#Soylent | Logs for 2017-12-21

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[00:26:12] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Florida Company Using ‘Solar Cell of the Future’ to Develop 500W, ~24% Efficient Panel - http://sylnt.us - renewable-sources-FTW
[00:32:03] <mrpg> http://www.20minutos.es
[00:32:04] <upstart> ^ 03TVE responde a una queja porque un personaje de 'El Ministerio del Tiempo' dice "hostia puta"
[00:33:13] <mrpg> a TV program character used catholic words as a swear, someone wrote to the station to complain. Was told sorry, but it is in the dictionary as a swear word.
[00:33:38] <mrpg> Thanks for watching.
[00:34:03] <mrpg> It was a decent complain, not an alt-right one.
[01:56:18] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - "Negative Capacitance" Transistors Demonstrated - http://sylnt.us - breaking-the-thermionic-limit
[03:46:55] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - 'Brain-on-a-Chip' to Test Effects of Biological and Chemical Agents, Develop Countermeasures - http://sylnt.us - smart
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[05:18:03] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Microsoft Ends the Use of Forced Arbitration in Sexual Harassment Cases - http://sylnt.us - moving-forward
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[06:56:00] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - A Contraceptive Gel for Men Is About to Go on Trial - http://sylnt.us - if-you-build-it-they-will-come
[08:09:10] <chromas> https://imgur.com
[08:27:07] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - A Watch Only A Ham Can Use - http://sylnt.us - 0.7734
[10:06:36] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver - http://sylnt.us - Vulkans-cannot-lie
[10:42:35] <TheMightyBuzzard> coffee++
[10:42:35] <Bender> karma - coffee: 3818
[11:16:25] <TheMightyBuzzard> aight, i'm on the road for the next ten hours or so. if yall break the site you'll have to get someone else to fix it.
[11:47:50] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Sets Up at Cape Canaveral Ahead of Launch - http://sylnt.us - complacency-disrupticons
[13:15:40] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Congress is Sneaking Through a Major Expansion of NSA Surveillance Powers - http://sylnt.us - christmas-tapping
[14:57:55] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - NASA New Frontiers Finalists: Comet 67P Sample Return and a Titan Drone - http://sylnt.us - bye
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[16:36:23] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Meta: A Quick December Update - http://sylnt.us - sic-semper-insectus
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[17:58:06] <Bytram> pushed out 4 stories to give us some breathing room, have an appointment in about an hour... then need to run some errands. Hope I might be able to check back in later.
[18:00:22] <Bytram> #g VLC
[18:00:22] <MrPlow> https://www.videolan.org - "Official download of VLC media player, the best Open Source player."
[18:00:32] <Bytram> #g VLC wikipedia
[18:00:33] <MrPlow> https://en.wikipedia.org - "VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a free and open-source, portable and cross-platform media player and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone, Android, Tizen, iOS."
[18:05:14] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Hackers Take Control of Security Firm’s Domain, Steal Secret Data - http://sylnt.us - next-one:-santa
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[18:16:09] <Bytram> okay, pushed out one more story... gotta go.
[18:16:13] <Bytram> laters!
[19:36:21] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - IOC Unveils the Scarlet Badge for Russian Olympians - http://sylnt.us - badge-of-[dis]honor
[21:16:35] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Repairing a 1960s-era IBM Keypunch: Controlled by Mechanical Tabs and Bars - http://sylnt.us - I-read-this-on-my-mobile-phone
[21:23:49] <notsulla> God student loans suck. Was investigating the difference between two federal loans of same amount and interest with two different loan handlers. Were accumulating at different rates
[21:24:04] <notsulla> My contract has it accumulate monthly, yet one of the companies is doing it daily
[21:24:55] notsulla is now known as sulla
[21:25:10] <sulla> Skummy as hell
[22:45:56] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Study Finds Online Interest in Sex Rises at Christmas, with More Births Nine Months Later - http://sylnt.us - when-fixing-card-punches-is-not-exciting-enough
[22:49:27] <Bytram> sulla: if that really is the case, there's an excellent chance you are not the only one who is being affected -- might find a friendly lawyer who wants to take on a class action suit? Think of the [older] children!!
[22:57:58] <sulla> Problem is those loans are owned by the state of alaska
[22:58:17] <sulla> Im only 1.5 years from paying them off with my accelerated plan, so not gonna worry
[22:58:48] <Bytram> good you're not overly concerned about it.
[22:59:46] <sulla> Mostly just pissed
[22:59:59] <sulla> I filled multiple complaints with the fed loan agency
[23:00:01] <Bytram> nod nod
[23:00:04] <Bytram> hmmm
[23:00:30] <Bytram> just find a lawyer with a kid who has one of those loans... and let nature run its course?
[23:00:57] <sulla> I have a guy who has good connections and could take it on, but is unavailble til after I am paid off
[23:01:10] <Bytram> nod nod
[23:01:37] <sulla> Difference in accumulation would be 10k or so if I paid normal, but im fortunate enough to use whole salary on debt so ill only accum 400 or so extra dollars by the time im paid off
[23:01:46] <Bytram> I'm curious -- is the laod directly from the state or just guaranteed by the state?
[23:02:01] <sulla> The feds chose the state as the loan officer
[23:02:01] <Bytram> s/laod/loan/
[23:02:01] <upstart> <Bytram> I'm curious -- is the loan directly from the state or just guaranteed by the state?
[23:02:18] <Bytram> IOW is a bank possibly making a windfall?
[23:02:34] <sulla> The state is definitely pocketing the difference
[23:02:46] <Bytram> :(
[23:03:05] <sulla> I will probably follow up with my lawyer friend once im paid off and stable and he is available
[23:03:15] <Bytram> good plan
[23:03:19] <Bytram> and, good luck!
[23:03:56] <sulla> Yeah. My biggest beef is that it threw off my 15 year fiscal plan and I had to rework it over comparitively small amounts
[23:04:11] <sulla> That and usury being a sin and all
[23:05:19] <Bytram> gotcha
[23:09:12] <Bytram> break time -- dishes