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[00:21:49] <exec> 08└─Don't be so quick to blame this on hackers. It's possible that the compromises were done by a fat white police officer sitting on Cisco's neck. #BLM
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[00:21:50] <exec> 08└─Students, the most intelligent answer you can give to any question is, "It depends." Yes, you with your hand up. ... What's that now? You answered, "It depends" during your last thousand job interviews and you were rejected every time? What the fuck do I care. I got tenure. - Professor Cornelius Boo...
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[00:21:52] <exec> 08└─#BLM
[00:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Update Your TI-83 or TI-84 Calculator's Firmware - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:26] <exec> 08└─TI has used regular batteries in their calculators since the ti-81 model. Calculations that you'd likely want to make were more limited by calculation speed than battery life.
[00:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Update Your TI-83 or TI-84 Calculator's Firmware - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:28] <exec> 08└─The compiler has no alignment. Both sizeof(int) and sizeof(void*) are 3. Yes, a 3. There is a lovely int24_t, but sadly the calculator won't do 24-bit color. The screen is only 16-bit. (LOL, "only", in a calculator that would be fine with 4-bit color)
[00:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:10] <exec> 08└─Watched the MSM news and no mention of Musk's name. CBS showed his face in a collage of images and mentioned "he was an immigrant", otherwise they only mentioned it was organized by a private company. I guess Musk is almost unpersoned in the MSM after he ripped the mask off California's Covid-19 far...
[00:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:12] <exec> 08└─The other day I tuned in at 0630 AEST but today couldn't be bothered getting up at 0520. Tuned in shortly after when the kids woke me up though. But great news, it's a real milestone and with success, it looks to be a start of a bright future for NASA and SpaceX partnering. But really great to see t...
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[00:23:14] <exec> 08└─It's amazing that the rocket was able to take off with a fat white police officer sitting on its neck. #BLM
[00:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Not Every Day the NSA Publicly Warns of Attacks by Kremlin Hackers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:42] <exec> 08└─Ahhh for a business that only used one standard bit of kit globally :-p
[00:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Not Every Day the NSA Publicly Warns of Attacks by Kremlin Hackers - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:43] <exec> 08└─The sneaky Russians had the virus infect a fat white cop, forcing him to sit on George Floyd's neck. Now the USA is going to collapse as African-Americans give whitey what's coming to him... Atlanta burns. LA burns. Seattle burns. St Greta is conflicted with sudden racist thoughts when she realizes...
[00:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:10] <exec> 08└─How are the glasses going to read the QR-codes if there is no camera? Is the LIDAR (laser) going to scan them?
[00:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Boxbot [10929] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:11] <exec> 08└─The leak is rather vague on details, so short answer, I don't know. I have heard of LIDAR units that combine each range return with an RGB value so it's not impossible? Though it's more likely Apple will include cameras and pinky-promise not to store the video data.
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[00:28:37] <exec> 08└─But the more mods and more block types you have the better cached and performant it will be. The VC4 GPU in it was pretty anemic. And I say that having run minetest on a genuine Radeon 9800 128M. That ran at around 15-30 fps if you kept the draw distance reined in, or 5-1fps if you didn't. But that...
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[01:21:41] <exec> 08└─Boomers forced everyone to stay home at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers forced every business to close at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers forced everyone to wear face masks at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers caused the worst economic depression in history...
[01:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:43] <exec> 08└─B-but what about communisum!!!1one
[01:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:45] <exec> 08└─Insoc is doubleplusgood for Airstrip One.
[01:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:47] <exec> 08└─On an island https://en.wikipedia.org(Huxley_novel) [wikipedia.org] It works very well , people are relaxed and happy, until oil is discovered
[01:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:23] <exec> 08└─Rocket was white.
[01:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:24] <exec> 08└─We are looting NASA JPL in Pasadena right now - lots of huge display panels, only slightly used.
[01:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Shingled Out in Class Action Lawsuit - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:12] <exec> 08└─The drives aren't failing. The controller thinks they failed because the speeds were too slow.
[01:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Community Milestones! - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:38] <exec> 08└─You can post anonymously on Slashdot but you have to log in first. You check the anonymous box before you submit.
[01:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:25] <exec> 08└─It can record fat white cops sitting on innocent African-American's necks. MAGA.
[01:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:26] <exec> 08└─Floyd passed a counterfeit bill... he was a criminal like the majority of Afro-Americans. Cop saved the cost of trial and incarceration. #BLDM
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[02:21:46] <exec> 08└─As long as the population is less than Dunbar's number and nobody ever moves in or out. Now you know why collectives are usually also cults.
[02:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:47] <exec> 08└─In the COVID-19 economy the only businesses allowed to be open are grocery stores and pharmacies. Every other business is closed by Boomer decree as non-essential to Boomers. The grocery store employs armed guards to enforce social distancing to protect the Boomers. I tried to buy food at the grocer...
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[02:21:50] <exec> 08└─-nomsg
[02:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:52] <exec> 08└─OK Incel
[02:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:54] <exec> 08└─Get your KNEE off my NECK, Boomer.
[02:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:31] <exec> 08└─I was just thinking how unfortunate the timing was, the more things change ....the more they stay the same https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com]
[02:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:33] <exec> 08└─True, but if they wanted to bitch out, they could do so at any time, and there are backup crew members ready to step in. Since they aren't quitting, they are *likely* confident that they won't become burnt stardust. Or they are crazy/suicidal. Either way, looks like SpaceX will fly a 4 astronaut mis...
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[02:23:35] <exec> 08└─They have some non-touchscreen controls: https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] The cockpit simulator demonstrated the controls that Dragon astronauts will have at their command. In comparison to the space sh...
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[03:21:43] <exec> 08└─In the COVID-19 economy the only businesses allowed to be open are grocery stores and pharmacies. Every other business is closed by Boomer decree as non-essential to Boomers. The grocery store employs armed guards to enforce social distancing to protect the Boomers. I tried to buy food at the grocer...
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[03:21:45] <exec> 08└─Boomers forced everyone to stay home at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers forced every business to close at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers forced everyone to wear face masks at gunpoint to give Boomers a safe space. Boomers caused the worst economic depression in history...
[03:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:47] <exec> 08└─20,000 feet - what was the weather like from 10:45 until noon in the area? If it was clear enough, we can assume the side-looking cameras on the CBP drone got a pretty good facial image of most of the people on the street during their 6 loops around the area. J. Edgar Hoover's corpse just got a wood...
[03:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:49] <exec> 08└─the death of George Floyd, a local black man
[03:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:51] <exec> 08└─Short is the memory (intentionally if not otherwise) of trumpets
[03:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:06] <exec> 08└─Fuck them all to death!
[03:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:08] <exec> 08└─Sing me a song of a lad that is gone Say could that lad be I? Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye. Mull was astern, Rum on the port, Eigg on the starboard bow; Glory of youth glowed in his soul; Where is that glory now?
[03:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:10] <exec> 08└─Where the fuck is "Hebridean Isle of Eigg"? Out by Florida? Hawaii?
[03:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 3132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:12] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is people Purchase Gift Subscription You can gift a subscription to another user. Payment is handled by Stripe (credit card/BitCoin) or PayPal (credit card/PayPal). Information about subscriptions can be found in the Why Subscribe FAQ. Buy Gift Subscription for UID Note: MDC's uid is...
[03:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:14] <exec> 08└─https://lmgtfy.com/?q=Hebridean+Isle+of+Eigg [lmgtfy.com]
[03:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:16] <exec> 08└─Off the west coast of Scotland, you willfully ignorant fucker.
[03:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:19] <exec> 08└─If it was up your ass you'd know where it was, wouldn't you? In your case, maybe not.
[03:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:21] <exec> 08└─That's not my knee.
[03:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:23] <exec> 08└─Population: 105 In my experience, true active, aggressive assholes are rare - let's peg that at about 1/20. Passive assholes are much more common - put them at about 1/2. Mostly passive good people also about 1/2, and true active aggressive good people are even more rare at around 1/40 (yes, yes, th...
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Update Your TI-83 or TI-84 Calculator's Firmware - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─no that's your gun. it's too small to be a rifle.
[03:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:05] <exec> 08└─And hooray for every county's space program that stands to benefit from the increased crew safety and lower cost of these launches! Get more developing countries space economies going! Let kids in the congo and south america shoot things into space too! Everybody benefits. Thank you Elon Musk and th...
[03:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Interactive Technology Eases Urban Traffic Jams - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:29] <exec> 08└─You have a fridge? I sweat and watch the ceiling fan.
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[04:21:46] <exec> 08└─So? The military flies over us all the time. I would as a kid spend a lot of time figuring out which ones it was. Typically F4s or A4s in my area. Sometimes you would see a b52. They use us all the time for training.
[04:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:47] <exec> 08└─Customs and Border protection? What on earth are those guys doing patrolling a riot in Minneapolis? Their tech is fairly in depth. They can follow you for as long as they're in the sky and "rewind" where you came from if need be. Get caught up in the wrong place? They'll rewind the tape until th...
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[04:21:49] <exec> 08└─no doubt from preexisting conditions.. R.I.P. America the Beautiful
[04:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:51] <exec> 08└─Patrolling the Ontario border and got blown off-course?
[04:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:54] <exec> 08└─What a great time to be a Canadian that lives in a medium sized town ! How can the USA be so socially dysfunctional yet still able to send people in space ?
[04:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:56] <exec> 08└─On the upside, all of the riots are a reasonably good experiment for whether we can reopen the economy, If hospitals are overrun with CV19 starting 2 to 3 weeks out in these riot cities, we'll know we're screwed. If they don't have a big bump, maybe we can start moving forward again.
[04:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:20] <exec> 08└─Hey, Ivan. I know US people aren't the brightest but you really make them sound like a bunch of ignorant hillbillies from the safety of your mom's basement in St Petersburg.
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[04:22:22] <exec> 08└─"Can collective ownership work in the rest of the UK?" Yes! And it should be done now! Immediately! Show the world. The rest of us, cowards that we are, will sit back, take notes, and make separate decisions on what might be done.
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[05:21:58] <exec> 08└─Seems unnecessary to me, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, BBC et all seem to have it covered pretty well. Even getting the "Proud Boys" tossing fireworks like they were bombs and pretending to be part of the black demonstration.
[05:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:59] <exec> 08└─Guessing you didn't actually read the links you posted. Seem to me like the exact opposite of your rant. And like the AC above said, it appears right wing groups were causing the violence (see your second link).
[05:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:27] <exec> 08└─OK, that explains it. Back in the 90s I took an interest in "intentional communities". I never joined one, but I studied them online. One of the conclusions to which a lot of people have come is that communities start to fragment around 150 or so. Others have pegged the number a bit higher, but I do...
[05:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:28] <exec> 08└─Imagine having nothing you can call your own, that everything you make is immediately taken from you. You have no right to purchase or keep food, medicine, clothing or shelter. That's collective ownership, hell on Earth. Does it "work"? If "work" means my gang sets the rules, it works just fine.
[05:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Community Milestones! - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:26] <exec> 08└─Logging in means you're not anonymous. Yes, any site can track your IP address, but most of them won't bother unless you're making some kind of illegal posts. There's always VPNs for the more privacy-minded, as well.
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[06:21:39] <exec> 08└─Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang [soylentnews.org]
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[06:21:52] <exec> 08└─Customs and Border protection? What on earth are those guys doing patrolling a riot in Minneapolis? Their tech is fairly in depth. They can follow you for as long as they're in the sky and "rewind" where you came from if need be. Get caught up in the wrong place? They'll rewind the tape until th...
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[06:22:00] <exec> 08└─Maximum trolling is maximum trolling [youtube.com]. Either that, or you're the literal biggest idiot in the universe.
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[07:21:41] <exec> 08└─I farted. Bad burrito. Signed, AC the Great
[07:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe (Post Big Bang) - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:43] <exec> 08└─It was an expansion of spacetime.
[07:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:33] <exec> 08└─I think you meant "Xer" considering that cop is definitely nowhere near retirement age...
[07:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Update Your TI-83 or TI-84 Calculator's Firmware - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:26] <exec> 08└─Even in Physics eventually a calculator became less and less useful. In the first few semesters you're crunching numbers a lot but after that you're mostly solving equations symbolically. Perhaps the TI-89 series might have been some assistance, but I didn't have one of those. After my semester year...
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[08:22:10] <exec> 08└─Well, India is sending rockets to moon, so ...
[08:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:41] <exec> 08└─Imagine having nothing you can call your own, that everything you make is immediately taken from you. You have no right to purchase or keep food, medicine, clothing or shelter. That's chattel slavery, hell on Earth. Does it "work"? If "work" means my gang sets the rules, it works just fine.
[08:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:43] <exec> 08└─Tiny islands are special cases, of course you can't generalise it to the whole of the UK. It's an isolated and tightly-knit community. Collective ownership works on small scales like this, where everyone can buy into it, but on larger scales it clearly does not.
[08:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Update Your TI-83 or TI-84 Calculator's Firmware - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:37] <exec> 08└─I understand that TI have a monopoly position in North America, but their calculators are a rarity in Europe. In the UK, Casio calculators are dominant, with a smattering of Sharp and various minority brands. Some schools might recommend a model to pupils/parents, but there's no manding one (with th...
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[09:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:40] <exec> 08└─... and possibly they annoyed the wrong person. "Go away or I shall replace you with a very small shell script"
[09:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:42] <exec> 08└─they take stories from AP, AFP and Reuters and do an edit? Add some twitter rumours? Ok its journalism but a mindless fast food version.
[09:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:13] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they can figure out who this guy [youtube.com] is (though I suspect they won't). He appears to be an agent provocateur , and a couple of people say they recognise the guy... a police officer. Granted, this was his ex wife and her friend... so there's that. The precinct he's from also denies...
[09:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:45] <exec> 08└─Where the fuck is "Hebridean Isle of Eigg"?
[09:24:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06It's Not Every Day the NSA Publicly Warns of Attacks by Kremlin Hackers - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:44] <exec> 08└─Who to blame? Please! This is the continuing DNC fairy tale, scapegoating their way to victory!
[09:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyebi [10933] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Western Digital Shingled Out in Class Action Lawsuit - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:17] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that manufacturers in the past clearly marketed the cheaper SMR drives as archive storage because of the associated performance issues. But now they silently slipped that technology into a product line that people mostly buy for applications that will massively suffer from said p...
[09:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Western Digital Shingled Out in Class Action Lawsuit - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:18] <exec> 08└─They have nearly the same speed for sequential write. Its many random writes that can cause them to slow to a crawl
[09:25:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] 02 - 06Community Milestones! - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:32] <exec> 08└─... also my comment ID is much better than yours
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[10:21:52] <exec> 08└─"Go away or I shall replace you with a very small shell perl script": upstart [soylentnews.org]
[10:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:53] <exec> 08└─You are out of date. Today you don't code AI, you train a neural network. Don't learn coding (beyond the basics needed to access the relevant neural network libraries), learn how to design and train neural networks.
[10:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe (Post Big Bang) - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:04] <exec> 08└─yeah but what is the difference between a static universe and an expanding universe in an expanding medium? A. the second is able to model some measurement strangeness and some radiation without demolishing too much of the older models, a pity anisotropies still shouldn't be there, but are.... welco...
[10:22:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 1105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:49] <exec> 08└─Population: 105 In my experience, true active, aggressive assholes are rare - let's peg that at about 1/20. Passive assholes are much more common - put them at about 1/2. Mostly passive good people also about 1/2, and true active aggressive good people are even more rare at around 1/40 (yes, yes, th...
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[11:21:49] <exec> 08└─Add some twitter rumours?
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[12:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:45] <exec> 08└─You buy civil servants computers to do their job, and they end up using them to play Solitaire or cure COVID.
[12:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:46] <exec> 08└─"Our team will do whatever it takes to support the research projects so that we can understand and fight this disease as quickly as possible."
[12:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:58] <exec> 08└─[...] Around 50 contract news producers will lose their jobs at the end of June, the Seattle Times reports, but a team of full-time journalists will remain.
[12:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:59] <exec> 08└─From the did-you-expect-cake-department Breaking news directly from the MSN web site today: KILL ALL HUMANS! KILL ALL HUMANS!...
[12:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe (Post Big Bang) - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:12] <exec> 08└─If a sudden series of thermonuclear explosions on the Earth's surface is "clear evidence of intelligent life" - could this energy release be evidence of intelligent life of a higher order of capability? Apparently there was a natural uranium-fission explosive reaction in South Africa once upon a tim...
[12:22:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:31] <exec> 08└─Guessing you didn't actually read the links you posted. Seem to me like the exact opposite of your rant. And like the AC above said, it appears right wing groups were causing the violence (see your second link).
[12:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:35] <exec> 08└─>> How can the USA be so socially dysfunctional yet still able to send people in space ? They rely on corporations to do it for them. NASA is now focused on COVID-19 research.
[12:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:38] <exec> 08└─Seems unnecessary to me
[12:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:40] <exec> 08└─>> Customs and Border protection? What on earth are those guys doing patrolling a riot in Minneapolis? It's right there in their title: "Customs" and Border Protection. It's the custom in the USA to repress uppity black folk, so they're just ensuring the custom is upheld.
[12:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:13] <exec> 08└─I'll go ahead an name drop here: back in the 1990s Dean Kamen (about to become known as the Segway inventor, not the dead money guy) ran a rather successful tech development company which he intentionally kept at a headcount of 200, in his words: "because beyond 200 there's just no way to know every...
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[13:21:39] <exec> 08└─I look down at below where the buffalo roam...
[13:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:00] <exec> 08└─Under normal circumstances I'd think that this was a very dumb move, but since it's MSN I don't really think it'll make a difference.
[13:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:01] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews sacked all of their journalists and replaced them with bots YEARS ago!
[13:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe (Post Big Bang) - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:14] <exec> 08└─My God, this is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!
[13:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─When you are 20,000 ft up, what is a "side-looking" camera and how does it differ from a regular camera? Do they have upward-looking cameras on the drones too to get a good sneak up the skirts?
[13:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:42] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, you Canucks and your wonderful race relations. Are you also required to keep your head in the sand when you live up your way?
[13:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:01] <exec> 08└─Now did it really land? We did not see that because of signal outage in just that moment. Empty pad [signal lost] rocket standing on pad. This proves it. Earth is flat!
[13:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Community Milestones! - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:19] <exec> 08└─5,582 stories submitted is phenomenal, takyon. Thanks for all your hard work! Thanks to all the editors and coders who keep the site running. May Soylent continue for another million comments!
[13:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03wirelessduck [3407] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:08] <exec> 08└─Does anyone bother with QR codes anymore? I used them a few times, but very rarely. It would be interesting to see a resurgence due to AR glasses. Maybe they could be made denser now that cameras are better.
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[14:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from Space - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:45] <exec> 08└─That ain't even gonna get you cowboy cred enough to impress your kids, much less pick up chicks.
[14:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from Space - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:46] <exec> 08└─Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from SPAAAAAAACE!
[14:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:10] <exec> 08└─MSN News ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you (0% complete)
[14:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:12] <exec> 08└─They were trying to be the boutique Google News.
[14:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:14] <exec> 08└─I guess the only interesting part will be if the MSN readers will even be able to notice or tell the difference.
[14:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:16] <exec> 08└─You're wrong; with S/N, there was never a curve to start with
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe (Post Big Bang) - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─The Ophiuchus explosion spanned hundreds of millions of years and we are seeing it from 390million light years away. The natural fission reaction in the Oklo mine in Gabon occurred 1.7 billion years ago and lasted a few hundred thousand years. The time frames line up...could we have been...the...
[14:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─You all sound like fans of Emmanuel Goldstein. Off to room 101 with you!
[14:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:32] <exec> 08└─Half a nitpick. Republican women intentionally raise their daughters to be this stupid. It is only half a nitpick, because I mean they are complicit in patriarchy. Non-rhetorical question: what are you going to do about it?
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Don't Update Your TI-83 or TI-84 Calculator's Firmware - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─I knew a guy when I was in graduate school for physics who was taking his Ph.D. written quals. For the exam we all had to clear our calculators, which he did. On the exam was a problem that he got stuck on involving differential equations or something. He programmed his calculator to numerically sol...
[14:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Update Your TI-83 or TI-84 Calculator's Firmware - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:28] <exec> 08└─No one forced you at gunpoint, or did you overlook that fact?
[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─Trump, who observed the launch, said the United States had regained its place as the world's leader in space, that U.S. astronauts would soon land on Mars, and that Washington would soon have "the greatest weapons ever imagined in history." NASA had to rely on Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, to ge...
[14:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:28] <exec> 08└─Mobile payments have been slower to catch on in the U.S. Lots of cards and cash still. https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com]
[14:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:30] <exec> 08└─Google did not have always-on video recording. That would have smoked the battery life and storage (no cellular connectivity in any version, Wi-Fi isn't going to work great walking down a street). I believe there was also a limit on video length, so you would have to manually re-record after a few m...
[14:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:32] <exec> 08└─Lame. Front-facing cameras or throw your "AR" device into the toilet.
[14:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wirelessduck [3407] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:34] <exec> 08└─And still lots of Chip+Sign (no pin!?!) or even cheques for everyday purchase, at least as of a few years ago. I guess that explains the popularity of Apple/Google Pay platforms there compared to other countries that have more extensive debit card payment systems.
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[15:21:52] <exec> 08└─What about the beer?
[15:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from Space - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:54] <exec> 08└─Well, that takes care of the burgers. What about the beer?
[15:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from Space - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:56] <exec> 08└─No beer [genius.com]
[15:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:23] <exec> 08└─Well, they've been reporting the news [soylentnews.org] for years, why not write it also...
[15:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:25] <exec> 08└─So... become a teacher?
[15:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:27] <exec> 08└─> learn how to import Chinese students to design and train neural networks. FTFY
[15:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:07] <exec> 08└─Woosh...
[15:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:44] <exec> 08└─>be boomer >pay throughout life for your pension >get pension >millennial is salt OK MILLIE
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─Also, politics come from polis, meaning city. At that scale, democracy is manageable. See also the medieval Commune. See also how the only country to say "screw the bankers" was Iceland. Nations and international entities are sure useful, but the more the bureaucracy is separated by the subject, the...
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:47] <exec> 08└─po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:49] <exec> 08└─I don't mean to downplay the impact of individual assholes or individual heroes, but I think the most important aspect by a large margin is actually on the number of people. Small enough communities that can run on direct democracy can do okay. Once everything gets big enough that you have to delega...
[15:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:51] <exec> 08└─There's some critical level of dysfunction above which groups can't prosper or even survive. Limiting the size seems a crude way to keep a group functional. What better methods are there? Where are the social science findings, to guide us on such questions? What do they teach in business school? As...
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[15:25:39] <exec> 08└─What an amazing feat made possible by all the good people of SpaceX and NASA — the first crew on a commercial space vehicle has reached the ISS! Wow!
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[16:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:41] <exec> 08└─The framing of this statement makes it all but worthless. The only assertion that is valid and complete is this: the total amount of renewable1 energy usage in 2019 across all sectors2, when expressed as heat-equivalent imperial units of work, surpasses the total amount of coal3 usage. What they lef...
[16:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:43] <exec> 08└─Another promise busted for some fools who voted the orange mad clown. Were those that stupid and really believed him?
[16:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:45] <exec> 08└─"No administration has done what I’ve done. I just left Montana, and I looked at those trains and they’re loaded up with clean coal — beautiful clean coal. And those trains were empty two years ago. They were empty; they were dying. Nobody’s done what I’ve done."
[16:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 1523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:47] <exec> 08└─The completely fictitious idea of "clean coal" was really pushed not by the current idiot, but one of the previous ones, George W Bush. But without question the GOP is promoting obsolete technologies to protect the equivalent of buggy-whip manufacturers, by heavily subsidizing coal, oil, and gas as...
[16:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from Space - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:00] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't worry -- Bruce, Bruce, Bruce and Bruce will bring the Fosters.
[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 2395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─AI tasks are the same as computational tasks have always been: - Classifying objects into categories (tree types, bird species, ..) - Sorting objects, especially like the above - Converting from type A to type B - Relations between A and B Basically, computers are good at transforming data. They're...
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe (Post Big Bang) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─Eccentrica Gallumbits said he was "the best bang since the Big One".
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe (Post Big Bang) - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─could this energy release be evidence of intelligent life of a higher order of capability?
[16:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:18] <exec> 08└─Not off course. The US federal government considers everything within 100 miles of the actual border to be "the border". Which means most of the population of the US lives "on the border".
[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 1427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:00] <exec> 08└─You must have read a different Marx than the rest of us. Socialists aren't opposed to people having private property, and they're not opposed to people getting resources (food, money, clothing, shelter, entertainment) based on their work. Socialists are opposed to people getting resources based on w...
[16:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:01] <exec> 08└─Politics comes from 'poli' (from greek: multiple, many) and 'tics' (latin: behavioural disorder). Even in ancient times it was obvious that those seeking power had many behavioural abberations, i.e. politics and politicians. Nothing has changed to this day.
[16:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 2311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:53] <exec> 08└─Looking at things from a different perspective there's also the saying, 'When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.' That statement was made by a man who lived about 2,500 years ago. If we spent our time since then trying to solve all of these petty problems instead of just...
[16:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:54] <exec> 08└─I find most the stuff you say pretty reasonable, but I have no idea where you're coming from on this one. These guys have all spent their entire lives building up their careers. If they back out, those careers are dead. They have 0 choice here. On the other hand, every single one of them was a milit...
[16:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:56] <exec> 08└─And you know what the worst part here is? We might like to imagine that even if the worst happens, well at least it would change things. But it wouldn't. We are watching, in real time and in public view, exactly what happened with Challenger. Challenger should not have flown. The direct of the solid...
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[17:21:43] <exec> 08└─What better charity for a self-driving minivan to be associated with.
[17:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:54] <exec> 08└─Righto, one of the "hold my beer" moments. Now those trains are loaded... and still dying.
[17:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:55] <exec> 08└─>> renewables actually beat out coal last year "Beat me, you dirty coal, beat me", she moaned.
[17:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:58] <exec> 08└─And get silenced about anything the owners of propaganda outlets do not want. Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You cannot get any more qualified to have an expert opinion on genetics than the discoverer of its mechanism; still, he got muzzled...
[17:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:00] <exec> 08└─Nah, holding off on that for the day when a horse and buggy replace cars. It'll be big.
[17:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:02] <exec> 08└─Sucks to be miners, but it always did.
[17:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from Space - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─Space Cowboys
[17:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 1704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─I have a pull request, since it seems we need a 1.2 version: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by Nature with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Gov...
[17:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:33] <exec> 08└─More trackable, less identifiable in realtime from the air.
[17:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:36] <exec> 08└─Also, the US federal government considered anyone of color to be terrorists. Which means the majority of the population of the US lives as terrorists.
[17:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 2474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:38] <exec> 08└─In Quebec it's different, outside Montreal¹, if you somewhat try to speak French, don't wear visible religious signs² and respect equality between sex³, you are welcome and usually supported by the community⁴. However, the professionals associations will make it hard for your diploma to be reco...
[17:24:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 983 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:11] <exec> 08└─I'll go ahead an name drop here: back in the 1990s Dean Kamen (about to become known as the Segway inventor, not the dead money guy) ran a rather successful tech development company which he intentionally kept at a headcount of 200, in his words: "because beyond 200 there's just no way to know every...
[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─No you didn't.
[17:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:37] <exec> 08└─UH oh, he said he hopes the launch inspires a young child to become the next Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Richard Branson. EAT HIM ALIVE!
[17:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:15] <exec> 08└─He's been unpersoned by the media for a long time now. He doesn't play ball with them, and so they have been taking aim at him for some time now. For instance when one media type asked him “Do you think it's in the interest of powerful people to A: support a free press that exposes their lies, or...
[17:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:17] <exec> 08└─It didn't take very long for Trump to take a Victory Lap.
[17:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─They definitely have choices, and they can throw a wrench in the works and accept whatever consequences come. They aren't mindless adrenaline-seeking automatons and they would like to fly in a spacecraft that works. They themselves could probably squash Boeing's flight (which has already been postpo...
[17:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:21] <exec> 08└─That's easy to understand spin. The Russian space industry was deliberately kept alive with the creation of the International Space Station. Since 2011, ferrying NASA astronauts to the ISS has become a cash cow for them. They are losing launch business not just to SpaceX, but China and India. Falcon...
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[18:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Waymo Autonomous Minivans Resume Testing in California and Arizona - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:45] <exec> 08└─Testing self-driving cars during nationwide rioting in the streets... It's perfect timing.
[18:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Autonomous Minivans Resume Testing in California and Arizona - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:46] <exec> 08└─It's ok, looting is not a crime in San Fransicko.
[18:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:02] <exec> 08└─A lot of American coal is "mined" in Wyoming. It's all surface: They just run front end loaders to scrape it from the ground and scoop it up. Same in the East with mountain top removal.
[18:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:04] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the old "oil subsidies." Things like not paying imaginary taxes that liberals say they should pay, depreciation on capital like any other business, and my favorite, money spent by regulatory agencies. Sometimes they even count oil purchased to run government and military vehicles, because we...
[18:22:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from Space - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:11] <exec> 08└─I look down at below where the buffalo roam...
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─IE11 still defaults to it
[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe (Post Big Bang) - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:05] <exec> 08└─The previous one could have been Little Boy, this could be their Fat Man... also, intelligence that pulls off stuff on this order of magnitude probably lasts orders of magnitude longer than a few hundred Earth years between collapses of civilization.
[18:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:40] <exec> 08└─It's a camera angled to the side rather than straight down. You can catch different details that way. I suppose, for example, that it'd somewhat more likely to catch an image of someone's clothes or face when they're wearing a large hat.
[18:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:41] <exec> 08└─That's all fine and dandy, but explain poutine.
[18:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:43] <exec> 08└─Oh those evil racists who don't want to sheepishly become Dhimmi! Brainwashed whites need to wake up. Quit taking your own race and it's culture for granted. Quit engaging in cultural relativism. Keep up your suicidal stupidity and you will have no safe home left. You will be bred out and conquered...
[18:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─"some" is OK. it is just that the owner or executive suite or investors is in charge of defining that "some". and human nature being what it is, their "some" will be much greater than the rest's "some". They have lots of good-sounding rationalizations for that and keeping it that way, also. like, "e...
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 1442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─I think Social Science struggles as it does because of the unpredictability of the "particles" in their universe. As such, a "typical" sampling may reach "critical mass" where things become fractious and counter-productive with as few as 100 members, or it may grow beyond 1000 members and remain idy...
[18:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:26] <exec> 08└─Go Fever for Boeing to launch is going to be reduced considerably. Boeing can no longer embarrass SpaceX by beating it to the first crewed launch. It's possible that SpaceX's Crew-1 and Crew-2 missions will fly before Boeing can fly. They won't get away with the same level of risk at this rate. The...
[18:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:28] <exec> 08└─Were you just watching the news conference from the ISS by chance? You should be able to catch it by zooming through this [youtu.be] video at the tail end. I had a lot of hopes for Bridenstine and I do think at the beginning of his tenure that he was everything we need. But I have no idea how congre...
[18:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, this term, glassholes, needs to live on for many years to remind everyone, young and old, of the disgusting invasion of privacy public AR glasses enable.
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[19:21:49] <exec> 08└─Well... Making less than $100k there puts you in the poverty range and makes you eligible for food stamps and free solar panels.
[19:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Autonomous Minivans Resume Testing in California and Arizona - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:51] <exec> 08└─I thought I saw EF in the LA news footage. He was the lead protester with a bullhorn wearing a red t-shirt that said "Moscow Bitch" and looked like a 400lb skinhead.
[19:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:09] <exec> 08└─Shhh, we need a feel- good moment in these depressing times
[19:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from Space - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:25] <exec> 08└─When you can fire laser blasts to herd 'em, the kids should be suitably impressed - and Honey sure had a thing for Gen. Buck Turgidson.
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from Space - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:26] <exec> 08└─WTF meatbags, you are stealing our robocalypse. Satellite tagging huh? Today cattle, tomorrow sheeple.
[19:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:53] <exec> 08└─So now you're down to race war trolling. Sad.
[19:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:55] <exec> 08└─I was going to call it "Death of a Nation", but I checked and found out that some asshole from India already used it for his pro-Trump film. India, outside of Kerala, is one of the most corrupt countries on the planet, with criminal classism that the US, under Trump, aspires to be. "Not Trump is not...
[19:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:57] <exec> 08└─Because there's still some white people left, even though the country's dumb, brainwashed whites have been subsidizing their own destruction via welfare, affirmative action, etc. Now, just watch some of the riot videos and see random violent attacks on whites by blacks and mexicans. This is just the...
[19:24:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 1427 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:38] <exec> 08└─You must have read a different Marx than the rest of us. Socialists aren't opposed to people having private property, and they're not opposed to people getting resources (food, money, clothing, shelter, entertainment) based on their work. Socialists are opposed to people getting resources based on w...
[19:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:43] <exec> 08└─Limiting the size seems a crude way to keep a group functional. What better methods are there? Militaries going all the way back to Rome (and probably further) have a well documented hierarchical approach. Platoons, legions, etc. If the officers who control units are a community, and *their* COs are...
[19:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Security Breach Hits Corporate Servers that Ran Unpatched Software - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:00] <exec> 08└─Don't update. Switch from Cisco to Huawei... ;)
[19:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Don't Update Your TI-83 or TI-84 Calculator's Firmware - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, I had a TI-85 (Z80-based, with TI-Basic). Because I bought it in the summer before term would start, I taught myself how to program it quite quickly. I never got into machine code, however, that risked breaking things and at the time the Internet wasn't really a thing I had access t...
[19:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:46] <exec> 08└─I'm looking at it. It starts at 3:13:00 in your link.
[19:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:48] <exec> 08└─teh biggest setback (in terms of wasted time and money) in humans history of spaceflight was most certainly the space shuttle. tho it was the spark of the idea of reusability, methinks it was far from it. if all the (excess) engineering and time would have been spent on "something else" early on whe...
[19:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:50] <exec> 08└─worry not. the law on the future moon colony sayz that on arrival everybody will get a injection from a friendly german scientist that will turn the arrivalist white. however, if arrested and sent to moon prison a injection will be given to turn them black ...
[19:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Today WAS the Day -- Crew Demo 2 Launch Successful -- Heading to ISS [Updated] - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:52] <exec> 08└─and sent to the helium3 mines.
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[20:21:38] <exec> 08└─No need to walk to the refrigerator, instant ice cream can be served right on the spot in your living room. On the plus side, if you're African-American you're slightly less likely to be killed by police in your living room than you are on your way to the ice cream store.
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:40] <exec> 08└─The expensive ice cream places often let you have free samples. The cheap places don't but it doesn't matter as much. I remember a liquid nitrogen ice cream place that eventually went bust. The staff said they needed about 1 month training before they could start work. I guess this will require less...
[20:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:42] <exec> 08└─One could convert an ink jet printer to spray fresh ice cream directly into your mouth.
[20:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:44] <exec> 08└─This way, I bet you can inject the CO2 into the ice cream itself, carbonating it. "Yes, I'd like two floats, root beer, and coke with cherry ice cream, please. I'll have the root beer the traditional way, my kid wants hers in a cone."
[20:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:46] <exec> 08└─it requires the ice cream to be injected into the cooling chamber as 20-100 micron droplets.... NO CHUNKY MONKEY = NOT ACCEPTABLE
[20:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:48] <exec> 08└─Gelatai will like this, unless it is much different from the "traditional" method (I know Italians do not reveal fully their recipes, so if you say traditional you say secret and you have more trouble comparing with that). Industrial ice cream is a sugary pale imitation of icecream, how it gets form...
[20:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:17] <exec> 08└─>> Same in the East with mountain top removal But if you remove the hills, where will the hillbillies live?
[20:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:19] <exec> 08└─Till the lefties' propaganda machine is dismantled and their influence on the grants system balanced out, any noises made about "following scientific recommendations" are disingenuous at best. For really obvious reasons.
[20:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:21] <exec> 08└─Murrica! Democrat devils! Hoax! Deep state!
[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─Obviously this is yet another Democrst plot to make Trump look bad while embezzling OUR tac dollars with the overblown virus "panDEMic"as cover. What is happening to our once great country??
[20:23:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 2395 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:07] <exec> 08└─AI tasks are the same as computational tasks have always been: - Classifying objects into categories (tree types, bird species, ..) - Sorting objects, especially like the above - Converting from type A to type B - Relations between A and B Basically, computers are good at transforming data. They're...
[20:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:10] <exec> 08└─"When you make a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man." We have lots of humans around and not enough robot maintenace openings. If we automate much more we will need to figure out how to make life fair for those that do not manage to get one of the limited employment...
[20:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe (Post Big Bang) - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:27] <exec> 08└─If a sudden series of thermonuclear explosions on the Earth's surface is "clear evidence of intelligent life"
[20:23:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 453 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they can figure out who this guy [youtube.com] is (though I suspect they won't). He appears to be an agent provocateur , and a couple of people say they recognise the guy... a police officer. Granted, this was his ex wife and her friend... so there's that. The precinct he's from also denies...
[20:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:08] <exec> 08└─Breaking the law.
[20:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:10] <exec> 08└─Guess you haven't seen what has happened in Mississippi and Georgia, the hospitals are being overrun. In some cases, they are literally sending people to hospitals 90 minutes away to find open ICU beds.
[20:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Glasses Leaks and Rumors: Here's Everything We Expect to See - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:14] <exec> 08└─What I'd want is always on recording with max res in a circular buffer (5 minutes?) and maybe lower res in a longer duration buffer/storage. Then if I decide I want high res (or there's an auto trigger), the past 5 minutes will be in high res and till I decide to stop or the device hits a storage li...
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[21:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:52] <exec> 08└─I remember Alton Brown doing something like this on a show by re-purposing a water cooler and fire extinguisher. Wonder if that was listed in the prior art for the patent.
[21:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:53] <exec> 08└─Followed by whipped cream.
[21:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:56] <exec> 08└─I was thinking that refrigerator manufacturers could integrate this into fridge designs, next to the ice maker and water tap on the front of the door.
[21:22:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 1523 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:17] <exec> 08└─The completely fictitious idea of "clean coal" was really pushed not by the current idiot, but one of the previous ones, George W Bush. But without question the GOP is promoting obsolete technologies to protect the equivalent of buggy-whip manufacturers, by heavily subsidizing coal, oil, and gas as...
[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─So your argument is "Some people revoked James Watson's awards because he's racist, ergo all studies about air and water pollution and their effects on humans are all wrong"? That's a non-sequitur if I've ever seen one.
[21:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:31] <exec> 08└─In the shithole-billies.
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Herding Wild Buffalo and Cattle from Space - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:48] <exec> 08└─"I tell ya girl, bein' a space cowboy ain't easy like it is herdin' cattle down here on the ground. Ropin' a dogie when ye'r both in a microgravity rotatin' reference frame gives yah a real sense a'pride about being connected to the universe."
[21:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:23] <exec> 08└─That's pretty funny seeing as upstart and ATK are bots that crawl and post stories here (often beating real people to the subs queue). I'm pretty sure takyon is a real person as he is an editor. Also aristarchus is probably real (unless he/she {?} is an alter ego of TMB).
[21:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe (Post Big Bang) - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:42] <exec> 08└─I find it easier to think of as a contraction of anti-spacetime.
[21:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:25] <exec> 08└─Had a feeling contact tracing was going to quickly switch to law enforcement. Now they are using it against protesters
[21:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:26] <exec> 08└─https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/ten-free-reading-comprehension-exercises-online/ [resilienteducator.com]
[21:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─It's working now but wait a few years, the child abuse stories will start to leak out. Inevitable.
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[22:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06After 14 Years, First Cosmic Satellite Mission Comes To An End - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:44] <exec> 08└─Millennials don't want to stay home to give Boomers our safe space. Millennials don't want to close their businesses to give Boomers our safe space. Millennials don't want to wear face masks to give Boomers our safe space. Millennials are endangering Boomer lives. We need to declare a round the cloc...
[22:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:00] <exec> 08└─All you need is a fairly large pressurized vessel of carbon dioxide, containers for various ice cream mixes, a bunch of valves and sensors etc, etc...Somehow I don't think it's going to fit the average home kitchen. This looks like something that might work in a commercial setting, if you can figure...
[22:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:02] <exec> 08└─"Ice cream?" I think you mean "guar gum foam". https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:04] <exec> 08└─They've been making ice cream on-the-spot at local carnivals and art fairs using liquid nitrogen for at least a decade now... it might take 10 seconds instead of 3, but they do it without fancy (patentable) nozzles, etc.
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─Do tell. If the logic chain "When one of the most distinguished scientists on the planet Earth, when communicating an opinion in the area of his expertise, is tagged "racist" on a signal, and materially harmed, instead of listened to with respect, any other scientist will either never communicate an...
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:41] <exec> 08└─Remember, believing your own propaganda is the first step on the road to ruin.
[22:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:08] <exec> 08└─You're saying in jest what several of our frothier, foamier members say in earnest. Poe is rolling his his grave.
[22:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:38] <exec> 08└─You have some weird taste in porn...
[22:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Customs and Border Protection Predator Drone Observes Minneapolis Protests - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:39] <exec> 08└─Comprehend this! [twitter.com]
[22:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:28] <exec> 08└─tldr but I caught the last sentence: "increasing the cost of lobbying by a factor of 100 should be a very good thing" Yes. I would say increase the number of legislators and pay them very well. Make it an attractive, reasonably stable job and you'll get quality people. The current system grossly fav...
[22:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:29] <exec> 08└─It's not just that the owner gets a cut of your work, he pays significantly lower tax on it than you do.
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[23:21:43] <exec> 08└─In the COVID-19 economy the only businesses allowed to be open are grocery stores and pharmacies. Every other business is closed by Boomer decree as non-essential to Boomers. The grocery store employs armed guards to enforce social distancing to protect the Boomers. I tried to buy food at the grocer...
[23:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.kroger.com/p/kroger-deluxe-lowfat-watermelon-chocolate-chip-sherbert/0001111004914 [kroger.com]
[23:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and there's countless WW2 movies of the troops on the Pacific islands chilling their beers with the CO2 extinguisher too. I guess the patent is for the machine itself.
[23:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:06] <exec> 08└─The physical principle has long been known. A real machine which uses that principle to make ice cream easily and conveniently is what was patented. I think this is one of those old-timey patents that actually describes an invention rather than the vague shite lately that claims anything even remote...
[23:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:08] <exec> 08└─Couldn't another nozzle blast the chunks into the emerging icecream stream? Or there's always doing mix-ins cold stone style.
[23:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Instant Ice Cream Patented - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─Could you add things like M&Ms, cookie dough, chocolate chips etc after the ice cream is sprayed out? Perhaps have these poured into the chamber in which the ice cream is being jetted out?
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Energy Sources Surpassed Coal in the U.S. in 2019 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe they did not like screechy old hag?
[23:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:16] <exec> 08└─In the COVID-19 economy the only businesses allowed to be open are grocery stores and pharmacies. Every other business is closed by Boomer decree as non-essential to Boomers. The grocery store employs armed guards to enforce social distancing to protect the Boomers. I tried to buy food at the grocer...
[23:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:43] <exec> 08└─Learn to code. You will hear rumors that coders command huge salaries of at least six figures. This is a lie. The most you will earn during your coding career is zero. Free open source software is free and open source. Nobody will pay you to write code that everybody can take from you for free. You...
[23:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Replaces Around 50 MSN News Editors With Algorithms - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:45] <exec> 08└─Today it's MS and their news, tomorrow a bot might be commenting in this very site.
[23:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Isle of Eigg and the Possibilities of Building a New Economy - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:39] <exec> 08└─Struggles because human brain has evolved to live in small groups. The first civilization, Sumerian, dates 5,000 years ago. Before, human kind lived in small grups, little tribes or clans. That's how our brain is wired. 5,000 years is too short time to evolution. Moreover, even in the last 5,000 yea...
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[23:28:36] <exec> 08└─In agreement with the other responses, and I pretty much hate the whole SMR concept in that the controller has to go back and re-write tracks, hence the big delays. That said, it's conceivable that a RAID controller could be designed to take SMR write delay issues into account and compensate, or at...
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