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[00:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:36] <exec> 08└─How can they boot them off the developer platform? Is it only possible to write mac os software with a subscriptions based IDE? Can't you just buy the IDE? Can't you just use gcc?
[00:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:38] <exec> 08└─The Emperor telling Darth Vader to bring his son to the dark side, vader proceeding to try and cut a side deal with Luke Skywalker, and then Palpatine frying his son in front of him when Vader says 'You're not my Daddy anymore!' :) P.S. Did anyone else get a ridiculously gay vibe from Palpatine/Vade...
[00:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─I suppose he's considered racist shit today, but remember, he was the Trust Buster. Give credit where it's due. Apple/Android stores are definitely a trust/duopoly/gate keepers to serve the corporate interests. Too bad, instead of Roosevelts, we have Trumps.
[00:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─They don't get blocked from the tools, they get blocked from being able to release in the App store, and without a developer account, they can't even push to an iPhone. But, they can still use the tools to compile.
[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─Susan B. Anthony is considered racist shit today. Don't sweat it.
[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:46] <exec> 08└─One problem with your theory. Ani Skywalker knocked up a chick. Palpatine could have chosen any member of the celibate priestly order of Jedi (c.f. Catholic priests) but he picked the one incel who strayed and got a girl preggers. Obi Wan, well he was definitely in the closet. Or maybe that was just...
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:48] <exec> 08└─Next year, all Epic/Unreal mobile games on Huawei, boosting Huawei's business greatly. Then, Google kicks Unreal stuff from Google Play, ordered by decree of some funky President... After that, Huawei's business boosted even more. Fools, what do you expect? It was gaming what made funny PC a platfor...
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─Apple/Android stores are definitely a trust/duopoly/gate keepers to serve the corporate interests.
[00:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 1925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a road trip is very doable, in a Tesla. And that is about what I expected, half an hour to get 200 miles of range. 20% to 33% longer travel time is not thrilling, but livable. It's the other electric cars that are unacceptable. I own an old Nissan Leaf (2011) I got used, for cheap. The b...
[00:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:33] <exec> 08└─You can charge off the interplanetary ionic filaments. Seven planets have been here since at least 2011, you can check out how to see them on facebook.
[00:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:35] <exec> 08└─most people don't drive 300 miles at a time. Daily US average is about 26 miles per day [statista.com] most trips in the US are under the average EV range - actually up to 95% [greencarreports.com] Anti-EV logic in SN seems to follow these options: "EVs don't suit some of my trips, so they are usele...
[00:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Army Report Describes North Korea's Cyber Warfare Capabilities - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:03] <exec> 08└─That's just tactical option. Shopping in China via VPN located in USA is rather difficult lately.
[00:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First US Face Transplant Recipient Dies, Leaving an Important Legacy - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:36] <exec> 08└─Well if they give people who kill others only 10 years, what would you give someone in this case? *note I do not suppor the punishment either.
[00:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:40] <exec> 08└─Imagine? This is life in China. Fan Bingbing had a social score of zero. Her bank accounts were drained. No need to imagine.
[00:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:41] <exec> 08└─Hey, don't feel too bad... My favorite electronic schematic capture program of all time, Futurenet Dash 2, runs under DOS! And I still support what I did over 30 Years ago, and see supporting it for the rest of my life. Granted I will use EAGLE 4 and 6 if PCB is involved. But for simple wiring captu...
[00:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Bought Location Data Pulled From Common Apps - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:56] <exec> 08└─The cameras mounted inside of the Federal building, which were used to identify rioters in Portland? That video wasn't purchased. Do YOU think about the shit you write?
[00:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret Service Bought Location Data Pulled From Common Apps - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:58] <exec> 08└─Do you remember google when asked about apps having internet access by default his that permission under layers of screens? Assholes. The Play website also obscured access to it.
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[01:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:01] <exec> 08└─I always figured they considered Ani too old to be a Jedi because he'd remember having balls -- as the procedure for inducting young males into the Jedi includes castration. An ovariectomy would be done for the females (or appropriate surgery for whatever goes for the non-human species). Sure enough...
[01:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:02] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah. All white people are racist. Hadn't you heard?
[01:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:05] <exec> 08└─To be fair, in this case it was more like Apple saying "I am not altering the deal. Pray I continue to tolerate your presence".
[01:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:07] <exec> 08└─How does using their monopoly to hurt people using unreal engine not damage their case?
[01:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:49] <exec> 08└─The Leaf was a great city car, hobbled by Nissan choosing not to actively cool the battery (the Tesla will turn on the A/C to cool the battery if it gets too hot outside, even sitting in my garage) which caused a lot of battery degradation, especially in hot areas. They were also really early in the...
[01:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:50] <exec> 08└─Based on what little the Newsweek article one can finally get to from that link which actually contains a video snippet of the speech around that part, yup, those words did come out of his mouth. Now, the 'property value' drop -- on that point he is generally right. Most nimby folks are not going to...
[01:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:53] <exec> 08└─Self driving is orthogonal to the powerplant driving the car forward. An ICE vehicle can be just as much, if not more, self driving than an EV. So "self driving" isn't a benefit nor a curse of an EV or an ICE. Eventually the remaining ICE vehicles will gain self driving abilities as well.
[01:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:55] <exec> 08└─most people don't drive 300 miles at a time.
[01:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 U.S. Army Report Describes North Korea's Cyber Warfare Capabilities - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:24] <exec> 08└─Played with things that can hurt. Not cards. Can they do this? Or are they. bluffing? And, knowing how fragile my own glass house is, rift with backdoors, and my own ignorance, I certainly don't go to bed at night, thinking my infrastructure will function as surely as the tools in grandpa's toolbox...
[01:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First US Face Transplant Recipient Dies, Leaving an Important Legacy - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:59] <exec> 08└─I must be transforming into a boomer, but I don't find wishing someone to die funny.
[01:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First US Face Transplant Recipient Dies, Leaving an Important Legacy - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:00] <exec> 08└─They should go after him for murder now. Hard to prove that it didn't shorten her life.
[01:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First US Face Transplant Recipient Dies, Leaving an Important Legacy - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:02] <exec> 08└─I've started putting together a lulz track for my wake. My daughter wants to turn me in to a tree but I want a flush party.
[01:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, Incidentally, please do not come to me about supporting a later version of DASH. They went DRM. The later versions are unsupportable. Do it over in another "modern" system that won't work in five years. You've missed the window of opportunity for stuff that works forever.
[01:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:10] <exec> 08└─I am mad enough about many phones not supporting Miracast, which is a simple peer-to-peer streaming protocol, Also known as "wireless hdmi", which allows video streams over a local link, private, not involving Google or the internet in any way. It's problem is you could watch a downloaded movie on y...
[01:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Gene Therapy Approach Eliminates Over 90% Latent HSV-1 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:22] <exec> 08└─> and essentially ruins a young person’s dating life. That's a positive.
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[02:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:59] <exec> 08└─Will hydroponics be cheaper than importing food?
[02:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:00] <exec> 08└─Well, they do want cheap labor
[02:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:02] <exec> 08└─That I cannot argue against!
[02:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:05] <exec> 08└─Food. That is just another noose someone else can not use to compel you to their command. Dependency is a bad thing. Not everyone is just, compassionate, understanding, or nice. It's a fishbowl full of piranhas at the executive leadership level. Star Trek explored this meme in "Far Point". Talk to t...
[02:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marvell ThunderX3 ARM Server CPU Will Have Up to 60 Cores Per Die, with 96-Core Dual-Die Option - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:37] <exec> 08└─Better pricing shouldn't be too far off... https://www.notebookcheck.net [notebookcheck.net] 24 core on a cheap(ish) SBC?
[02:23:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 1391 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:47] <exec> 08└─For EVs, typical recharge rates for the so called "Level 2" 240V charging station, which can be considered a base line of sorts, have been 20 miles per hour. (Level 1 is 120V and roughly twice as slow.) It's like refilling a gas tank through the needle of a syringe. If you do have faster options, su...
[02:23:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 1795 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:56] <exec> 08└─You asked. I own a Tesla Model 3 with 300 miles of range. It takes 20-30 minutes to add about 200 miles of range to the car, and another 30 minutes to add the remaining 100 miles, if I pull into a Supercharger with a fully discharged battery. On long trips, I never charge to 100% because of that tim...
[02:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:12] <exec> 08└─In parts of Australia the main highway locations are more expensive [fuelcheck.com.au], but the truck pumps charge the same as the car pumps I have owned a few diesels, and preferred the high flow truck pumps - just because they were faster - these days you see "high flow" buttons on normal car dies...
[02:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:13] <exec> 08└─hence most, not all
[02:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:16] <exec> 08└─I think it is true around the world that on-highway filling stations are more expensive. There's convenience, drivers don't have to leave the highway and hunt for a station. There's the concession fee, franchisees pay to get a spot at the service plaza, because there are many customers passing by.
[02:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First US Face Transplant Recipient Dies, Leaving an Important Legacy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:22] <exec> 08└─OK go away now and retake civics.
[02:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:53] <exec> 08└─JavaScript? Sure, so great people block it.
[02:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-mozillas-layoffs-and-google-news-made-me-rethink-my-browser-of-choice/ [techrepublic.com]
[02:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Claims its RISC-V Core is Faster than ARM Cortex-A73 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:57] <exec> 08└─And a wallet hit. And a compatibility hit. I'd be interested in playing with one just for yucks, but I can't see a Riscberry Pi turning up any time soon.
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[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─carefully controlling light and irrigation as well as recycling 90 percent of the water it uses.
[03:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:41] <exec> 08└─And yet you must lest ye be seen a fool.
[03:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:43] <exec> 08└─That is just another noose someone else can not use to compel you to their command.
[03:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─Vertical is important to some greenhouse operations. https://www.instructables.com [instructables.com] Water for irrigation comes from a fish tank, filters through the gravel/soil in the growing beds, then returns to the fish tank, carrying nutrie...
[03:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe ALL farmland should eventually be converted into wide, flat greenhouses that recycle/capture water.
[03:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:50] <exec> 08└─"Flat farming" can never rival the more dramatic vertical schemes for yield per acre.
[03:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:10] <exec> 08└─Keep it up and their value could fall below $2trillion Interesting fact: If someone paid you a $1/mile shipping fee and the destination was 1 light-year away, how much would you earn? $5.88trillion
[03:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:11] <exec> 08└─Dude, you get gay vibes from EVERYTHING!
[03:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:13] <exec> 08└─Cash on delivery, right? None of us here would ever earn the money.
[03:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:15] <exec> 08└─similar idea: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:18] <exec> 08└─Don't know about that, but you certainly are a dipshit.
[03:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:08] <exec> 08└─The physics of energy storage and rate of release do not look good right now. Maybe that will improve. But for now, I am keeping my ice. And will not only vote against any individual politician. But his whole party, if I am threatened. I already had to vote Democratic after the Republicans unanimous...
[03:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:09] <exec> 08└─Yup, I have one too. I know exactly what you are saying. It's based on engines which usually last a million miles. And will run on French fry oil in a pinch.
[03:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 1826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:49] <exec> 08└─You don't need scripting to make the web work. End of story. You also don't need compiling to bytecode if you're not trying to make web pages into "apps". Plain text and HTML. No css - let the user decide how the pages render, which was the original goal. But W3C fucked that up by trying to answer...
[03:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Gene Therapy Approach Eliminates Over 90% Latent HSV-1 - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:39] <exec> 08└─Bell's palsy is not harmless and it can be caused by the endemic¹ HSV1. I speak from personal experience... About five years ago, this virus probably² flared and the inflammation progressively paralyzed one side of my face including the eyelids. The sequels are partly my fault tought. A misplaced...
[03:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Police to Trial Facial Recognition System That Detects Your Mood - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:05] <exec> 08└─Right, I was just thinking of the programming implications.
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[04:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:57] <exec> 08└─Hydroponic in Dubai? When they don't even have enough water for people? Why not bananas in siberia? This phoenix dude is dumb beyond ... can't think of anything as dumb.
[04:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:58] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai [wikipedia.org]
[04:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:00] <exec> 08└─Love marty, but he's "up" there in the dummy derby, going by the stuff he posts.
[04:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:02] <exec> 08└─Well, if you can feed yourself, others cannot use a food sanction against you with devastating result. It carries extreme risk to depend on someone else for anything. Monopoly pricing ensues. Unless you have a free market.
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:05] <exec> 08└─almost every article I could find just read like a copy paste from a press release. this [msn.com] at least has some images form inside the farm, Looks like they are controlling everything from light colour and cycle, to nutrient supply, so chances are it will be very efficient - and minimizing wate...
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:07] <exec> 08└─Solar power provides the necessary electricity pretty cheaply. If you dive deep into the consumption of resources, solar isn't a perfect answer, but it does cut the $$ expenditure a lot. Even on a larger commercial scale, you're not using a lot of energy to pump a little water up three, or six, or e...
[04:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:09] <exec> 08└─Well, if you can feed yourself, others cannot use a food sanction against you with devastating result.
[04:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:11] <exec> 08└─What cannot be controlled must be destroyed. And we're right onto that.
[04:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:14] <exec> 08└─You're not thinking things through. The scarcer water is, the more important hydroponics become. I have little reason to conserve water where I live, because the rivers flow all year long, and never run out of water. Where there are no rivers, no lakes, you conserve, or die. The ideas put into use...
[04:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:16] <exec> 08└─http://www.kylesconverter.com/area-density/bushels-per-acre-to-tonnes-per-hectare [kylesconverter.com] Use whatever metric you like, but pick one in common use among farmers, please.
[04:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:18] <exec> 08└─You have the right to life, unless I change my mind.
[04:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:20] <exec> 08└─So, you oppose the idea of welfare states?
[04:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:22] <exec> 08└─One of the pioneers of this was New Alchemy Institute, on Cape Cod in MA. Some friends and I visited in the mid-1970s, very inspiring to see things growing everywhere, plants & fish, in different system designs, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ...
[04:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:48] <exec> 08└─How can they boot them off the developer platform? Is it only possible to write mac os software with a subscriptions based IDE? Can't you just buy the IDE? Can't you just use gcc?
[04:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:41] <exec> 08└─I would say that this shouldn't be a primary consideration of the building-electric-charging-station side of things. Just build the stations, and wait for eventual increases in hydrocarbon fuels to price those options out of the market leaving solar, wind, and other clean technologies as the inexpen...
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[05:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:20] <exec> 08└─Total cost per unit of food type. Like, what's the current price for is a ton of hydroponic wheat?
[05:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03rickatech [4150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:47] <exec> 08└─TFA seems to omit this is entirely Epic trying to do and end around payments through Apple’s App Store. The spin this is about Apple just hating all over Epic is overblown. Epic, feel free to build out your own smartphone device and ecosystem. Google Play is no different, the wildly fragmented And...
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[06:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover 30 New Species in Galapagos Depths - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:50] <exec> 08└─Efforts to preserve the other 1 are being considered.
[06:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Discover 30 New Species in Galapagos Depths - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:51] <exec> 08└─That was my question: which ones taste like chicken?
[06:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North American Cold-Climate Forests are Already Absorbing Less Carbon, Study Shows - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:59] <exec> 08└─Oh, those ruskies. In Soviet Russia, carbon absorbs the forests?
[06:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North American Cold-Climate Forests are Already Absorbing Less Carbon, Study Shows - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:02] <exec> 08└─OK cut them down. Plant some fast growing bamboo. Maybe when the cold climate trees decide they're not "too good" for hot weather, they might start growing again. There's a subsistence job for them when they do.
[06:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:33] <exec> 08└─Solar power provides the necessary electricity pretty cheaply.
[06:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:35] <exec> 08└─1. What is the popularity of wheat in Dubai? 2. If wheat is liked well enough that Dubai grows it, we'll soon learn the price. 3. current wheat prices - https://markets.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] The real point is not the price of wheat, or any other commo...
[06:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-are-the-sources-of-drinking-water-in-dubai.html [worldatlas.com]
[06:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:58] <exec> 08└─If you've never stopped at Love's, you might not understand the cultural significance of this. Love's is a truck stop that also serves "4-wheelers". It's always seemed like a kind of redneck haven to me, in a nice way. It's the kind of place where you can get the basic fast-food sort of stuff, or fu...
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[07:22:40] <exec> 08└─Nautilus, with live streaming, from 5 years ago? Why does not this have "Breaking Nudibranches" tag?
[07:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:23] <exec> 08└─The point seems to be independence from outside influences.
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[08:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:43] <exec> 08└─Women who speak against men should be killed, no matter the country. Men deserve to marry cute little girls. Women universally oppose this. They are heretics. Xi should kill her, and make a race of girls that stay girls.
[08:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:35] <exec> 08└─I am sad to report that not nearly as many of us want to be free as the ultra-left liberals like to pretend. The domineering you see from radical ideologies (whatever definition they qualify under) is quite apart from actual common human wants and needs. Most people just want to be minimally comfort...
[08:24:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:00] <exec> 08└─How can they boot them off the developer platform? Is it only possible to write mac os software with a subscriptions based IDE? Can't you just buy the IDE? Can't you just use gcc?
[08:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:56] <exec> 08└─That, and *charging time*. Most charging is to 80% of battery capacity. And most chargers are not 'level 3' chargers. In short, driving 200 or 300 miles, then stopping for 4 hours to charge to 50%, isn't 'range'. With ICE, 2 minutes later, I have 100s of miles more range. And more battery isn't the...
[08:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:58] <exec> 08└─A person can drive for 5 hours, get lunch, drive for 5, get dinner, etc, etc. And gas breaks are "a break" too, one can make them 15 minute breaks. Yet you WILL NOT drive 1400miles a day in any electric car today. It takes waaaaaaay too long to charge the batteries. WAY too long. First, you cannot w...
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[09:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:37] <exec> 08└─Men are the Engineers, Scientists, Programmers, Construction workers that build the actual country and technology. But women are the ones who benefit (men do not; everything is stolen from them). Yet the Women always complain and seek to undermine what they rest on.
[09:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:29] <exec> 08└─"It's a green revolution in the middle of the desert,"
[09:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Comptine [5707] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 U.S. Army Report Describes North Korea's Cyber Warfare Capabilities - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:22] <exec> 08└─Meh, they already tested them all...
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[10:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:40] <exec> 08└─I'll just connect it to my unlimited supply of chilled water
[10:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:41] <exec> 08└─So is this like the Hydroxychoroquinine of air conditioners? Science, Soylentils, it's what's for dinner! Not claptrap hockum like this. Have some Oleandrin and adrenachrome, while you're at it!
[10:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:43] <exec> 08└─Its a big expense to run even a small 500W AC all day using solar power, would be great to cool wirh half the panels, batteries, etc.
[10:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:54] <exec> 08└─Is there no more love for him? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] or if you prefer text: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[10:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:56] <exec> 08└─Yep, the department for this article was a joke on that.
[10:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:51] <exec> 08└─That damn entropy thing again...
[10:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:19] <exec> 08└─TFA seems to omit this is entirely Epic trying to do and end around payments through Apple’s App Store... Epic, feel free to build out your own smartphone device and ecosystem.
[10:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:20] <exec> 08└─Umm, there is a difference between apple and google/android. With android, all you need to do is make one single settings change in order to download software on your own and run it on your phone. With apple you need to jailbreak your phone and cut off any future apple updates. (and why I doubt the...
[10:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:18] <exec> 08└─Most people also don't have a Miata. Not practical enough. Unlike EVs, though, nobody is saying everyone has to get rid of their current car and switch to a Miata.
[10:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:59] <exec> 08└─You can bet the same interests that sinked mozilla will taint the rust foundation. But the latter has more chances to survive, if anything because now the actual devs know the drill.
[10:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:00] <exec> 08└─I wish I could just sit back and eat popcorn, but unfortunately, pretty much every IT person (like you and me) is in the middle of all this. I've said this exact same thing before years ago (and I know you have too). Isn't it amazing how many people call us luddites? I find the idea of writing a ful...
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[11:22:51] <exec> 08└─Even if this worked, dehumidification is a very important benefit of A/C. It's not something you can do without.
[11:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:03] <exec> 08└─Putting aside the (numerous and grotesque) human rights and centralization of power issues (that similarly applies to the POTUS office), you don't want private enterprise getting anywhere near non-commodities. At least in China, when a party official is corrupt you have a small chance of taking them...
[11:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03webnut77 [5994] (Score: 1) 02 - 06North American Cold-Climate Forests are Already Absorbing Less Carbon, Study Shows - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:21] <exec> 08└─Trees are one of humans' biggest allies in the fight against climate change, soaking up around 30% of the carbon we pump into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel.
[11:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 2057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:29] <exec> 08└─I expect apples fanbois to completely ignore information like this and continue to love their overpriced computers/phone as well as their rose-scented flatulence. (ofc, only they think it smells like roses.) Instead, they will probably b!tch about epic and how the developers of programs that they us...
[11:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:10] <exec> 08└─I just chime in to say your trolling style was passe around the time modems got to 2400 baud. Just trying to be helpful.
[11:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:11] <exec> 08└─Therefore the filter works as expected NOTABUG WONTFIX
[11:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:13] <exec> 08└─from TFA >So, I was always on the precipice of making Vivaldi my default desktop browser. I realize it's not open source, but my mantra is: The best tool for the job. OH yeah I heard that mantra before, except none of those best tools are still around with any significant traction LOL.
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[12:23:05] <exec> 08└─This is buried somewhat down in the article: When the system was running, most participants reported feeling “cool” or “comfortable,” despite an average air temperature of 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit).
[12:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:07] <exec> 08└─Most places have groundwater at mean annual temperature - including day and night, so during the hot daytime the groundwater is quite a bit colder. Around here, a 200' well gets easy access to water at ~64F, I might wish it to be colder for a chiller system, but when it's 90+F outside, 64 is pretty...
[12:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:18] <exec> 08└─Those of us who watch Tiffany have been aware of rumblings in the CCP for a while and with China's other problems, "oh bother" doesn't really cover it. [youtube.com]
[12:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:43] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's just the iPhones setting off all the gaydar since iPhones are so incredibly gay.
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[13:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─>The object skimmed Earth's atmosphere over the weekend, close enough to have its orbit changed by the planet's gravity. You don't say? The moon is close enough to have its orbit changed by the Earth's gravity. Heck *Mars* is close enough to have its orbit changed by the Earth's gravity. Even Pluto...
[13:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:38] <exec> 08└─Astronomers have identified an asteroid that’s just made the closest pass to Earth ever recorded – and it was only spotted after it had passed. The object skimmed Earth’s atmosphere over the weekend, close enough to have its orbit changed by the planet's gravity.
[13:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─dehumidification is a very important benefit of A/C. It's not something you can do without.
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:53] <exec> 08└─Psychology is a big part of comfort. Post menopause, my wife isn't comfortable in the house unless it's under 72F in the summer, and over 76F in the winter.
[13:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:55] <exec> 08└─You're on crack, 30C is unbearable. Anything over 22C is too hot.
[13:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:57] <exec> 08└─Do note the "For those of us more accustomed" part. Tis all what you are accustomed to. Where I'm at, 30C is nice and comfy. You might find it unbearable, but I won't. Went on a vacation to the virgin isles some years ago. The couple that ran the villa where we stayed worked the open air (roof, op...
[13:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:59] <exec> 08└─Is post menopause a psychological condition? I don't think so despite it having psychological symptoms. My take is that she probably has poor regulation of body temperature due to post menopause and perhaps other aging conditions, and perhaps to light body weight (high surface area to body mass).
[13:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:12] <exec> 08└─She is an upset lady. She says that China's government is corrupt from the top. There is one guy in charge and he runs things like the mafia. The party is what he says it is. The party Congress is scared to apply checks and balances and instead was forced to amend the Constitution to permit more ter...
[13:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:14] <exec> 08└─Putting aside the (numerous and grotesque) human rights
[13:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover 30 New Species in Galapagos Depths - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:24] <exec> 08└─Are they not all chicken-of-the-sea flavored? That said if they mostly live around 3400 meters down I guess they are safe from human fishing for the most part, submarine fishing just wont be economically viable.
[13:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North American Cold-Climate Forests are Already Absorbing Less Carbon, Study Shows - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:35] <exec> 08└─Do not challenge the orthodoxy or St Greta the Grumpy will come and stare at you.
[13:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:13] <exec> 08└─> And you can obtain it in vertical farms, right? Negligible footprint. The GP was talking about yield per acre. If you have a tower, then that casts a shadow over land nearby, so you can't put another tower there, or solar panels, or whatever (not forgetting plants need light to grow). The averaged...
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[13:24:15] <exec> 08└─How are the farmers going to harvest these vegetables after the jihadis behead them because the Koran does not allow hydroponic operations?
[13:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:44] <exec> 08└─I drive from Ontario to California in 4 days. Yes, 4 days.
[13:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:45] <exec> 08└─Aren't the Supercharger stations level 3 chargers? In other words, the ones in the article won't work anywhere near that fast.
[13:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:47] <exec> 08└─That is correct: most drivers don't cover much distance on a daily basis. Even EVs with range on the low end can cover the typical driver's daily needs. EVs with longer ranges can manage road trips; there are many videos online of people doing just that, in Colorado (harrumph! EVs can't work in a pl...
[13:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:49] <exec> 08└─It's not necessarily scarcity that I believe will drive the price up, as much as the "easy" oil mostly already being harvested, leaving us with oil that's harder to get to, or that needs more complex chemical processes to ready it as fuel. The more difficult drilling operations and more difficult ch...
[13:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 1779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:35] <exec> 08└─I'd settle for a Usenet news feed. Simple concept, and people could pick the news reader that matches their preferences for how the data was displayed. We have operating systems to run applications. Inserting a browser between the OS and the application is just another layer that brings its own prob...
[13:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:13] <exec> 08└─Why bother to include the government? No new legislation is needed to create this dystopia in most nations.
[13:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:15] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of a lot of TV show writers who think that the viewers will forget some plot point they don't want to address if they ignore it long enough. It never, ever works, as is evidenced by people who watch Pokemon who still ask about the GS Ball (which vanished about 20 years ago).
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[14:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:54] <exec> 08└─only 2,950 km (1,830 mi) above the surface
[14:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:13] <exec> 08└─Most places, except most major population centres. Oh, and we all just have to dig 200' wells under every property?
[14:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:14] <exec> 08└─Air conditioners are on the same physical principle as water cooled pipes...a reverse Carnot engine. The quantity of heat transferred from a hot reservoir to a cold reservoir is a function of the temperature difference...whether you used expansion of gas or conduction to water. So if you put the hea...
[14:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:16] <exec> 08└─The swampland population explosion started shortly after Donald J. Trump came to power.
[14:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─No, digging takes a long time, and when you hit bedrock, you'll wisely stop. Drilling is the way to go with wells. And frankly it doesn't have to be every property. Municipal wells supply water for thousands of houses and businesses. A place I used to work, which was the size of maybe 2 or 3 houses,...
[14:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:21] <exec> 08└─This FA essentially claims to make people feel cooler without actually cooling them, to the extent that people feel comfortable in the tropical heat and humidity of Singapore. If there really is any heat transfer taking place then any objects (or air) in the same room are also going to be cooled, an...
[14:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─Science, Soylentils
[14:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:25] <exec> 08└─Depends where you are. Where I am, duhumidification isn't so important. In fact if the high temperature is below about 100 F, I don't even turn on the AC. I just run a swamp cooler instead which cools air by adding moisture to it. Judging from my bill that costs a small fraction compared to the AC....
[14:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:27] <exec> 08└─You would still need to pump the water around a loop that goes 200 ft down in the ground, and up into ceiling panels. The overhead part will be heavy, and occasionally spring leaks. You can probably get enough energy for the pumping from solar, but not on overcast days or at night. Also, what does "...
[14:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:29] <exec> 08└─Article doesn't mention it but the (air) fan in ACs uses quite a bit of energy, and air isn't a great heat container compared to water. You could incorporate an efficient compressor / refrigerant system into the water cooling panels if needed and overall would consume much less energy than air-based...
[14:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:45] <exec> 08└─There was once an article about mafias, and one of the points was that in totalitarian regimes there is not much organized crime.
[14:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:47] <exec> 08└─you don't want private enterprise getting anywhere near non-commodities.
[14:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:49] <exec> 08└─"Is there no more love for him?" Come on, I thought everyone loves Winnie-the-Pooh
[14:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North American Cold-Climate Forests are Already Absorbing Less Carbon, Study Shows - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:11] <exec> 08└─Can doing anything you can to push reality really be called "propaganda" ? I suppose in the minds of trumptards it can.
[14:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North American Cold-Climate Forests are Already Absorbing Less Carbon, Study Shows - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:12] <exec> 08└─Surely it can be called propaganda. Propaganda isn't required to be false. The best propaganda actually *is* telling a limited part of the truth. That it's usually lies is just because that lets you shape your message freely, and it's easier to make.
[14:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:25] <exec> 08└─I got given a cheap Kindle android tablet with the intention of jailbreaking, but never got around to actually jailbreaking. It works just fine for checking the weather forecast. Amazon know most stuff about me any way (credit card, address, email address, phone number, purchase history tells them e...
[14:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:26] <exec> 08└─but you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to do so
[14:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:29] <exec> 08└─Why do you say Epic is a monopoly?
[14:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:31] <exec> 08└─The only annoying thing about my new identity as a racist is that I have all those hateful racists coming up to me thinking we're friends, thanking me for making them look nicer than they really are.
[14:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:34] <exec> 08└─I bet that everyone disliked ugly electric utility poles when electric service started taking off. But they loved how much it improved their lives. I bet that lots of people dislike ugly cell towers everywhere when cell service started taking off. But they loved how much it improved their lives. The...
[14:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Army Report Describes North Korea's Cyber Warfare Capabilities - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:06] <exec> 08└─U.S. Army Report Describes U.S. Cyber Warfare Capabilities would have been much more interesting article.
[14:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First US Face Transplant Recipient Dies, Leaving an Important Legacy - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:46] <exec> 08└─It maybe impossible to find EVERYONE who is crazy/dangerous and prevent them from having dangerous weapons. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to find those who are easily identifiable. We also can't prevent all pollution. Or all medical problems. Or all Facebook posts. That doesn't mean we shouldn'...
[14:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:07] <exec> 08└─Please fill in your email and personal information in the following form. You will be notified if we ever consider offering an option to unsubscribe. For statistical reasons only, you can expect a visit from our survey takers, in the middle of the night breaking down your doors.
[14:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:09] <exec> 08└─The beauty is no legislation is needed. Government has deniability. Government and industry would collude to create the dystopia. Possibly the big internet players would be nationalized for the common good of all comrades.
[14:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:11] <exec> 08└─If you get banned from Facebook, did you ever really exist? While no records will exist, some defective individuals in need of government retraining, will claim to recall that you once did exist.
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[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria that "Eat" Only Air Found in Cold Deserts Around the World - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─Before I even got to the line where the poster mentions alien worlds, I was already thinking . . . Could we find / manipulate a bacteria that could produce fuel from native Martian atmosphere and possibly soil, ice or frozen CO2?
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria that "Eat" Only Air Found in Cold Deserts Around the World - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─Is that list of elements sufficient to build bacteria? Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon?
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─True; however, a "warning" after the fact is completely useless. And spotting a small, well-lit object extremely close to the Earth is a useless test of our ability to detect large, poorly lit objects at a large distances which is what we really need warnings about. Had this thing been 10x the diame...
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:53] <exec> 08└─Ever been buzzed by a fighter jet? I guarantee that doesn't make a buzzing sound either. Funny how language works...
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:55] <exec> 08└─In space noone can hear you buzz. Does not mean the saw is not poised to trill the scree, or some such. After all, do i not read. Two in orbit does not one in the lee. Ummm, no more unto the speech....
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─Don't stop there. Think about it - the Earth's gravity is strong enough to hold the entire Universe spinning round it every day.
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:24] <exec> 08└─I imagine this would smell like a damp basement, because its essentially building a damp basement above ground level. It might take some getting used to... Another novelty about cold walls is the ever decreasing population that smokes tobacco and the ever increasing population that smokes weed; the...
[15:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:25] <exec> 08└─Humidity is constant - at 72F she feels hot, but only if it's hot outside. at 76F she feels cold, but only if it's cold outside. Some of this could be radiant heating/cooling near the windows, but she complains of the temperature when she's far from the windows... Yes, menopause screws up thermal re...
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─There are so many problems with this post that I wouldn't know where to start. It's a spaghetti ball of unstated assumptions.
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:46] <exec> 08└─The party Congress is scared to apply checks and balances and instead was forced to amend the Constitution to permit more terms for the leader.
[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:49] <exec> 08└─I think he's interfering with the USA election in a subtle way by making comparisons with the historical Clinton-Bama-Biden axis of evil. Basically accusing Xi Jinping of being Hillary Clinton, and guilt by association for Obama and Hair Sniffer Biden.
[15:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:51] <exec> 08└─What species? There's bulk calorie grain production, and then there's basil. I hydroponic grew basil and winter lettuce as an experiment for a couple years. Its labor intensive but survivable for amazing homemade pesto or world freshest salad in winter. I don't think it would work for bulk rice grai...
[15:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First US Face Transplant Recipient Dies, Leaving an Important Legacy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:37] <exec> 08└─There was no immovable line, read it again.
[15:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:58] <exec> 08└─> Government and industry would collude to create the dystopia > nationalized You miss my point, it is quite important. Government does not need to collude so a "Small Government" approach will yield the dystopia.
[15:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Gene Therapy Approach Eliminates Over 90% Latent HSV-1 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:12] <exec> 08└─https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/genital-herpes-stigma-history-explained.html [slate.com]
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[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Bacteria that "Eat" Only Air Found in Cold Deserts Around the World - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─Is that list of elements sufficient to build bacteria? Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon?
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria that "Eat" Only Air Found in Cold Deserts Around the World - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─The bacteria serve as a potential model for the form life could take on alien worlds.
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria that "Eat" Only Air Found in Cold Deserts Around the World - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─The energy comes from converting H2 to H20. It is not clear to me where the atmospheric H2 comes from; I guess it is H20 split by cosmic rays or sunlight? My guess is that the abundance of atmospheric H2 on Mars is rather low. I note that there is quite a bit of methane in the atmosphere. I wonder i...
[16:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─> "twice as close" Multiply by two to get a smaller number? That's just jarring. How about "almost half as far as the previous record-holder"? Makes more sense to me.
[16:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:57] <exec> 08└─Umm...no. The Earth's gravity touches everything within the universe, but it's effect is minuscule, even on most things within our own solar system. The universe does not spin around us, we spin in a universe that barely knows we exist. Relativity only applies to inertial reference frames, not spinn...
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─Then I recommend practicing your language skills - the meaning was perfectly clear to me, and clearly even you managed to figure it out eventually.
[16:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─So if you live in a humid environment then dehumidification might be desirable but expensive due to the high heat released when water vapor is condensed. If you live in a dry area dehumidification is not important but there little cost to the AC because there is little humidity in the air to condens...
[16:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:31] <exec> 08└─Err ... but there is little cost *
[16:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:33] <exec> 08└─I designed (but only partially built) an off-grid cabin with - potentially - a ground water chiller system of pipes in the ceiling of the sleeping area. My idea was to use copper pipe installed on a slope that would drain the condensate over to a gutter that would carry it outside, and yes, if you s...
[16:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:35] <exec> 08└─Super-cool! Yes, pun intended, but great project. Yeah, that condensate is a difficult problem if you don't want indoor rain. You're poisoned by capitalism- not all worthwhile projects are the least cost. You've learned, and are now sharing some of that. Imagine if everyone compiled what they learn...
[16:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe 200 ft. I have a 400' well but the water is often about 33 feet down. And the water going back down helps balance the water going up, so the net pumping energy is much less than you think.
[16:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:40] <exec> 08└─Err... if anything you can use a swamp cooler in a dry environment *
[16:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Discover 30 New Species in Galapagos Depths - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─Deep sea species are not "waiting for us." They are, however, dying from deep sea fishing in a mass extinction that makes the genocides of European expansion in the 1800s look like Mother Theresa's best work by comparison.
[16:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:06] <exec> 08└─High-tech farmers
[16:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:43] <exec> 08└─I regularly drive 900 miles in my E-Class Diesel with an elapsed time of 14 hours.
[16:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:44] <exec> 08└─Give me a Flying J or give me death!
[16:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 U.S. Army Report Describes North Korea's Cyber Warfare Capabilities - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:17] <exec> 08└─That, of course, would be classified...
[16:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First US Face Transplant Recipient Dies, Leaving an Important Legacy - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:56] <exec> 08└─They should go after him for murder now. Hard to prove that it didn't shorten her life.
[16:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:37] <exec> 08└─Zero percent of donations will go to the continued development of Rust.
[16:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:39] <exec> 08└─b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bu muh WHITE VICTIMHOOD!!11!!11!!
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[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─I just poured hot grit down my pants. :P
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─What is Natalie Portman up to these days?
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─-nomsg
[17:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─Where the grits at?
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria that "Eat" Only Air Found in Cold Deserts Around the World - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:56] <exec> 08└─The energy comes from converting H2 to H20. It is not clear to me where the atmospheric H2 comes from; I guess it is H20 split by cosmic rays or sunlight?
[17:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bacteria that "Eat" Only Air Found in Cold Deserts Around the World - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:58] <exec> 08└─I mentioned ice to be sure I included a source of H's. Because I was thinking of methane. Without ice, the H's might have to be air dropped. Back in the Clinton days of war in the Balkans, I noticed that a lot of the words had way too many consonants, and a severe shortage of vowels. I was surprised...
[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria that "Eat" Only Air Found in Cold Deserts Around the World - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:00] <exec> 08└─They tried but the allocated funds somehow ended up in the Clinton's bank account.
[17:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─Even n maths (or in logc anyway) it makes sense: half is twice as small a one, because it is 1/2, the other is only 1/1.
[17:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:18] <exec> 08└─N==in ; logc==logic
[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:55] <exec> 08└─Um, you have to use circular logic, and realize the return line equalizes the pressure
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─Even worse if they're the portable type that have everything inside the building with an exhaust vent to the outside. Rather than proper ones where the hot side of the machine is located outdoors with the energy being dissipated outside, rather than inside where it has to be cooled.
[17:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─So, to the penny pinchers and third world / developing countries. Sure, some people might be comfortable enough at 86F+ in the shade with a breeze, but I'd wager most Americans who live where it gets to 100F+ regularly, would want something that makes it substantially cooler.
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─That depends where you live. Perhaps in the deep South where humidity regularly approaches 100%, but not in areas like Arizona where the air has virtually no moisture at all. In areas like that, it can be helpful to use a swamp cooler just to add back the moisture that you need. It's also worth real...
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:03] <exec> 08└─I used to live just north of the tropics and one of the things that I learned is that it's generally less about the temperature than it is about how you manage it. Yes, there is a point where you cannot manage it other than with air conditioning, but around the world there have been some brilliant s...
[17:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:05] <exec> 08└─Second time I've seen this. In a circular system you are not pumping against gravity.
[17:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:07] <exec> 08└─It's not only the money, it's also the time cost - which, ultimately, is why the cabin was never finished: not enough time to build it. Capitalism means you can just go to WallyWorld and buy a $200 AC unit and have it installed in less than an hour - as opposed to sourcing a truck full of copper pip...
[17:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:09] <exec> 08└─Hit send quick before joining a conference call, but it's a 99% listen conference, so.... Cabin is built on an elevated deck, interior floor is ~8' above outside ground - quite a bit more breeze up off the ground. I built the deck, almost built the stairs, then life happened. Sold the property a cou...
[17:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:12] <exec> 08└─Standard A/C uses the refrigeration cycle (30 years since I took thermodynamics - it could be Carot, seems like most commonly used cycles were...) Cold pipes, on the other hand, are just cold pipes - any way you can make them: geothermal (Chicago has great potential for pulling cold water from the b...
[17:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:33] <exec> 08└─So, the secret police in the USSR / Nazi Germany, those weren't so terrible as far as human rights are concerned? As far as Human Rights are concerned, just go ask China about the Uighurs. Sure, the US populace's overall view of Muslim people took a sharp nose dive when 9/11 happened. Yet, we didn't...
[17:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not suggesting radical improvements. But I expect to see a stream of small improvements. Or we could just give up on EVs and believe that cheap fossil fuels will last forever. Not to mention problems of global warming.
[17:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First US Face Transplant Recipient Dies, Leaving an Important Legacy - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:29] <exec> 08└─She may well have died from a COVID infection or gangrene or any number of infections that would be very problematic for someone who's immune system isn't up to snuff. Now, perhaps she was physically, fully healthy. Then went skiing on some random lake and got an amoeba in her brain, which killed he...
[17:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:53] <exec> 08└─I think I get it. Government can be hands off. Let the dystopia happen. I just don't think that government can resist trying to get in on the action of a dystopia once it happens. Especially the "small government" crowd. And especially a permanent global dystopia. That would just be too good to be t...
[17:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:55] <exec> 08└─> Especially the "small government" crowd. That's the point - if one were to support the "small government" politic, then you end up in the dystopia. "Interventionalist government" is one of the few ways out of the dystopia.
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[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:45] <exec> 08└─Ceramic doesn't sound like great pavement material - maybe as a base layer, but the best top-layers are flexible and self-healing. Cracks in road surface collect water, and even if the water doesn't freeze and expand, if that grit gets suspended in a slurry then traffic driving over the grit-slurry...
[18:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─The germs that fill waste water plants absolutely stink to hell and back. And merely killing them does little to eliminate the macromolecules that your nose detects quite literally smelling like ass.
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─assfault?
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─My thoughts as well. Ceramic is great, when you need ceramic. Filling potholes is not a ceramic kind of need. Of course, the next question to come to my mind is, how is this stuff mixed up? Do the road crews need to pull along a trailer full of shit-slurry, and mix it as needed? Road crews have trad...
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─Finally, we can put assburgers to use!
[18:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─I've heard of a road being just plain shitty, but this is ridiculous.
[18:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:27] <exec> 08└─A warning after the fact is still knowledge of what it was, this is valuable for reasons gp outlined. Rest of your comment is valid, we need to see the obscure ones, especially if they matter.
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─"skimmed Earth's atmosphere...only 2,950 km (1,830 mi) above the surface" That's about thirty Karman Lines away.
[18:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:13] <exec> 08└─If you could afford to line your basement with copper, it would smell better - if not from the antimicrobial properties of the copper itself, just because if you can afford the copper, you can afford the cleaning staff to keep it wiped down and fresh smelling. Chilled water needs to be contained, an...
[18:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:15] <exec> 08└─I've known more than a couple people who've had the plumbing for the ice-maker in the fridge leak. Often the water comes from a 1/4" copper pipe run through the ceiling. When we were kids we watched a friends house on vacation to water the plants, feed their fish, etc. and it's a good thing we did b...
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[18:24:17] <exec> 08└─It's basically a siphon pump for the long-haul. The pump energy is just to overcome wall friction in the pipes (which is negligible at low flow rates), and whatever energy is required to suck the water out of the aquifer substrate and push it back in at the other end. The scary big lift energy is ba...
[18:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─86 is far from comfortable. My office is constantly 86 and it's miserable.
[18:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─The most affordable tech for cooling in the desert is evaporative, aka "swamp cooler". It works by forcing air through pads that are being soaked by recirculating water. It can be remarkably effective as long as the humidity is low. The water use is acceptable--I'm not sure how much water it uses on...
[18:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:24] <exec> 08└─Heh, I forgot, if the pipes are open at the bottom, gravity will be an issue. Drop in a submersible pump...
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:26] <exec> 08└─There are already a lot of water-carrying pipes in a dwelling, so I don't think this is a very large risk.
[18:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover 30 New Species in Galapagos Depths - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:59] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily... https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] "The scientists reviewed trawler logs for records of five deep sea by-catch species ... They found that levels of all the fish plummeted by 87%-98% over the 17 years, a rate that will see a decl...
[18:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I refer there every time I see someone post a link from some website I have never heard of as "fact".
[18:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:12] <exec> 08└─How in the hell does that work? The way I see it, interventionist governments are how we got into this mess globally. Regulatory capture to is too strong for any kind of "internal" intervention.
[18:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus to Begin Requiring Facebook Accounts to Use VR Headsets - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:14] <exec> 08└─That has been standard for years? I haven't seen a phone without it for a while.
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[19:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─The magnetic pole shifts are coming, once they start it is going to get wild.
[19:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:39] <exec> 08└─the vast growing anomaly is just part of the vast right wing conspiracy
[19:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:41] <exec> 08└─What could humans have done to cause this? Let's get Greta T. on the phone.
[19:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:31] <exec> 08└─On 10AUG1972, an object later called "The Great Daylight Fireball" passed within 57 kilometers of Earth's surface.
[19:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:23] <exec> 08└─The perceived temperature is a function of air velocity, air temp, radiation, RH and probably a few other things. From memory of the heat & vent course I took a million years ago, the major factors are included in the psychrometric chart, along with supporting information from ASHRAE. We always felt...
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[19:24:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, but most of them are large sturdy pipes, and most of them are not in the ceiling. The ice maker pipe has that odd tendency to be in the ceiling because it needs to go in at the top of the fridge and/or it's an afterthought. A cooler panel is probably going to have lots of little pipes in it, an...
[19:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, beyond 33' of lift you need to push instead of suck. Around here, the head on our 200' well is about 6' above ground level - flows into my tank without pump assist, but we still have a pump to get it to flow faster.
[19:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:28] <exec> 08└─If you have gravity flow, wouldn't a fatter pipe do the same thing without the pump?
[19:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:30] <exec> 08└─Yes but you want some actual pressure at your shower head, faucets, etc.- 20-60 PSI depending on preferences.
[19:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:53] <exec> 08└─Remember to call the overseer "Sir" and always speak politely to the Masters wearing suits. There's a concrete slab in a 10x10 cell waiting for anyone who dares to step out of line.
[19:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:54] <exec> 08└─They got here the same way everyone else does: the people complied to "reasonable" measures. Nobody likes crime, so we approve those investigative powers that they claimed. Those rebels are trying to corrupt the minds of our children, lock them up, kill them! Problems need solutions, and quick actio...
[19:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06High-Tech Farmers Sow Seeds of Revolution in Dubai Desert - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─That would be idiotic. We can exploit the water cycle and make these deserts into lush forests, bringing greater precipitation, refilling aquifers, and absorbing CO2. We don't, because politicians and executives prefer flashy short-term BS like the stuff you're proposing.
[19:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:43] <exec> 08└─How tall are you?! Sounds like you need a big-ass Escalade.
[19:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:44] <exec> 08└─The battery problem is what stands out to me the most. We need significant advances in batteries to even think about starting to replace the ICE with electric.
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[20:22:49] <exec> 08└─HAARP
[20:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:06] <exec> 08└─Yep, I came to say the same thing. Strength is nice and all, but for long-term durability you need to be able to flex to distribute stress without breaking, and that's where ceramics tend to be wanting (though I seem to remember hearing about a few types of flexible ceramics over the years)
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wastewater Grit May Find Use in "Green" Pothole Filler - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:07] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, heating to thousands of degrees, as is generally needed to create ceramics, does an incredible job of burning away any sort of organic molecules.
[20:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:43] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, for nuclear counter-strike purposes you pretty much have to launch immediately upon detecting the first strike (assuming you didn't detect the incoming missiles). If it is an attack, and you wait even a few minutes to get confirmation, it's probably safe to assume that subsequent stri...
[20:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─did you ever hear of general relativity? the Earth is at the origin of the universe, and for some reason the rest of the universe is spinning around us. it's spinning so hard, it's even dragging the earth's reference system a bit, which counteracts some of the Earth's gravitaty-induced space curvatu...
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:47] <exec> 08└─Agreed. "Twice as close" or "Twice as little" "Ten times smaller" makes no real sense at all, but a lot of people use the equivalent routinely. Immerman suggest practicing your language skills, but I suggest that people speak more precisely instead.
[20:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─If I live 3x normal I still won't have enough time to do all the projects I envision. I need to win a big lottery and hire a team. Guess I have to play to win... I envisioned you using soft copper tubing- no soldering. Now they make those nice aluminum heat spreaders for under-floor PEX heating. Pro...
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, we could expand our 4" well to 12" (if we could get a permit to drill such a big hole into the aquifer), and then we could run that 12" pipe over to our holding tank, the water comes out of the ground with a high Hydrogen Sulfide content, letting it outgas before bringing it into the house is a...
[20:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:47] <exec> 08└─Carot The Carot cycle is mostly used by Bugs Bunny. You could try the Carnot cycle, but I care not.
[20:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:49] <exec> 08└─:-) Just run two more 4" pipes... I kid I kid! I'm getting a clearer picture now... when the local municipal water supply tapped the aquifer and started pumping out of it
[20:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I like 60. Shower massage works better, and it's almost like having one of those high pressure washers in your kitchen. And for the water cannon, well, goes without saying...
[20:25:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:05] <exec> 08└─Putting aside the (numerous and grotesque) human rights
[20:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:16] <exec> 08└─If she is even partly right, how did they get here. Does the guy just like power, or does he think he has a good end and the means is justified, or something else?
[20:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:05] <exec> 08└─I drive from Ontario to California in 4 days. Yes, 4 days.
[20:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:07] <exec> 08└─I've unloaded in San Diego, come back to Yuma to load groceries for Toronto. It always took 72 hours or longer to drive to Toronto. Four days to drive it is at least somewhat respectable. It indicates that he may have stopped for a night's sleep along the way, which I didn't always do.
[20:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:09] <exec> 08└─They've had nearly 200 years to get them right, why are they still so shitty? (193, in case you're asking.)
[20:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:04] <exec> 08└─> Zero percent of donations will go to the continued development of Rust. And nothing of value was lost.
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[21:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─It is a normal fluctuation that we were previously unaware of. Hope nobody blames Africa
[21:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─Well, not Africa, per se. It's all Nelson Mandela's fault. This didn't happen before he ended apartheid, now did it? And, it didn't happen before Israel. It didn't happen before Columbus, either! There ya go - blame it all on Columbus, ben Gurion, and Mandela!
[21:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:01] <exec> 08└─There's a vast right-hand rule conspiracy involving magnetic fields. Find ur nearest EE and give him the password "Fleming" and we'll let you in on the secret conspiracy we're "generating". Get it, "Generating" ahem?
[21:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:59] <exec> 08└─You need to be warned: khallow will post something dumb as a top level post to this story - don't fall for the trap of trying to engage in supposedly scientific discourse with him by replying.
[21:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:00] <exec> 08└─Oh noes! You can't use the word "skim" either, as that's removing a solid layer from the surface of a liquid!
[21:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:02] <exec> 08└─Water damage is the biggest cause of property damage in the US. Even if you exclude natural disasters, it's still a huge sum of money from busted plumbing. Placing pipes in the ceiling is something you want to avoid, if at all possible as it spreads the possible damage out.
[21:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:04] <exec> 08└─I envisioned you using soft copper tubing- no soldering.
[21:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:31] <exec> 08└─Seems like that would fit China just as well, if not more so. People complain about the federal police taking people off the street in Portland, but those same people turn a blind eye to China disappearing its' own citizens. It's quite obvious. https://www.cnn.com
[21:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─He didn't say Epic is a monopoly, rather, "they also have monopolistic tendencies."
[21:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:26] <exec> 08└─Nobody would have switched to trucks in the first place if they weren't more efficient than rail freight.
[21:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:27] <exec> 08└─Isn't it wonderful how a response to a valid complaint about some posters' logic fails should be precisely one of the logic fails complained about. Maybe you should have thanked him for proving your point!
[21:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:29] <exec> 08└─Flying J are alright. But, if you remember the days of Union 76 truckstops, the Flying J doesn't compare. TA was competitive with 76, but they always lagged a little. Today, there is nothing left that is comparable.
[21:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:31] <exec> 08└─Which is a good reason to disguise them as trees [sun-sentinel.com] and other structures.
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[22:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:01] <exec> 08└─You're wrong! I read on some forum on the internet, this is the mole men coming to the surface to make war. It is splitting in two so the mole men armies can make a pincer move when they attack the surface.
[22:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:08] <exec> 08└─Use both, and you can chill your house to keep the bodies cold.
[22:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:10] <exec> 08└─Sorry you paid so much. I can't replace my 400' one, but I've pulled up a few 150-200' ones and changed a pump, replaced a bad check valve, fixed wire break, etc. It's normally 1" black polyethylene pipe. Some older ones would have used threaded steel and would need a derrick or something to pull th...
[22:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/Ft-Aluminum-Transfer-Radiant-Heating/dp/B009KT7PO6 [amazon.com] Pretty inexpensive. I was envisioning them behind something decorative. Again, maybe FRP?
[22:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:14] <exec> 08└─Why stop at 60? Your local home improvement store can hook you up with 4,000. Dirt gonesky! Hang all your dishes in with you- get everything clean at once. :) Now I'm going to have to try a pressure washer on some cookware...
[22:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:16] <exec> 08└─Most appliances and faucets, etc. are only built to handle up to 60. At 4000, you don't want to even get nicked by the stream
[22:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:43] <exec> 08└─OK we all know the guy gets upset with that Winne the Pooh stuff but where's the actual evidence that he's killing the country? Not doing as good a job as possible isn't the same as killing the country. So far the biggest damage to China seems more due to the efforts of the USA than Xi Jinping. Yeah...
[22:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover 30 New Species in Galapagos Depths - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:56] <exec> 08└─Once the Chinese fishing fleets have taken all the large predators, the world's oceans will be back to a time 500 million years ago when jellyfish were the dominant species. We are not too far away from that now.
[22:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North American Cold-Climate Forests are Already Absorbing Less Carbon, Study Shows - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:11] <exec> 08└─Can doing anything you can to push reality really be called "propaganda" ?
[22:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North American Cold-Climate Forests are Already Absorbing Less Carbon, Study Shows - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:12] <exec> 08└─What about "alternative facts"? Checkmate, atheists.
[22:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:33] <exec> 08└─Every source I've seen on the topic has said you need to do something like this [osxdaily.com], which is more than just a quick command-line option and done. It won't seem like much for people here, sure, but you have to consider how it seems for non-technical users (e.g. most macOS users). They're...
[22:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:35] <exec> 08└─Next year, ... ordered by decree of some funky President...
[22:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic-Apple Feud Could Also Affect Third-Party Unreal Engine Games - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:37] <exec> 08└─That does not matter. Any funky President will bully Huawei.
[22:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Car Charging Stations Head to Love's Travel Stops Across The US - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:52] <exec> 08└─"How you doing? You getting tired of driving, want to take a break?" "Woof!"
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[23:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:34] <exec> 08└─Sitting in the restaurant at the end of the universe, we all looked around, and, no, there were very few young stars. But, what would you expect? Why would anyone create a bunch of new stuff when the universe is dying anyway?
[23:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─This anomaly is well known in the world of space stuff, so it goes. Apparently your radiation hardened on board computer tends to crash when passing over it and allowances must be made. I was talking to this guy in the pub once.
[23:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:58] <exec> 08└─I read on some forum on the internet, this is the mole men coming to the surface to make war.
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─Has it merged with the 5G conspiracy yet? The Grand Unified Conspiracy.
[23:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:02] <exec> 08└─You've forgotten the hollow earth theory? And, the companion theory that the Nazis just ran and hid inside the earth? (Their first choice was the 'dark side of the moon', but their rockets weren't ready for the trip.) Anyway, it's likely an alliance between the mole men, the crabby creatures, AND th...
[23:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:01] <exec> 08└─Actually I've found Khallow can sometimes bring up good points, and be fun to argue with - and what do we come here for if not to argue with each other? And as a more general rule, I think we have a civic duty to ensure that any plausible-sounding misinformation presented in public get a solidly-gro...
[23:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:02] <exec> 08└─I see you have foiled me by cunningly engaging in non-scientific discourse.
[23:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:04] <exec> 08└─And spotting a small, well-lit object extremely close to the Earth is a useless test of our ability to detect large, poorly lit objects at a large distances which is what we really need warnings about.
[23:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Spot Closest Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Ever Recorded - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:07] <exec> 08└─Ever been buzzed by a fighter jet? I guarantee that doesn't make a buzzing sound either.
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:16] <exec> 08└─The submersible pump itself is I think $450, the idiot neighbor I share the well with called a service contractor who charged him double what he could have paid if he had shopped the deal. The one that died was put in by the local utility in the late 1960s, so, yeah, they last a while - or used to a...
[23:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:18] <exec> 08└─Nifty, and cheaper than the ones I was looking at... still, would work best for radiant heating/cooling if exposed. I think these are made to underlay concrete for hot water systems.
[23:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Cold Tube" Cooling System Uses Half the Energy of an Air Conditioner - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:20] <exec> 08└─Two... more... How do you think pipes are measured, in order that flow from 3x 4"would give equal flow to 1x 12"? Eeeeep.
[23:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:48] <exec> 08└─Hope she is wrong. A major reboot in China would affect the whole world.
[23:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Xi Jinping Facing Widespread Opposition in His Own Party, Insider Claims - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:49] <exec> 08└─People complain about the federal police taking people off the street in Portland, and then putting them back on the street.
[23:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Discover 30 New Species in Galapagos Depths - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:04] <exec> 08└─Anything that eats jellyfish will be in good shape - like the carboniferous period before there were fungi that could decompose wood, that won't happen again unless ALL the fungi are eradicated- they'll re-spread, fast breeding jellyfish eaters are probably all over just waiting for their moment...
[23:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First US Face Transplant Recipient Dies, Leaving an Important Legacy - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:08] <exec> 08└─Its worked a few times before. All it takes is one chronic condition associated with the injury.
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