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[00:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:30] <exec> 08└─Potential multi-THz clock speeds, layers, and even better radiation resistance for use in space. Even if the clock speeds disappoint, you could see hundreds of times of improvement on a single die. Multi-threaded performance anyway.
[00:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:31] <exec> 08└─Single core performance should alao skyrocket as we can have much much much more complex instructions like this. Just 100 layers would give opportunity to do much better branching and etc. We'll have to see how this works out.
[00:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:33] <exec> 08└─[Researchers] at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, believe a metal-based field emission air channel transistor (ACT) they have developed could maintain transistor doubling for another two decades.
[00:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:36] <exec> 08└─But I'm not knowledgeable enough in this field to know if it's actually achievable. Are there any SN readers out there able to verify whether this is a real breakthrough in chip manufacture, or snake oil?
[00:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:35] <exec> 08└─I like that they make a bunch of assumptions, and have no way to prove it. Like assuming water current has always been present there, and did not move. That only water current can change the temperature. That temperature is the only thing determining protozoa growth. I feel like I should make a simi...
[00:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─This is parallel reconstruction, they actually used sunspot data: https://biblehub.com [biblehub.com] The cross was originally a navigational tool, but eventually its symbolic meaning took over and its practical meaning was lost due cargo culting. This is much like how 'science' i...
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[00:34:38] <exec> 08└─Well, you're correct there, that's more of a metaphor than anything since a nation is not an individual. But to continue with it: the US got off to a bad start as it was begun by a bunch of Calvinist zealots who got kicked out of 17th century England for being too Christian (stop and think about tha...
[00:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:41] <exec> 08└─Naw, fusion will face the same public backlash. https://wattsupwiththat.com [wattsupwiththat.com] /Signed an old bitter nuclear physicist
[00:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:42] <exec> 08└─I especially like that . - some of the highest tech research going is 'ignorant' - developing a form of energy generation where the waste product is inert non-toxic HELIUM (which we need anyway) is 'dangerous' . As a species we very much can walk and chew gum at the same time. The efforts put...
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[00:36:22] <exec> 08└─George H.W. Bush is one of the reasons the US is so tight with the Saudis. So tight that we've gone to war on their behalf. So tight that we've experienced terrorist attacks justified by our support of them, committed mostly by Saudis. So tight that the Obama and Trump administrations are happy to s...
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[00:36:32] <exec> 08└─There is no justice.
[00:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:34] <exec> 08└─He didn't think atheists should be considered citizens.
[00:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:36] <exec> 08└─Trumps uncle got reincarnated as Julian Assange: https://www.activistpost.com [activistpost.com] Proof: https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[01:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:36] <exec> 08└─So many commentators treat Moore's Law as an ironclad fact. It isn't. It never was: Moore himself just observed that this seemed to be a trend, but he never treated it as something he expected to continue forever. I'm all for faster chips, but let's not frame the discussion based on an offhand obser...
[01:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:37] <exec> 08└─Potential multi-THz clock speeds, layers, ...
[01:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:39] <exec> 08└─will rise again!
[01:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:42] <exec> 08└─Since we know that the Australian government's laws trump the laws of mathematics and physics...
[01:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:44] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[01:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:46] <exec> 08└─Since we know that the Australian government's laws trump the laws of mathematics and physics...
[01:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:48] <exec> 08└─Manning's Law predicts that the number of millennial genders will double every 18 months.
[01:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─https://incompliancemag.com/dangerous-side-effects-of-terahertz-radiation-discovered-by-korean-researchers/ [incompliancemag.com] . I think I'll settle for this in the desktop at my feet nicely encased in comforting steel.
[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:53] <exec> 08└─Hmm, if you encase your feet in comforting steel, you might want to consider getting some plumbing installed too...
[01:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─Actually considering strong, elastic, highly conductive carbon nanotubes, it is entirely possible we will all owe the late senator Stevens an apology some day.
[01:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:57] <exec> 08└─I would have thought that anyone likely to vote for Australia's National Party would not understand any policy that included the word "physics". Although to be fair I could see it working if Michael McCormack claimed to able to see the future.
[01:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:59] <exec> 08└─...the number of millennial genders...
[01:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:02] <exec> 08└─We probably aren't going to jump from ~4-5 Ghz to 1 THz overnight. Maybe we'll see 10 GHz, or higher frequencies for chips that would normally have 0.1-2 GHz clock speeds due to power consumption concerns.
[01:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Data Business is Amazon’s Next Disruption Target - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:17] <exec> 08└─Disruption in communications is considered to be a BAD thing.
[01:35:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:01] <exec> 08└─Who ever denied the climate changes?
[01:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:45] <exec> 08└─Facial recognition is a threat, but that is still no reason to hand over everything on a silver platter. Defeatism is self-defeating, and so it's good that you still use cash. This is why mass surveillance in all its forms (whether done by the government or corporations) needs to be banned. It is si...
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[01:35:47] <exec> 08└─I've never seen anything more than hearsay that such a program exists. To begin with, given how often cash exchanges hands, the tracking would be entirely unreliable.
[01:36:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 1551 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:59] <exec> 08└─Eh, the Prez, and most politicians, are in many ways just front people, public faces, for a sizeable number of voters who feel their anointed one thinks like they do. We focus too much on The Man. The way some people talk, it's like they really think the President of the United States is personally...
[01:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:13] <exec> 08└─McCain's funeral was interpreted by many others as the death of the Globalist influence on America. George H.W. Bush's death will be interpreted as the death of the CIA's influence. George H.W. Bush may also be interpreted as somebody who started with good meaning as an honest patriot to advance the...
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[01:37:14] <exec> 08└─As much as I didn't like H.W. Bush either, there is a Brown Menace problem, I tried to tell you over and over again about it, because I remember well when the prop 187 [wikipedia.org] controversy was going on in my backyard, a bunch of Mexican flag-waving motherfuckers ganged up on and beat the shit...
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[02:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:12] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin's value shows all the signs of being a bubble. And unlike the classic bubble, you can't even look at pretty flowers when you're done mining a Bitcoin.
[02:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:13] <exec> 08└─You put your life savings into virtual currency, you end up virtually penniless.
[02:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:15] <exec> 08└─A deflationary thing which is getting exponentially harder to get with no monetary controls had a bubble?! That is just crazy talk.
[02:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:18] <exec> 08└─...but at least I'm only virtually fiat penniless!
[02:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:42] <exec> 08└─https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/introducing-the-vacuum-transistor-a-device-made-of-nothing [ieee.org]
[02:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:44] <exec> 08└─The state of Indiana came close to legislating that PI = 3.2, which would have been interesting. Had it not been for a visiting math professor when it was considered it might have happened to... . Also the Supreme Court of the US made tomatoes a vegetable over a hundred years ago. This is actuall...
[02:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:46] <exec> 08└─I think he can see the future, and it is Barnaby shaped.
[02:34:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 2928 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:48] <exec> 08└─Well, you're correct there, that's more of a metaphor than anything since a nation is not an individual. But to continue with it: the US got off to a bad start as it was begun by a bunch of Calvinist zealots who got kicked out of 17th century England for being too Christian (stop and think about tha...
[02:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:19] <exec> 08└─Said of the Zardoz crew. I wonder whether it helped or hindered sean connery's career.
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[03:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:52] <exec> 08└─Only about $4,000 more to drop before it comes a bit closer to its real value.
[03:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:53] <exec> 08└─When the federal reserve raises interest rates (ie increases the reserve requirements) banks need to hold more dollars, so the dollar becomes more valuable. The interest rates were kept ridiculously low from 2008-2016 which pumped everything into bubbles, only recently are they finally being raised...
[03:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:56] <exec> 08└─As with anything, it is worth exactly what you can get someone to pay for it. Technically, bitcoin has no value at all
[03:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:58] <exec> 08└─Is this not obvious? For anyone who has taken a few macro econ classes, yes. Most people do not think of everything as a market (which is one of the lessons of macro economics). Money has a market, food, housing, employers, employees, etc etc etc. You name it there is a 'market' for that thing. But...
[03:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:00] <exec> 08└─Technically nothing has any "value" at all. "Value" is personal.
[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─Unless you mined your coins by pedaling on your exercise bicycle, you still have to pay with hard fiat cash for the energy. The good news is, in case you mined some bitcoins** by using your exercise bike, you should be the winner for the next Tour de France. ** currently, at 556 kWh/transaction [dig...
[03:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:04] <exec> 08└─Now where will you get your pensions from?
[03:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:07] <exec> 08└─My guess is education, but it will be in a long long time.
[03:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:09] <exec> 08└─From his parents, may they live forever.
[03:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:11] <exec> 08└─How many bitcoin bubbles have you said this about now? Did you also say it during the 32 -> 2 crash, the 250 -> 50 crash, how about the 1000 -> 300 crash?
[03:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, naaah... that future has minuscule chances at the vote booths. If it does happen, it won't last long. At the best, Beetrooter [dailyexaminer.com.au] may try to pose as leader to those extreme right Nationals expelled lately but I'm afraid the seat is taken by the "Go fuck yourself @corybernard...
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[03:34:41] <exec> 08└─I thought that article rang a 'bell' - https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[03:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:43] <exec> 08└─Why would the Australians care anything about some movie director from Michigan?
[03:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and that's a bad thing? I mean, masturbation is supposed to be good for the prostate. Keep those juices flowing, baby!
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:27] <exec> 08└─It's only "every woman" if you exclude the many who don't have smartphones (like my paternal aunt), typically use their computer for purchases after doing research & price-comparisons on it (like me), prefer to use their a tablet at home, or generally just don't spend any more time "shopping" than t...
[03:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:28] <exec> 08└─No need for a study, just look at how hard the banks are pushing it.
[03:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:24] <exec> 08└─Frank Baum did not write the move version you know and love. I highly recommend watching the more true-to-the-book version produced a few years earlier than the color version. It's a black and white, silent movie called The Wizard of Oz. Not only is the story completely different, but it shows what...
[03:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:25] <exec> 08└─Nah, not all of it — I'm certain a pretty good chunk of that special effects budget was spent in advance to buy hallucinogens for the script writers.
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[03:40:14] <exec> 08└─A little excessive in your estimated resource requirements. But, yes, in 300 baud days, it would probably have taken a bunch of ECL chips to process 28Kpps because FET wasn't fast enough yet. It would be a little silly for you to pay far more for your modem than for your computer, not to mention how...
[03:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DarkMorph [674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Testing DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:28] <exec> 08└─There's just no reason to encrypt publicly available content, not when eavesdroppers can simply read the URLs from the packets and go to the public sites themselves to see what's being viewed. Could have just digitally signed the public data so the recipient can check that it has not been altered in...
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[04:33:13] <exec> 08└─I am curious, since mainstream media is often very weaslish about these things, in this case who are the demonstrators? Are they trade unions? young anarchists? native French (i.e. white people?), recent immigrants / ethic or religious (i.e. muslim) groups? ...etc.? a potpourri of all these? Can any...
[04:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:14] <exec> 08└─Most protesters are in their 30s and 40s.
[04:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:16] <exec> 08└─Short answer - middle class. More precisely - former middle class. As per political affiliations, yellow vests are moderates, but their are joined by ultra left and right.
[04:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:37] <exec> 08└─It was actually a joke about the younger generations being unable to pay for their parents' pensions.
[04:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:39] <exec> 08└─This is what the govt is for, isn't it?
[04:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:41] <exec> 08└─Well. I'm looking at a price history [99bitcoins.com] chart of Bitcoin and I see none of those alleged price drops. There was 18->3, 840->230, and of course, the present 15000->4000.
[04:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:22] <exec> 08└─That's right. Jimmy Carter* ordered the hit. But we don't ask those questions because it has nothing to do with business! * I mean, really, he had to have something to do with it. Why else would he hire the guy?
[04:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:24] <exec> 08└─Just because we don't use our power, doesn't mean we don't have it. All our present day systemic problems are self inflicted.
[04:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:26] <exec> 08└─Well, people are no different from caribou. You gotta let them go where the food is, especially during mating season.
[04:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:28] <exec> 08└─If allowed, those people will swarm all over anyone who has some serious power and responsibility, and crowd each other and everyone else aside to get closer. Hey, talk to the animals. Proximity to power has always been a thing. A single episode about hippos on the Animal Planet can explain everythi...
[04:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Unlocks Full Potential of 'Supermaterial' Graphene - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:49] <exec> 08└─So silicon implants decrease performance compared to pure organic structures? Were there women on the research team? Because that could explain how a more diverse viewpoint figured out something earlier researchers missed.
[04:40:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Mozilla Testing DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox - 982 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:47] <exec> 08└─Have a look at S-HTTP. It was proposed in the late 90's, it was better than HTTPS, and ... commercial vendors chose the weaker standard. Among the advantages is that most if not all of the problems we have with DNS-- the cache poisoning, spoofing, and verification problems-- aren't such problems wit...
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[04:42:03] <exec> 08└─Just because you're unable to understand it, doesn't make it wrong.
[04:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Palm Oil was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe. - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:05] <exec> 08└─Just wait another 50 years, there will be plenty of evidence by then.
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[05:33:18] <exec> 08└─Agence France Press [afp.com] An estimated 75,000 demonstrators, most of them peaceful, were counted across the country in the afternoon, the interior ministry said. The number was well below the first day of protests on November 17, which attracted around 282,000 people, and also down from the 106,...
[05:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:45] <exec> 08└─Education is already starting to collapse. I think education, health care, and public pensions will all collapse about the same time though the fallout will be strictly limited to the US because it's all dependent on government funding which will probably fail simultaneously for all those things.
[05:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:47] <exec> 08└─Well, I didnt see those values in your link but its probably some sort of average. Id use this: https://bitcoincharts.com [bitcoincharts.com]
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[05:35:14] <exec> 08└─There's no doubt that global climate change is real. There's no doubt that there's nothing that can be done to stop it. Therefore there's no doubt, it's not human caused i.e. anthropgenic.
[05:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:23] <exec> 08└─Ah...poor Eth, all his grand kids (if he has any) are going to be "brownish".
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[06:33:11] <exec> 08└─seems the French managed one every 10-50 years, but now an "incident of civil unrest" (including burning stuff) [wikipedia.org] or just a plain old riot [wikipedia.org] seems to happen every year or two. recurring issues: petrol taxes or prices, labour reform or deregulation, police violence.
[06:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:12] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. Will be appreciated, thanks.
[06:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:14] <exec> 08└─The last linky is "search for the needle in the haystack". Here's a better one [wikipedia.org] for France
[06:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:17] <exec> 08└─Waiting for them to erect a Guillotine at Place de la Bastille, cause why can't they just eat cake and not worrying about the prices of gasoline.
[06:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:19] <exec> 08└─If you've seen the news over the past few years, and still decide to go to Paris, then I hope you do get beheaded by ISIS. Less stupid people in the world, the better.
[06:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:49] <exec> 08└─> This may have some good impact for PC gamers If you start seeing a lot of temptingly cheap used 1080ti graphics cards just remember that these things have been driven at 100% capacity (sometimes even harder with OC) nonstop for many months. The VRM's alone are nearing the end of their service life...
[06:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:50] <exec> 08└─So diminishing profit in mining cryptocurrencies, possibly even below the profitability limit depend on your energy prices etc, I guess that means more cryptojackers installing on other peoples machines that pay for the expensive electricity. After all in the end they never seem to care where the "c...
[06:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:31] <exec> 08└─It's not solid logic but it's not necessarily wrong either. Things that are done by humans can typically be undone by humans, it's not always practical to undo things completely but at the very least we can learn to stop doing it. And at a deeper level, there is confusion between two narratives; one...
[06:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Viruses Hijack Part of Your Immune System and Use It Against You - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:20] <exec> 08└─So they're like khazar jewish rats.
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[07:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revealing Hidden Information in Sound Waves - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:23] <exec> 08└─Wait, you mean SONAR just discovered the overtone and undertone series? https://en.wikipedia.org
[07:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:41] <exec> 08└─I've been semi-aware of these protests for about week, maybe two. I saw it online someplace. It finally got something like 30 seconds on CBS tonight. I would't go to NBC for information on this, as they're probably not much better. Journalism is dead, Dead, DEAD at the old networks. I only watch the...
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[07:33:42] <exec> 08└─The paradox is this is not a result of the failure of the globalised economic model but of its success. In recent decades, the French economy, like the European and US economies, has continued to create wealth. We are thus, on average, richer. The problem is at the same time unemployment, insecurity...
[07:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:45] <exec> 08└─Macron is France's Hillary. We dodged a bullet!
[07:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:47] <exec> 08└─For something to listen to while doing chores, go audiobooks.
[07:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:49] <exec> 08└─(I see. You took more salt than the average).
[07:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:51] <exec> 08└─In the USA it's the other way around.
[07:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 2341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:58] <exec> 08└─You want chaos? You don't need global warming to produce it. The population is already worked up to a fevered pitch and just about anything could set it off, nothing so dramatic needed. Just keep messing with the trucking industry. You know how long you have between a trucking shutdown and food riot...
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[07:36:00] <exec> 08└─"Well, you're correct there, that's more of a metaphor than anything since a nation is not an individual." True. "But to continue with it: the US got off to a bad start as it was begun by a bunch of Calvinist zealots who got kicked out of 17th century England for being too Christian (stop and think...
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[08:33:54] <exec> 08└─Yay! Sideband radio is back
[08:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Revealing Hidden Information in Sound Waves - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:55] <exec> 08└─tracking the distance and depth of an adversary from hundreds of miles away—far beyond the horizon—might be possible.
[08:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revealing Hidden Information in Sound Waves - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:57] <exec> 08└─I discovered Fourier series in college and had all kinds of fun with Mathematica. I was later disappointed when I learned that I did not invent steganography.
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[08:34:09] <exec> 08└─Agence France Press [afp.com] An estimated 75,000 demonstrators, most of them peaceful, were counted across the country in the afternoon, the interior ministry said. The number was well below the first day of protests on November 17, which attracted around 282,000 people, and also down from the 106,...
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[08:34:21] <exec> 08└─I would actually want to pay attention to the audio book, whereas much of the evening news is drowned out by running water and dishes banging around in the sink. ie, the audio book would take too much attention away from what I'm doing.
[08:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:22] <exec> 08└─who are the demonstrators?
[08:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:25] <exec> 08└─They are really protesting that the tax is not high enough. /s
[08:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MuadDib [4439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:57] <exec> 08└─Mining with GPUs hasn't been profitable for several years. Maybe for other crypto but not Bitcoin.
[08:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:58] <exec> 08└─If I knew where you live, I would come kick you out of your basement right now. it doesn't really have any value to you, so it's fine if I do it.
[08:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:34] <exec> 08└─Completely off-topic, but the Go-F-Yourself Australia Day story you linked reminds me of my own political movement to get Australia Day moved to the first Monday in August. When I first mention this to people most of them think it has something to with moving it away from "Invasion Day" but it's not...
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[09:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:46] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they're achieving what NASA promised fifty years ago with he shuttle.
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[09:34:25] <exec> 08└─That is because the USA's government got infiltrated by the Jewish communists a long while ago.
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[09:34:26] <exec> 08└─The people who actually work to try and get somewhere, then see that being taken away by 'policy that is for their own good' and delivered to the elites and the troublemakers? We have for some time had a rather 'interesting' form of capitalism in operation. The elites get their cut because they own...
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[11:33:30] <exec> 08└─That kind of all depends, don't it? I mean if you dumped me back then knowing what I know now, I'd have penicillin, gunpowder, and a musket before the first week was out and would likely have a pretty good time. I mean, the fishing back then was probably pretty epic if you could get folks to bugger...
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[11:37:17] <exec> 08└─Paying for a cup of coffee with a smartphone instead of a credit card is gaining prominence among consumers (...)
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[11:37:53] <exec> 08└─Japan is re-starting reactors that had nothing wrong with them but were shutdown for inspections/updates to make sure they would be able to handle Fukashima type events.
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[11:39:23] <exec> 08└─... heinous and non-triumphant, dudes.
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[12:32:34] <exec> 08└─Hahaha! Sounds rather overconfident mate. Not sure you'd have penicillin and your BoomStick would require parts that were rather difficult to find and manufacture. How about we drop you off in the middle of Canadian wilderness and see how your first week will turn out?
[12:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:36] <exec> 08└─Reliable penicillin sources were all over the place back then (literally in most every house already) and nothing had become resistant to it yet. You just had to know it was useful. A musket would require the cooperation of a blacksmith but not an especially skilled one if you weren't trying to be f...
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[12:32:46] <exec> 08└─In launch rate, maybe. In people launch rate - not so much. I think they'll get there though, hopefully without matching NASA's people-blown-up rate.
[12:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:27] <exec> 08└─The central purpose of an economic system is to allow civil society to flourish (or at least it ought to be).
[12:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:29] <exec> 08└─Wow, so "insightful"... Apparently he didn't read much history so he doesn't have any idea of what to expect when his government issues a hugely unpopular edict.
[12:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:31] <exec> 08└─France is not in turmoil. France is france. People protest about nothing because they are french.
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[12:34:02] <exec> 08└─They should rename it to tulipcoin or bittulip, to give it a second air.
[12:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:04] <exec> 08└─Perfection Mekanik Aero Dynamik Materiel et Technik Aero Dynamik Condition et Physik Aero Dynamik Position et Taktik Aero Dynamik
[12:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:06] <exec> 08└─This is a good thing for working class people since they have to spend less on stuff like rent and fuel and wages always lag inflation. Groceries should eventually drop too due to cheaper shipping, etc. Is this not obvious?
[12:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:08] <exec> 08└─When the federal reserve raises interest rates (ie increases the reserve requirements) banks need to hold more dollars,
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[12:34:41] <exec> 08└─I reckon it's bloody Un-Australian not to have at least one public holiday every 2 months...
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[13:33:22] <exec> 08└─By that time the Romans had horse archers. Good luck with your muskets.
[13:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 2655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:23] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure there's more to reliably producing penicillin than obtaining moldy bread, but perhaps it's your specialty, I'll withhold judgement. Making a barrel with the technology available at that time would be feasible, but if you loaded the result with anything like a modern charge it would f...
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[13:33:33] <exec> 08└─Payload mass to orbit is what is important. We need big and cheap launches. Carrying humans is just a matter of ticking the checkboxes after that point. Once BFR/Starship is ready, we can talk about giant telescopes and space stations at 1/10th the cost. That vehicle could carry humans even before i...
[13:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:35] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if the stream will show all of the satellite deployments and include ~64 little notches on the timeline. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] GPS launch: Initially planned for a Delta IV launch, this is SpaceX's f...
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[13:34:06] <exec> 08└─The paradox is this is not a result of the failure of the globalised economic model but of its success. In recent decades, the French economy, like the European and US economies, has continued to create wealth. We are thus, on average, richer. The problem is at the same time unemployment, insecurity...
[13:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:20] <exec> 08└─For a change, how about you come with a definition on the main purpose of economy? Repeating yourself makes you boring.
[13:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:21] <exec> 08└─Economy doesnt have a purpose any more than eating and sleeping has a 'purpose'.
[13:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they don't want to give you ideas. Who knows? Maybe next time "Occupy..." will result in something, why take the risks?
[13:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:26] <exec> 08└─How do you get socialism from that quote? The left and the right are protesting side by side, the majority of French people support the protests. France has tax at something like 48% of GDP while the European average is 36%. People aren't protesting for higher taxes are they?
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[13:35:03] <exec> 08└─Its not confused, the fed does not directly declare interest rates. Instead they mess with the reserves available or reserve requirements to get banks to change the rates they use. https://www.thebalance.com [thebalance.com]
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[14:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:42] <exec> 08└─More like 2016, amirite? Or was it 2018 or 2021?
[14:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:44] <exec> 08└─This sounds like it would be a relief from the warmth we are currently suffering. I hope the UN can trigger a volcano to save the climate.
[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:46] <exec> 08└─1. Tap a supervolcano for geothermal energy. 2. "Accidentally" set off an eruption. 3. ??? 4. New World Order.
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─You are all forgetting the lack of sunlight and the consequent crop failures. Nothing spurs revolt and war like a famine. A few muskets or other advanced weapons tech is no solution at all to the problems of that age. That'd just bring lots and lots of attention down on you, and you could easily end...
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─You've been playing too much Minecraft and Rust, buzztard.
[14:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:53] <exec> 08└─That's not a big temperature drop, and wouldn't make it snow in a warm place.
[14:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:55] <exec> 08└─Better to go back in time with a tubful of technology from 100-500 years from now. Otherwise you will probably just die from some random disease or get stabbed to death.
[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:57] <exec> 08└─nothing had become resistant to it yet
[14:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:59] <exec> 08└─"Yes and no. Yes, it's not hard to make gunpowder, didn't everyone do that as a child? :)" No.
[14:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:01] <exec> 08└─Dial down your thermostat by that amount and you will soon notice it.
[14:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:04] <exec> 08└─It's not that big a stretch from a muzzle-loading musket to a rifled breech-loader, something like a Ferguson Rifle [wikipedia.org]. Without machine-driven industry it'd be a time-consuming bastard to make, but it could be done with approximately the same level of tech. Accurate from six hundred to...
[14:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:06] <exec> 08└─Can we just take a moment to marvel at the title of the paper "Alpine ice-core evidence for the transformation of the European monetary system, AD 640–670". Taken out of context, this title seems wonderfully surreal.
[14:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:06] <exec> 08└─Macron is a piece of garbage.
[14:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:08] <exec> 08└─he's not wrong [twitter.com]
[14:38:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:43] <exec> 08└─So, you dont like nuclear and you want to shut down all of the nuclear plants, without building new ones. You buy into Global Warming so you dont want to build more coal or natural gas plants. So whats your solution? You claim others are nonsensical but your the ones that wants to shut down all nucl...
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[15:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:10] <exec> 08└─I guess the lawsuit over the LA tunnel under the 405 made the project too exciting for The Boring Company to pursue.
[15:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:41] <exec> 08└─When it comes to mixing your own gunpowder, there's a world of difference between knowing the formula and getting a good shot off. As in, the Mythbusters tried to create an anti-Gorn cannon like the one Kirk used in "Arena", and couldn't. But even if you have a working musket, you have a serious rat...
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─I think they'll get there though, hopefully without matching NASA's people-blown-up rate.
[15:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─Why wouldn't Starlink, the infamous Zuma, and Falcon Heavy launches count as launches? Do those not require the same attention to detail, preparation, planning, and costs as a "real" launch? A launch that is for SpaceX's own porpoises rather than revenue generating porpoises might count differently,...
[15:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:26] <exec> 08└─In January of this year at the top of the market an Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti was generating $174.82/mo. Hardcore miners had of course moved to ASICs but it's a bit misleading to say that GPU mining hasn't been profitable, just a much slower ROI. Now that the market has crashed, that's down to under $50/mo...
[15:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:08] <exec> 08└─You left out old age as a cause of death.
[15:38:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:04] <exec> 08└─Cars such as the Ford Pinto tend to explode in a fireball when rear-ended. The handling isn't so great either. After some public outrage driven by sensationalist reporting and an anti-war faction funded by the USSR, we decide to ban car production. 60 years later, cars are still unsafe. The typical...
[15:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:21] <exec> 08└─Lets not pretend there is no radioactive waste from fusion reactors. Anything that comes in contact with the plasma is going to absorb some neutrons. Tritium is rather radioactive, but because of this, its half-life is short. While Tritium is a fuel and not a by product, it is possible some could le...
[15:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:49] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it's because the main characters are male. There's a traditional piece of sexism in English literature whereby men are usually denoted by their last names, and women by their first names.
[15:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─The old Rising Sun is so much better than the Animal's version from the 60's (or was it the 70's? I forget) I used to sing Josh White's version, with a lot of strange chords, but I've completely forgotten the chord sequences.
[15:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06To Predict the Future, the Brain Uses Two Clocks - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe the ability to have rhythm and anticipatory timekeeping was important at some point when trying to throw a spear at moving prey? Where today it is to see who can get first post.
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[16:33:23] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, or perhaps this is a convenient out for Musk when he can't actually provide what's been promised.
[16:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:24] <exec> 08└─Instead of doing a really stupid thing like boring tunnels in one of the most earthquake prone regions in the Americas, why doesn't he just buyout Amtrak and not make it suck? Instead of floating an idea of sending humans through a vacuum mail tube system (again in said earthquake region), why doesn...
[16:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:27] <exec> 08└─Capitalists are people with capital (ie, money) that wish to invest it in some enterprise or activity, hoping to increase it. Elon Musk doing 'really stupid things' with his capital has nothing to do with being a capitalist, but has everything to do with being Elon Musk. I apologize if that seems ob...
[16:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:02] <exec> 08└─Why aim small? Cannons are actually easier to manufacture, and are going to knock down any wall going in those days. If you could get 50-100 men and a couple cannons, you'd be a force to be reckoned with before long.
[16:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ZaqsNews [7176] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:03] <exec> 08└─Even rifles. Would your army be better than Custer's? And there would be no Washington D.C. to keep sending supplies and manpower. Rather it would be Constantinople with the infinite resources. Maybe you could ally with any of the local powers, maybe even the Romans or the Franks. Only problem was t...
[16:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:19] <exec> 08└─Starlink doesn't earn them money until it works and SpaceX becomes an ISP. A Falcon Heavy demo launch doesn't earn them money. SpaceX insists that Zuma wasn't a failure on their part, and they probably got paid for it, but there is still a lot of mystery surrounding it.
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[16:35:10] <exec> 08└─Quite true. Look at the result of the "direct actions": In France, destroy a McDonalds or burn a highway tax gantry, and it's a couple thousand euro fine. In the US, the participants would be quickly sentenced to 60 years of prison on a litany of charges. As American demonstrators would be lining up...
[16:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:11] <exec> 08└─> Waiting for them to erect a Guillotine at Place de la Bastille, Some people aren't shy about talking about it. One of the people quoted for https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] said "Macron is our Louis XVI, and we know what h...
[16:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:52] <exec> 08└─>you can't even look at pretty flowers when you're done mining a Bitcoin. You can if you convert the bitcoin to weed. There are exchange services for this sort of thing.
[16:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:53] <exec> 08└─Now we don't know that for sure. First sentence states that nothing have value, but then the next sentence says everyone can put any value on whatever they want.
[16:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:55] <exec> 08└─Not if you hid your miner at work.
[16:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:58] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that chart was hard to read. It also appears to be some other security. When I found a "BTC" variant that seemed to be similar to the Bitcoin price, I noticed another feature which is indicative of a bubble, superexponential growth leading up to the beginning of 2018. Here, "superexponential"...
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─No problem. Lots of "weak", "might" and "implied" in the summary. Should have tried harder to conceal that this was an early stage hypothesis.
[16:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:46] <exec> 08└─Are you sure any creature on earth are aware of their place in nature? Perhaps they are merely conforming to existing sociological dogmas in their societies. Perhaps beavers have a system like capitalism that makes them do stuff they don't know why they are doing?
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[17:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:55] <exec> 08└─Intel doesn't just make CPUs, the make motherboards as well - that only accept Intel chips. I expect AMD will do the same before long. I've got a Core Quad Xeon e5400 or so, with FB-DIMM memory. I was interested in FB-DIMM specifically because it works well for memory access patterns that read and w...
[17:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:56] <exec> 08└─What do you need special DRAM for? Is it because you're Satoshi Nakamoto?
[17:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:58] <exec> 08└─I had the idea of running a whole bunch of VMs at once to test a cross-platform app I was writing. It sometimes work to run OS X in a Hackintosh VM. _Sometimes_.
[17:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:01] <exec> 08└─Earlier this year Intel's CEO said it was his job to stop AMD from getting 20% of market share, then he was forced to resign a week later. They still don't have a new CEO.
[17:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 1433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:14] <exec> 08└─There were no subways no light rail lines when I was at Tech from 1982-85. At the time there were buses but their bus system sucked. Whenever a serious effort was made to build a subway, a whole whack of political opposition brought the banhammer down on it. I never so much as heard of proposals for...
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[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─During the Napoleonic Wars 1300 years later, the standard way of dealing with artillery was to charge them with cavalry, ideally while they were busy shooting at something else. There were definitely people who had cavalry in 536 CE. As for a force of 50-100 men, most nobles had at least that at the...
[17:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:55] <exec> 08└─I made it as a kid, but I sure didn't find and refine the ingredients. Impure ingredients can really kill black powder's ability to burn rapidly. ... But it would be an excellent fire-starter to add to tinder. It'll burn even when a bit moist.
[17:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:57] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't even be able to communicate. Languages have changed quite a bit since then.
[17:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:59] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't even be able to communicate. Languages have changed quite a bit since then.
[17:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─I am pretty sure you'd be killed before your first night. Throughout time there has been one steadfast rule, no one likes an asshole with no money.
[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:04] <exec> 08└─Aim small miss small. In seriousness, the technology to make a continuous piece of iron that big didn't exist. That's why armor of the period was made from wire and small plates.
[17:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─Even if making money was your only metric (which I don't subscribe to personally), I wouldn't have a hard time justifying calling Falcon Heavy and Starlink launches marketing, hard to argue that they build the value of "the brand" and advertise impressive capabilities if we are taking this from a pu...
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─I want the company to be successful, and to have staying power. I want SpaceX to be able to thrive even if Musk dies on a joyride around the Moon. I don't think they will have achieved stability until Starlink is successful and BFR/Starship is regularly flying for satellite customers. Starlink is ri...
[17:34:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:45] <exec> 08└─Short answer - middle class. More precisely - former middle class. As per political affiliations, yellow vests are moderates, but their are joined by ultra left and right.
[17:35:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 1538 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:03] <exec> 08└─The people who actually work to try and get somewhere, then see that being taken away by 'policy that is for their own good' and delivered to the elites and the troublemakers? We have for some time had a rather 'interesting' form of capitalism in operation. The elites get their cut because they own...
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[17:35:15] <exec> 08└─how stupid do you have to be to be a macron supporter? lmao
[17:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:17] <exec> 08└─"Hundreds have been arrested and injured (including police) in the often violent protests. Reuters documents the activities in some detail. This video shows a mob of protesters surround and attack a policeman (it's ok, he gets away, with help from one or more of the protesters)." run, run little pig...
[17:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:00] <exec> 08└─It means,"don't buy used." But if demand falls off and the suppliers don't curtail production (an assumption) then in theory the price of new cards should go down. But the if, don't, and should in that prior sentence much more likely means the graphics card makers keep a very close eye on how much t...
[17:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:01] <exec> 08└─If I knew where you live, I would come kick you out of your basement right now.
[17:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:03] <exec> 08└─Nvidia has taken a different tact - the new 2080 gpu's are mostly useless to miners since the RTX side can't be used for crypto. I think they hope to supply the gamers with cards that miners don't want and at the same time making the 1080 cards that are getting dumped onto the market by exiting mine...
[17:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:06] <exec> 08└─... wasn't actually an investment. Just for the fun of it I bought some Bitcoin and then some Bitcoin Cash right around last Christmas and then transferred chunks of the balance to paper wallets that I gave away as Christmas presents. (Congrats! You now own BTC or BCH - Merry Christmas! along with a...
[17:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:08] <exec> 08└─And where does the gov get money? Taxing the people. Old people are getting money, young are paying in.
[17:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:11] <exec> 08└─i'm glad it's dropping. this culls the shameless and clueless windows users with their nvidia cards and drops the difficulty for miners that are in it for the right reasons. the advancement of privacy coins like monero. all the bankster slaves who love to talk shit about cryptocurrency are pitiful b...
[17:40:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deadstick [5110] 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:38] <exec> 08└─I was a kid long before that, and I was an early reader. My mom, Dr. Seuss and L. Frank Baum, in that order, taught me to read, and by the time The Wizard came to town, I'd read my way through five or six books of the Oz canon. Needless to say, I was really hot to see it. It was a disaster. A few mi...
[17:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Wizard of Oz Most 'Influential' Film of all Time According to Network Science - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:49] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/M8Ueo7r2nbA [youtu.be] Thank you for that. When I get home this afternoon, I'll play that with my volume turned all the way up to 11. I can't play music during the day at NedSpace, and I busted by headphones. (There are some members here who absolutely require silence. I'm OK with t...
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[18:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:49] <exec> 08└─Like legislation making their CEOs eat one turd sandwich a week. Automation is a bid deal, but how do we manage a world where all the entry level menial jobs are gone? How do we address the systemic wealth inequality? Fools like khallow can argue all they want about how unlimited wealth ownership is...
[18:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:50] <exec> 08└─Automation is a bid deal, but how do we manage a world where all the entry level menial jobs are gone?
[18:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:02] <exec> 08└─Intel stopped manufacturing their own motherboards and servers some time ago...
[18:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:04] <exec> 08└─No it was because of sexual harassment. Do keep up.
[18:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:06] <exec> 08└─The "official reason" was having an inappropriate (but consensual) relationship with an employee, it wasn't harassment. Either way that was just an excuse the board was keeping in their back pocket.
[18:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:08] <exec> 08└─Intel does not make motherboards, and haven't for a long time. Both Intel and AMD make chipsets, which motherboard manufacturers use. And each manufacturer makes both Intel and AMD motherboards.
[18:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:22] <exec> 08└─opposition from wealthy LA neighborhoods as a form of NIMBYism that stops innovation
[18:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:23] <exec> 08└─Sometimes we call people Capitalists because they had their own capital, and used it to build some really crazy stupid things that would never work. Like inexpensive practical electric light bulbs. Or the very first pocket mp3 player (diamond rio I think) . . . who would even use such a crazy thing?...
[18:33:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 2655 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure there's more to reliably producing penicillin than obtaining moldy bread, but perhaps it's your specialty, I'll withhold judgement. Making a barrel with the technology available at that time would be feasible, but if you loaded the result with anything like a modern charge it would f...
[18:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:06] <exec> 08└─but seriously, is that even possible ;)?
[18:34:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] 02 - 06Revealing Hidden Information in Sound Waves - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─I discovered Fourier series in college and had all kinds of fun with Mathematica. I was later disappointed when I learned that I did not invent steganography.
[18:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Revealing Hidden Information in Sound Waves - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:38] <exec> 08└─As long as the capture bandwidth of the microphones is sufficient, under sampling (sampling at below nyquist) can be used to detect signals outside of the nyquist frequency. This is used in radio frequency digital conversion, but is unnecessary at audio frequencies since ADCs are fast enough to capt...
[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:22] <exec> 08└─Watch the Sir James Goldsmith link above. He was a venture capitalist corporate raider type. The point you disagree with is his. Calling him a commie is a silly beyond my ability to analogize.
[18:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:23] <exec> 08└─Might as well throw the wswswswswsws coverage here. Third “yellow vest” protest in France defies government crackdown [wsws.org]. In downtown Paris, the protesters faced an unprecedented police crackdown, the most violent since May 1968, when police assaults on student demonstrations triggered t...
[18:35:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─Only about $4,000 more to drop before it comes a bit closer to its real value.
[18:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:14] <exec> 08└─I think further superexponential surges are unlikely due to the strong capping of the cost of Bitcoin creation.
[18:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:16] <exec> 08└─That $200 card may seem like a smoking deal but the only smoking will be of the magic blue variety as those chips fail. And don't look to the manufacturer to honor the warranty on a card that has been used for mining.
[18:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:18] <exec> 08└─Mining is hard on the cards VRM's. Heat is the enemy of silicon circuits and when running full bore those regulators get VERY hot. The cards just aren't designed to be driven that hard continuously. If you have ever been around a mining rack you can literally hear the chips whining under load. So no...
[18:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─It isn't going to go from zero to infinity vs the USD in a straight line. Instead its a series of ever larger bubble-crash cycles. Each cycle picks up more and more people with new skills and experiences.
[18:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:23] <exec> 08└─There hasn't been a bubble crash cycle since the last one popped last December.
[18:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:25] <exec> 08└─But the thing is, I know multiple people who would be perfectly happy to give me weed in exchange for US currency, with probably a much better weed-per-dollar ratio than mining Bitcoin and then getting somebody in Central America to ship me weed. Acting like dope is something hard to come by doesn't...
[18:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:27] <exec> 08└─Apologies in advance for being a grammar nazi as I know unasked for advice is usually not wanted. One takes a different "tack" (nautical term in sailing related to shifting one's sails to alter course when sailing upwind as a metaphor for a change in direction), not a different "tact" (discretion in...
[18:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:20] <exec> 08└─nancy pelosi obviously has aborted fetuses delivered through a chute.
[18:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:01] <exec> 08└─Did they correct for the rapidly improving economic status of China during the time covered by the data set? It seems like another obvious correlation that needs to be considered.
[18:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:35] <exec> 08└─Huh insightful EF, on topic with no wasted words, and only some die hard Republican loyalist might take issue. Did we reinstate prohibition???
[18:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:36] <exec> 08└─And if our consciousness does exist in some other dimension? I have no problem with people taking a scientific approach, but at least have the decency to admit when you don't know something. Currently there is zero scientific consensus on consciousness. Possibly we are just emergent properties of a...
[18:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:38] <exec> 08└─So you take it as a given that she will run and win 2020? I'd rather have Bernie or any number of other actual liberal candidates myself, maybe get a contender for best POTUS ever? To win that prize you only need to pass a few little things. Universal Healthcare, Repeal citizens united, actually get...
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[18:40:41] <exec> 08└─California Proposition 187 (also known as the Save Our State (SOS) initiative) was a 1994 ballot initiative to establish a state-run citizenship screening system and prohibit illegal immigrants from using non-emergency health care, public education, and other services in the State of California.
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[19:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:43] <exec> 08└─They're going to let expensive robots run free in a store with customers in it? What happens when something accidentally falls off the top shelf straight onto the robot? Or the kids start riding the things? Or someone has a coronary when it "sneaks up on them"?
[19:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:45] <exec> 08└─Automation is a bid deal, but how do we manage a world where all the entry level menial jobs are gone?
[19:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:47] <exec> 08└─Yes some menial jobs will hang around, but a LOT of humans are going to have no employment opportunities UNLESS the middle class is revived and people can once again pay to have others do their chores. If I had enough disposable income I'd sign up for laundry, yard, and cleaning services. Of course...
[19:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:16] <exec> 08└─Why TF he needs to build a proof-of-concept tunnel anyway is beyond me, it's just a Godammed tunnel, they are being built elsewhere all the time.
[19:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists in the U.S. and Japan Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:25] <exec> 08└─This research is suggesting that under the right conditions, at relatively low temperatures, maybe hydrogen can fuse with electrons, making neutrons. It's not H + H = He. But according to them, it's not Cold Fusion, nope! Well, it's definitely cold. Maybe proton + electron = neutron is not called fu...
[19:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists in the U.S. and Japan Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:28] <exec> 08└─It's a hot research opportunity.
[19:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists in the U.S. and Japan Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:30] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't forming a neutron suck up energy rather than give off energy?
[19:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists in the U.S. and Japan Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:32] <exec> 08└─A common problem with hot fusion is that it needs to be big in order to work - most of the effects scale as a power of size. Some of the systems looked at here seem possible at small scale, assuming they work. I still don't quite buy that there's anything here. For example, the current research ment...
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[19:34:09] <exec> 08└─I'll back him up on producing penicillin. I don't even know much about it but it's easy to make a reasonable visual guess on any given moldy piece of bread. Next you take some inoculate a clean culture and then you inoculate a sweet boiled liquid with lactobacillius until it produces a faint oder (I...
[19:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─Launch success, first time that a booster has flown and landed for the third time, and they got in the right orbit. No live video of the satellite deployment (booooo). They are also attempting to catch the fairing yet again. No word on that yet.
[19:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:26] <exec> 08└─Buzzy Boy silly beyond reason? Noooooo Gotta fight the sword every chance! Woops, I mean S word.
[19:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:24] <exec> 08└─This is a good thing for working class people since they have to spend less on stuff like rent and fuel and wages always lag inflation.
[19:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:26] <exec> 08└─Ok, but the various government meddling you just mentioned (fed reserve, min wage, 'official' inflation rates) has nothing to do with capitalism. Like there is nothing really wrong about your description except your need to randomly blame bad stuff the government has done on capitalism. You would be...
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─That chart was the record of trades of btc for usd at the mt gox exchange. That was the main exchange at the time. By variant do you mean the different exchanges?
[19:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:04] <exec> 08└─To be fair, if you're a Victorian you get a day off for some horse race and the Football Grand Final, you lucky bastards. I've been campaigning over here in NZ for the Grand Final holiday too, with not much success yet.
[19:37:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 888 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:32] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm aside, that might not be a bad thing, if it were taken on its own. Less warm tropical water entering the North Atlantic might enable the winter polar cap to recover a little, reflecting more sunlight and offsetting some of the other effects of global warming. However, it should be pretty obv...
[19:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:17] <exec> 08└─Who ever denied the climate changes? Welcome to SN, clearly you are new here! I see that you have never read a thread about AGW on this site, including the one you just posted in.
[19:38:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Adoption of Mobile Payment Shifts Consumer Spending Patterns, Habits - 561 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:29] <exec> 08└─No, and I won't pay for coffee with it either. Two reasons. First is that they really want to break the $5 limit here for a cup of coffee which is IMOHO already excessive. They tried. They went to $5.50 and the backlash was extraordinary. Paying with cash imposes a mental limit. Paying by mobile mea...
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[19:40:31] <exec> 08└─The brain stem still rules. The cortex serves.
[19:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:32] <exec> 08└─I suppose you're right, but I really can't see how you guys can reform your systemic problems without violence.
[19:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:34] <exec> 08└─Also back then the general populace was much more gullible and information was more easily controlled through the big media conglomerates. "National security" was still a respected term and people truly believed their leaders were furthering their own welfare. In bed with the Saudis? Just good busin...
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[19:40:36] <exec> 08└─made it sound like Dorsey runs Reddit, bad phrasing I'm all for a business curating its own system except when it violates its own principles. Like "unlimited" data plans this shit should be punished severely. ISPs should be regulated as "dumb pipes", consumer users should have much more upload band...
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[19:40:39] <exec> 08└─We all know "globalist" is just a code word for "Jews."
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[20:32:42] <exec> 08└─NVIDIA gimping their fp16 performance is what originally turned me against them (also the telemetry). If there was competition this card would go for half to a quarter of the price. And it isnt really about the hardware, it is about CUDA.
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[20:32:43] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing#Historical_TOP500_table [wikipedia.org]
[20:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:45] <exec> 08└─... is how long it would pay for itself by mining ASIC-Resistant Crypto. Such resistance is typically built in to the mining algorithm by requiring more memory than is feasible to include on an ASIC chip. However, some intentionally ASIC-Resistant Cryptos turn out to not really be as resistant as th...
[20:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:59] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for CEOs to be replaced with robots. All such a robot would need to do is make dumb decisions that are not based on reality and buy yachts.
[20:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:00] <exec> 08└─If automation knocks out half of the janitors, taxi drivers, fast food employees, cashiers, etc., pretty soon you will be left with a lot of unemployable people. A bounty of high skilled jobs aren't going to materialize out of nowhere. New companies will be using less people to do more. Factories wi...
[20:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:02] <exec> 08└─I imagine these things will be built like the really big riding floor cleaners you see from time to time, so your first three concerns should be alleviated by sufficient bulk. Your forth concern just means the bin needs to be able to hold a body or two.
[20:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:05] <exec> 08└─Selling alcohol with no human ID check? The questions really come earlier in the process: why is there an ID check, why is the drinking age in the US so stupidly high, and - here it comes - is any of this serious? I am reminded of the old definition of Puritanism: "The haunting fear that someone, so...
[20:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:07] <exec> 08└─Why does any job go away? Because the robot does it more economically than a human can.
[20:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:09] <exec> 08└─Yes some menial jobs will hang around, but a LOT of humans are going to have no employment opportunities UNLESS the middle class is revived and people can once again pay to have others do their chores. If I had enough disposable income I'd sign up for laundry, yard, and cleaning services. Of course...
[20:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:11] <exec> 08└─If automation knocks out half of the janitors, taxi drivers, fast food employees, cashiers, etc., pretty soon you will be left with a lot of unemployable people. A bounty of high skilled jobs aren't going to materialize out of nowhere. New companies will be using less people to do more. Factories wi...
[20:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:14] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, we have several centuries of history to draw upon. There's a long history of increased automation combined with increased worker power and income.
[20:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:16] <exec> 08└─But with companies not needing to spend as much money on low tier jobs, won't that make products cost less for people so that.... bwhahaha, sorry I can't finish that thought with a straight face. There is zero percent change companies will pass the savings along to consumers. Supposedly this is what...
[20:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─But they have already built a test tunnel (Hawthorne Test Tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org), [wikipedia.org] and Musk is already getting contracts (Chicago O'Hare link https://www.bloomberg.com
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─Sorry, those links did not work, the closing parenthesis fouled them up. Here they are again : https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com]
[20:34:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:24] <exec> 08└─Can we just take a moment to marvel at the title of the paper "Alpine ice-core evidence for the transformation of the European monetary system, AD 640–670". Taken out of context, this title seems wonderfully surreal.
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─But even if you have a working musket, you have a serious rate-of-fire problem. If you're up against, say, cavalry, you might kill one of them, but they're killing you.
[20:34:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] 02 - 06SpaceX: Two Launches in ~24 Hours; Mon Dec 3 @18:31:47 GMT (13:31:47 EST); Tue Dec 4 @ 18:38 UTC - 664 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:54] <exec> 08└─Even if making money was your only metric (which I don't subscribe to personally), I wouldn't have a hard time justifying calling Falcon Heavy and Starlink launches marketing, hard to argue that they build the value of "the brand" and advertise impressive capabilities if we are taking this from a pu...
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:57] <exec> 08└─If the "news" doesn't suit the Agenda, then it is not spoken of, except maybe as a 2-second throwaway mention on an evening broadcast so that nobody will accuse the network of having buried the story. Also, protests in France are near constant about something or other, so it's rather like proclaimin...
[20:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:58] <exec> 08└─During slavery, the net worth of a slave was nearly always zero. After slavery, but before the institution of the Federal Reserve, the net worth of a working-class person was often below zero and dropping. If they had any wealth, it was in land they'd succeeding in taking from the Natives. Don't tak...
[20:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:59] <exec> 08└─Gamers tend to run their cards hotter than cryptominers do, but amateurs running NiceHash can fry their cards. It partially-fried my 1080, causing green sparkles in video. If a used card fully works when you buy it, the part likely to fail after a lot of use is the fans, which can be replaced.
[20:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:01] <exec> 08└─Not sure why you care so much about net worth. I know people living very comfortable lifestyles with negative net worth. I live more frugally (in general) but have positive net worth.
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[21:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:20] <exec> 08└─I'm actually working on it a little. Seriously. If AI can do all these impressive things..... then I think we should replace MBA decisions with them. AI will be better at the short-term thinking, hiding corruption, and exciting shareholders :) As much as the suits work on replacing us, we should be...
[21:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:21] <exec> 08└─Is there a clueless mod? I think we should add a clueless mod...
[21:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:23] <exec> 08└─You're nuts, increased worker power and income only came from workers uniting for better working conditions.
[21:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:01] <exec> 08└─This is why gun control makes no sense, the government is oppressing the people anyway so whats the point of taking their guns away?
[21:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:05] <exec> 08└─Mining is hard on the cards VRM's. Heat is the enemy of silicon circuits and when running full bore those regulators get VERY hot. The cards just aren't designed to be driven that hard continuously. If you have ever been around a mining rack you can literally hear the chips whining under load.
[21:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:06] <exec> 08└─Why I focus on net worth: 1. Net worth is an indication of whether people are earning more or less money than they need to stay afloat. If net worth is going up, that means people's standards of living are going up too - for instance, if you have a few months' salary in the bank you can weather a cr...
[21:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:09] <exec> 08└─That is why everything is dropping in price, gas is down 30%, S&P500 down 7%, AAPL down 20%, etc. The money gets sucked out of riskier, more speculative investments first.
[21:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─The cycle ends with capitulation, we are close but I haven't really seen it yet.
[21:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:13] <exec> 08└─Of course, we'll borrow the money instead. That will be different. /sarc
[21:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:15] <exec> 08└─Why not both? Ive had buys at ~$1k waiting to be filled from proceeds of selling at $10-20k. That would seem too good to be true, but I am mostly hoping for a flash crash to those levels which is a bit more likely.
[21:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:17] <exec> 08└─The 'bad debt' I see around is mostly in the form of student loans. I also wouldnt consider a mortgage or car loan to be a good thing but whatever. Anyway, at least amongst my peers, I see very little effect on quality of life by net worth. That metric is definately missing something.
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─During slavery, the net worth of a slave was nearly always zero. After slavery, but before the institution of the Federal Reserve, the net worth of a working-class person was often below zero and dropping. If they had any wealth, it was in land they'd succeeding in taking from the Natives.
[21:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:56] <exec> 08└─I've been campaigning over here in NZ for the Grand Final holiday too, with not much success yet.
[21:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Metal-Based Field Emission Air Channel Transistor (ACT) Could Keep Moore's Law Going 20 More Years - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:57] <exec> 08└─St. Kilda promised 10,000 New Zealand members a few years ago, then did exactly nothing. I follow Hawthorn but would have bought a St. Kilda membership if they played some games over here. The problem is that Auckland doesn't have a cricket stadium, and when St. Kilda played a couple of games in We...
[21:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:28] <exec> 08└─Oh damn, forgot about that one. Here I was thinking it was just about globalism, silly me! My point still mostly stands, EF isn't shy about being racist. Maybe they ran out of alcohol in his area after Thanksgiving?
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[22:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:28] <exec> 08└─Alberta joins OPEC. Justin Trudeau tweets "Canada will donate $50 million to the new OPEC...let's get 'er done, eh!......oooohMan I am sooo. high."
[22:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:38] <exec> 08└─The telemetry is why I use the open source drivers and not the official nvidia ones for Ubuntu. I wish we could create a telemetry RBL and incorporate that into our firewalls. That way, even network guests, couldn't send back telemetry.
[22:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:40] <exec> 08└─So there's this cattery owner. She loves Persians but has no huge love for the trade shows so she's not competing anymore. Keeps a male and a few females and sells the odd litter to folks in the business or even just her vet. She's registered as an NPO and operates at a loss. But she doesn't care. P...
[22:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:07] <exec> 08└─Sure. And then dump those mods all over your post. I've talked [soylentnews.org] about this before. From that journal, there's a link to a Pew Research Center study which concluded that between 1971 and 2015, the middle class (as a measure of income) in the US shrunk from 61% to 50% (which let us n...
[22:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:08] <exec> 08└─menial jobs are becoming by definition easier to automate
[22:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─janitors, taxi drivers, fast food employees, cashiers, etc., pretty soon you will be left with a lot of unemployable people.
[22:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─Why does any job stay or come into being? Because the human does it good enough.
[22:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart to Introduce Floor-Mopping Robots; Amazon Wants to Sell Alcohol at Cashierless Store - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:15] <exec> 08└─I think we should add a clueless mod...
[22:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─"Whole bunch" meaning what? I run often run like 4 or even sometimes 10 at once. And in some workloads, we run like 60 or more on a machine... and not using any fancy RAM
[22:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Boring Company Won’t Pursue LA Tunnel Under 405 Freeway Anymore - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:53] <exec> 08└─Tunnel boring is established tech, the principle of which needs no further proof.
[22:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists in the U.S. and Japan Get Serious About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:07] <exec> 08└─They hit deuterium, hydrogen with 1 neutron and tritium, hydrogen with 2 neutrons. And get Helium plus a free neutron
[22:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─I'll back him up on producing penicillin
[22:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:49] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone even pay hospitals for penicillin? I just leave my toast out overnight then by breakfast I'm protected for the day!
[22:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:51] <exec> 08└─No need for the time travel. I can stay where I am and get stabbed or some random disease, thank you!
[22:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 6026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:13] <exec> 08└─Ok I'll try to give some context here (as a french). Macron was the young finance minister from Hollande (previous president, socialist party). He did the standard (for about 20 years now in France) right-wing, "business-friendly" policy that included lowering taxes to companies and rich individuals...
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[22:37:15] <exec> 08└─Thanks.
[22:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:29] <exec> 08└─The answer is in the next sentence. The things dropping a lot are 'high beta', they also got pumped more than other investments during the 8 years of zirp.
[22:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:30] <exec> 08└─mt gox exchange
[22:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:33] <exec> 08└─I modded you Funny because *Your a moran*. You have time, read the entire post... you dumbass :-) I mean that in the nicest possible way. If you take it otherwise, fuck you! You should take that as a compliment also. If you don't, fuck you twice!
[22:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:35] <exec> 08└─Why not both? Ive had buys at ~$1k waiting to be filled from proceeds of selling at $10-20k. That would seem too good to be true, but I am mostly hoping for a flash crash to those levels which is a bit more likely.
[22:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:37] <exec> 08└─Acting like dope is something hard to come by doesn't make much sense.
[22:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:39] <exec> 08└─That's obviously false. A slave had considerable net worth. It was just owned by the slave's owner.
[22:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:41] <exec> 08└─Last one was at $5k where (iirc) "china banned bitcoin", so it dropped nearly 40% in a couple days, thus triggering the bull run to $20k. https://bitcoincharts.com [bitcoincharts.com]
[22:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Circulation in North Atlantic at its Weakest - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, beavers are known as nature's ecological restoration agents. We would be wise to listen to the beavers. https://permaculturemag.org [permaculturemag.org]
[22:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:00] <exec> 08└─The mere desire would do it. The rest is cake
[22:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 0641st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94 - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:02] <exec> 08└─It also explains the vast majority's voting, buying, marrying, all around living history. You ain't so special. The cortex *has no clothes* It merely rationalizes. Believe it.. or not.. I'm easy
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[23:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qatar to Pull Out of OPEC by 2019 - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:50] <exec> 08└─This is the first sign of a major oncoming crack-up in the oil cartel, if you ask me. I think even Saudi Arabia knows oil is on its way out, though. The US is heading for some major, major hurt with both the increasing irrelevance of oil itself, and the increasing trend for pulling away from the (pe...
[23:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces Titan RTX - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:05] <exec> 08└─I still am running an ET4000, how much faster would this be?
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[23:34:36] <exec> 08└─I don't see why the machine couldn't look at the photo on the ID and make sure the person standing in front of the vending machine looks like the photo. Facial recognition is getting pretty good. And humans aren't great at that task anyway (at least using a sibling's or similar looking friend's ID w...
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[23:34:38] <exec> 08└─The person "moping" the floor now uses a huge machine.....
[23:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:15] <exec> 08└─Your description sounds plausible so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and accept it for the sake of argument despite your admission you really don't know what you're talking about. Assuming this description is correct, you'd still need to accumulate sufficient capital - and work for sufficient...
[23:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:16] <exec> 08└─This is very true. I remember watching that episode and laughing at it as a kid. A kid who had made his own gunpowder already, probably. But the raw materials were in obvious need of refinement, the result would have no power if it fired at all, and that was actually a good thing because that 'barre...
[23:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:18] <exec> 08└─The first Justinian plague was Justinian himself. The second was his somewhat deplorable wife. And then there was the pestilence. Just thank goodness that the Arabs arose to save learning and science.
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06536 AD: The Worst Year to be Alive? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─Language and context do change fast. Just two minutes difference and one was insightful while the other redundant. Or a demonstration of a point. ;-)
[23:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellow Vest Protests Continue for Third Weekend - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:40] <exec> 08└─I threw that in there so someone that didn't particularly want to see beat down porn would know it wasn't. Sorry to disappoint /shrug
[23:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BitCoin's Record Drop may have Started Scaring Miners Away - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, mt gox is gone. But whatever data you are using must be utilizing the mt. gox data from that era, because that is where 90% of the trades took place.
[23:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France to Retire 14 Nuclear Reactors while Japan Restarts 5 of its Reactors - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:18] <exec> 08└─If you have to store it for thousands of years, it's not that dangerous anyway, short and intermediate half lives are what get you. Particularly when biologically concentrated. Plutonium for example is quite poisonous. . Short half life - decays away and is only dangerous for a relatively short ti...
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