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[00:45:23] <exec> 08└─I'm unsure about Europe's socialism
[00:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:24] <exec> 08└─No, developing nations need to take the moral lead and forego the high-consumption lifestyle epitomized by the west. Embrace poverty in this world and reap the rewards in the next.
[00:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:26] <exec> 08└─I keep hearing about this mythical "fair share". In Europe, the approach appears to be: tax the middle class until their nuts squeak like party balloons. This is why the US doesn't have such a system: the middle class simply doesn't stand for it.
[00:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:28] <exec> 08└─The high-consumption lifestyle could also be altered to be more sustainable. For example, homeless could be provided affordable housing and pay for that rent by cooking for each other with veggies and protein sourced by local farms utilizing inner-city plots of land that could be used to grow produc...
[00:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:30] <exec> 08└─Regardless, Europe isn't socialist.
[00:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:33] <exec> 08└─We have a lot of homeless we can use....
[00:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:35] <exec> 08└─How can capitalism be a problem? It has given us the ability to destroy the planet, no other economic system has ever achieved such greatness, it must be the ultimate answer to everything! /s "Sustainable Palm Oil" fits in well with "Ecologically friendly coal," "Military Intelligence," etc. A singl...
[00:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Slapped Down for its '5G E' Ads: You Don't Have a 5G Network, So Stop Saying So, Says Watchdog - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:14] <exec> 08└─In fact, many businesses want good rules, and want those good rules enforced, for the same reason that sports teams want rules and enforcement. If the rules can be ignored, then the game, whatever it is, degenerates into anarchy. Some would have us believe the fans could force them to stay honest, t...
[00:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:01] <exec> 08└─within the first quintile of its habitable window, but a technological civilization did not blossom until its last
[00:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:02] <exec> 08└─That's the interesting thing about life, it there's a loophole in the 2nd law, life is going to be what finds it. We've only been aware of the 2nd law of thermodynamics for the last 0.0000000001% (approx) of the life of the universe - I find it entirely probable that there's aspects of it, applicabl...
[00:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ZFS Versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf Disks, Two Filesystems, One Winner - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:30] <exec> 08└─So the executive summery is this. Traditional file system caching: most recently accessed files. ZFS file system caching: L2 arc weighted caching of most accessed vs most recent.
[00:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beer Rating App Reveals Homes and Identities of Spies and Military Bods, Warns Bellingcat - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:31] <exec> 08└─Nothing Ethanol says is in any way related to truth. None of this ever happened, the job, the security violation, his "firing": all just the lunatic fantasies of an alcoholic anti-semite.
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[01:45:09] <exec> 08└─Duh.
[01:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:11] <exec> 08└─Nah, we need to know what size pyramid table we're dealing with [battlestarwikiclone.org]
[01:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not an expert, but I have been reading up a lot on quantum physics, with lots of time on my hands (lol) these days. quantum computing is nothing like 'normal' computer. you don't translate normal linear code, you don't 'run programs' in the conventional sense and the problem sets you can 'solve'...
[01:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:15] <exec> 08└─You only need one Bourne of qubits for supremacy. ;-)
[01:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:35] <exec> 08└─Modern homeless and work-release convicts can already leave the plantation whenever they choose, but the bound slaves to which you are referring were brought here by the Jewish, and enslaved by the Jewish. Apparently it wasn't clear from my use of the word "use" that we could offer the homeless an e...
[01:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:37] <exec> 08└─When all you are is an antisemite, all problems look like a jew.
[01:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:39] <exec> 08└─Too many lagers today, Adolf?
[01:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ALMA Discovers Massive Rotating Disk in Early Universe - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:49] <exec> 08└─It is the result of gravitational interactions occurring where clumps of matter(mass) are warping spacetime. A crude and simplistic explanation: There is a lot of stuff flying around, bumping into other stuff, just missing other stuff and deflected by the gravity of the other stuff. Eventually stuff...
[01:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ALMA Discovers Massive Rotating Disk in Early Universe - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:51] <exec> 08└─spin. tiny 'particles' all have spin. big spin is combo of all the little spins. (did I slaughter the fuck out of QM? well, at least I tried)
[01:46:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 422 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:58] <exec> 08└─“Interesting” and “valuable” are not absolute quantities, they only are defined relative to some entity. What is interesting to you may not be interesting to me, and vice versa. Anyway, studying how likely certain things or properties emerge doesn't really say something about how valuable or...
[01:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extracting ROM Constants from the 8087 Math Coprocessor's Die - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:09] <exec> 08└─"someone at Intel should have been able to answer this question" And how does J Random Hacker penetrate the Cone of Silence surrounding all that is Intel CPU Engineering?
[01:49:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump Threatens to Take US Out of WHO Entirely and Stop All US Funding - 446 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:40] <exec> 08└─The thing is that the 90,000 deaths is what we managed to get it DOWN to with all the investment and effort. The initial estimates were looking at about 3m rather than 90k. Admittedly, I fully expect that 90k to increase, both because the administration shows no signs that it is taking this seriousl...
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[02:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:19] <exec> 08└─Repeat that three times and win a lecture from aristarchus.
[02:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:20] <exec> 08└─https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/quantum-inspire-launches [ieee.org] Ion traps and superconducting qubits are indeed leading the pack in numbers of qubits at the moment. However, with both systems it is pretty uncertain whether and how they can be scaled to a few hundred qubits...
[02:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:22] <exec> 08└─Do you hear me, snakes? I am the end. I am here to send you to your ultimate fate. You'll make a fine quarry for my final hunt...in the imaginary game of Minecraft. You nasty motherfuckers are going to get your filthy asses down to Mejico and the rest of you will hurt justifying your allegiance to C...
[02:45:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 1091 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:41] <exec> 08└─How can capitalism be a problem? It has given us the ability to destroy the planet, no other economic system has ever achieved such greatness, it must be the ultimate answer to everything! /s "Sustainable Palm Oil" fits in well with "Ecologically friendly coal," "Military Intelligence," etc. A singl...
[02:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:45] <exec> 08└─It's very funny how you spout off about Europe, as if you'd actually been there. Look at all the Western nations (Europe) that are falling prey to internal violence nowadays.
[02:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:47] <exec> 08└─Worse news, there are 225M of them there [wikipedia.org].
[02:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:49] <exec> 08└─When entire ecosystems are exchanged for plantations, that has gone about 100x too far.
[02:46:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06AT&T Slapped Down for its '5G E' Ads: You Don't Have a 5G Network, So Stop Saying So, Says Watchdog - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:10] <exec> 08└─they are poisoning their own customers with COVID-19 using the 5GE in your phones
[02:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Slapped Down for its '5G E' Ads: You Don't Have a 5G Network, So Stop Saying So, Says Watchdog - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:32] <exec> 08└─placed a "5GE" logo in the icon-bar along the top of its phones to dress up its 4G network as 5G
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[03:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ATLAS Telescope Discovers First-of-its-Kind Asteroid - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:18] <exec> 08└─This sounds like good bait for that AC(s) that got mad at the way asteroids and comets are characterized, and the Philae lander bouncing off of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The Jupiter trojan population is ripe for study, and hopefully we will see pictures of some starting in 2025 [wikipedia.o...
[03:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ATLAS Telescope Discovers First-of-its-Kind Asteroid - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:19] <exec> 08└─After the [Continue], with my emphasis Later, in July 2019, new ATLAS images caught 2019 LD2 again – now truly looking like a comet, with a faint tail made of dust or gas. The asteroid passed behind the Sun and was not observable from the Earth in late 2019 and early 2020, but upon its reappearanc...
[03:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:34] <exec> 08└─Not true that quantum computers are nothing like normal, classical computers. Classical computers can in theory simulate quantum ones, but as the number of qubits increases, the amount of time or space required for the simulation increases exponentially. This "quantum supremacy" they keep talking ab...
[03:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:35] <exec> 08└─You are really running with the Minecraft meme [urbandictionary.com], eh? SN is a great place to recycle retired (dead) memes.
[03:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:37] <exec> 08└─We're sick of the fucking Jews dictating their wants upon the rest of the population. So now it's time for you fucking Jews to live on our terms. You can ban me but you can't ban every other one of us pointing out every one of you ChiCom sympathizers trying to fuck our society.
[03:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:40] <exec> 08└─We are in a Cold War with China, but most people don't realize it. So U.S. has probably lost Cold War II already. Accept your new overlords.
[03:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:42] <exec> 08└─You think we'll bow down to you? You can get me banned from Soylentnews but we can pin the Jews as your allies, then get rid of the both of you, in the game of minecraft. Fuck off, you Chinkscum. We'll get rid of you along with the Mexicans. FAAAAKKKK YOUUUUUU!
[03:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:08] <exec> 08└─50% is a sensible near term target. If we were a truly enlightened species, I think we could reduce human population to ~200 million and really make life on Earth a paradise - not again, but for the first time. With modern technology, we would no longer need to fear the megafauna. Imagine the ease w...
[03:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:10] <exec> 08└─WTF's wrong with using recycled motor oil?
[03:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:12] <exec> 08└─If prosperity really is the key to voluntary birth control, then - well, fuck, what about the 80% of the world population that still lives in squalor? Prosperity didn't work on me - had 2 kids, might have had 3 if the first didn't show up with severe Autism just after the second was born. Didn't wor...
[03:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:14] <exec> 08└─Replace cars with drones and Zoom meetings, eliminate rubber tire demand.
[03:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:16] <exec> 08└─Re-purposing any land that has had a stable ecosystem on it for 1000+ years with something different is very likely to end poorly. Short term exploitation of the resources, slash and burn gives you a few fertile years, but if all your farm is doing is maximal extraction... you're gonna need a reliab...
[03:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/01/earth-wont-die-soon-thought [sciencemag.org] Somewhere between 100 million and 1.5 billion years left for life on Earth. Intelligence could have missed the cut-off easily. Somewhere in the universe (hundreds of billions or trillions of galaxies), an intelligen...
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[04:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06ATLAS Telescope Discovers First-of-its-Kind Asteroid - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:13] <exec> 08└─Before it hits the atmo, with the force greater than humanities entire Nuclear arsenal, where the hell is DeathMonkey's lost journal? Athanasius Kircher is rolling in his dormant account! This only demonstrates what the Mad Kind was trying to say, that per capita, there are many different capitas...
[04:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ATLAS Telescope Discovers First-of-its-Kind Asteroid - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:15] <exec> 08└─AC is not wrong. I received this message: DeathMonkey has posted a new journal entry: Flynn was never masked in the first place
[04:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:35] <exec> 08└─By definition, no one can know how many qubits are needed, until one observes quantum supremacy.
[04:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:06] <exec> 08└─If we could just roll back to the population levels of 100+ years ago, we'd be in great shape.
[04:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:08] <exec> 08└─If not, how do you suggest we dispose of 70% of the current population?
[04:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:10] <exec> 08└─Replacing cars does very little these days (in USA)...light vehicle sales are primarily pickups and SUVs.
[04:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:12] <exec> 08└─> If prosperity really is the key to voluntary birth control No it is the ‘squeeze’ Of modern civilization that does it, nobody has the time or money to have kids while establishing a career. Then once established and finally having kids, they get one or two before the wife hits low fertility.
[04:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ALMA Discovers Massive Rotating Disk in Early Universe - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:23] <exec> 08└─It is the flatness that bothers me. Seems to give directionality, where perhaps it does not belong? Why are the non-flat, eliptical galaxies a later formation? What is the Universe trying to tell us? Rotund is better?
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[05:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vigilante Hackers Target 'Scammers' with Ransomware, DDoS Attacks - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:19] <exec> 08└─Instead, the victims are left with a ransom note stating that the computer was destroyed because "we know you are a scammer!"
[05:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ATLAS Telescope Discovers First-of-its-Kind Asteroid - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:30] <exec> 08└─The asteroids disrupted by the planet Jupiter, who is Zeus in Greek, and who backed the Trojans in the war immortalized in Homer's Iliad, are called Trojans. Perhaps their perturbation is not an accident, and is the cosmic retribution for the crimes of Mycenaean Greeks? But in any case, it is a go...
[05:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:51] <exec> 08└─Noise would seem to be the key obstruction here. I recall that there are supposedly classical physical problems (like some sort of percolation problem - can you force a fluid through a matrix grid/sponge or not) that supposedly could solve certain hard computational problems in a finite amount of ti...
[05:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:52] <exec> 08└─how many cubits can fit in the crack of a model's ass? https://www.instagram.com [instagram.com]
[05:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:54] <exec> 08└─Quantum computing is indeed a different beast. Still, the problems we want to solve remain the same, so it becomes a difference in framing. At least for the foreseeable future, any "real" use of a quantum computer will be as an addition to a classic computer. We offload floating-point operations to...
[05:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:30] <exec> 08└─Generation COVID™ won't drive, travel, eat out, shop IRL/offline, or go to work. No need for cars, pickups, SUVs, minivans, or bicycles.
[05:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:31] <exec> 08└─This. The fundamental problem is overpopulation. Most of the world has now stabilized. Asia now needs to reduce its population. Africa, however, has an absolutely frightening population pyramid - massive growth.
[05:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays may have Left Indelible Imprint on Early Life, Stanford Physicist Says - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:26] <exec> 08└─Interstellar panspermia, while difficult, is still possible. I think you would need to wait until you find multiple independent biosystems. Even given amino acids as the most likely biochemistry, there is no particular reason to choose the small subset that Earth life uses. If other planets use a su...
[05:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:08] <exec> 08└─You're not here for the hunting are you?
[05:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe the OP is both a frequentist and a believer in determinism. That is, all probabilities of specific events are always either 0 (the event cannot occur) or 1 (the even must occur).
[05:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:12] <exec> 08└─This is why I like the term technological life to describe us rather then intelligent life. Besides intelligence, for technicality life you need a few things, ability to manipulate stuff for obvious reasons, language and a love of telling stories for a culture to develop and grow as well as to stand...
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[06:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:25] <exec> 08└─You're right about poor soils and erosion. You're completely wrong about agricultural economics. A large part of it is looking at the long term effects and stabilising versus destabilising factors, including ecological. But I do admit that your misconceptions are popular. Lots of people misunderstan...
[06:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:05] <exec> 08└─On the Earth itself, technological life may have started and got wiped out a few times over the last few 100 million years. Might of just stopped developing along the technological path too. How many groups of humans have stopped developing beyond the hunter gather stone age tools stage. Any tool us...
[06:50:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bethany.Saint [5900] 02 - 06Trump Threatens to Take US Out of WHO Entirely and Stop All US Funding - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:24] <exec> 08└─Unlike the Trump Derangement Syndrome idiots on the far right, the rest of the world is more than capable enough to post anti-male and anti-white articles and still do all the other things. Stop being so sensitive you TDS snowflake.
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[07:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:12] <exec> 08└─Trump, Brexit, the concept of Freedom... every time there's something leftists don't like, it must be Russian bots manipulating things. It couldn't possibly be that your position is unpopular.
[07:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:13] <exec> 08└─...What is your take on this?...
[07:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vigilante Hackers Target 'Scammers' with Ransomware, DDoS Attacks - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:22] <exec> 08└─The vigilante may or may not be right, in that he only targets scammers. If he is right, cool, we have a modern day Robin Hood. How does he know, though, unless he has been scammed? None of that matters though, if they ever get his ass into court. Evil hacker vs taxpaying business - the hacker alway...
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[07:45:24] <exec> 08└─All of Mumbai goes offline. It can be a good thing. Suddenly half of Redmond goes offline too. Things are looking up.
[07:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 1687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:45:57] <exec> 08└─This is not quantum supremacy. Quantum supremacy is well defined. It is when a quantum computer is capable of solving any well defined problem that a classical machine can not [practically] solve. This is an important distinction because you tackle problems differently with quantum vs classical mach...
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[07:46:46] <exec> 08└─Does it have ... an ST506 interface?
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[08:45:16] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand how these bots work, and yes, they absolutely exist(ed) for all the examples you gave. There are bots on *both* sides of the debate, run by the same state sponsored groups. There are two objectives: primarily the obvious one - push the viewpoint that will be most benefic...
[08:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:18] <exec> 08└─Easy to ignore while it's up. Attempting to shut it down would not be ignored
[08:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:20] <exec> 08└─Those bots are right and popularity surely beat reality. Go open yourself to covid, nothing can go wrong [soylentnews.org]. Just do everyone else a favor and announce them what you did from a distance, it will make you very popular.
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[09:45:26] <exec> 08└─Nearly Half of all Twitter Accounts Tweeting about Coronavirus are Likely Bots or Idiots
[09:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, apologies, I'm terrible sorry, I replied [soylentnews.org] to the wrong comment!!!
[09:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:30] <exec> 08└─Once we get rid of the rest of meatbag accounts we will finally have some real discussion. BTW Twitter trends tags being anti Italian government issues have been disappearing lately, I would not trust Twitter more than fb or wa
[09:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:32] <exec> 08└─Easy to ignore while it's up. Attempting to shut it down would not be ignored
[09:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:34] <exec> 08└─...I mean, it's not as if it was approaching SN^h^h the green site in usefulness.
[09:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:36] <exec> 08└─Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May or May Not be Bots
[09:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:57] <exec> 08└─Indeed, in the US the middle class won't stand for it -- it's a _much_ longer game to get all their money. Instead, they tax the lower class, who don't have the time or money to stand up for themselves -- gotta keep working! Make ends meet! They can't quibble when a corp takes an extra $20, that wou...
[09:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:59] <exec> 08└─Palm oil is just as (un)sustainable as soybean/canola/sunflower oil. Does anyone believe that most soybean/canola/sunflower oil farms were planted on deserts? They're only called "sustainable" because forests weren't chopped down for them _recently_. So the same goes for palm oil. Call them sustaina...
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[10:45:21] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand how these bots work, and yes, they absolutely exist(ed) for all the examples you gave. There are bots on *both* sides of the debate, run by the same state sponsored groups. There are two objectives: primarily the obvious one - push the viewpoint that will be most benefic...
[10:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:30] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? It gives them all somewhere to be that isn't here.
[10:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:32] <exec> 08└─#BotLivesMatter
[10:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:34] <exec> 08└─Nearly Half of Comments Pushing to Keep America Closed May be Bots
[10:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:36] <exec> 08└─With the right tools, most people can be made to believe anything you want. Twitter is such a tool.
[10:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:21] <exec> 08└─You will never have something like personal quantum computers because they'd be useless for nearly all practical purposes.
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[10:47:14] <exec> 08└─yes, but the locals call it the blarg-69 interface, also it is in shades of pink and contaminated green. its a fact =) -zug
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[10:49:43] <exec> 08└─... the fact that 1.0, which has the most trivial representation of all, is stored in the ROM also tells me that ROM was considered very cheap indeed.
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[11:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:15] <exec> 08└─"Uber demonstrates once again how bad their financial situation was prior to COVID-19 becoming a good excuse for dropping staff"
[11:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:16] <exec> 08└─Corona Changed EVERyTHing, Give Us Money
[11:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:18] <exec> 08└─Did Uber ever make money? I know they had a lot of cash flow, with investors continuously trying to get onboard. But, did they ever make a profit? Doesn't seem that way to me.
[11:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:21] <exec> 08└─26,900 to write an app and host a web presence? Crikey! Or that includes the 25,000 lawyers and lobbyists to ensure they've bribed the appropriate people to operate legally?
[11:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:23] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=Did+Uber+ever+make+money [google.com] About 351,000,000 results (0.58 seconds) This hit from last summer may be fairly unbiased(??) but requires interpreting the business-school jargon, https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu [upenn.edu] For ex...
[11:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:25] <exec> 08└─You forgot about the "sure thing" of self-driving cars, that effort has burned through an enormous amount of money and so far they have at least one pedestrian death on their hands. From what I can see, it may be relatively easy to demonstrate autonomous driving (and raise investor expectations), bu...
[11:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:27] <exec> 08└─you do have to wonder what 26,900 people are doing. As a comparison, TSMC has about 48,000 employees [wikipedia.org]; but they actually make stuff
[11:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:49] <exec> 08└─Almost certainly. One agenda damages the health of USians, the other damages the US economy. If you can get deadlock where one side refuses to lift lockdowns and the other refuses to obey the restrictions placed upon them, then a foreign state pushing both agendas wins on both counts. This is why pr...
[11:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03claywar [3069] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:50] <exec> 08└─Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts May or May Not be Bots
[11:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:52] <exec> 08└─Bot should be pleased [soylentnews.org] Alas, no one has registered as "Idiot" or "1d10t"
[11:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:54] <exec> 08└─0.05% loss of population vs. 20% loss of economy
[11:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:40] <exec> 08└─"What's a qubit?" ---Some guy in jail getting drugged and raped by his cell-daddy.
[11:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:21] <exec> 08└─You're right. Europe is a continent, with many countries on it.
[11:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tyler [6335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ZFS Versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf Disks, Two Filesystems, One Winner - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:32] <exec> 08└─I don't consider FreeBSD a toy operating system: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.freebsdfoundation.org [freebsdfoundation.org] https://www.freebsd.org
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[12:45:30] <exec> 08└─...What is your take on this?...
[12:45:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 830 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:44] <exec> 08└─Almost certainly. One agenda damages the health of USians, the other damages the US economy. If you can get deadlock where one side refuses to lift lockdowns and the other refuses to obey the restrictions placed upon them, then a foreign state pushing both agendas wins on both counts. This is why pr...
[12:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:48] <exec> 08└─> ... it must be Russian bots manipulating things. Russia bot warning (note high uid).
[12:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:50] <exec> 08└─I think bots are just a fact of life now - on all sides. Hell, 10 years ago I entered a crappy little online contest and some kid in India decided he liked my entry, so he set up a voting bot that propelled me into the finalist round (I set up my own voting bot as well, but I didn't need to use mine...
[12:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:53] <exec> 08└─polarize opinions so much that there can be no middle ground
[12:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:55] <exec> 08└─U.S.ians protesting the lockdown was about as predictable as trouble in the pubs after an apparent bad call against England in the World Cup.
[12:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:57] <exec> 08└─I thought it was 80%. Platform beyond redemption.
[12:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:59] <exec> 08└─> Today, it's party lines pretty much every single time I don't think that is true in the UK up until Boris Johnson. Tony Blair, David Cameron and Theresa May have been all very centrist (compared to say Margaret Thatcher and Neil Kinnock). Boris Johnson hasn't really shown his colours yet.
[12:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:01] <exec> 08└─How do you work that Tweeter thing anyway? Seriously, I would miss Twitter like I miss MySpace. Experts believe Russian actors will try to influence the 2020 vote as well, including by using social media to amplify their messages.
[12:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:03] <exec> 08└─Likely Bots or Idiots
[12:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vigilante Hackers Target 'Scammers' with Ransomware, DDoS Attacks - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:14] <exec> 08└─> All of Mumbai goes offline. Next stop Nigerian princes.
[12:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:31] <exec> 08└─> ... or bicycles. Time will tell about the future need for rubber tires, but as a counter-example bicycle sales are up, https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] Perhaps a fad, but I'm hopin...
[12:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:33] <exec> 08└─Damn, we need a second stimulus check. Err, I mean a second and more deadly pandemic. Stay the eff home.
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[13:45:17] <exec> 08└─Can this technique be used to manufacture smallpox? Asking for my friend Mohammed.
[13:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:05] <exec> 08└─It’s really not a big deal if you only see tweets from accounts you’ve chosen to follow. Promoted and trending crap that gets inserted into your timeline when you view Twitter on the web or through the official Twitter client is where most of the damage is done. Problem is, that’s also where T...
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[13:46:07] <exec> 08└─The politicians using the lockdown for their own political ends and thus polarizing politics. Twitter does not change how people think, but politicians are simply disingenuous and manipulative. Once upon a time, our governor locked down the state to "flatten the curve" and keep the medical system fr...
[13:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:09] <exec> 08└─> Twitter does not change how people think, Disagree -- repeating the same thing over and over has been demonstrated to change how people think. Twitter is a great place to find repeats (echos). https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:11] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHA! Wow, that turd really needs some polishing (and refactoring)!
[13:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:59] <exec> 08└─Sounds like there are two problems: 1. When can a "quantum computer" become impossibly complex to model using a "classical computer" 2. When can a "quantum computer" reproduce all the calculations that can be done with a "classical computer". Sounds like you are answering the first problem, but this...
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[13:47:43] <exec> 08└─If not, how do you suggest we dispose of 70% of the current population?
[13:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:26] <exec> 08└─What we have to deal with is the conditional probability *given* that the first ball was green, because if it hadn't been green we wouldn't be around to ask the question.
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[14:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Ready for Touchdown on Asteroid Bennu - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:15] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/162173_Ryugu [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Two very similar objects visited in the same year. Hayabusa2 will return samples to Earth this year, but has enough propellant to continue to another target.
[14:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Ready for Touchdown on Asteroid Bennu - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:17] <exec> 08└─At what point does space mining become profitable? Three years and several million for a return of a few milligrams doesn't seem worth it. I would think from a discovery point of view would be to have it permanently on it, with it's own microscope, robot hands, chem tests, etc. Then just have some A...
[14:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Ready for Touchdown on Asteroid Bennu - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:19] <exec> 08└─It's basically rock collecting at this point. So who has the best collection? We have one from the Moon now we've got one from Bennu. See it sparkle! Cool, I want one from Mars next.
[14:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Ready for Touchdown on Asteroid Bennu - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:21] <exec> 08└─I think the coolest thing to find would be space steel. Like lots of it, in sand form. Then have these little roomba robots that collect it up and feeds to a spider like melt robots that will 3d prints some deathstar like space fortress.
[14:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Ready for Touchdown on Asteroid Bennu - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:23] <exec> 08└─The Evil Emperor(tm) would want it gold plated.
[14:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Ready for Touchdown on Asteroid Bennu - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:25] <exec> 08└─M type (metallic) are the rarest type of asteroid, and those are majority Nickel and Iron, not platinum and gold. It could be done with near-term technology and would be quite profitable in theory, but the massive up front development and capital requirements, high risk, and extended time frames...
[14:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:45] <exec> 08└─What was that CA law that put a bunch of "news" sites out of business? Probably all those layoffs were in CA for a similar reason.
[14:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:47] <exec> 08└─More Chinese grad students required. That'll solve it any day now. Don't think, just keep fiddling with the settings.
[14:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:49] <exec> 08└─At the rate they burn money, someone's got to keep those fires going.
[14:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:27] <exec> 08└─Nearly all Twitter Accounts are Likely Bots or Idiots
[14:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:29] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, our governor locked down the state to "flatten the curve" and keep the medical system from being overwhelmed. Far from being overwhelmed, our hospital has had four days this week of treating zero patients.
[14:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:31] <exec> 08└─> Boris Johnson hasn't really shown his colours yet. He's a self-styled Churchillian liberal, hence his reluctance to have taken the UK into lockdown.
[14:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:33] <exec> 08└─> Alas, no one has registered as "Idiot" or "1d10t" Alias, we have aristarchus
[14:47:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 702 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:31] <exec> 08└─It's not _beef_ that is the problem -- it's how beef is farmed. It's not that Bison is a solution -- if they're farmed in the same way as beef, they'll have the same (similar?) problems. The problem, really, is capitalism. We've outgrown it as a tool for developing the world, and we've instead taken...
[14:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ALMA Discovers Massive Rotating Disk in Early Universe - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:19] <exec> 08└─> spinning at 170 miles (272 kilometers) per second, similar to our Milky Way. Without knowing the radius this is meaningless Spin is measured in revolutions per time period , typically radians per second
[14:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Slapped Down for its '5G E' Ads: You Don't Have a 5G Network, So Stop Saying So, Says Watchdog - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:54] <exec> 08└─Congrats on your brilliance at seeing what's being shoved right under your nose. There can't be anything else going on, just the noisy orange baboon shouting into the microphone. My God... when the smoke clears it is going to be a fucking disaster....
[14:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Rays may have Left Indelible Imprint on Early Life, Stanford Physicist Says - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:06] <exec> 08└─Bbut... Sharpie Stanford is the best brand.
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[15:45:23] <exec> 08└─We already have Mars rocks here on Earth. They came here as meteorites, and can be picked up from the ground. Granted, they are not pristine samples of Mars, and not plentiful, but yes, we have Mars rocks in our collection.
[15:45:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:57] <exec> 08└─Nearly Half of all Twitter Accounts Tweeting about Coronavirus are Likely Bots or Idiots
[15:46:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:04] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? It gives them all somewhere to be that isn't here.
[15:46:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:08] <exec> 08└─With the right tools, most people can be made to believe anything you want. Twitter is such a tool.
[15:46:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 774 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:20] <exec> 08└─It’s really not a big deal if you only see tweets from accounts you’ve chosen to follow. Promoted and trending crap that gets inserted into your timeline when you view Twitter on the web or through the official Twitter client is where most of the damage is done. Problem is, that’s also where T...
[15:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:28] <exec> 08└─So the big question, bot campaigns cost money... Who's paying for it?
[15:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:30] <exec> 08└─"Once we get rid of the rest of meatbag accounts..." Are you a bot or a surrogate [wikipedia.org]?
[15:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:33] <exec> 08└─It's another way for the democrats to insult you. "We are so smart, people who disagree with us are so dumb they are convinced by fifth-columnist twitter bots".
[15:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:35] <exec> 08└─The whole problem is, neither they nor you care one bit whether it is bad for anyone else. You are too accustomed to playing your games without negative feedback. It is high time you get reacquainted with the concept.
[15:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:37] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is, RussiaRussiaRussia is a deceptive manipulative ploy designed to whitewash Democrats of responsibility for the policy decisions they've made over the last 30 years which culminated in the election of Trump.
[15:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:39] <exec> 08└─Kind of like how crtical.*.Theory "science" means that boys are girls and it's fair to have them compete in female sporting events. I agree, evangelicals have some retarded ideas but that doesn't mean Democrats aren't just as retarded and when they make up their own facts,
[15:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vigilante Hackers Target 'Scammers' with Ransomware, DDoS Attacks - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:49] <exec> 08└─Do you really think a scammer would risk taking them to court?
[15:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Vigilante Hackers Target 'Scammers' with Ransomware, DDoS Attacks - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:51] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see what happens in court when you get federal felony charges for hacking another hacker.
[15:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03StupendousMan [103] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ATLAS Telescope Discovers First-of-its-Kind Asteroid - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:03] <exec> 08└─Asteroids which have orbits loosely locked to that of Jupiter -- so that they share its orbit, but in locations which are 60 degrees ahead or behind the planet -- are called "Trojan asteroids". There's a smaller group which sits nearly opposite to Jupiter in its orbit, which are called "Hildas". Thi...
[15:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ATLAS Telescope Discovers First-of-its-Kind Asteroid - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:04] <exec> 08└─I have no idea why orbital simulators are run on Twitter!
[15:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ATLAS Telescope Discovers First-of-its-Kind Asteroid - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:06] <exec> 08└─I prefer from History of the World Part One: "I'm looking for a pack of Trojans!"
[15:48:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06AT&T Slapped Down for its '5G E' Ads: You Don't Have a 5G Network, So Stop Saying So, Says Watchdog - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:43] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you don't have (and enforce) truth in advertising laws. This fraudulent campaign has been going on for more than a year and we are only at the strongly worded letter stage. The cease-and-desist letter and fines should have started on the first day, with jail time for C-suit...
[15:48:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06AT&T Slapped Down for its '5G E' Ads: You Don't Have a 5G Network, So Stop Saying So, Says Watchdog - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:55] <exec> 08└─You can switch your service from one liar to another liar. But they are still a liar. Are there any that are not?
[15:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Slapped Down for its '5G E' Ads: You Don't Have a 5G Network, So Stop Saying So, Says Watchdog - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:05] <exec> 08└─5G doesn't cover an area better than 4G, at least as far as I've been lead to believe. https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com]
[15:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Slapped Down for its '5G E' Ads: You Don't Have a 5G Network, So Stop Saying So, Says Watchdog - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:07] <exec> 08└─This is Amerika, where the god of Mammon is its primary religion.
[15:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:03] <exec> 08└─A+B/N=? is meaningless when you only know two of the variables. Knowing this, asking for the answer is stupid. We have no way whatsoever of enumerating how many planets have life, because we only have the tiniest of clues as to how life got started here. When you know how it started here, then you j...
[15:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Praying Mantises: More Deadly than We Knew - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:51] <exec> 08└─What do you mean with: insect brains are designed very differently than vertebrates?
[15:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Praying Mantises: More Deadly than We Knew - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:52] <exec> 08└─> won't develop ... systemd any time soon. So, they are already more advanced than us.
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[16:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:41] <exec> 08└─Indeed! Here's a beautiful example [soylentnews.org] of the power of repetition. Well, alleged repetition. Ah nice, another BOLD REPETITION with some more strawmen arguments. Sorry, you've reached the limit of how much I care to argue with you.
[16:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:43] <exec> 08└─Are they going to use science again? Or is this just a one-time thing?
[16:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 1641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:45] <exec> 08└─Far right ideology is and always has been a minority ideology. With few exceptions like the reign of the Nazis, most people are too decent to subscribe to such a hateful ideology. We do not need slavery, concentration camps, gas chambers, lynching squads, death squads, mass graves nor ovens to burn...
[16:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:47] <exec> 08└─Kind of like
[16:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:49] <exec> 08└─[...] Just do everyone else a favor and announce them what you did from a distance, it will make you very popular.
[16:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:51] <exec> 08└─[...] The curve is flat, the hospital is empty, yet our governor (Inslee, a climate change fanatic) refuses to allow people to go to work or church. He claims that his decisions are guided by "science," but this is just the politician's way of deflecting blame for decisions that are, in fact, politi...
[16:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:53] <exec> 08└─I think bots are just a fact of life now - on all sides. Sigh... it looks like I'll have to back to using reason to figure out whether or not I want to jump off a bridge, instead of doing it because all my associates are.
[16:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vigilante Hackers Target 'Scammers' with Ransomware, DDoS Attacks - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:06] <exec> 08└─Jury Nullification.
[16:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:47] <exec> 08└─Man your trolling is low effort these days. You either need more drugs or less.
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[17:45:13] <exec> 08└─Christopher Boddy
[17:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Cybersecurity School Teaches Kids to Fix Security Flaws and Hunt Down Hackers - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:14] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a good program, but like anything else, once you have the skills some people will decide to turn and use for profit/crime. Maybe part of the program is collecting biometrics so that future bad actors are easier to find (oh, wait, this is UK, all that has been done already).
[17:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Cybersecurity School Teaches Kids to Fix Security Flaws and Hunt Down Hackers - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:16] <exec> 08└─And that's exactly why the US is a shitty hellhole. In the UK, the government wants its children to learn and offer the course for free. In the US, you have to purchase the program from a Democrat-owned educational corporation.
[17:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Ready for Touchdown on Asteroid Bennu - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:30] <exec> 08└─Fifty years ago, people were impressed with a fake moon landing. Now, NASA has to fake landing on an asteroid to get the public's attention.
[17:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:55] <exec> 08└─What was that CA law that put a bunch of "news" sites out of business? Probably all those layoffs were in CA for a similar reason.
[17:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:51] <exec> 08└─s/Russian/Jew/g in your news stream.
[17:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:53] <exec> 08└─The Jews hire news anchors to fill America with their propaganda. They don't need AI or bots. The bots are all locked down at home.
[17:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:55] <exec> 08└─Both articles explicitly mention they don;t know who is running the bots. But hey, keep pummeling that straw man, it's so much easier than arguing with humans.
[17:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─#AllLivesMAtter, unless their deaths would improve the Stock Market, of course!
[17:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vigilante Hackers Target 'Scammers' with Ransomware, DDoS Attacks - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:11] <exec> 08└─Robin Hood would get the money back and return it to the victims. I'd put this person in "The Punisher" category, breaks the law but makes the bad guys suffer. More power to him :)
[17:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vigilante Hackers Target 'Scammers' with Ransomware, DDoS Attacks - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:13] <exec> 08└─"The ransomware is being distributed as a destructive wiper attack as it does [not] offer a way to contact the attackers and does not save the encryption key."
[17:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vigilante Hackers Target 'Scammers' with Ransomware, DDoS Attacks - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:15] <exec> 08└─Yes. Lawyers are the best scammers of all, unless you count their rank up - politician.
[17:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ATLAS Telescope Discovers First-of-its-Kind Asteroid - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:29] <exec> 08└─I decided against giving that dopey conspiracy theory any more oxygen... So I deleted it right after I hit save.
[17:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:58] <exec> 08└─In my case, 0.2222
[17:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sustainable Palm Oil? How Environmental Protection and Poverty Reduction can be Reconciled - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:44] <exec> 08└─How dare you compare someone who wants to murder all the Jews to Hitler you TROLL!
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[18:45:37] <exec> 08└─You obviously weren’t paying attention to the democratic debates Several candidates proposed FREE education and/or forgiving student loans
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[18:45:52] <exec> 08└─I can't keep up. So it went from fake Moon landings to the Earth being flat (I still think that's out of order) and now we are on fake asteroid landings?
[18:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Lays Off 3,000 People in Second Big Round of Cuts - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:18] <exec> 08└─This is the point where the organization's leadership grabs as much of the money as possible and heads for the hills. Despite their marketing about "disrupting the marketplace" and such, when you look at what Uber's actual business was, it amounted to "an often-questionable car service with a phone...
[18:46:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aegis [6714] 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:58] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, our governor locked down the state to "flatten the curve" and keep the medical system from being overwhelmed. Far from being overwhelmed, our hospital has had four days this week of treating zero patients.
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:19] <exec> 08└─fighting other armies of bots would ablative armor, missiles, and laser swords. Sometimes the future disappoints.
[18:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:20] <exec> 08└─It couldn't possibly be that your position is unpopular.
[18:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ATLAS Telescope Discovers First-of-its-Kind Asteroid - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:53] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_LD2 [wikipedia.org] https://www.minorplanetcenter.net [minorplanetcenter.net] https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] Wikipedia, the IAU's Minor Planet Center, and JPL are calling it a Jupiter trojan.
[18:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:24] <exec> 08└─Well, we know where the people too retarded for slashdot went.
[18:49:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06AT&T Slapped Down for its '5G E' Ads: You Don't Have a 5G Network, So Stop Saying So, Says Watchdog - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:40] <exec> 08└─All of those MBA bastards . . .
[18:49:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06AT&T Slapped Down for its '5G E' Ads: You Don't Have a 5G Network, So Stop Saying So, Says Watchdog - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:44] <exec> 08└─They want to make Trump look bad
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[19:45:06] <exec> 08└─They decided that the power of obstruction is much more profitable than progress.
[19:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Cybersecurity School Teaches Kids to Fix Security Flaws and Hunt Down Hackers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:17] <exec> 08└─But Hillary's emails!
[19:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Cybersecurity School Teaches Kids to Fix Security Flaws and Hunt Down Hackers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:19] <exec> 08└─Sit down children and listen to the tale of Ben the Ghazi and the Dreaded Obama Gate.
[19:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Cybersecurity School Teaches Kids to Fix Security Flaws and Hunt Down Hackers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:21] <exec> 08└─Worse, are all these kids put on a list, you know, of potential black hat hackers? Probably anyone with a degree in engineering could be suspect.
[19:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:01] <exec> 08└─Bot or innumerate? Can be hard to tell the difference. When they talk about "social media", Soylent News is included.
[19:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:02] <exec> 08└─Try "is working" rather than "worked". The tense change is significant. Mind you, "lock down" is overly strict. It has the sole advantage that it's something that can be done quickly. Then you need to figure out how to loosen up without getting back into insufficient social distancing, with the prob...
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[19:47:05] <exec> 08└─The GP actually has a valid point hidden in his bias. If you grow up with testosterone, your body shapes itself in ways that are beneficial in certain sports. Later changing things doesn't remove, at least not completely, that advantage. But I don't consider "sports" to be a valid driver of social p...
[19:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:07] <exec> 08└─Are you intentionally ignoring things like Pol Pot? A more accurate phrasing would be extremist beliefs are always fringe except during the collapse of a system. Some times the collapse happens in the middle of the rise. Please note that this is largely true by definition. If most of a population ho...
[19:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:09] <exec> 08└─What does whether something is popular have to do with whether it's real?
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[19:47:11] <exec> 08└─No. The big question is what to do about it. Finding someone to blame is at best secondarily beneficial. Much better is dealing with the problem so that it stops happening. Please note that this is analogous the the long-standing problem of malicious gossip destroying reputations. Whoever or whateve...
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[19:48:56] <exec> 08└─The problem, really, is capitalism. We've outgrown it as a tool for developing the world, and we've instead taken it to a point where a few are maximizing their return.
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[20:45:17] <exec> 08└─Yep. People, and espacially navigators, had already figured out that the Earth was a sphere centuries ago. But in the 21st century, there are still morons who believe it is flat. I guess you just can't fix stupid.
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[20:46:11] <exec> 08└─This is the point where the organization's leadership grabs as much of the money as possible and heads for the hills. Despite their marketing about "disrupting the marketplace" and such, when you look at what Uber's actual business was, it amounted to "an often-questionable car service with a phone...
[20:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─One agenda damages the health of USians, the other damages the US economy.
[20:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:22] <exec> 08└─Are they going to use science again?
[20:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:24] <exec> 08└─Your denigration of men of science is noted. Would you like a nice Covid-19 vaccination? No?
[20:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:26] <exec> 08└─They apparently aren't the only ones.
[20:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:28] <exec> 08└─And if they are not following the rules now, they will sure ignore any further restrictions down the road which will damage the economy more as businesses shut but people get sick more and start dying.
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[20:47:45] <exec> 08└─Something like this? Not new, my copy is archived from 1996 and I'm fairly certain it is much older, Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d Subject: Re: The Usenet Oracle is pondering your question. ...... First there was email, then there was talk, then voice communication, now Corleone Systems introduces...
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[20:48:03] <exec> 08└─Probably the right choice. Khallow in particular seems to be triggered by this.
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[21:45:12] <exec> 08└─I guess you just can't fix stupid.
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[21:45:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry to disappoint you, but the covid-19 mortality rate is way under 10% (even without any hospital support), so that will barely make a dent in any such community.
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[21:45:43] <exec> 08└─maybe there's a sealed filling cabinet somewhere in a governmental high security facility with a game plan on how-to "break the news" via P.H.ds and argumentation circuit acts to the global population when some new "material" is found on a asteroid that doesn't fit on the periodic table : P
[21:47:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:04] <exec> 08└─I think bots are just a fact of life now - on all sides. Sigh... it looks like I'll have to back to using reason to figure out whether or not I want to jump off a bridge, instead of doing it because all my associates are.
[21:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:22] <exec> 08└─The answer had always been known: curated private forums. If you don't want that, you get all the rabble and the pests that live on them.
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[21:47:58] <exec> 08└─Says the whiner.
[21:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Many Qubits Are Needed For Quantum Supremacy? - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:29] <exec> 08└─wouldn't you require a MORE powerful computer to verify those quantum results? using quantum computer you get result in 2 seconds but to verify them using a tried and tested classical computer takes forever? so i guess just do the quantum calculation 100 times and see if the same result ...err... mi...
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[21:49:16] <exec> 08└─i have a few plants and tress in my garden. i am happy to report that for the chickens and squirrels the 5 palm oil nut tree are the most popular. the mango tree also gets visits ... imagining being a squirrel i totally see that my garden is crap when it comes to calories (don't blame me, i didn't h...
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[21:50:19] <exec> 08└─i assume that they are not compatible ... so, maybe, both handedness "came into being" but there was "some sort of competition"? assuming there weren't too many(?) in the soup, once one handedness got the ..errr... upper hand that's that. i assume they both would compete for the same resources. anyw...
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[22:45:10] <exec> 08└─>So take this opportunity to share some of your Pacman-memories? No.
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[22:45:21] <exec> 08└─"One can but speculate where our civilization might be now if this ancient science had continued unabated" "Sadly, the vast majority of these works were lost to history ..." this sounds like a good plot for a detective story of ancient going-ons? one scene that springs to mind is hoarding said knowl...
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[23:45:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCrmXW6-Pk [youtube.com]
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[23:45:19] <exec> 08└─Once you learned the pattern, it was a real ego boost. Crowds would gather 'round, because there were enough people who didn't know patterns, or couldn't do it even if they knew. This got old fast, of course; but after losing so many quarters there was also a bit of a "stick it to the man" factor in...
[23:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pacman Turns 40 Years Old - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:21] <exec> 08└─Pacman always bored me. The song Pacman Fever was fun, though. Other games of that time interested me more. Asteroids and Defender were fun, but my absolute favorite of the era was Joust. But I didn't have an unlimited supply of quarters, so I spent most of my video game time playing Atari. Later in...
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[23:45:32] <exec> 08└─Naw, that's just you, Fusty.
[23:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazing Astronomical Discoveries from Ancient Greece - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:34] <exec> 08└─One can but speculate where our civilisation might be now if this ancient science had continued unabated.
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[23:45:48] <exec> 08└─Two words: Feinstein Academy.
[23:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:43] <exec> 08└─It has not.
[23:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:45] <exec> 08└─> Passing stricter rules for people to ignore is going to be so much better. I'm not going to pay any attention to rules or lack of rules. I'm a hermit anyway, work at home already. I'm not coming out, except as strictly necessary, until there is a vaccine that has been shown to work for awhile (and...
[23:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing to Reopen America May be Bots - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:47] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? It gives them all somewhere to be that isn't here.
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[23:47:49] <exec> 08└─> What does whether something is popular have to do with whether it's real? If the USA Today survey is accurate, opening up places that lack social distancing won't change things radically, many people will continue to shelter at home. If the survey is about how people are going to behave, and if th...
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[23:48:07] <exec> 08└─While I am gratified they are doing this, I am pissed that they CAN do this. I am so fed up with this crap modern OS that mixes code and data. Executable masquerading as a document file, my ass. People have no business running software of only business grade integrity on their home machines.
[23:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:34] <exec> 08└─I hope they tossed us an owner's manual.
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