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[00:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:07] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile Bernie has three houses, his wife is under investigation for fraud (she ran a Burlington College into the ground) and he's never around since he's a "national figure" - oh, and BTW, he only rails against billionaires now when he used to decry millionaires. Funny how he swapped the M for a...
[00:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:09] <exec> 08└─Let's forbid Amazon from hiring even one H1B tech worker to devop AWS anywhere because of GovCloud.
[00:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:11] <exec> 08└─So instead of these nonsensical personal attacks, how about you focus on policy? If you disagree with the policies that someone else is speaking about, explain why. Otherwise, you're saying nothing at all and are totally irrelevant.
[00:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:13] <exec> 08└─is what's popping.
[00:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=popcorn [amazon.com]
[00:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:18] <exec> 08└─You gonna peg it to the cost of living in Seattle? How about San Francisco? Boston? San Diego? There is a huge part of me that thinks if you have a job, you don't get welfare. There is a pissed off part of me that realizes that, for a lot of people, it pays better to not work than take minimum wage....
[00:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:20] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your retirement while you still can. Those damn kids on your lawn are coming to kill you for destroying their future. How much Amazon and Walmart stock do you own, old man?
[00:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:22] <exec> 08└─[The act] would institute a 100 percent tax on government benefits that are granted to workers at large companies...corporations with 500 or more employees. If workers are receiving [food stamps], national school lunch and breakfast programs, Section 8 housing subsidies, or Medicaid, employers will...
[00:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:24] <exec> 08└─Harry Hardluck should have learned to Code and gotten a cert in Zon Cloudy Zervices. Then Harry Hardluck could earn Zero Dollars per year when Manisha Curryface takes his job. Too bad coders like Harry Hardluck just aren't in demand.
[00:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:26] <exec> 08└─That's the argument for Universal Basic Income : Here is money you don't lose if you go get a job for someone who relies on government subsidies to get you to a living wage. Tyranny of choices towards the same result: - High minimum wage and low effective employer tax - Low minimum wage + hand...
[00:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:29] <exec> 08└─OP here - Not a personal attack as Bernie's antics are well known in Vermont. What is a fact is that any taxes imposed on these companies will simply be tacked on to the price the feckless consumer pays for goods. It ain't going to work. The tax credits and write-offs for stock-based compensation th...
[00:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 1682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:31] <exec> 08└─The premise is people are "owed" a "living wage" sufficient to eliminate their need for public assistance. This is of course an utterly stupid idea. Ignore the ugly truth that you can't really define "living wage" since Bernie is handwaving that away with "public assistance" trick which of course is...
[00:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:33] <exec> 08└─What is a fact is that any taxes imposed on these companies will simply be tacked on to the price the feckless consumer pays for goods.
[00:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:35] <exec> 08└─What is a fact is that any taxes imposed on these companies will simply be tacked on to the price the feckless consumer pays for goods
[00:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:37] <exec> 08└─I don't invest in companies that I detest.
[00:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:39] <exec> 08└─Aye yi yi youse guys must have gone to school in the past 20 years or so.... "At least with taxes, the proceeds stand to help us all."
[00:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:42] <exec> 08└─The premise is people are "owed" a "living wage" sufficient to eliminate their need for public assistance.
[00:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:44] <exec> 08└─All this will do is accelerate replacing workers with robots.
[00:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:46] <exec> 08└─We want low wage jobs to be an option if we want people to have a route out of poverty.
[00:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:48] <exec> 08└─>No more paid based on value of work If the corporation does NOT value the work at the COST of keeping a living human, then let them do without. Or go shop for a dirt-cheap robot. Or whatever floats their boat. If a company does not value work of their truck, or bus, or whatever, at the cost of part...
[00:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:50] <exec> 08└─All this will do is accelerate replacing workers with robots.
[00:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:09] <exec> 08└─You forgot your >sarcasm tag? I'm pretty certain that bob_super realizes that the kudzu and the bamboo have to grow INSIDE of the human habitats. It wouldn't do to have the kudzu crawling up the walls, and weakening the walls. Or, to have the bamboo scratching at the ceiling/roof, and eventually pie...
[00:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:57] <exec> 08└─Semantic machine learning of actual page doms of with-ad and without-ad designs is probably the only way to ever automate it. Because the fuckers have learned: you can't have any class, id, or DOM structure that's not randomized or those damned end users are gonna block your genius popover. So the e...
[00:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:58] <exec> 08└─Disagree. As an AC, I don't participate in moderation, but a registered user should be able to do all things a user does, including moderation, with javascript off. A minor added convenience with javascript may be ok, but it should not be a necessity.
[00:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:30] <exec> 08└─You can't be an admin and be pro-virus. I'm a big fan of bacteria though. The good ones make me poop good and the bad ones make my immune system outstanding. Yeast is probably my favorite microorganism though, for obvious reasons.
[00:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:31] <exec> 08└─We already can. The average US household would have to replace the majority of the items contained in the house if plastics suddenly disappeared. They're absolutely essential for anything approaching a modern western lifestyle.
[00:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:51] <exec> 08└─Right. I forget you lot don't really have any water to speak of that comes without waves.
[00:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:52] <exec> 08└─I think it's a partisan issue because what goes on in Russia is none of my concern but the left, who generally want nothing to do with international confrontation of any kind, suddenly become hawks on Russia. Wait, have I mistaken you? Are you one of those GW fanbois who think we should go around th...
[00:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:54] <exec> 08└─Our higher ed administrative staff are both grossly inflated in numbers and grossly overpaid at the moment, yup.
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[01:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:33] <exec> 08└─So, if our Sim City needs 40% residential, 30% commercial and 30% industrial zoning, how much would we have to give over to vertical farms if we weren't going to import any food? Can you picture the cow towers?
[01:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:34] <exec> 08└─For the past 3-4 years I've tried starting herbs in egg cartons on my windowsill. Soon as I transplant them outside, they go away. Not die, not dug up. They go away. I'm guessing there are rabbits, or hungry snails, that chow down. Cuz the sprouts are gone before the landscapers show up (they show u...
[01:42:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:56] <exec> 08└─What is a fact is that any taxes imposed on these companies will simply be tacked on to the price the feckless consumer pays for goods.
[01:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:06] <exec> 08└─As if our school system was good before that? It wasn't. It may have gotten a bit worse thanks to No Child Left Behind, but at no point was it ever good or even close to that.
[01:43:07] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:08] <exec> 08└─> any taxes imposed on these companies will simply be tacked on to the price the feckless consumer pays for goods You mean that the unfair advantage the seller gets over the physical stores which pay employees and taxes will be reduced or negated? Mission . Fucking . Accomplished .
[01:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:10] <exec> 08└─I thought Trump tried to do this and all the haters came out and said H1Bs were good. Hard to keep up
[01:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:12] <exec> 08└─We differ on this - and I'm not even a bleeding heart liberal. If you're making good money due to your investment and your employee's hard work, then you owe it to your employees to reward them. Sure, you can keep a modest profit, and still be morally and ethically correct. But if you're not rewardi...
[01:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:15] <exec> 08└─> We want low wage jobs to be an option if we want people to have a route out of poverty. Ever heard the concept "working poor", you dear dimwit ?
[01:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:17] <exec> 08└─I live very well on below minimum wage. It's not how much you make, but how much you spend and how well you can manage money. Sure I don't live in CA, but I can, and do, visit any time I want.
[01:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:19] <exec> 08└─You don’t go far enough. No one is “owed” a wage, period. Let’s get the government out of this entirely, no more handouts. Employers should give employees shelter, some food and clothing in exchange for their labor and it should be more than enough. Some might call this slavery, but in reali...
[01:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:21] <exec> 08└─AC has atypical anecdotal experience. News at 11. Care to share more details about your unusual situation ?
[01:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:23] <exec> 08└─This is why I don't care about slavery. I used to think it was bad, but now when I learn that slaves had better conditions than I do today, and I have it pretty good compared to most of the rest of the world, I think meh, I have it worse than your ancestors and you're still whining. stfu
[01:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:26] <exec> 08└─That's the sad truth. I see little hope in any direction.
[01:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:28] <exec> 08└─And that is not capitalism, it is inverse socialism.
[01:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:30] <exec> 08└─You cover your own housing, food, and medical benefits on below minimum wage? And are saving up for a good retirement? Because even if Social Security still exists in a few decades if you make less than minimum wage now you'll be collecting the inflation-adjusted equivalent of maybe $1,000 per month...
[01:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:32] <exec> 08└─...and I'm not even a bleeding heart liberal.
[01:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:50] <exec> 08└─Butt Load https://en.wiktionary.org [wiktionary.org]
[01:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:52] <exec> 08└─OK, sorry, it's been a long time (> 20 years) when I read the paper. I didn't realize the article referenced it. Good to know. Chlorella's interesting stuff. Spirulina too, but I've never played with it. Vivariums are fun. I built some in grade school. They all died, but some I'veread about have bee...
[01:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:54] <exec> 08└─There's this one: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] and surely algae can be tuned to consume CO2 and form it into something useful. Just need some heavy clear mylar to let the sunlight in while retaining the water: https://www.professionalplastics.com
[01:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:56] <exec> 08└─NASA has been doing this for decades
[01:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:58] <exec> 08└─If this is an indication that NASA is serious about Mars, then they've been serious about space elevators for nearly 20 years now.
[01:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:14] <exec> 08└─Just some speculation about the behavior of a metal lattice infused with hydrogen in flaws and excited by fluctuating electromagnetic fields... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:15] <exec> 08└─If I'm following correctly, they're getting excited atoms to emit together. It wasn't clear to me what the mechanism is. They didn't seem to imply it was a chain reaction, though some of the wording was unclear. I think they meant either that the trick they're using got the atoms to share the same f...
[01:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:39] <exec> 08└─From the article: as sales lag on higher-end models.
[01:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:54] <exec> 08└─The only ads I have anywhere are a few affiliate ads for books. Those ads don't have any Javascript rather they are server side includes that are served from the same host. I have always built my sites from hand-coded static HTML and CSS files. But how do I monetize all this work you quite reasonabl...
[01:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:55] <exec> 08└─It's the _original_ first-gen iPad running iOS 5 or so. The "+" single-post disclosure buttons don't work on it. However they "++" thread disclosure buttons work just fine.
[01:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:46] <exec> 08└─don't really have any water to speak of that comes without waves.
[01:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:48] <exec> 08└─Have to agree with you there. I took a course entirely online in 1997. Well, there were physical lectures, but all the notes and assignments, etc. were available online and all assignments were intended to be turned in online. I never attended class, and the only time I showed up for anything physic...
[01:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:14] <exec> 08└─Or worse, get told the funniest joke in the world while on hold. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:15] <exec> 08└─Among my most deeply-held moral principles is that no one should have to pay to benefit from my hard-won experience.
[01:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:18] <exec> 08└─Link Popularity of which Google PageRank is a specific version is Transitive. If you link me and I link Rob Malda, then your link boosts Rob's link popularity. Only a few technical articles are on my work site but a great many essays are on my personal site. My personal site links my work site.
[01:52:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:41] <exec> 08└─The moderate, pro-business, forward-thinking, non-bigoted, coalition is called the Democratic Party--flawed as it is. The Republican Party is little more than a pirate ship; the worst aspects of humanity banded together to take, leech, steal, and bully whatever they can from the productive members o...
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[02:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe snails. It's amazing how much greenery they can get through. Interestingly, if you listen carefully you can hear a snail eating. It's sort of grinding sound. When I plant out seedlings, I put down snail bait and always get a ring of dead snails and slugs. I'm guessing if it was rabbits you...
[02:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:08] <exec> 08└─I question the economy of this. Where I live rural land < 50 miles from the big city is ~$3,500-5,000 per acre. How does it make economic sense to move agricultural production to areas where land costs 1-3 orders of magnitude more than that? I'm not being pedantic. I tried to figure out a business p...
[02:42:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:35] <exec> 08└─The premise is people are "owed" a "living wage" sufficient to eliminate their need for public assistance.
[02:42:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 873 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:43] <exec> 08└─We differ on this - and I'm not even a bleeding heart liberal. If you're making good money due to your investment and your employee's hard work, then you owe it to your employees to reward them. Sure, you can keep a modest profit, and still be morally and ethically correct. But if you're not rewardi...
[02:42:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1010 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:47] <exec> 08└─You don’t go far enough. No one is “owed” a wage, period. Let’s get the government out of this entirely, no more handouts. Employers should give employees shelter, some food and clothing in exchange for their labor and it should be more than enough. Some might call this slavery, but in reali...
[02:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:55] <exec> 08└─The situation you describe is still better than what we have now, because today Zon Mart has the same broken incentive structure and they cover even less of the cost. They pay Harry the minimum amount they can get away with, and taxpayers cover the rest. A perfect fix to the situation is just too co...
[02:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:57] <exec> 08└─I like the shit out of both of them but all my money's in buggy whip manufacturing. I see a big future for it after this automobile fad blows over.
[02:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:59] <exec> 08└─If low wage jobs were a route out of poverty then how come the number of Americans working low wage jobs is increasing? Explain that. Atlas Shrugged is one giant joke. The capitalists are the hardest workers, they never lie, they never cheat, they never steal. If that reminds you of any modern Amer...
[02:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:01] <exec> 08└─Clap clap clap clap clap! Well said!
[02:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:04] <exec> 08└─No, as often as this is repeated, it is still not true. The taxes are never tacked into the price consumers pay. Not immediately anyway. That is because the price is already what at what the market will bear. However, the costs do make the market less attractive, and that can cause there to be fewer...
[02:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:06] <exec> 08└─Unfair? Try getting around some US cities in a wheelchair. Amazon is a godsend to disabled shoppers.
[02:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:08] <exec> 08└─Worked a lot of jobs. Worked minimum wage to buy my first computer and teach myself how to program. Took a bit more effort to save up $400 when the minimum wage was ~$2/hr. Now the min is more like $~8/hr and a perfectly good computer can be had for $250 and you don't really need a single book since...
[02:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:10] <exec> 08└─Define better. Do you value freedom? Not being forcibly separated from your family? Not having your daughters raped by Master?
[02:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, Atlas Shrugged is a joke: comic book characters on the level of L.Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth. Good guys are ultra good, bad guys are ultra bad. In the book the good guys pay decent wages. In reality they pay like ass, usually...and are corrupt enough to force laws to benefit themselves. Atlas...
[02:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:15] <exec> 08└─You've never heard of Walmart?
[02:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:17] <exec> 08└─It is precisely the conundrum that faces industry. Assume that all jobs can be automated. It would be a dream for any "captain of industry", right? Wrong! Who the hell is going to buy whatever they are producing? It is people (mostly middle class and poor) who buy most of the stuff produced; if they...
[02:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:19] <exec> 08└─You could try to tax Zon Mark an amount equivalent to S + F + all relevant federal income tax, Social Security tax, and Medicare tax that the S + F increases would cause.
[02:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:21] <exec> 08└─I’ll tell you a true story. The company will remain unnamed as I did sign an NDA upon leaving, but the story is true. I was put in charge of three stores owned by this corporation. The stores had been losing money or not making much more than rent and wages. I changed the sales people commission s...
[02:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:23] <exec> 08└─how come the number of Americans working low wage jobs is increasing?
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[02:44:54] <exec> 08└─http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ [motherfuckingwebsite.com] (content SFW, unless company filters don't like curse words)
[02:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:41] <exec> 08└─I also use uMatrix; it is a bit of work, but once you have your rules setup the web flows much quicker and far more secure. The side effect of running uMatrix is that you understand just how much shit is being shoveled through "regular" connections at every click
[02:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:14] <exec> 08└─Sunken ships do make excellent reefs, but they make for terrible flotsam. The difference is that floating trash has some benefits (and drawbacks of course) to surface fish who are evolved to use flotsam, while reefs don't help those fish at all.
[02:47:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 823 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:32] <exec> 08└─What is definitely true is that the big explosion in spending by universities isn't on anything involving education, but on administration. Some of that is BS like creating pointless bureaucratic positions, like you mentioned, but a lot more of it is trying to build a detailed management infrastruct...
[02:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:35] <exec> 08└─Wait, you can't drive under two hours to Emerald Lake or Lake Corangamite? Or, you know, fish in the Yarra or one of the two bays you have handy? I don't think you're trying very hard.
[02:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:37] <exec> 08└─When I saw where some major university had hired close to 100 "diversity officers" (at high-5/low-6 figure salaries!) .... well, that's when I knew the whole system had succumbed to Pournelle's Iron Law.
[02:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:39] <exec> 08└─Lake Corangamite is about 1 hour drive from where I live. Except it's a hypersaline endorheic lake [wikipedia.org] - the mud there literally reeks and the fish .. wikipedia say there should be some but I doubt it. For the Emerald Lake (actually Lake Treganowan - the other one is a water reservoir -...
[02:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Business School Professor: Half of American Colleges Will Be Bankrupt in 10 to 15 Years - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:41] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, my sister (who is a high-end STEM professional) gripes that she can no longer find qualified graduates in her field, and that apparently some basic functions are no longer being taught at all. She leads an annual raiding party on her alma mater (which is rather less converged than the nor...
[02:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:11] <exec> 08└─It is a system that for the most part only answers to the short-term interests of the tiny minority of rich people rather than the vast majority of poor people, that's what's wrong with it.
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[03:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:59] <exec> 08└─Why would I want my browser to be popping up on a page? Whats the about config to turn of all these for good (even after an update)? Notifications, save my password, share my location, etc.
[03:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:00] <exec> 08└─That would not be socially just. Clearly they can't include an option that would discriminate against people who aren't experienced/competent enough to find that option again if they accidentally enable it. </sarcasm>
[03:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:03] <exec> 08└─All these notifications are attention whores crying out: "Don't forget about me, let me steal your attention and let's all focus on ME" What is this, the trump administration?
[03:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:05] <exec> 08└─I heard trump is going to disband the IRS and pay back all the money they took over the years.
[03:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:07] <exec> 08└─To what purpose? That's just effing marvelous, first you strangle the revenue and tell everyone "do more with less" and when they do, you keep strangling and strangling until it crooks over and then you go "see, we told you they aren't able to do their job". All you "taxes are theft" folks need to t...
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[03:42:09] <exec> 08└─L̵͢҉̢ ̴̡́O W Q̨͠ ̷҉͏̡U A L I̸̕̕ Ţ̕ ͜͝Y ͘҉͠B̵̛ ̵́A Ì̧ T
[03:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:11] <exec> 08└─Federal revenue would come from tariffs. States and municipalities are free to provide whatever services funded by their own taxes?
[03:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:14] <exec> 08└─Speaking of Trump, how did you guys like that New York Times op-ed by Mike Pence today? I'm betting right about now Trump is rage-eating his way through a 16-piece bucket of KFC with an extra gravy bowl on the side and watching CNN for clues as to the identity of #Anonymous.
[03:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:16] <exec> 08└─All I know for sure is something is really wrong at mozilla. Maybe sabatoge by google?
[03:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:28] <exec> 08└─Land and labor cost a lot more in urban areas. Guess what farming needs a lot of? Before you can start to think about growing urban food, you need construction costs to drop a lot, so you can afford to devote lots of indoor area to farming. Then you need an enormous amount of power, so you can affor...
[03:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'd vote for snails. Or slugs. I once found a mummified slug in the back of a closet. It had to have crawled over 15m of carpet to get there.
[03:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:31] <exec> 08└─This idiotic lame idea shows up on this sub every 4 months or so. I wish they'd hurry up and do it until it fails so they stop spamming us with it.
[03:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:30] <exec> 08└─Hey! No slagging on Mission Earth. Those were awesome and I'll fight anybody who disagrees! Anyone who didn't roll on the floor laughing at least a few times has a defective sense of humor. Hell of a way to go, write a ten volume mega book raising a giant middle finger to everybody who ever pissed y...
[03:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:31] <exec> 08└─Politicians failing to see unexpected consequences? **shocker**
[03:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:34] <exec> 08└─Which is why I have little patience for people who try to explain how the poor are trapped. Bullshit, been there, done that, have the t-shirt and every day I watch people on Facebook, watching anime on YouTube, etc. who could be learning skills that would put money in their pocket. Hell, they could...
[03:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:36] <exec> 08└─Who the hell is going to buy whatever they are producing?
[03:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:38] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Learn the difference between Owner, Partner, Officer, Shareholder, Bondholder and Employee. Employees have the least risk and therefore must be last to share the rewards of success. If the business fails the Owner loses his ass along with the Partners. Literally, they can lose everything they...
[03:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:40] <exec> 08└─You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
[03:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:42] <exec> 08└─Yes. And notice the happy ending to your tale? They were stupid and they paid the price of failure. Odds are the sales reps you had built up found new opportunities since there is always a demand for proven high performing sales types. I have tried sales, I sucked hard at it but I saw some naturals...
[03:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:44] <exec> 08└─Friends of mine live outside Burlington VT. Their son went through the local public school system and just got into a very good technical university. No major complaints about VT schools from any of them. From what I saw when visiting a few years back, the school was set up nicely and run quite crea...
[03:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:47] <exec> 08└─Now we know your net worth -- if it's all invested in a non-existent industry it can't be much. Or did you mean antennas? https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[03:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:49] <exec> 08└─And on the board sits a gentlemen who has a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago! Some people are too stupid to live, even if they are smart enough to get a PhD.
[03:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:51] <exec> 08└─he/she must be a trustafarian
[03:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:53] <exec> 08└─what about employees who must shop at Walmart?
[03:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:55] <exec> 08└─They were stupid and they paid the price of failure.
[03:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:01] <exec> 08└─It is really sad the number of makers who just ape apple, as if because apple does it it must be right. The notch was, is, and will always be, a stupid design flaw on the fruit phone. If Jobs had still been alive, I predict that there would have been no notch.
[03:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:02] <exec> 08└─Unusual overlap: big $ purchasers who are technical (and have time) enough to instal an app to fix a design problem. Suspect this was actually a zero overlap, and the children/friends of big spender did the app installation. Meanwhile, big spender is still whinging about that stupid design feature..
[03:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:20] <exec> 08└─That a 3.2GHz dual core is terribly slow (not), or that software has ballooned into a steaming pile? Good Old Opera renders most webpages pretty fast, but Vivaldi (based on Chrome) is pretty slow, and that's with some good filters / blockers. And much of the slowness is disk activity (on Windows). I...
[03:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:04] <exec> 08└─why do you suppose that capitalism wouldn't have the same dynamics here?
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[04:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon in Color: First-Ever Colored Thin Films of Nanotubes Created - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:32] <exec> 08└─> > "Colored Thin Films" Whoa there, that's racist! It is 2018 and the proper term is "Thin Films of Color"
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[04:41:48] <exec> 08└─dread pirate qanon?
[04:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:50] <exec> 08└─It could be a CIA misinformation piece. It would serve two purposes: manipulate Trump so he does something crazier than usual, and manipulate the public into believing that Trump is about to tumble. It could backfire badly. Could != will. But I think Trump will perform as expected. Perhaps it will b...
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[04:41:52] <exec> 08└─I dont know how people dont get it yet... its something published to get ad views for the nyt and keep trump in the spotlight. Trump probably had a hand in creating it. It contained no new info, and read like a list of talking points the news has been repeating for years now.
[04:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:54] <exec> 08└─plus, they can do what sites* cannot, log all your activity. (google can do pretty much that because analytics and jquery and fonts)
[04:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:56] <exec> 08└─I am not even under trump's reign, but the press undermined itself by attacking trump for basically peanuts earlier. The boy who cried wolf.
[04:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:10] <exec> 08└─There are ~360million hectares of production farmland in the us. There's 26 hectares of floorspace in the WTC. I'm not smart enough to calculate how many wtc buildings would be needed.
[04:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:11] <exec> 08└─How does it make economic sense to move agricultural production to areas where land costs 1-3 orders of magnitude more than that? I'm not being pedantic. I tried to figure out a business plan where this worked and wasn't clever enough to do it.
[04:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:13] <exec> 08└─So long as trucking is an option, a cities perishable food radius is 100 miles for tender crops, 500 to 1000 for everything else. The big advantage for farms within 0 to 5 miles of the city is entirely an advantage for the farmer, and for the anti-pollution folks who are against trucking. I farm com...
[04:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:23] <exec> 08└─then let them do without.
[04:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:25] <exec> 08└─The way I understand things is that you are able to get food stamps, rent assistance etc if your wage is below a certain level of income - irrelevant of what job you are in. By that, I mean, you'll get the same benefits whether you earn $5 an hour for 40 hours work, or $200 an hour for one hour of w...
[04:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:27] <exec> 08└─You are quite correct. Indeed, I worry that the anti-science trend will effectively kill the U.S. faster than any attacks from Russia or China. The Russians and particularly the Chinese, have gone from the idiotic idea that peasants should run everything (look up the Great Purge or the Cultural Revo...
[04:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:29] <exec> 08└─See another post nearby for details. Yes I see the problem with Officers being divorced from the risks out of proportion to their potential for big rewards for short term gains, even paper gains. But the ownership class is the ones who must take losses when they suffer a fool to lead a company into...
[04:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:31] <exec> 08└─Keep it up until people will understand that the 'economy' is a mean for society, not the God they are to worship.
[04:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:33] <exec> 08└─Around here rent of only $800 is hard to find. At minimum wage, you're talking rent alone taking up nearly half your paycheck. And that's before you pay utilities, probably another 100 a month minimum, buy food or pay for a bus pass. Perhaps where you live, things are cheap, but not where most peop...
[04:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:36] <exec> 08└─Assume that all jobs can be automated.
[04:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:38] <exec> 08└─Just because the concept has a label doesn't mean that we need take it seriously.
[04:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:40] <exec> 08└─Indeed, thanks! My point is precisely that capitalism has gone wrong, at least in the U.S. and many other places as well, but let’s not go there. I think we agree that (true) capitalism has given humanity the most advances both scientifically and ethically, and should be considered the most effici...
[04:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:42] <exec> 08└─The advantage they have is that both Russia and China have authoritarian governments
[04:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:44] <exec> 08└─Globalism is just an excuse, other countries don't have this level of disparity, the reason for it is greed and a tax/regulatory structure that encourages it. Other countries don't let corporations book losses on money that hasn't been repatriated and other countries have universal healthcare that p...
[04:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:46] <exec> 08└─being a loser is now fairly painless.
[04:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:25] <exec> 08└─I think it is about the Uncertainty principle: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] it goes like a quantum wave all around. CYA
[04:45:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:34] <exec> 08└─YOUR browser should use a font that you like, rather than a font that random-person-somewhere-else likes. I think that was his point.
[04:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:06] <exec> 08└─The js function would only be defined once on the page. Each Moderate button would just call the same defined function. You could slim the page with js by removing the moderate's combo box from every comment (15 select options * number of comments is a lot). Then when clicking moderate you'd get a s...
[04:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:08] <exec> 08└─Some js frameworks embed html snippets inside them which makes large portions of the site cacheable by the client browser.
[04:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:10] <exec> 08└─"The fact that your awful monospace font makes my eyes roll straight off your post and refuse to read it for the first several tries undercuts your second point." I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering how someone who's completely computer illiterate winds up posting on soylent. Care to enlighten u...
[04:50:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:02] <exec> 08└─In other words, let us hand more power to a government that clearly isn't doing its job without even a superficial attempt at making sure that power gets used properly
[04:50:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06How The EU May Be About To Kill The Public Domain: Copyright Filters Takedown Beethoven - 677 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:20] <exec> 08└─If it is reasonable to have a $150,000 statutory penalty (in the US) per instance of copyright infringement, then it is fair to have an equal penalty for each defective DMCA notice. By defective I mean things like: * filer is not the copyright owner or registered agent * the work is in the public do...
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[05:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:52] <exec> 08└─Land and labor cost a lot more in urban areas.
[05:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:54] <exec> 08└─After all the chips industry relocated to Taiwan, Japan has excess "clean room" space. What are they doing with it? Well, raising hydroponic lettuce [scmp.com] Spread, Japan’s largest vertical farm, produces more than 20,000 heads of lettuce a day in its 3000-square-metre facility outside of Kyoto...
[05:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:18] <exec> 08└─I'm a working slave as were my ancestors back to the stoneage. A slave. Period. And worse off than my ancestors, they were fed and clothed. I'm a slave that is allowed to starve to death. Who cares if I have freedom. Yeah, I have freedom to starve. Fuck you, master
[05:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:20] <exec> 08└─That's why you pay rent for your mom's basement. It's well below $800.
[05:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:22] <exec> 08└─Who would that be?
[05:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:24] <exec> 08└─And on the board sits a gentlemen who has a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago! Some people are too stupid to live, even if they are smart enough to get a PhD.
[05:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:26] <exec> 08└─The part you wrote. But to be more specific, if that is possible, people who worship economies.
[05:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:28] <exec> 08└─Because even if Social Security still exists in a few decades if you make less than minimum wage now you'll be collecting the inflation-adjusted equivalent of maybe $1,000 per month then.
[05:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:30] <exec> 08└─I wrote "Keep increasing automation until people realize that economy is a mean, not an end" (in the last part I used the "worshiping economy as a God" metaphor). So: your question of "who" refers to which of the three parts of my phrase? Alternatively, rephrase your question in such a way that it d...
[05:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 1653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:12] <exec> 08└─It's clear from my fellow soylentils comments that you don't understand what's going on here so allow me to explain. They mention microwaves, but let's think in terms of visible light because it's a bit easier to imagine. What they are saying is that if you pack a group of atoms in together and that...
[05:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:58] <exec> 08└─Not a web programmer, so this is a serious question, but wouldn't adding javascript modding code to every comment pretty much negate the reloading bandwidth argument?
[05:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:59] <exec> 08└─You could slim the page with js by removing the moderate's combo box from every comment
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[06:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:44] <exec> 08└─is math and physics
[06:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:45] <exec> 08└─Light on details but that's sure what it sounds like. Omnidirectional rotors are not new. And using recycled plastic might well increase the cost instead of reducing it. The key here would be to make a device that can be placed in non-ideal conditions and still wind up producing significantly more e...
[06:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:47] <exec> 08└─Indeed. There's a pretty good write up over on solacity [solacity.com].
[06:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:50] <exec> 08└─And funded by that same person whom happens to be a royal society member... British prestige at its finest.
[06:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:52] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exergy [wikipedia.org] The sucky thing about physics degrees is that they make you learn thermodynamics.
[06:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon in Color: First-Ever Colored Thin Films of Nanotubes Created - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:01] <exec> 08└─As if a regular one isn't hair raising enough?
[06:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:42] <exec> 08└─Do you have any math or studies to back how many calories could be grown on a few floors of an apartment? A person requires about 700Mcal per year to live. 100 apartments x 3 people/apartment x 700M ~ 200B calories. Corn, one of the highest calorie crops has a yield of ~2.5x10^6 calories/hectare. As...
[06:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:43] <exec> 08└─........ It isnt a 100% replacement Partly bridged by urban farming Cmon now, you trying to illustrate your nick ;)?
[06:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:46] <exec> 08└─Do you have any math or studies to back how many calories could be grown on a few floors of an apartment?
[06:43:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:02] <exec> 08└─[The act] would institute a 100 percent tax on government benefits that are granted to workers at large companies...corporations with 500 or more employees. If workers are receiving [food stamps], national school lunch and breakfast programs, Section 8 housing subsidies, or Medicaid, employers will...
[06:43:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1026 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:41] <exec> 08└─I’ll tell you a true story. The company will remain unnamed as I did sign an NDA upon leaving, but the story is true. I was put in charge of three stores owned by this corporation. The stores had been losing money or not making much more than rent and wages. I changed the sales people commission s...
[06:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:16] <exec> 08└─Who the hell is going to buy whatever they are producing? It is people (mostly middle class and poor) who buy most of the stuff produced; if they have no money, they won't buy stuff and the economy goes into recession.
[06:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:17] <exec> 08└─No, that's why you don't live in areas with insanely high costs of living like an idiot.
[06:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:19] <exec> 08└─These jobs should be a starting point, not a goal in your career aspirations, shouldn't they?
[06:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:21] <exec> 08└─Or instead of incurring any of the added costs, they can just fire the people on government assistance programs. Why keep Jim around when he costs you twice as much in payroll and taxes as Jane? If the difference in quality of the work between different employees was valuable enough to make up that...
[06:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:23] <exec> 08└─I used to think similarly -- that McJobs are for HS kids who need pocket money or college kids who need beer money -- but more and more it seems there isn't much in the economy beyond these crappy jobs. With college and grad school you can do OK (after spending half your working life knocking down t...
[06:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:08] <exec> 08└─Thank you. This explanation made sense, explained what the big deal was about this story, and how Superradiance is different than what happens in a LASER. I hope someone with mod points can give your comment the +5 Informative it deserves.
[06:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:56] <exec> 08└─I'm in the net since 1990s. This marketing websites appearing everywhere is not so old. I always used Google to find useful information. Now it tries to sell me a stuff I don't need. This happened slowly in recent decade, starting from a result here or there, but now it jumped to entire search resul...
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[07:41:51] <exec> 08└─Indeed. There's a pretty good write up over on solacity [solacity.com].
[07:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:55] <exec> 08└─Yeh... a ten inch "wind turbine", looks to me to be very similar to the kind of thing we've used for years to vent hot air from attics... except they put a little generator in it. You know, there seems no end to the stuff I see marketing types come up with. A bunch of those took over a company I use...
[07:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon in Color: First-Ever Colored Thin Films of Nanotubes Created - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:05] <exec> 08└─Electronic who? kilt whom?
[07:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:26] <exec> 08└─Hello! I'm glad you've noticed something is wrong at Mozilla. Unfortunately you're nearly 10 years too late for this to do any good, aside from the possibility you might learn from it and notice this shit more quickly in the future.
[07:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:53] <exec> 08└─"That's dumb," Coming from you, that's a compliment. If the designers of the web noticed, I'm sure they appreciated it. "because font choice is situational and contextual" Which is exactly why semantic tags are available, so that the browser can be informed of the situation and context. "sans-serif(...
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[08:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:19] <exec> 08└─I'd really love it if we could stop with this nonsense. First, anywhere "urban" in the UK isn't going to do anything in terms of wind generation (ironically one of the first "wind farms" - two turbines - in the UK was in inner-city Dagenham, for the Ford factory which then basically shut down) Secon...
[08:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:21] <exec> 08└─Looks very unlikely to set the wind energy world on fire, but good luck to them I suppose. The turbulence of urban wind near built structures is usually a massive deal breaker. If I knew I was going to die tomorrow and had to write a judgement on wind turbines today that would likely still be accura...
[08:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:24] <exec> 08└─By entering TPB you agree to XMR being mined using your CPU. If you don't agree please leave now or install an adBlocker
[08:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:26] <exec> 08└─They won £30k that hardly makes them Theranos.
[08:43:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:53] <exec> 08└─All this will do is accelerate replacing workers with robots.
[08:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Go Pester Someone Else: TSB Ditches CEO Over Bank's IT Meltdown - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:10] <exec> 08└─The shitty Spanish is Sabadell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Sabadell), and yeah, it's the transition to that bank's IT infrastructure that caused the tits-up.
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[09:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:28] <exec> 08└─Thermodynamics can actually be quite rewarding once it snaps into you as to what's going on. It did not snap into me the first time I messed with it, but then I was taking it as a requirement for electrical engineering degree, not for fun, and I started off on the wrong foot and knew the whole mess...
[09:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:03] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's more likely that the piece is exactly what it purports to be. The real question is whether the insider works at the White House or is just a swamp grunt from some random federal agency.
[09:43:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:15] <exec> 08└─I question the economy of this. Where I live rural land < 50 miles from the big city is ~$3,500-5,000 per acre. How does it make economic sense to move agricultural production to areas where land costs 1-3 orders of magnitude more than that? I'm not being pedantic. I tried to figure out a business p...
[09:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:27] <exec> 08└─Just wondering, is there a use case for desert regions; Dubai, Qatar, etc? Any one who knows the relative costs?
[09:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:07] <exec> 08└─But the ownership class is the ones who must take losses when they suffer a fool to lead a company into oblivion, and they do indeed suffer. Never underestimate the pain of being tickled with a soft pillow.
[09:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds like another case of spending money to solve a problem for which there is already a known good solution. What they're looking for is called "plants". You want to convert CO2 to sugars? Plant some fruit trees and collect them from the fruit, getting breathable oxygen as a by-product.
[09:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:54] <exec> 08└─Excited state, photon given off, more photons given off... all sounds much like exactly what a laser does. What's the difference here?
[09:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:42] <exec> 08└─The web exists for one purpose: to sell crap.
[09:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:43] <exec> 08└─Such pages are equally useless on smartphones. You have to scroll down at the bottom of the page, where the links to the actual information are. Worse, still, if you are on a smartphone, those links are in a normal size font, so you'll have a hard time clicking on them. I'm talking about pages that...
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[10:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:01] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[10:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:02] <exec> 08└─Did they get their blood-soaked parachute in time?
[10:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:27] <exec> 08└─https://metro.co.uk/video/new--turbine-works-direction-wins-james-dyson-award-1756488/ [metro.co.uk] The cables (rope?) That attach this thing to whatever they use as a generator will either be rigid or flexible. (Duh) If rigid, they will add alot of weight. If flexible, they will twist, and wear at...
[10:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:02] <exec> 08└─More noise. Can't you remember where you came from?
[10:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:03] <exec> 08└─Why do I hope it's Pence? Because he is the only other member of the administration directly elected by the people, i.e. he is the only person Trump can't fire.
[10:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:27] <exec> 08└─Environmentally friendly Slug / Snail removal: 1 - Just go out in the evening / morning (especially when it's been wet) and pick them off by hand. Be persistent. Do this often enough and you will find that the supply of slugs and snails eventually diminishes. 2 - Save eggshells from the kitchen. Mak...
[10:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:29] <exec> 08└─You are forgetting that indoor farms are stacked. One floor can house multiple layers of produce. With LED lighting, the power consumption goes down considerably in comparison to incandescent. Also, plants do not require the same heating as humans. This brings further savings. Combine that with mini...
[10:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:31] <exec> 08└─> entirely an advantage for the farmer, and for the anti-pollution folks who are against trucking. And also for people who have an interest in urban food security. I mean suppose some kind of highly disruptive event [bbc.co.uk] meant that getting food from the countryside into the city suddenly beca...
[10:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:09] <exec> 08└─Depends on what you have pulling your buggy. The antennas work really well on children, for example.
[10:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:10] <exec> 08└─A little boat, something to pull it, fishing gear, and most anywhere with air conditioning would do me fine. Wait, I already have all that... Did I retire and not notice?
[10:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:12] <exec> 08└─Erm... The three bedroom house I'm living in now is less than that. The 4K+ square foot church The Roomie just bought to remodel into a house is as well. Get out of major cities if you don't want all your money going to rent.
[10:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:15] <exec> 08└─Employees have the least risk and therefore must be last to share the rewards of success.
[10:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:25] <exec> 08└─We could use kinematics to identify people who are dumbwalking using smart glasses. In the same vein as the phone's camera has to make a shutter noise by law in some countries (Japan springs to mind). For example, to keep the screen on and/or the connection active, a user might have to walk with his...
[10:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:27] <exec> 08└─That all said, Koh told CNBC the changes are really just about "focusing on millennials who cannot afford the flagship."
[10:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:26] <exec> 08└─I too was intrigued by the numbers -- as the Garbage Patch is generally portrayed as floating islands of plastic. The number of 80,000 tonnes is valid: however, global plastic production per year now stands at 335 million ton [statista.com]. If only 1 percent of that ends in rivers and seas, annuall...
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[11:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:08] <exec> 08└─His name is Strelochnik.
[11:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:09] <exec> 08└─*Doctor* Who, if you please!
[11:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/05/iss-drill-hole-nasa-roscosmos-sabotage/ [engadget.com] According to AFP, Rogozin suspects this wasn't just an accidental drill puncture. "There were several attempts at drilling," he said, adding that the hand holding the drill was clearly "wavering." While it's l...
[11:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:14] <exec> 08└─The 100% accurate documentary film Armageddon clearly showed that people get space dementia and go crazy with the remotely operated minigun.
[11:44:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1316 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:38] <exec> 08└─If low wage jobs were a route out of poverty then how come the number of Americans working low wage jobs is increasing? Explain that. Atlas Shrugged is one giant joke. The capitalists are the hardest workers, they never lie, they never cheat, they never steal. If that reminds you of any modern Amer...
[11:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:32] <exec> 08└─but its some ugly sort of elitism that says only those who can go to the extreme lengths of education deserve a decent living
[11:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:45] <exec> 08└─Shutter noise laws are bullshit. If I want to take a picture of something in silence, I should be able to do that, whether it's a bird, a dog, a worm's eye view of a pair of panties, whatever. There is no need to make smartglasses "dumbwalkers" identifiable. If they are looking up and forward, that...
[11:47:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:37] <exec> 08└─Most mainstream sites are borderline-criminal. They are stalking you.
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[12:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:48] <exec> 08└─It *is* right there in TFA after all; Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Who else ought to carry the can if you've got a work culture where the most likely scenarios seem to be either: A) Someone made a mistake and was too afraid to own up to it for fear of personal repercu...
[12:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:57] <exec> 08└─They got a lot of fawning PR for having a woman in charge. Well, this is what that leads to...
[12:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:59] <exec> 08└─It wasn't merely a woman. It was a woman who had raided Steve Jobs's wardrobe [businessinsider.com].
[12:42:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:12] <exec> 08└─Light on details but that's sure what it sounds like. Omnidirectional rotors are not new. And using recycled plastic might well increase the cost instead of reducing it. The key here would be to make a device that can be placed in non-ideal conditions and still wind up producing significantly more e...
[12:42:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 808 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:17] <exec> 08└─I'd really love it if we could stop with this nonsense. First, anywhere "urban" in the UK isn't going to do anything in terms of wind generation (ironically one of the first "wind farms" - two turbines - in the UK was in inner-city Dagenham, for the Ford factory which then basically shut down) Secon...
[12:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:27] <exec> 08└─There's an argument that the vertical farms are 100x as efficient or somesuch BS, and that's possibly true for something like lettuce or maybe even strawberries, but I seriously doubt it for the major grains, legumes, etc. Even at 100x as space efficient, that's a lot of damn buildings, and even if...
[12:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:12] <exec> 08└─I'm a working slave as were my ancestors back to the stoneage. A slave. Period.
[12:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:14] <exec> 08└─That is complete and utter bullshit. The little guy often has everything he owns staked on the little trickle of money he gets from that one job. Everything, and possibly his health and wellbeing, not to mention his family's health and wellbeing. That job IS his life.
[12:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:16] <exec> 08└─These jobs should be a starting point, not a goal in your career aspirations, shouldn't they?
[12:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:18] <exec> 08└─after spending half your working life knocking down that six figure student loan
[12:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:59] <exec> 08└─Umatrix is an improvement over this. By default it allows the current site to load css, images, javascript. By default it allows only css and images from third party sites. It shows what type of objects are being loaded and can temp allow or permanently allow or block. Which means that allowing Java...
[12:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:08] <exec> 08└─Fair enough although thats a classic "east of mississippi" "west of mississippi" issue, in the sense that there are people living in literal deserts whereas where I live there's about three feet of rain per year. Semi-serious question, do people in desert / west areas have to wash the bird poop off...
[12:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:10] <exec> 08└─no birds, no poop, I imagine. Most of the US is far enough north that the panels are set up at a pretty good angle (30-45 degrees) so a lot just slides off, but... in Florida and Texas we get a pervasive black mold on just about everything that isn't chemically treated, and the chemical treatment on...
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[13:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:12] <exec> 08└─The place where the SOP was if you liked a guys house you would snitch on them for some crime against the state and then their house is suddenly vacant. I can't imagine they are fixated on actual truth now.
[13:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:13] <exec> 08└─C is a non-starter. You get quality by having the person doing the work do it right or know when he does it wrong, not by having somebody come by after him and try to check for errors. A and B point to the same person. The 'Russian Space Chief' needs to look in the mirror to find the person that set...
[13:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:15] <exec> 08└─Nice try. The name turns out to be Mikneed Ivodka.
[13:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:18] <exec> 08└─I was more impressed with now NASA has been able to maintain the secret that shuttles could withstand multiple stoned impact strikes with large rocks at high speed.
[13:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:30] <exec> 08└─This ongoing story has had so much inordinately strange coverage that I can't help but think wonder if she is innocent. Tech startups come and go but who cares? Maybe she was set up. Or railroaded. Or intentionally given bad info on the tech. She wants to be actively involved in the product and won'...
[13:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:31] <exec> 08└─"way more bad press than any bad CEO normally gets" Yes, but this doesn't seem like your usual story of CEO incompetence in doing good stuff. More like impressive competence in doing evil stuff. If that is proven true, then the bad press will be much deserved along with the free room, board, and ora...
[13:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:33] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos [wikipedia.org] The Theranos story combines a hyped up founder who became a billionaire (on paper), an absurd "unicorn" $10 billion valuation, a whistleblower, and outright fraud. It's not your normal tech startup story. journalists are not so good at their job...
[13:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos#Bad_Blood [wikipedia.org] Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou was responsible for uncovering and exposing "that the company was, in effect, a sham". For this he received the 67th annual George Polk Awards for Financial Reporting (2015). He...
[13:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:37] <exec> 08└─It could also be that they attempted to scam the wrong people. Same mistake that Bernie Madoff made. It might come down to she didn't give a bilderburger (or whatever superclass money infused villian you chose) the BJ he demanded.
[13:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:40] <exec> 08└─Jennifer Lawrence in a turtleneck.
[13:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:42] <exec> 08└─Did she say . . . I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?
[13:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:07] <exec> 08└─meh. TPB is lower on my list of places to check when I'm hunting for something. oldie but goodie. demonoid considered cryptocoin mining at one point too. and honestly, for the two minutes i'm going to be there, they can have the cpu cycles. i probably have an 8 core compile job going anyway, so good...
[13:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:45] <exec> 08└─Being "exactly what it purports to be" is consistent with what I said. The NYT doesnt really care where it came from. Just read it from the perspective of someone who doesnt pay much attention to politics. You've been hearing about this "deep state" conspiracy where holier-than-thou career governmen...
[13:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'd vote for snails. Or slugs.
[13:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:02] <exec> 08└─Once again, we see the usual ideologies tilting at the Walmart windmill. And this idea is so profoundly awful - stupidity and mendacity vie for supremacy. Let me reiterate the bullet points for why: Hiring poor people is something you want to encourage not discourage. It's an enormous FUCK YOU to po...
[13:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:03] <exec> 08└─don't live in areas with insanely high costs of living
[13:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:05] <exec> 08└─Tell me how someone can afford a tiny apartment, utilities, food, and the cheapest health insurance program you can imagine on minimum wage. Cadillac? Really?
[13:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:07] <exec> 08└─And the employers have the choice to not do things that will cause the tax to be levied at them.
[13:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 1597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:09] <exec> 08└─The US had production inside the country from slave labor in the form of prisons in the 1950s, and there was nothing stopping them from buying junk made by South Americans for a bowl of rice or local equivalent per day. Try again. I'm not an ally with state socialists. Instead of asshole oligarchs f...
[13:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:50] <exec> 08└─Dude, if people login they can set their defaults to 'show all' which bypasses the javascript expand problem. That said, JS used to work fine in Sleipnir mobile until the last change. So, now I either logon or use something else on mobile.
[13:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:52] <exec> 08└─WTF is with all of the sites wanting to load JavaScript libraries from third party sites? Can't they just serve it themselves? Bandwidth is cheap. Is speed really a problem with DSL/Fibre? It's not like the browser uses a cached version anyway. Load from Cache is awesome.
[13:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:54] <exec> 08└─Get a user agent switcher plugin and set it to a mobile agent code.
[13:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:56] <exec> 08└─I've seen a couple of sites like that. There are ads on the page, embedded in boxes, and obviously ads. Small pictures, words, with links to other sites. One of them had a rollover so if your mouse goes over it then it fires a request off. Fine. Don't care. No third party JS. It all just worked. I d...
[13:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:58] <exec> 08└─Feel free to contribute to the code to enable this
[13:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:00] <exec> 08└─All that, what you said . . . and . . . it makes you more paranoid.
[13:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Pioneer a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:13] <exec> 08└─Turn on the Mega Maid
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[14:41:59] <exec> 08└─I loved Samsung's magic RAM back in the day.... 4GB sticks for $20. No fancy heat spreaders or LED lighting, they just worked great and were cheap. So that was many years ago. I'm sure these new 32GB sticks are probably just as cheap these days, right guys? $20 is a good price point for 32GB of RAM...
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[14:42:16] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? They have to do a manual trace? Good thing they at least has sensitive enough sensors. But really - how did they trace the leak? Did they listen very carefully? Release balloons (think about it)? Shredded a piece of paper and followed it? Eyeballed the entire inner hull of the ISS and ca...
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[14:42:18] <exec> 08└─A is a lot more worrying. Considering that there already are glues that can form almost a completly coherent bound (and should last at least a couple of trips) with almost anything; what really creeps me out is the use of a poor selection of glue. This makes me hope for B since otherwise their recru...
[14:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:20] <exec> 08└─They detected a pressure leak then probably just sprayed some mist and saw where it went. It took awhile to show up since the glue needed to melt/whatever.
[14:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:22] <exec> 08└─And why is it "eventually" instead of "almost instantly"?
[14:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:24] <exec> 08└─I know depletion takes time (I'm a scuba diver, so I'm used to messing with pressure differences and gases). I mean, why does it take more than a couple of minutes. The airflow really should be quite altered (and have a strong tedency towards the hole if you released something with low mass that can...
[14:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:43] <exec> 08└─If proven true then yes string her up. But the people out to get her will fabricate whatever truth they need to get their way. She has not actually hurt anyone, just their pocketbooks. This isn't "love canal" bad where there are actual physical damages. But in the comparison of toxic waste for kid...
[14:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:44] <exec> 08└─#metoo is useless against that level of rich. #metoo is leveraged to tactically shoot down certain people of interest. If you have revenge to get and you have money you too can buy a #metoo based character assassination. If #metoo had integrity all of Hollywood would be shut down (well all of the...
[14:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:46] <exec> 08└─If they add dream sequences, they could have Jennifer Lawrence in a black turtleneck sinking into a pool of blood.
[14:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:49] <exec> 08└─Just like the automatic doors in Hitchhiker's Guide. "Thank you, this door is please to have served you well, have a nice day!" "Shut up"
[14:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:36] <exec> 08└─Plants are insanely ineffecient and requires a vast infrastructure and many also are picky about light (for instance, Mars is quite a bit further away from the sun than what we are - enough so that solar panels doesn't make sense even in orbit). Energy also will be at a premium, so I assume they wan...
[14:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:01] <exec> 08└─And much of the slowness is disk activity (on Windows).
[14:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:03] <exec> 08└─and then you realize on the backend that you're still spending a lot of time on analytics and marketing, because that's what major companies care about. big data and digesting it.
[14:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:05] <exec> 08└─I guess the point was that people who carry these "smart"phones are mental midgets who ... wait for it ... LIKE TO SCROLL! The get to fondle their slabs, their new favorite passtime. And oh boy, it's so quite tactile that even a toddler would love it! Kinda like what happened at the other place that...
[14:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I read at -1 myself but some folks wanted that functionality, so they got it.
[14:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:09] <exec> 08└─I for one think if you're using a blacklist on the internet you're doing it wrong.
[14:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 2082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:45] <exec> 08└─Haha, yeah, I chuckle when I think of how New-Agey and hippy-dippy it is of me, because I'm not like that. But my working theory is soap causes a general state of inflammation in your body. Your skin is an ecosystem, and exposing it to soap destabilizes it. It's the same idea they have begun to rese...
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[15:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Adds 32 GB UDIMMs to Memory Lineup - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:11] <exec> 08└─imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
[15:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Adds 32 GB UDIMMs to Memory Lineup - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:13] <exec> 08└─$20 is a good price point for 32GB of RAM to have fallen to after a decade, right?
[15:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Adds 32 GB UDIMMs to Memory Lineup - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:15] <exec> 08└─They have made some progress: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The current TI-Nspire calculators are now running the OS version 4.5.0.1180, released in September 2017. The operating system has been updated frequently since 2007 (partly due to bugs and missin...
[15:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 1594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:38] <exec> 08└─They do have pressure sensors and leak detectors, although I'm not sure if they are able to operate per-compartment (assuming the internal hatches are closed) or cover the station as a whole. Still, even with a starting point of 1 atmosphere differential, it's going to take some time for 388 cubic m...
[15:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:40] <exec> 08└─If it was someone on the IIS, then the leak would have registered right away, and they would not have filled it with glue (the glue would have been sucked out into space along with the escaping oxygen).
[15:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:42] <exec> 08└─Um, no. You get quality control by doing the work correctly AND having someone unrelated to the manufacturer inspect that work and sign off on it. qual·i·ty con·trol ˈkwälədē kənˈtrōl/ noun noun: quality control a system of maintaining standards in manufactured products by tes...
[15:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:44] <exec> 08└─You simply cannot reach the walls, because most of them are completely covered by instrument racks. If you are searching for a non-obvious leak, first you locate the correct station segment by closing the doors sequentially and watching the pressure drop (or not). Since a malfunctioning safety syste...
[15:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:46] <exec> 08└─Many of your ideas are excellent. Talking out my butt as far as how you'd do it on ISS. On Earth you could make sure that you have your winds controllable (much easier to do on ISS, maybe, for anything except breathing by shutting down all fans) and then introduce something that is waftable ('clean'...
[15:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:09] <exec> 08└─Hi people. Jennifer Lawrence just poured a turtleneck down my naked and petrified pants.
[15:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:10] <exec> 08└─Actually, CMS found that Theranos' testing for Warfarin levels, along with many others, were incorrect. Just because there just aren't any confirmed reports of patient damage occurring yet because of it doesn't mean that there wasn't harm done. The Wikipedia article stated, " In February 2016, Thera...
[15:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:13] <exec> 08└─Yes but it was Holmes who was making extraordinary claims. Then she couldn't supply extraordinary proof. Then she couldn't supply plain old proof. It may be she was a young girl who thought she had The Next Big Thing but then when the Thing didn't materialize she didn't dial back her rhetoric but in...
[15:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:15] <exec> 08└─If you keep repeating the old memes, you are in SERIOUS danger of summoning the ghost of goat.se DECIST IMMEDIATELY!
[15:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:17] <exec> 08└─Nomsg
[15:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:19] <exec> 08└─She has not actually hurt anyone, just their pocketbooks.
[15:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Augmented Reality' Tools to Help Health Care Workers Save Lives in War Zones - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:28] <exec> 08└─Lag is a killer.
[15:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:50] <exec> 08└─Theoretically you could do urban wind if your buildings were funnelling the prevailing wind into a turbine. The Columbia River Gorge has some of the strongest winds in the country because it funnels the wind naturally. But little units like this aren't going to do it. There still might be a market,...
[15:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:27] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time... We started a computer. We had to observe a flock of programs in Autoexec. Then we started Windows. Asking about codepage. Asking about missing icon in Program manager (no, I don't want this Statistica analysis now, nor to look for an icon for it, just leave this alone!). Connecti...
[15:46:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:38] <exec> 08└─Employees have the least risk and therefore must be last to share the rewards of success.
[15:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:16] <exec> 08└─enough so that solar panels doesn't make sense even in [Mars] orbit
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[16:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:49] <exec> 08└─Article link seems dead. Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wp/the-history-of-a-security-hole/ on this server.
[16:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:50] <exec> 08└─Works for me just fine...
[16:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:52] <exec> 08└─Works, but here's an archive link anyway: https://archive.fo [archive.fo]
[16:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:54] <exec> 08└─2 out of 4 ISPs for me; browser doesn't seem to make a difference.
[16:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:56] <exec> 08└─As programmers say: It works on my machine. (As managers say: but we're not shipping your machine!)
[16:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:59] <exec> 08└─Imagine one day if correctfulness were more important than execution speed? If things would fail in a safe way rather than a dangerous way. (someone might even patent a two word phrase for that!) But it seams speed is moe improtant than accurancy. FOOF! I say to that!
[16:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:01] <exec> 08└─As programmers say: It works on my machine. (As managers say: but we're not shipping your machine!)
[16:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:03] <exec> 08└─Imagine one day if correctfulness were more important than execution speed?
[16:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:05] <exec> 08└─But it seams speed is moe improtant than accurancy.
[16:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:07] <exec> 08└─In the 80s I was doing embedded system programing for various CPUs, including x86 family. One of the first things I learned was that when mapping a struct to hardware you always: a) Added a comment indicating the struct had to match hardware, and indicating where the hardware was documented; and b)...
[16:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:10] <exec> 08└─Can't get more secure than that!
[16:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:12] <exec> 08└─If speed is moe improtant than accurancy, many programmers can be executed at the same time by using multiple cores. Kubernetes running on a scalable fuster cluck.
[16:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:14] <exec> 08└─if /dev/null is fast, I will use it.
[16:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nnet [5716] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:23] <exec> 08└─Finally. A use case for The Space Force.
[16:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:25] <exec> 08└─Is maintaining monopolies on the "rare" elements long enough to make back initial investments. You bring back 2,000,000 tons of gold(which is speculated to be possible on some asteroids), and suddenly it's about as valuable as iron. You ship 10 tons a week for 100,000 weeks and your fucking rich, ri...
[16:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Adds 32 GB UDIMMs to Memory Lineup - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:38] <exec> 08└─Your point is well taken. Value important no, removing "owner's*" ability to root very important. ----- * If somebody else has root and you don't, you're not the owner, whatever your receipt may say. Possession is nine tenths and all that, and they possess root (control) of the device; you don't.
[16:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Adds 32 GB UDIMMs to Memory Lineup - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:39] <exec> 08└─Samsung has quietly added 32 GB unbuffered DDR4 memory modules to its lineup of products.
[16:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Adds 32 GB UDIMMs to Memory Lineup - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:41] <exec> 08└─The price of TI calculators will never come down because of how they've been allowed to be integrated into maths teaching in the US. Don't have a TI-83? Fuck you, cheater. Automatic zero.
[16:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:08] <exec> 08└─But IIS is already full of holes, why would someone bother drilling new ones?
[16:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:10] <exec> 08└─Quality Control is about carefully controlling the amount of quality that can get through. On Ars someone mentioned that this is probably a cultural problem. Item A. Someone maid a mistake and was so afraid of reporting it that they tried to fix it and hope nobody noticed. This "we'll find the full...
[16:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:12] <exec> 08└─Just guessing. Wouldn't they first isolate by module to determine which module has the leak? Once identified. Shut down fans in that module. Spray some mist into the air, seal the module, and watch the direction it goes.
[16:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:39] <exec> 08└─if there are dream sequences, I think we can just skip the theranos chick and just get straight to the hot grits.
[16:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon in Color: First-Ever Colored Thin Films of Nanotubes Created - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:19] <exec> 08└─The colors seen in a puddle with an atomically thin layer of oil floating on top seem similar to this? http://www.hk-phy.org [hk-phy.org]
[16:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:16] <exec> 08└─Any weather disaster that shuts down a city will shut down most crops. Staple foods take 5 months to a year to grow, so its going to be a really rare disaster where nearby food production will save the day. What IS a priority for many nations is having enough farm production in their country, just i...
[16:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:18] <exec> 08└─Hey! Don't bring them into Trump's madness.
[16:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:26] <exec> 08└─Is anyone else weary of smartphones, and ready for wearables to move to a better form?
[16:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:27] <exec> 08└─I can buy 10 Samsung Galaxy J3 phones for the price of a Galaxy 10. It doesn't have NFC, the fingerprint sensor, or water resistance. To me, that's not a huge tradeoff for saving a mortgage payment.
[16:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:29] <exec> 08└─Have a look at the ZTE Blade Spark. It's a cheap phone you can use while waiting on the perfect phone. $80 carrier locked to At&t, $40 if you buy it from At&t.
[16:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:31] <exec> 08└─> 2GB of RAM a bit short, at the rate that websites/browser are wasting. In two years, that will only hold ~4 tabs. > 6.14 x 3.06 x 0.38 inches (156 x 77.7 x 9.7 mm) While that's the new normal, that's also stupid big. The much more reasonable 140 x 65 mm - 4GB range is sorely lacking players (Sony,...
[16:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:12] <exec> 08└─I might but I am allergic to Perl. Anyways, it currently works as I would like, so there is nothing to "enable".
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[17:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:40] <exec> 08└─Schedule 1 is for substances with abuse potential but no legitimate medical use. It's so frustrating how scheduling it as a 1 is actually a government decree that it SHALL have no medical use because the scheduling itself makes it impossible for the scientific community to do any research on it.
[17:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:41] <exec> 08└─That's the entire point. You don't want an inexpensive, readily available, and potentially useful medication competing with Big Pharma now do you? The lawmakers might not get their cut if that happened.
[17:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:43] <exec> 08└─It may be too late because it is already widely available as an herbal supplement,
[17:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:45] <exec> 08└─Can't Big Phrama add some other harmless ingredient, like arsenic, then patent it, raise the price 8000 %, and claim that plain kratom is patent infringement? Make this stick through corruption lobbying. As a secondary benefit, big Pharma doing more patent trolling would help boost its image.
[17:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:07] <exec> 08└─What if different compilers pack your structs differently? (TSA would not approve) Or was there some standard I was not aware of which compilers conformed to? I was using Pascal in the 80's but had similar issues with packed record. Mostly with matching wire protocols rather than hardware.
[17:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:08] <exec> 08└─Does /dev/null support sharding?
[17:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:10] <exec> 08└─What if different compilers pack your structs differently? ... Or was there some standard I was not aware of which compilers conformed to?
[17:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:13] <exec> 08└─Plan B might be to create /dev/null /dev/null1 /dev/null2 /dev/null3 . . . /dev/null59872 etc Can that be done without a kernel patch? Or is the non-scalable /dev/null a deeply embedded kernel concept?
[17:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:23] <exec> 08└─"Not getting enough attention (some say financially), the u.s. geological survey, renamed itself today to "u.s. EARTH based geological survey" this morning; later in the afternoon "the five largest mining conglomerates have reportedly pledged a combined 5 trillon us dollars to incumbent president-el...
[17:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Adds 32 GB UDIMMs to Memory Lineup - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:38] <exec> 08└─Many of those boards are limited by power. 32GB of these chips requires approximately 8 Watts of power based on my quick calculations from the specifications. For the machines you cited I calculated how much power these chips (just the chips) would take up of their total power budget and compared it...
[17:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:10] <exec> 08└─Welllll........ from various parts of the story I get the idea that the guy drilling the hole was drunk (high a distant second choice) at the time, and did a quick CYA on his mistake. So he used whatever glue was ready to hand. This is not something I'd stand behind, but it's my impression, and I'd...
[17:43:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 363 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:24] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos [wikipedia.org] The Theranos story combines a hyped up founder who became a billionaire (on paper), an absurd "unicorn" $10 billion valuation, a whistleblower, and outright fraud. It's not your normal tech startup story. journalists are not so good at their job...
[17:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is the good part. The bad part is that you are surrounded by people ho don't understand and keep pushing ideas that ten seconds and a napkin can debunk
[17:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:10] <exec> 08└─The Columbia River Gorge is 100km long, tens of km wide and unobstructed by 50 story buildings every 100m. And one of the most beautiful places in the US.
[17:45:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CZB [6457] 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 1185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:07] <exec> 08└─So long as trucking is an option, a cities perishable food radius is 100 miles for tender crops, 500 to 1000 for everything else. The big advantage for farms within 0 to 5 miles of the city is entirely an advantage for the farmer, and for the anti-pollution folks who are against trucking. I farm com...
[17:46:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 592 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, Atlas Shrugged is a joke: comic book characters on the level of L.Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth. Good guys are ultra good, bad guys are ultra bad. In the book the good guys pay decent wages. In reality they pay like ass, usually...and are corrupt enough to force laws to benefit themselves. Atlas...
[17:47:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 709 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:54] <exec> 08└─If I'm following correctly, they're getting excited atoms to emit together. It wasn't clear to me what the mechanism is. They didn't seem to imply it was a chain reaction, though some of the wording was unclear. I think they meant either that the trick they're using got the atoms to share the same f...
[17:47:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 1653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:56] <exec> 08└─It's clear from my fellow soylentils comments that you don't understand what's going on here so allow me to explain. They mention microwaves, but let's think in terms of visible light because it's a bit easier to imagine. What they are saying is that if you pack a group of atoms in together and that...
[17:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:31] <exec> 08└─I can't wait for my BrainPal(tm) and the accompanying Smartblood(tm). ...Any other Scalzi fans?
[17:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Could Bring New Features to Mid-Range Smartphones Before Flagships - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:33] <exec> 08└─i'm not going to buy a new "smart" phone that hasn't the "groupel protocol", 'cauz my note2 and other "old" phones have wifi and Bluetooth, but still cannot talk to each other then via wifi or carrier network. i am sure there are some people who have owned (or are still owning) 24 of those smart...
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[18:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:38] <exec> 08└─The scheduling system is unscientific. And the simplest demonstration of it is that cannabis was until quite recently Schedule I, even though there were lots of studies suggesting a bunch of medical uses. In short, it was more illegal at the federal level to have a bit of pot than it was to have PCP...
[18:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:40] <exec> 08└─At one time cocaine and heroin were widely available and were well known to cure everything from baldness to impotence.
[18:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:42] <exec> 08└─You seem to have the misconception that advertising might contain untrue information. I read it on Reader's Digest The Internet, so it must be true.
[18:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:44] <exec> 08└─You say it's circular reasoning. They say it's no loose ends. :-)
[18:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:46] <exec> 08└─You don't want an inexpensive, readily available, and potentially useful medication competing with Big Pharma now do you?
[18:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:48] <exec> 08└─Not everything is big pharma. Sometimes it's just big dumbass. Asinine loops of "it's bad because it's illegal" and "it's illegal because it's bad" have driven the wheels of bad laws for a long time.
[18:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:50] <exec> 08└─Over the summer when she was a UCSC Molecular Biology undergrad, a friend of mine got a job as a SCUBA diver on a research vessel just off of Fiji. (I myself spent that same summer riding my bike up the accursed hill upon which sits the campus.) She was collecting sponges. Just sponges but looking f...
[18:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:53] <exec> 08└─You know, if I know Dr. Novella well, and I don't I just listen to his dumb podcast, I'd guess he'd legitimately advise this. Isolate the useful components of Kratom, run clinical trials on them, and sell those components as actual drugs.
[18:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:55] <exec> 08└─cannabis was until quite recently Schedule I,
[18:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:20] <exec> 08└─Dang! That would frustrate cross platform compatibility. Too bad they didn't think of having a standard switch to specify packing to either Platform ABI conventions, or C Language Standard conventions. (And then actually have a language standard spec.) Then the software author could specify which pa...
[18:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:21] <exec> 08└─If you followed Intel's initial 386 PRM (from 1986), the padding byte wasn't documented at all. The April 1986 datasheet documented it correctly, but differently. The 1989 386 SX PRM finally documented it all correctly, three years late. And then a slew of technical books came out in the early 90s (...
[18:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:23] <exec> 08└─"Can that be done without a kernel patch?" Should be doable in a single command, something along the lines of for i in count(1-99999) ln -s /dev/null$i /dev/null
[18:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:25] <exec> 08└─That was a stonkingly good read, thanks for submitting it.
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─Would a hard link work, or work better than a sym link?
[18:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:30] <exec> 08└─That was the point of packing. When you specify packed, you leave the compiler no discretion to add padding for alignment purposes. The fields are laid out exactly as you specify without padding.
[18:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:32] <exec> 08└─What if different compilers pack your structs differently?
[18:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:34] <exec> 08└─You're welcome. I thought so, too.
[18:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:36] <exec> 08└─I thought it was a bit long. It reminded me of things I hate about that architecture. (especially segment registers) Then layers of complexity built on top of it. How complex merely booting really is. IMO: an architecture whose time has come and gone. It's primary value is that Windows runs on it, a...
[18:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:48] <exec> 08└─Jerry Pournell might be a mediocre science fiction writer, but he's passable as a science writer. Back in the 1980s, he wrote a book showing that asteroid mining was 100% do-able with off-the-shelf tech; the only problem being big C capitalism's hesitance to look beyond next year's earning reports (...
[18:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:50] <exec> 08└─Jerry Pournelle [jerrypournelle.com] wrote on BYTE magazine for a long time and was usually enjoyable. Another favorite in the 1980's was Stewart Alsop [wikipedia.org] who, AFAIK, was the first to put into writing in the 80's that software development projects are inherently unpredictable. Even big...
[18:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:52] <exec> 08└─some poster already said, that a lot of "new" gold makes gold worthless. thus "the big mining" hesitance to look to space; keeping things "limited" keeps the value of things (see: "printing money" = inflation?). my guess is, that a (so far) rare element but with crazy-cool application possibilities...
[18:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:54] <exec> 08└─Suppose someone (*cough* SpaceX *cough*) solves the problem, goes to an asteroid and can bring back something valuable. I would say other rare earth metals in addition to gold. Would use of such metals be restricted to only constructing things in an orbiting shipyard somewhere? Or is there some way...
[18:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:56] <exec> 08└─That argument is like saying: we won't drill for oil in order to keep the supply limited and the value high. Problem: if it is there, someone else will go get it, or drill for it, etc.
[18:43:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 810 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:23] <exec> 08└─It *is* right there in TFA after all; Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Who else ought to carry the can if you've got a work culture where the most likely scenarios seem to be either: A) Someone made a mistake and was too afraid to own up to it for fear of personal repercu...
[18:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 2275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:54] <exec> 08└─Farming is a terribly, brutally capital-intensive business. Making it even more so by adding greenhouses, LED lighting, pumped water infrastructures, environmental management infrastructures and so on only makes sense where the value of the products is high owing to a combination of location and mar...
[18:46:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06‘Stop BEZOS’ Bill to tax Amazon for Underpaying Workers - 971 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:40] <exec> 08└─The situation you describe is still better than what we have now, because today Zon Mart has the same broken incentive structure and they cover even less of the cost. They pay Harry the minimum amount they can get away with, and taxpayers cover the rest. A perfect fix to the situation is just too co...
[18:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:13] <exec> 08└─Come on, has the "soft sciences" ever offered anything worthwhile before?
[18:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces CO2 Conversion Challenge, With Up to $750k Awards - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:15] <exec> 08└─The ferns would also make nice decorations for the eventual Mars yuppie bars.
[18:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:53] <exec> 08└─But they also have enough clout to write the laws so that stalking you isn't illegal.
[18:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah mine is waaaaaay long, like "haven't cut it in a quarter century, just get it cleaned up every couple months" long. Like, "down to my knees" long. So it gets a wash every 3 days in winter, every 2 days in summer, or any time i work up a serious sweat. Drying it is way more of a PITA than washin...
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[19:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Report 8,000 New Antibiotic Combinations Surprisingly Effective - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:37] <exec> 08└─Hasn't one of the big recent findings been that resisting 1 antibiotic massively amplifies the baseline resistance to other antibiotics? Having subclinical doses of multiple antibiotics be sufficient to kill non-resistant e. coli doesn't actually solve anything? Maybe I misunderstand what they're sa...
[19:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biologists Report 8,000 New Antibiotic Combinations Surprisingly Effective - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:38] <exec> 08└─With the specter of antibiotic resistance threatening to turn back health care to the pre-antibiotic era
[19:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:03] <exec> 08└─Also consider homeopathic and other supplements. If they're a "supplement" and don't do much of anything, we're ok with manufacturers making all kinds of crazy health claims and swindling people (just as long as they put an FDA disclaimer in fine print). But if the supplement does actually do someth...
[19:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:05] <exec> 08└─As people have said before and again, you can't patent nature. You can patent a process to extract specific chemicals from plants, you can patent a genetically modified strain of plant, but you can't patent something that just grows in nature. And while I'm no expert in cannabis, being something of...
[19:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:07] <exec> 08└─Oops, meant to reply to that capitalist cocksucker DeathMonkey, whose party had control of congress and the presidency for two fucking years and gave us the insurance company corporate welfare subsidy called the Affordable Care Act.
[19:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:09] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=27477&page=1&cid=731458#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] This anon wanna talk
[19:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:11] <exec> 08└─I got you fam
[19:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:13] <exec> 08└─The scheduling system is unscientific. And the simplest demonstration of it is that cannabis was until quite recently Schedule I, even though there were lots of studies suggesting a bunch of medical uses. In short, it was more illegal at the federal level to have a bit of pot than it was to have PCP...
[19:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:49] <exec> 08└─Does /dev/null support sharding?
[19:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:50] <exec> 08└─Seconded
[19:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:52] <exec> 08└─What if different compilers pack your structs differently? (TSA would not approve)
[19:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:54] <exec> 08└─>if correctfulness were more important than execution speed That's not the right question to ask. The right question is, "In what cases does the value of N% correctness exceed the cost of reaching N% correctness?", and the answer for most software (or hardware for that matter) is "Never". Due to ine...
[19:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:59] <exec> 08└─The fifth big cylinder left of Zarya is a giant can of fix-a-flat.
[19:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:29] <exec> 08└─-takyon PGP key: 808080808urmomgay
[19:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:02] <exec> 08└─Second, you aren't going to do anything useful with wind on home-scales.
[19:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tests Extension Recommendations (again) in Firefox Nightly - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:42] <exec> 08└─"Hi, this is Mozilla here! There's a whole pile of extensions you may want to try! Of course none of them actually work any more because we broke all the extensions when we released version 57, but imagine how many you could be running if we hadn't fscked them all up?"
[19:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Superradiance: Quantum Effect Detected in Tiny Diamonds - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:53] <exec> 08└─You described Raleigh scattering not a laser. In a laser the photons are collimated into a coherent wave. But just because light is collimated, that does not mean it is a laser... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Origi...
[19:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:09] <exec> 08└─you know those screwdrivers that have a little lamp inside and you can jam into wall sockets and see if they're live and sh1t? well "soylentnews.org" is my lil screw-driver for the internet.: i can mess around tcp/ip, firewall, dns, about:config and whatnot ... then test the setting on "soylentnews....
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[20:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Report 8,000 New Antibiotic Combinations Surprisingly Effective - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:52] <exec> 08└─We may find out that all of the "successful" combinations perfectly aligns with every time that say two specific antibiotics was in the combination. Which really means 6 antibiotics were useless and two worthwhile. hopefully not but it could be that dumb.
[20:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Report 8,000 New Antibiotic Combinations Surprisingly Effective - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:54] <exec> 08└─The part you are missing is that they may be able to repatent the combination if that can convince the patent offices that these results are novel and/or show a non-intuitive interaction.
[20:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:23] <exec> 08└─Biting criticism coming from the guy who can't figure out how to use the 'Reply to This' button. In other news, I've been called a capitalist AND a communist in one single day. Impressive.
[20:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:02] <exec> 08└─That extra 4x development cost may be worth it for certain things. Like avionics, self driving cars, or nuclear reactor control. The cost of wrong might be very much higher than that additional 4x cost during development. I would even say for microprocessors. Many millions, even Billions and Billion...
[20:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:07] <exec> 08└─> Would make a nice addition to a large box kite, though. Somewhere I read that there is a significant voltage potential between up in the air and ground -- so a kite with a wire for a string can "generate" some small amount of electricity (clearly the current available, and thus the power, will be...
[20:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:17] <exec> 08└─there's a app for that ... kidding, no, srsly!
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[21:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Gives Spectacles a Face Lift to Look More Like Traditional Sunglasses - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:03] <exec> 08└─My life is way too mundane and boring to warrant video and/or photo documentation. Yesterdays highlight's include: - My morning coffee (no fancy picture in the foam) - My cheese bun thing for breakfast - Sitting at my desk for 7 hours with bathroom breaks - Lunch at McDonalds - Trip to Canadian Tire...
[21:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Gives Spectacles a Face Lift to Look More Like Traditional Sunglasses - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:04] <exec> 08└─If the main hangup that's kept you from purchasing Snap's Spectacles has been their design, two new models that the company is introducing today might eliminate those hesitations.
[21:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Report 8,000 New Antibiotic Combinations Surprisingly Effective - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:17] <exec> 08└─None of the components would be at sub-clinical doses.
[21:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Report 8,000 New Antibiotic Combinations Surprisingly Effective - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, okay, I knew when I wrote it, it was the wrong goddamn word. It still communicated the concept of "less than the amount of that particular substance that would be considered effective on its own"
[21:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:30] <exec> 08└─> FOOF! I say to that! Which is pretty much the right word [wikipedia.org] when talking about dangerous things. CIF [wikipedia.org] just doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
[21:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:32] <exec> 08└─AFAIK you can use mknod or even better MAKEDEV using the same major minor combination as dev/null (1 and 3). It's still cheating because it's the same device, but I don't see the point to patch the kernel to instantiate more of them. "Now although the major:minor combination uniquely identifies spec...
[21:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:50] <exec> 08└─Jerry Pournelle [jerrypournelle.com] wrote on BYTE magazine for a long time and was usually enjoyable.
[21:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:52] <exec> 08└─You refine the metal in space, form it into large blocky gliders and coat them with a couple of feet of foamed slag from the refining. Fly them back on a shallow trajectory finishing over into a large desert. You should be able to land 100's to 1000's of tonnes each, with minimal waste. The space sh...
[21:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:42] <exec> 08└─I dunno if Armageddon is real but since very similar things happened throughout Space 1999 I tend to believe it.
[21:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:43] <exec> 08└─Well... at least it's not chewing gum.
[21:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:45] <exec> 08└─> PS: I'm a cave exploration diver, which is remarkably similar to spaceflight this is strange. My AI would have sworn it was a porn category. Recalculating....
[21:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:16] <exec> 08└─But the people out to get her will fabricate whatever truth they need to get their way.
[21:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:18] <exec> 08└─Ladies and gentlemen, start up your deepfakes engines! Finally, a proper use for them.
[21:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:51] <exec> 08└─I just thought the design would look pretty, spinning inside the frame.. Without doing any physics (well, applied mathematics).. The fundamental limit would be the "capture" device, while potential/kinetic /potential conversion has losses, the conversion on a kite requires the generator to be *on* t...
[21:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon in Color: First-Ever Colored Thin Films of Nanotubes Created - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:03] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It tingles. You know you want one.
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[22:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Hospitals Band Together to Form Civica Rx, a Non-Profit Pharmaceutical Company - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:06] <exec> 08└─You stole shit from some futuristic medical science fiction story, didn't you?
[22:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Hospitals Band Together to Form Civica Rx, a Non-Profit Pharmaceutical Company - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:08] <exec> 08└─Shkreli gets out of prison and launches a hostile takeover of this puppy, turns it into a for-profit, raises prices 700% and uses profits to buy Wu Tang Clan.
[22:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snap Gives Spectacles a Face Lift to Look More Like Traditional Sunglasses - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:18] <exec> 08└─... Hopefully people will invite Snap's attention to the problem. But pessimistically the virginity has been broken and I'll bet not enough people will care any more.
[22:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Report 8,000 New Antibiotic Combinations Surprisingly Effective - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:34] <exec> 08└─No. Next.
[22:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Report 8,000 New Antibiotic Combinations Surprisingly Effective - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:35] <exec> 08└─Did a link get misplaced?
[22:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biologists Report 8,000 New Antibiotic Combinations Surprisingly Effective - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:37] <exec> 08└─If thats enough for you, lets not look up any further estimates.
[22:42:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:46] <exec> 08└─Schedule 1 is for substances with abuse potential but no legitimate medical use. It's so frustrating how scheduling it as a 1 is actually a government decree that it SHALL have no medical use because the scheduling itself makes it impossible for the scientific community to do any research on it.
[22:42:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 202 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:48] <exec> 08└─That's the entire point. You don't want an inexpensive, readily available, and potentially useful medication competing with Big Pharma now do you? The lawmakers might not get their cut if that happened.
[22:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:09] <exec> 08└─Can the kids get high on it? If the kids can get high on it, it is bad. Any further discussion will fall on deaf ears.
[22:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kratom – an Emerging Herbal Drug - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:11] <exec> 08└─In the practical world, drugs are very dangerous because they are illegal - just like moonshine was dangerous during prohibition. In the rational world (aka not ours), the question should be about risks/benefits absent any legal concerns - remember: we're talking about elected officials, rational co...
[22:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Geological Survey is Beginning to Take a Serious Look at Asteroid Mining - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:13] <exec> 08└─I haven't heard of this one. Not sure if it's a compelling strategy or a joke. Then again, Chinese researchers think they can do it with a big heat shield.
[22:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:05] <exec> 08└─FDD explains the morass of ineptitude that is called Windows. Also Gnome3 and the new flat-look apps. In the old days we used to call this regression.
[22:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:06] <exec> 08└─Ah, good times. Space 1999.
[22:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:08] <exec> 08└─Duct tape.
[22:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:40] <exec> 08└─Are we dissolving England next ?
[22:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:41] <exec> 08└─> She has not actually hurt anyone Yes, because people get blood tests just for kicks, so getting inaccurate results is inconsequential ! Moron !
[22:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Theranos to Dissolve in a Pool of Blood - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:43] <exec> 08└─Jennifer Lawrence without ... turtleneck, was worth watching.
[22:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:28] <exec> 08└─You can't survive long on lettuce or grapes. You need calories that means calorie dense food. Corn is the most efficient light->carbohydrate calorie converter.You need to be able to grow corn, everything else is fluff. There's ~100kcal in a head of lettuce. You'd need to eat 20 large 750g heads a da...
[22:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:29] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not assuming, or presuming all of the food has to be indoors, just anything meaningful. I grow can beansprouts in my refrigerator, but realistically, or even wishfully, it's insignificant to an overall diet far below noise level.
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[23:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06U.S. Hospitals Band Together to Form Civica Rx, a Non-Profit Pharmaceutical Company - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:08] <exec> 08└─@MartinShkreli__ [twitter.com] is a spoiled brat. So is El Chapo. I LOCKED THEM UP. And they're not getting out for a long long time. Believe me!!!
[23:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06U.S. Hospitals Band Together to Form Civica Rx, a Non-Profit Pharmaceutical Company - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:09] <exec> 08└─Totally looking forward to affordable hospital bills !
[23:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Hospitals Band Together to Form Civica Rx, a Non-Profit Pharmaceutical Company - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:12] <exec> 08└─They probably have plans to knife the baby already. Can't have anyone cutting in on their profits.
[23:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snap Gives Spectacles a Face Lift to Look More Like Traditional Sunglasses - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:22] <exec> 08└─Snap is taking a step in the right direction, but it's still too obvious that it has a camera. I'm pretty sure smaller cameras have been around since the Cold War. They could put a tinted glossy black covering on it. And don't have a raised circle around it. Eventually the smartglasses category will...
[23:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Report 8,000 New Antibiotic Combinations Surprisingly Effective - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:38] <exec> 08└─https://phys.org/news/2018-09-antibiotic-combinations-surprisingly-effective-biologists.html [phys.org]
[23:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:53] <exec> 08└─> FOOF! I say to that! Which is pretty much the right word [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org] when talking about dangerous things. CIF [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org] just doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
[23:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The History of a Security Hole - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:54] <exec> 08└─Love that blog. Went for the Wiki this time, but I've posted the Lowe version here before. Interestingly, the quote in the Wiki about ClF3 (the pair of running shoes) is the exact same as on the blog.
[23:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Urban Wind Turbine Wins UK James Dyson Award - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:19] <exec> 08└─...urban wind if your buildings were funnelling [sic] the prevailing wind into a turbine
[23:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:35] <exec> 08└─Food security means calories, not traces of micro nutrients.
[23:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Food for the City – from the City - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:37] <exec> 08└─I don't know about those places, but farming is pretty important in Arizona. Because winters are mild it's a significant source of winter fresh produce (hydroponically grown).
[23:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:36] <exec> 08└─Conqueror
[23:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Conservative Web Development - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:38] <exec> 08└─The sneakiest malware deliverer I ever saw was when I was going to see what these Facebook Games were all about. I didn't even get to the first game, before the ad server tried serving me up a dish of malware. I've had 0% interest in even looking at a Facebook game since. Makes some sense that one o...
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