation or older. Despite solar being a g...
[20:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:35] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that if you're an investor looking for long-term returns.
[20:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:37] <exec> 08└─induction cooking needs no gas.
[20:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:39] <exec> 08└─*analyze Any post correcting a typo will have an unintentional typo in it as well. It follows from the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Standard Mdoel.
[20:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:41] <exec> 08└─Interesting that oil costs negative at the moment... even with the infrastructure built.
[20:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:44] <exec> 08└─You are both wrong. *analyse
[20:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:46] <exec> 08└─Up to at least 2010, it was in the red, i.e. net energy consumer: https://pubs.acs.org [acs.org] If anyone knows of a reassessment based on more recent data, please tell where to find it.
[20:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:59] <exec> 08└─Would he lie to Congress? I'm sure he would lie to God, he is sure he could get away with it.
[21:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:03] <exec> 08└─It's a grey area if one quit because of COVID and they had reason to believe that they were in danger. I'm not sure if there is a policy or if it depends on the unemployment person you talk to being a dick or not. I was lucky enough to get unemployment right before COVID so I'm already locked in unt...
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[21:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:08] <exec> 08└─And then after the trials are complete and the FDA gives approval, you may inject the bleach in the lungs.
[21:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:32] <exec> 08└─A real breakthrough would be getting them to work at night.
[21:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:33] <exec> 08└─Analyze / analize - really it depends on the context.
[21:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:35] <exec> 08└─*anal-eyes
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[21:58:37] <exec> 08└─Completely disagree. Induction cooking is awesome - instant heat control like gas, but quicker to heat up water, no effluent in the house. Then wipe it down and it works like a regular surface. Also it turns itself off when the pan boils dry... if, I mean. If that happens to you because it doesn't t...
[21:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:39] <exec> 08└─What we could use are thin, rollable panels that are cheap and easy to install. Roll it out like a carpet on the roof, secure it, hook it up. If the efficiency is only 5%, doesn't matter if it is cheap to buy and install.
[21:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:55] <exec> 08└─What we should have is a national law that doubles those employees' pay during designated times of need (like this pandemic) and provides free healthcare and childcare, at least during this designated time of need.
[21:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:56] <exec> 08└─If we accept as true that public servants are the most coddled employees, how do you think they got there? Was it just the generosity of the government bureaucracy above them? Or, perhaps, was it something they did, some form of organized bargaining that gave them the power to demand better treatmen...
[22:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks.
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[22:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:24] <exec> 08└─saw a comment where someone asked the why of occupational regulations that seemed to not be needed because "wouldn't common sense keep that from happening", and the answer was "every regulation was because of at least one person's death". they don't seem so onerous in that light... having personally...
[22:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:26] <exec> 08└─There is a reason clinical trials have to be so complicated. The primary one is that Pharma companies are greedy. They will fake results given the chance, because billions of dollars are at play! We have seen this among the investing class here on SoylentNews, with Sulla and others speculating on wh...
[22:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:28] <exec> 08└─There are some very good scientific/biological/statistical reasons why clinical trials are complicated, expensive, and long drawn out processes... however, there are also some straight up barrier to entry reasons behind it too. The "Big Pharma" can handle the cost and complexity, and smaller players...
[22:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:30] <exec> 08└─My favorite "told you so" moment in an FDA application was when the data for a new product, patented and developed by a single M.D. who owned a majority stake in the company was all collected and analyzed by the same M.D. I advised the CEO in no uncertain terms: what you're trying to do here is a co...
[22:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:58] <exec> 08└─no, at night you need batteries [powerscout.com]
[22:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:00] <exec> 08└─The last high-efficiency panels are still only available to solar power providers. While this is an amazing idea, it's simply not one that they want people to have.
[22:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:02] <exec> 08└─The BBC has literally never been independent. They were founded as a government propaganda mouthpiece, and remain as such.
[22:59:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 382 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right. Bezos [forbes.com] increased his personal fortune by $25 billion from the start of the pandemic. Billionaires are not in the same boat with the rest of us, as we try to navigate the treacherous currents of the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re smoothly sailing in luxury yachts, while most Am...
[22:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:18] <exec> 08└─> ...the Saudis are on the case. The bone saw crew? Inquiring minds want to know.
[23:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:26] <exec> 08└─Bezos and Wal-Mart can pay. They've got the fucking money and the infrastructure to absorb new employees others can't afford during those times. Or we can tap into all those captured funds we've been sitting on, such as El Chapo's riches or what was confiscated from the Clinton Foundation, or the CI...
[23:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:00] <exec> 08└─Oh please, the Church being full of boy-raping pederasts is such an old problem it was mentioned in the Shepherd of freaking Hermas. You are the *last* person who should be throwing that stone in that stained glass house, Opus Dei.
[23:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Regenerate Neurons in Mice with Spinal Cord Injury and Optic Nerve Damage - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:27] <exec> 08└─Oh. So it's not applicable to members of Congress.
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[23:58:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 1183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:29] <exec> 08└─There is a reason clinical trials have to be so complicated. The primary one is that Pharma companies are greedy. They will fake results given the chance, because billions of dollars are at play! We have seen this among the investing class here on SoylentNews, with Sulla and others speculating on wh...
[23:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:32] <exec> 08└─Only using the patented process of course.
[23:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:34] <exec> 08└─Lemme guess, press brake? I've seen 2 different Mexicans lose 2 different fingers at 2 different employers with the same type machine. And then there was the one with the hydraulic shears where the instrument was deactivated but the shears were still pressurized. Nail gun stuff is pretty easy to do,...
[23:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:36] <exec> 08└─Rubbish! Give it all of them and let herd immunity sort it out. That's the invisible hand taking your rectal temperature with its penis if you didn't notice.
[23:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:39] <exec> 08└─They need to be protected from unscrupulous snake oil peddlers, Fox News, and the President of the United States, Impeached Because, yeah...fuck having any hope. You should be WANTING this shit to work. Yet you seem to have a different attitude on it. Why is that? Did your bitch lose the 'in the bag...
[23:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:41] <exec> 08└─If that happened at my workplace, 1/2 the building would clear out and go on sick leave for PTSD.
[23:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:43] <exec> 08└─> You should be WANTING this shit to work. You proved his point - you're all stakeholders in the outcome and can't be trusted.
[23:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:14] <exec> 08└─I think they have become especially lame through the Brexit process. It's as if someone leaned on them(*) and reminded them they're all from the same Eton/Oxford stock and so how about not writing critical pieces any more and start putting videos of cats on every page. (*) https://www.theguardian.co...
[23:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:15] <exec> 08└─"Just one in 100 members of the UK public was educated at Oxbridge, however graduates from those two universities make up 75% of senior judges, 59% of cabinet posts, 57% of permanent secretaries, 50% of diplomatics, 47% of newspaper columnists, 44% of public body chairs and 33% of BBC executives. "...
[23:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:17] <exec> 08└─But as pointed out, storage costs are still high. It's not clear that they can really get all that low. If someone builds graphene super-condenser batteries with a great capacity and low cost, then it could get really low. Probably low enough to dominate. Currently, though, batteries take all kind o...
[23:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:20] <exec> 08└─Solar has a problem in areas of dense population. An apartment building uses a lot less power per apartment than a single family house uses per house, but the house has a lot more surface area per dwelling unit, so the solar power has more area to spread out over. When you start thinking about high...
[23:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:34] <exec> 08└─With everyone who ever bought one of them detailing how it worked/broke for them, though.
[23:59:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:59] <exec> 08└─If you can't hear other folks, you're stuck with just the stupid inside your own head.