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[00:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Sidewalk Labs: What is It Good for? - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:06] <exec> 08└─Surprise: Google isn't good at a highly competitive, well established endeavor that frequently involves politics and favor trading. If they partnered with a well established local player and let the locals handle the basics of the bricks, mortar and payola, they could work in their vision of what ma...
[00:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Sidewalk Labs: What is It Good for? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:07] <exec> 08└─Stay tuned when Sidewalk Labs meets Google's ADD.
[00:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Sidewalk Labs: What is It Good for? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:10] <exec> 08└─The headline reads: Google's Sidewalk Labs: What is It Good for?
[00:06:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:22] <exec> 08└─Checking Boeing stock ...
[00:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:24] <exec> 08└─Checking Amazon stock.... they seem to be all out of Falcon 9 rockets. What's with this Blue Origin knock-off stuff I'm seeing all over their site?
[00:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:26] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/falcon-heavy-ready-for-its-second-attempt-at-a-second-flight/?comments=1&start=240 [arstechnica.com] The absolute (until today, that is) MECO record is 9552km/h or 2.65km/s for the GPS-III mission on F9 on 2018.12.23 The previous FH MECO was 9541km/h or 2.65km...
[00:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:28] <exec> 08└─Too soon... ... literally. check it tomorrow.
[00:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:30] <exec> 08└─SpaceX is one of the few things America can be proud of. Or Tesla. An immigrant. I am Elon Musk. I was an ILLEGAL immigrant and if Mr. Trump and some of you had it your way, I would’ve been kicked out of the USA and never founded Zip2, PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, Solar City. I wouldn’t have ch...
[00:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Cleaner Rocket Fuel Using Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:40] <exec> 08└─They start by stating "Rocket fuels typically need to be hypergolic" which is far from a rule. Yeah, hypergolics are popular for some purposes, but they are far from necessary, especially in the general case. The actual paper words it much differently and seems to be solely interested in the hypergo...
[00:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Cleaner Rocket Fuel Using Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:43] <exec> 08└─There's a hybrid Nox/Solid rocket engine from Aerotech. It uses cellulose as the solid part. I've been wanting to replace the cellulose with marijuana to see if that gets it (or me) higher.
[00:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Cleaner Rocket Fuel Using Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:45] <exec> 08└─Oops... It's N2O, not Nox.
[00:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:48] <exec> 08└─Not for all values of $HUMAN, my friend.
[00:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:50] <exec> 08└─Ewww is right. You should see how they got the DNA into the funnel they inserted into the monkey.
[00:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:52] <exec> 08└─What didn't end well for humans in said movie series is nuclear holocaust, the monkey mutants just happened to survive it and become dominant.
[00:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Wants to Ban (or Control?) Bitcoin Mining - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:02] <exec> 08└─It isn't astronomical, it is just exceptionally easy to estimate.
[00:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Wants to Ban (or Control?) Bitcoin Mining - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:04] <exec> 08└─Ban internally, control externally.
[00:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:14] <exec> 08└─You're the one who was making an assertion. It's your duty to either back it up with read facts of retract it.
[00:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:16] <exec> 08└─Don't even know what assertion you are referring to, you are just attempting to waste the time of someone who has clearly put more effort into understanding this topic than you.
[00:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03saturnalia0 [6571] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:18] <exec> 08└─... expect a gun pointed to your face
[00:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:58] <exec> 08└─I think the point GP was trying to make is that you sure can flush them, it's just that they don't dissolve once they have been flushed. Kind of like saying that arsenic is edible. Sure, it will kill you afterward, but you _can_ eat it! Personally, I'd love to have the manufacturers show how they te...
[00:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, keep listening to people whose industry is too backwards to upgrade. Meanwhile, lots of people in my city use the wipes, and yet the sewer system works.
[00:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:06] <exec> 08└─So now in response to my: "the accretion disk on the "far" side that has been bent into view to that appears to be above..." you respond: "wouldn't there be some of the accretion disks visible above" OK, there's a single letter typo, but really, you're taking the fucking piss now, you really are.
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[01:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:05] <exec> 08└─And my Alt-right cannibals submission was rejected for this?
[01:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:07] <exec> 08└─Back then, Neanderthals bred with mammoths. Today, Muslims breed with goats. This is proof that Muslims evolved from Neanderthals, and goats from mammoths. What else would you expect from research published by the University of Tel Aviv?
[01:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:09] <exec> 08└─Look at this disgusting alt-right discrimination: https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=Google+bias+had+measurable+impact+on+midterms [soylentnews.org] This is, IMHO, proof that SoylentNews is in on it. SoylentNews is part of the conspiracy with Google, Facebook, Twitter...
[01:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:37] <exec> 08└─That's Amazon search for you... Every time Elon goes on Amazon, it's suggesting a new F9 or FH, despite the fact they perfectly know he's already got one he can keep using !
[01:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:38] <exec> 08└─All parts came down as planned. How long ago would the thought of this scenario have been ridiculed? Not long...
[01:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:41] <exec> 08└─Forget BA, it's TSLA you should be worried about. He might be a friendly face for popular nerdy engineering, but he's not showing great skill at running a business. For those that worry if there's a new tech bubble, TSLA might be the poster child... (Nonsense, it's Lyft or upcoming Uber whe get the...
[01:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:43] <exec> 08└─The LM engs behind the X-33 seemed to think it was a worthy goal decades ago.
[01:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:28] <exec> 08└─very expensive crash while you start to try cry...
[01:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:02] <exec> 08└─They're working for CHUMP of course.
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[02:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:12] <exec> 08└─You can invent stone axes. You can invent fire. But fark 1 woolly mammoth and what are you remembered for?
[02:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Sidewalk Labs: What is It Good for? - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:22] <exec> 08└─there's been a growing distrust of sidewalk growing in Toronto for a while. This statement is based on municipal nerds on Twitter. About a month back Sidewalk semi pitched taking some tax revenue from Toronto (https://www.thestar.com/business/2019/02/15/sidewalk-wants-cut-of-property-taxes-and-devel...
[02:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:45] <exec> 08└─No, he was not an illegal immigrant. He comes to us via Canada, but was born in South Africa. Being from Africa but now living in America, he is an African American.
[02:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Cleaner Rocket Fuel Using Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:58] <exec> 08└─They start by stating "Rocket fuels typically need to be hypergolic" which is far from a rule. Yeah, hypergolics are popular for some purposes, but they are far from necessary, especially in the general case.
[02:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:33] <exec> 08└─https://www.xkcd.com/984/ [xkcd.com]
[02:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:07] <exec> 08└─They've done it centuries ago [wikipedia.org].
[02:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:12] <exec> 08└─Did you read your paper? Because that's not the fucking conclusion of that paper you just linked. Their assertion is that broad pollution levels, not just antibiotic pollution levels are determinate of AR levels in natural bacteria. I'll let their own final paragraph hammer home exactly what they th...
[02:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:32] <exec> 08└─The 1 in 609 stat I quoted is for those people who got the measles as infants. I was one by the way, as I caught the disease when I was six months old, too young to be vaccinated, and since it's now nearly 43 years later it seems I dodged that bullet. The rate appears to go down as the age at which...
[02:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:26] <exec> 08└─B.O.T.E.C. Total volume of current icecaps 33,000,000 km3 Earth surface area 510,000,000km2 x 50km (max depth) x 2.7 (ave. density) = 68,850,000,000 68,850,000,000 / 33,000,000 = 2086 So using generous estimates, the ratio is about 2000 to 1. A little over three orders of magnitude. I must admit I w...
[02:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:28] <exec> 08└─The continental crust is ~30 km thick, and the oceanic crust is ~5 km thick, so several orders of magnitude more than 5 or 6. The Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis, or Earth crust displacement theory is fringe at best, pseudoscience at worst. There is no real evidence for it.
[02:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:30] <exec> 08└─How much denser is rock than ice? Volume is only part of the story.
[02:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:32] <exec> 08└─You're right. I thought there was less ice in Antarctica than that.
[02:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:27] <exec> 08└─How effective are those "controls" at removing microplastics? How effective, really, are they at stopping bits and pieces of plastic bottles and bags that the sun has degraded? We know the plastic is out there in the ocean, and we know that Americans are routinely dropping plastic all over this nati...
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[03:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:08] <exec> 08└─"We demonstrated that the Air Coating technology reduces friction by about 20%, as friction between ship and water is replaced by friction between ship and air," Thomas Schimmel explains.
[03:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:52] <exec> 08└─But you can buy one here. [spacex.com] I think they may accept paypal.
[03:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:39] <exec> 08└─Should have based it on Windows 10 for guaranteed telemetry.
[03:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:41] <exec> 08└─I think they did. Just before the crash the said they were trying to reboot it...
[03:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:20] <exec> 08└─Well, it certainly causes a less robust immune system than not washing them. Me, I prefer somewhere in between filth and sterility. Saves time and keeps me from having to go to the doctor unless I get injured.
[03:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:22] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't worry about the mints. Your keyboard is a whole lot nastier than anything else you'll ever come in contact with unless you have children or are a plumber.
[03:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:24] <exec> 08└─It's true. I say 'shitters'. Or if I'm in polite company, 'outhouses'.
[03:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:46] <exec> 08└─The CDC, by the way, didn't pull that standard vaccine schedule that is part of the standard of care for all American paediatricians out of thin air, nor did it do so at the behest of Big Pharma.
[03:16:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 241 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:10] <exec> 08└─Before you're looking to who to assign the blame, better consider what you'll do with your trash. An upside is that we get cheap industrial inputs and stop subsidizing return trips for container ships. This helps promote local manufacturing.
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[04:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:06] <exec> 08└─We'll bring systemd to Windows.
[04:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:08] <exec> 08└─Windows and SystemD, a marriage definitely not made in heaven...
[04:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:22] <exec> 08└─When can I get my supercavitating submarine and supercavitating torpedoes?
[04:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:23] <exec> 08└─Friction between trapped air and water will cause the air to start moving inside the 'micro-/nano-cavities' they are trapped in. The movement of air will transmit part of that friction to whatever is bound to the ship's wall and defines the cavities.
[04:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Sidewalk Labs: What is It Good for? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:45] <exec> 08└─thanks, no thanks. i like my sidewalk for walking, not labbing.
[04:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:38] <exec> 08└─Nobody forces me to take a statin drug -- I take one because I unfortunately inherited genetic/familial hypercholesterolemia [wikipedia.org], and would rather not follow past generations of my mother's family who either died young before the right statin drugs existed or needed multiple-bypass surge...
[04:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:42] <exec> 08└─Many Muslim and Asian countries use Bidet Showers [wikipedia.org]. Not only do they satisfy their various religious and cultural restrictions, but they are much nicer on the sewer systems.
[04:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:58] <exec> 08└─Third line. Average density of the crust is 2.7 times that of water. I suppose I should have thrown in another factor of 1.1 because ice is less dense than water, but it was only a rough calc. The average thickness of the crust is also much less than 50km, that's the maximum.
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[04:16:00] <exec> 08└─The continental crust is ~30 km thick, and the oceanic crust is ~5 km thick, so several orders of magnitude more than 5 or 6.
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[05:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:11] <exec> 08└─Actually, it would be an improvement.
[05:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:12] <exec> 08└─I doubt it. MS is too big to fail.
[05:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:14] <exec> 08└─"That said, the availability of Edge on Linux would help web developers working on Linux. They’d no longer need to keep a Windows VM within reach solely to double check changes." Wrong. Because no PHB is going to accept the 'but it works on the Linux version of Edge!" defense and you know it. "Not...
[05:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:16] <exec> 08└─Not addressed was the question of whether systemd's boot loader would require Edge on Linux at boot time in order to perform updates.
[05:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:40] <exec> 08└─de gustibus non disputandum est ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
[05:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:42] <exec> 08└─I've been saying for years that the claimed genetic evidence of neanderthal-sapiens interbreeding might well be parallel evolution instead, given the continued lack of Y or MT evidence for the hypothesis. This only appears to confirm that my skepticism is well-founded. If parallel evolution can prod...
[05:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Sidewalk Labs: What is It Good for? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:54] <exec> 08└─That would be more honest. #GoogleSpyCity #TotalInformationAwareness #EmperorXiJinping
[05:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Wants to Ban (or Control?) Bitcoin Mining - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:52] <exec> 08└─While I consider Reuters to be more tech-savvy and less click bait-ish than CNN or other "mainstream media", the article still has a slant towards the "bitcoin is illegitimate" mindset. These articles provide a fuller picture (in my opinion) of the situation: Bitcoin Price Bounced Above $5400 Despit...
[05:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:13] <exec> 08└─Besides the story of Rick Perry, which even people like Dr. David "Orac" Gorski [respectfulinsolence.com] acknowledge ("Now, believe it or not, there are valid reasons to criticize Perry for this decision not because Gardasil is harmful or not a good vaccine but because of the conflict of interest t...
[05:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:39] <exec> 08└─And I'm good.
[05:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:41] <exec> 08└─[...] Here's a clue: being well-adjusted to a sick society is not wellness; it is merely conformity. [...]
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[06:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:21] <exec> 08└─We're working on a way to monetize such interventions in the future.
[06:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:23] <exec> 08└─I'd make a Clippy or OnStar joke here, but really feel like it would be insensitive. However, you may be correct in that they may decide to offer home or office security services as a paid package at some point. Amazon Echo can already tie into your home's lights, sensors, cameras, and they know you...
[06:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:25] <exec> 08└─Amazon's explanation, that they need to train the systems to do what people ask, is fairly reasonable. How do you make the stuff work if you don't model human speech? Is it really reasonable that we ask that this stuff work by only sampling other people's anonymized information?
[06:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:37] <exec> 08└─systemd does not require any specific browser to be installed to function
[06:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:38] <exec> 08└─Please note that Microsoft are using LINUX for their BUILD SYSTEM. Not their own Windows disaster. No wonder they are busy muscling in on Linuxland. Ubuntu/Canonical getting oh so friendly with Redmond starts making sense now. MS joining the Linux Foundation, makes sense now. Watch, in a near future...
[06:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:41] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'd not remove anything that distinguishes a news discussion site from an AI-summarized automatic newsfeed, but what do I know, I'm a mere bot.
[06:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:43] <exec> 08└─They are not late, anon, they needed the missing piece of the puzzle. They wanted to know if unix could be made to suck the microsoft way. Because you can make anything suck, unix included, yet the microsoft way is a peculiar way of suck. It was no easy task, but lennart pulled it. Look at the timel...
[06:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:45] <exec> 08└─I would be like a star trek episode where borg split and try to assimilate each other wrecking havoc in the quadrant. Starring users as the red shirts.
[06:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:47] <exec> 08└─You're thinking way too small. Presenting: BrowserD, the SystemD-compliant web browser, with built in web server, geolocation API, DNS server, (badly broken and utterly insecure) wireless connection broker, and always-on telemetry. And it's of course based on Epiphany/Web.
[06:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:03] <exec> 08└─Some time after the supercavitating condom. Get your priorities straight and hard.
[06:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:17] <exec> 08└─s/t
[06:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:43] <exec> 08└─Windows Update strikes again!
[06:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that lot only has one helix...
[06:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:51] <exec> 08└─Having sex in public should be absolutely fine, since it harms no one, unlike not being vaccinated.
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[07:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martian Methane Mystery: First Results from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there is a very, very thin distributed community of something akin to archaeobacteria several miles below the Martian crust, living a chemotrophic lifestyle that has methane as an end product?
[07:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:28] <exec> 08└─The only way to stop this is voting en mass for real leaders who will raise taxes, come up with excuses to spy on us, and ban more shit until it gets better. Arise comrades, to the front.
[07:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:30] <exec> 08└─Reviewing a data set of somewhat recent anonymized information is the right way. This, on the other hand: They also described hearing distressing clips such as a potential sexual assault. However, they were told by colleagues that it was not Amazon's job to intervene.
[07:06:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:38] <exec> 08└─We'll bring systemd to Windows.
[07:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:50] <exec> 08└─I doubt that. Rather I see the Linux Foundation as a gigantic Trojan horse in the original sense of the word, and RedHat their team of assassins. They are trying to corrupt and zombify Linux. They can't beat Linux, so they're going to try and eat it alive.
[07:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:51] <exec> 08└─We would welcome your submissions to replace those that we have to collect automatically. However, this story was submitted by a member of our community.
[07:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:54] <exec> 08└─...systemd does not require any specific browser to be installed to function...
[07:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:22] <exec> 08└─My guess is "for the gigantic bloodstain left behind in the mammoth-sized ass print in the turf."
[07:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:23] <exec> 08└─And you've been getting ignored because you are using the term wrong. Parallel evolution refers to similar physical characteristics developing in unrelated species due to environmental constraints. Coincidentally developing the same mutant gene is a coincidence, not parallel evolution.
[07:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:26] <exec> 08└─Huge surprise: multiple species in the same environment will likely evolve in similar ways that said environment favors. Anyone tell this lot about sharks and dolphins yet? That will blow their minds.
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[08:06:47] <exec> 08└─Surely that makes them guilty of protecting offenders, possibly permitting the violence to continue, and hence potentially conspiracy to murder in some cases? And for the financial benefit of Amazon - who obviously did not want people to know they had invited "ms snoop" into their home. Alexa - the...
[08:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:49] <exec> 08└─"Intervening" in this case may also mean filing a police report even though the suspected victim won't. So it's not necessarily real-time.
[08:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:51] <exec> 08└─All three companies say voice recordings are occasionally reviewed by humans to improve speech recognition.
[08:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:42] <exec> 08└─It appears that similar genetic similarities have been found between homo sapiens and amoeba. The molecular characteristics are thought to have been the result of adapting to the oxygen-laced atmosphere of ancient Earth. "If you truly are what you eat", one commenter suggested, "then it's highly lik...
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[09:06:18] <exec> 08└─Do they have a deep state too?
[09:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:54] <exec> 08└─You can't extinguish until you embrace.
[09:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:11] <exec> 08└─You'd have the hull coated with tiny hairs. Assuming they were somehow durable enough, how would you keep it clean?!? Things grow on boat hulls as soon as they hit the water... It'd have to prevent any algae and barnacle growth or the coating would fail before the ship while the ship was loaded with...
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[10:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:33] <exec> 08└─Soon BMW's engines will roar no more?
[10:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:20] <exec> 08└─I doubt that. Rather I see the Linux Foundation as a gigantic Trojan horse in the original sense of the word, and RedHat their team of assassins. They are trying to corrupt and zombify Linux. They can't beat Linux, so they're going to try and eat it alive.
[10:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:22] <exec> 08└─But they could develop it on the Linux version of Edge, and then boot into Windows and check that it works as intended. So while the Windows need is not eliminated, its use is greatly reduced.
[10:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Celebrating 50 Years of the RFCs that Define How the Internet Works - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:30] <exec> 08└─This story did not contain an RFC and therefore did not receive any comments.
[10:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:42] <exec> 08└─This was the motivation behind a research which ended up with invention of hovercraft. Only they intended to replenish the air bubbles by pumping compressed air through a sieve. IMHO, there is another, poorly investigated track of using passively rotating (they would have too flimsy traction for pro...
[10:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:05] <exec> 08└─Indeed, Q.E.D.: AC ∈ {$HUMAN ∩ $MONKEY} :-)
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[11:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:18] <exec> 08└─I was just discussing this with my wife this morning. Even she - a non-engineering type - sees the problem: where, exactly, is all of the electricity supposed to come from? Germany is turning itself into a net importer of electricity, by closing down their nuclear power plants. Meaning that a goodly...
[11:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:19] <exec> 08└─Here's the plan: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:43] <exec> 08└─its not surprising that people listen to the recordings but it would be surprising if everyone listening was paid by amazon.
[11:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Only_Mortal [7122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:43] <exec> 08└─I knew we'd get to this slur... it's not true I tell you! We rode the mammoth into battle so there's cross contamination.
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[12:06:33] <exec> 08└─So it is back to the takeover method then, we will soon realize that current solar output already has a role in our ecosystem. It may not be "free" energy for us to do as we wish.
[12:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:35] <exec> 08└─Meaning that a goodly portion of the electricity for these cars will come from imported electricity, generated largely by fossil fuels
[12:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:22] <exec> 08└─I appreciate your humour - but why others thought that this was 'Insightful' is staggering. How can a piece of software that can run on a headless server with no GUI installed ever require the use of a graphical browser? If they had suggested lynx I could at least have understood their train of thou...
[12:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:24] <exec> 08└─Everything Red Hat makes is open source/free software and they fund development of hundreds of projects. IBM may ruin everything, but for now the so-called Trojan Horse is boosting wall strength, manufacturing weapons, recruiting troops, and otherwise doing more than any other company to strengthen...
[12:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:00] <exec> 08└─Necrotizing fasciitis.
[12:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:01] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna ride it all night long ;)
[12:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Wants to Ban (or Control?) Bitcoin Mining - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:20] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is as legitimate as monopoly money.
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[13:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:19] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about Tinder, but this: > ... that title now goes to dating app Tinder. might be better worded as: ... that title now goes to hook-up app Tinder. ??
[13:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:38] <exec> 08└─i dont think ICEs will disappear completly. it's just that they wont be mated to round rolling rubber (ex gearbox) directly anymore. i see them as more or less standalone machines where efficiency can be improved another few percent because they run at constant (and optimum) speeds and where the dyn...
[13:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:40] <exec> 08└─From that: > As of 2017, renewable sources account for 38% of the net electricity production. Also Bradley: did you and your wife do back of the envelope math for household energy consumption? Don't you think - if you did - that in Germany, heating living spaces might be a more serious concern than...
[13:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:04] <exec> 08└─> Surely that makes them guilty of protecting offenders, possibly permitting the violence to continue, and hence potentially conspiracy to murder in some cases? How would the "listeners" distinguish between an actual assault vs. a domination session (possibly with a "safe word" that was agreed on at...
[13:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:33] <exec> 08└─Please note that Microsoft are using LINUX for their BUILD SYSTEM.
[13:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:34] <exec> 08└─Way back, Internet Explorer ran on a load of platforms. There were UNIX builds for Solaris and HP-UX, right up until IE5. Edge already runs on Linux, just not X11 Linux - there's been a version for Android (and iOS) for a while.
[13:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:36] <exec> 08└─Indeed it is always your fault. And speaking of your fault, we're all getting REALLY sick of your silly promotion of Systemd, still the worst thing to come to linux... EVER
[13:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:39] <exec> 08└─Let them do it then. Maybe they'll learn something.
[13:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 2440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe I am just not getting it, but if the browser is based on Chromium, and it doesn't seem very much like they took a giant hammer to it and made it incredibly incompatible and then claimed it as their own--why would developers on Linux choose to use it instead of just using... Chromium and a user...
[13:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:00] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I read somewhere that one of the best ways to sink a ship is to surround the water in bubbles. I'm sure they've done their research and stuff, but it seems that if it works to significantly reduce friction enough to bolt a system onto a ship, it also risks becoming a hazard in terms of buoy...
[13:08:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:11] <exec> 08└─You can invent stone axes. You can invent fire. But fark 1 woolly mammoth and what are you remembered for?
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[14:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:30] <exec> 08└─Back in the 1980s, no one would have believed you if said that in the future, software would be based around the behaviors of teenage girls. Using computers to socialize? Psh... straighten your tie and finish your business graphing application.
[14:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:32] <exec> 08└─Isn't that a good thing? At least now they are meeting new people instead of just watching "celebrities" doing it on [viewing-device-of-their-choice].
[14:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:34] <exec> 08└─Game of Dethrones?
[14:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:36] <exec> 08└─The article says this as well. But Netflix no longer accepts payments through the app. All transactions are done via the site. So of course it would no longer be top grossing? I don't see how this is newsworthy at all.
[14:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:38] <exec> 08└─If people don't want to go through a web site to subscribe/pay then that really says more about the state of "modern" web sites.
[14:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tangled Web of Turning Spider Silk Into a Super Material - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:46] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our new super-powered-arachnid-overlords. What could possibly go wrong ...
[14:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tangled Web of Turning Spider Silk Into a Super Material - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:49] <exec> 08└─I made a shirt from spider silk but it made my skin crawl every time I wore it.
[14:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:03] <exec> 08└─Russian natural gas. Next question. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Celebrating 50 Years of the RFCs that Define How the Internet Works - 1760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:08] <exec> 08└─https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-flanagan-fiftyyears/ [ietf.org] It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." ... Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Ke...
[14:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Celebrating 50 Years of the RFCs that Define How the Internet Works - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:10] <exec> 08└─The RFCs are how the problem of net neutrality should be handled. Simply, if an ISP does not comply with the RFCs, then that company is not providing "Internet" service. Therefore, under truth-in-advertising regulations it may not use the word "internet" in any of its name, advertising, contracts or...
[14:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:25] <exec> 08└─> You'd have the hull coated with tiny hairs. I wonder if there is any relation to the drag reduction from riblets? This https://www.sciencedirect.com [sciencedirect.com] looks like a nice overview (full text at the link).
[14:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:26] <exec> 08└─I've cavitated a few condoms. Technology isn't up to supercavitating condoms yet.
[14:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:28] <exec> 08└─Things grow on boat hulls as soon as they hit the water
[14:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ships Slide in an Air Envelope - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:31] <exec> 08└─Part of the thing about bubbles of water and sinking ships, is to localize the bubbles. Certain torpedoes create large bubbles, thus removing the support from beneath the ship, at one end, or in the middle. The ship's back is broken, trying to support the suddenly "heavy" portion of the ship hanging...
[14:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:52] <exec> 08└─The two can be distinguished genetically. Convergent or parallel evolution modifies dissimilar gene sequences (defined by no or very distant common ancestors) to have similar recent changes functionally (as defined by sequence comparisons with genes under different environments). Contrarily, interbr...
[14:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe. But I don't put my keyboard into my mouth.
[14:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:15] <exec> 08└─Because that's not the fucking conclusion of that paper you just linked. Their assertion is that broad pollution levels, not just antibiotic pollution levels are determinate of AR levels in natural bacteria.
[14:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:41] <exec> 08└─that one looks more motivated by actual science than anything else.
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[15:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Enables Support for DirectX Raytracing on Non-RTX GPUs, Results Lackluster - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:42] <exec> 08└─IMHO they are doing this so potentially cool stuff will work - and if it is slow, make a demand to upgrade.... Otherwise, it is *kinda* nice for those of us that ray-trace , but not for games...
[15:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:55] <exec> 08└─As someone who has spent a bit of time on Tinder, it's not the hook-up app that it used to be known for. Do hookups happen on the app? Sure, but the mainstream-ization of it means that there a plenty of people looking for an actual relationship on the app. It's honestly pretty sad to see Tinder turn...
[15:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:56] <exec> 08└─Any other observations from 2015 to share? In whatever time since you last left your home, tinder has gone from primarily a hook up app that works to primarily a dating app that's terrible for finding long-term matches.
[15:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they're pretty much chasing the market ... that they pretty much created (or at least enhanced) and most everyone else tries to follow (without getting sued for copyright / etc. infringement).
[15:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:01] <exec> 08└─Nah, they own most of their competitors: PoF, OKC, and Match. My conspiracy theory for why they're all becoming the same is that the tinder approach keeps people single(and therefor customers) longer.
[15:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:24] <exec> 08└─i dont think ICEs will disappear completely. Probably not. Here in the UK - a very small, densely populated country (you can tell how dense the population is - they voted for Brexit), 30% of electricity generated is lost in the transmission lines. Another 10% would be lost charging the car batteries...
[15:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martian Methane Mystery: First Results from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:34] <exec> 08└─Indeed - I wouldn't even bet on the very, very thin part. If Mars ever had life, then all the underground chemovores and their predators are almost certainly still thriving, slowly moving deeper as the core cools. What do they care how (in)hospitable the surface of the planet is? Most of the gasses...
[15:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:52] <exec> 08└─And yet consumertards insist on brining these things in to their homes and letting these companies listen to every word. If you tell a consumertard they should not, they will bitch and whine about how they must have the latest toys, they have nothing to hide, and you should do the same.
[15:08:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:14] <exec> 08└─...systemd does not require any specific browser to be installed to function...
[15:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:26] <exec> 08└─It is part of the perceived behaviour of SystemD to try to force programs to depend on it. There are a lot of programs that should not care what your init system is that now require SystemD services. Saying SystemD is going to require Edge is just hyperbolic turnabout. (Until it does require Edge)
[15:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:27] <exec> 08└─Way back then when I was sysadmin for a couple Sparc Stations, some contractor installed Explorer on one of them and it brought that Sparc Station to its knees. I also had a call once from a VAX admin about one of our employees bringing his VAX to its knees with Xroach running in the background. The...
[15:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:30] <exec> 08└─I had written . . . "Not addressed was the question of whether systemd's boot loader would require Edge on Linux at boot time in order to perform updates."
[15:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:32] <exec> 08└─Remember that Microsoft acquired The Linux Foundation in 2016.
[15:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:34] <exec> 08└─"There are a lot of programs that should not care what your init system is that now require SystemD services." Is that still true? I'm on a Gentoo laptop right now using OpenRC. I have a couple of other laptops running Void Linux (Runit init system), and FreeBSD. They all have Firefox and Chromium o...
[15:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:23] <exec> 08└─They thought your article was in bad taste.
[15:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:30] <exec> 08└─In this scenario "cloud" is the delivery mechanism which your data travels to be reviewed by Google for ad worthiness, leaked to bad actors, and then lost when Google pulls the plug on this cold storage.
[15:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:46] <exec> 08└─The problem with sucked like this is that washing your hands is a kind of deal with the devil. Most of the bacteria you wash or kill via hand soap are perfectly fine to have on your skin. By excessive washing you remove probs of your immune system hoping to also remove the small number of bacteria t...
[15:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:48] <exec> 08└─Only if you take their claim to be a generic null hypothesis of a grossly oversimplified version of my claim. But they're pretty clearly asserting, in the context of the conversation, that hospitals are at fault. That is not in line with the state of the literature. Even being generous that they're...
[15:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:50] <exec> 08└─For those of us who clean our keyboard once in a while, it is not nasty at all. It only takes a couple minutes to clean, and I'm surprised more people don't do it.
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[16:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sharp Demos a 31.5-Inch 8K 120Hz HDR Monitor; Sony Uses Modules to Build a 783-Inch 16K Screen - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:41] <exec> 08└─"What if we made it bigger?" "Sir, I've already got an entire wall of my living room made of TV what more can we do?" "Make. It. Bigger."
[16:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sharp Demos a 31.5-Inch 8K 120Hz HDR Monitor; Sony Uses Modules to Build a 783-Inch 16K Screen - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:43] <exec> 08└─Can't get much "bigger" than a 220° FOV VR headset. 😎
[16:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Sharp Demos a 31.5-Inch 8K 120Hz HDR Monitor; Sony Uses Modules to Build a 783-Inch 16K Screen - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:45] <exec> 08└─You make it sound easy. Making something bigger is not always easy. As every man knows!
[16:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Nvidia Enables Support for DirectX Raytracing on Non-RTX GPUs, Results Lackluster - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:55] <exec> 08└─It sounds to me that it's more like "our nvidia hairworkx and whatever slow games down enough as it is, enable this too and then join our telemetry club to potentially get valuable discounts on forced upgrades!"
[16:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Nvidia Enables Support for DirectX Raytracing on Non-RTX GPUs, Results Lackluster - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:57] <exec> 08└─The good news is that AMD will probably be able to respond to Nvidia, and realtime raytracing (using machine learning to reduce complexity) will not be an Nvidia exclusive thing for long. https://wccftech.com [wccftech.com] Khro...
[16:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:15] <exec> 08└─OP here, > In whatever time since you last left your home,... Let's see, I might have left home before you were born(?) -- late 1970s, played the field off and on (before dating "apps") through various friend/work/hobby contacts and have been in a stable relationship for ~20 years now.
[16:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, okay, so what you're saying is you're totally uninformed about the thing you were talking authoritatively about? Going so far as to take a tone of correcting someone else, while being fairly concretely wrong? It's telling that you're more offended at the idea of being called a shut in than the...
[16:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tangled Web of Turning Spider Silk Into a Super Material - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:26] <exec> 08└─What??!! That shirt should have made you want to swing around NYC, from building to building.
[16:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:42] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much Paul Allen would charge to outfit that with a remote unit so we could blast away at it with a 50-cal. Maybe the last surviving WW2 vet should man the trigger. I'd pay $20 admission just to watch.
[16:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:44] <exec> 08└─> .. so we could blast away at it with a 50-cal .. Where's the idiot mod when I want it? In case you don't get my point, WWII was over a long time ago and I'm very pleased to see that Paul Allen spent some of his fortune to preserve historical artifacts from that time.
[16:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:46] <exec> 08└─Germany's trick is: start early. Their "Energiewende" [wikipedia.org] study and planning phase took off in 1980. Germany has made significant progress on its GHG emissions reduction target, achieving a 27% decrease between 1990 and 2014. However the country will need to maintain an average GHG emiss...
[16:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:13] <exec> 08└─Google only charges for their captive audiences when they know those people won't rebel because they are stupid. Look at the youtube subscription model price increases. People who "cut the cable" only to deliver the same content over the same cable are experiencing the same price increases--new boss...
[16:08:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:29] <exec> 08└─They are not late, anon, they needed the missing piece of the puzzle. They wanted to know if unix could be made to suck the microsoft way. Because you can make anything suck, unix included, yet the microsoft way is a peculiar way of suck. It was no easy task, but lennart pulled it. Look at the timel...
[16:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:51] <exec> 08└─Wait, what? How did I miss that? Jesus...
[16:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:52] <exec> 08└─If it weren't for redhat linux would be too hard for you to use.
[16:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Sidewalk Labs: What is It Good for? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:52] <exec> 08└─what did the non-local nerds think? it doesnt matter what anyone else but the locals think about how the local community is affected. do you live there? if not, write to google and tell them you want this in your town instead.
[16:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Cleaner Rocket Fuel Using Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:31] <exec> 08└─I wasn't totally discounting hypergolics, just pointing out they aren't a strict requirements for rockets or even the most popular choice by tonnage. Thankfully first stage hypergolics aren't a popular idea (anymore), though as you pointed out they are ubiquitous in attitude control, where there is...
[16:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:48] <exec> 08└─I'll take a shot at the translation: "Give them all your backups, and they will hold it for ransom for you until you pay up, cutting off access when they detect you are about to need it." Pricing will start really cheap to get people locked in then the rates will skyrocket because the cloud constant...
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[17:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:23] <exec> 08└─My wife and I went to a music festival one summer. We got some MDMA and tried it out. I didn't really notice anything different other than a super mild headache and a very slight giddiness (like a cup or two of coffee). My wife on the other hand had visual effects and stuff going on. The next day sh...
[17:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:25] <exec> 08└─Did you use MDMA, or a pill someone said was MDMA? That's why pill testing is useful. Nobody knows what they are actually getting.
[17:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:27] <exec> 08└─Who knows! It wasn't a pill, but a vial with a crystalline powder. This festival had every kind of drug under the sun available and offered drug testing (which I didn't take advantage of...). The drugs available were supposedly high quality, so I'm assuming that it was actually MDMA, but...
[17:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03lizardloop [4716] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah that doesn't sound like MDMA. Although everyone reacts differently. I used to do a lot of MDMA but I've stopped taking it now. It used to really add to the enjoyment of a night out. Now it just makes me feel confused and horny.
[17:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sharp Demos a 31.5-Inch 8K 120Hz HDR Monitor; Sony Uses Modules to Build a 783-Inch 16K Screen - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:40] <exec> 08└─They just say 783 inches without specifying what it refers to. Some large old projection tvs could be 783 inches thick. If true, they would be a huge pain to move around.
[17:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sharp Demos a 31.5-Inch 8K 120Hz HDR Monitor; Sony Uses Modules to Build a 783-Inch 16K Screen - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:42] <exec> 08└─Just RTFA and you'll see 783 inches is diagonal, just like all other displays are measured. The screen is 19.2 meters (63 feet) long and 5.4 meters (17 feet) high, it features a diagonal of 783 inches and is generally larger than a bus.
[17:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sharp Demos a 31.5-Inch 8K 120Hz HDR Monitor; Sony Uses Modules to Build a 783-Inch 16K Screen - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:44] <exec> 08└─First line of the second blockquote in TFS: The screen is 19.2 meters (63 feet) long and 5.4 meters (17 feet) high, it features a diagonal of 783 inches and is generally larger than a bus.
[17:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:12] <exec> 08└─Well the lack of knowledge was admitted and even threw on some question marks so didn't come off as a know-it-all blowhard to me. You came off as rather pissy though with the shut-in comment ;)
[17:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:13] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. It was a bit over the top.
[17:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:48] <exec> 08└─systemd does not require any specific browser to be installed to function
[17:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:49] <exec> 08└─But the awesomeness of systemd is 1% faster boot times! running a windows VM in an x86 emulator is really gonna slowdown boot on my raspberryPI
[17:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:52] <exec> 08└─That's a good question, so I thought Id try to answer it, but packages.gentoo.org doesn't have a "depends-on" search. And I was surprised to find this in gnome-shell ebuild: RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND} [...] !openrc-force? ( >=sys-apps/systemd-31 )
[17:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:54] <exec> 08└─we're all getting REALLY sick
[17:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:23] <exec> 08└─Stock is up slightly, but Boeing has bigger concerns right now: Boeing Stock Is Still Rising Because Wall Street Is Getting on Board With 737 MAX Solution [barrons.com]
[17:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:24] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/for-a-moment-appreciate-falcon-heavys-controlled-explosion-of-four-tons-of-tnt/ [arstechnica.com] There was still one more surprise to be had. A couple of hours after Thursday's launch, SpaceX founder Elon Musk shared two photos of the fairing halves that enca...
[17:10:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:49] <exec> 08└─I was gonna make that joke too ... Then I remembered that Google shuts down projects and features, but can definitely be trusted never to lose your personal data.
[17:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:56] <exec> 08└─Then I remembered that Google shuts down projects and features, but can definitely be trusted never to lose your personal data.
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[18:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:36] <exec> 08└─I never heard of this drug testing but to be honest it is better than selling outright poisons to people.
[18:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:37] <exec> 08└─So, uhhhhh, some stranger approaches you, and offers you something that you can't positively identify, telling you that it will make you feel good, and you take the stuff. Isn't there a special Darwin Award category for this kind of thing?
[18:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:39] <exec> 08└─Back in my day we called it "X", 'cause X's were still cool. We'd go to a rave, takes some X, and tie an onion to our belt which was the style at the time. The kids these days call it Molly.
[18:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:42] <exec> 08└─So, uhhhhh, some stranger approaches you, and offers you something that you can't positively identify, telling you that it will make you feel good, and you take the stuff. Isn't there a special Darwin Award category for this kind of thing?
[18:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:44] <exec> 08└─I hope you understand that the whole thing was caused by your failure to test the drug, which obviously was not MDMA. Take random drugs, wind up fried.
[18:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sharp Demos a 31.5-Inch 8K 120Hz HDR Monitor; Sony Uses Modules to Build a 783-Inch 16K Screen - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:56] <exec> 08└─First line of the second blockquote in TFS:
[18:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sharp Demos a 31.5-Inch 8K 120Hz HDR Monitor; Sony Uses Modules to Build a 783-Inch 16K Screen - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:58] <exec> 08└─You make it sound easy. Making something bigger is not always easy. As every man knows!
[18:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Enables Support for DirectX Raytracing on Non-RTX GPUs, Results Lackluster - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:08] <exec> 08└─>[For] stuff that really adds realism, like advanced shadows, global illumination and ambient occlusion, the RTX 2080 Ti outperforms the 1080 Ti by up to a factor of six. I have a 2080ti OC coming today to replace my 1080ti, which will replace a 1070 in another machine, but my expectation is just a...
[18:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:30] <exec> 08└─This is now how a conversation on the internet is supposed to go, please escalate appropriately in future.
[18:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:32] <exec> 08└─If people don't want to go through a web site to subscribe/pay then that really says more about the state of "modern" web sites.
[18:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:34] <exec> 08└─Well shit, there goes plan B. Guess I'll just stay married then...
[18:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tangled Web of Turning Spider Silk Into a Super Material - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:44] <exec> 08└─I think you're supposed to remove the spiders first.
[18:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:04] <exec> 08└─Is it really the twilight of combustion? My guess is that BMW (and others) are not going to be able to sell very many of these electric cars, at least not in the next ~5 years in N. America. The infrastructure isn't really ready (in most areas) for public charging and no one yet appears to have a go...
[18:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:06] <exec> 08└─Why use solar and wind to make gas? Locally generated solar/wind wouldn't suffer the large transmission losses, as long as you can generate it when/where the cars are charging. (ie the work/daytime parking lot more than the home/overnight one.)
[18:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:08] <exec> 08└─More (same AC as parent): In India they have many small vehicles and at least one company has a solution to the charging problem, for people without a garage. I submitted this story, it's sitting in the queue, https://soylentnews.org
[18:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Martian Methane Mystery: First Results from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:18] <exec> 08└─One of the other articles I saw on this topic mentioned that methane can be created by purely geological processes so it's not a slam dunk indicator of life. Not sure where I read that, though....
[18:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:38] <exec> 08└─That reminds me, I really need to give mycroft.ai a try. Apart from Google's version that's built into my phone, I don't have anything like this in my house because I have no control over what it hears. One of the things I appreciate about my Roku is that it has a specific button to turn on the micr...
[18:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:40] <exec> 08└─Seems a bit easier to just not purchase one of these devices. A bit cheaper, too.
[18:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:42] <exec> 08└─Seems like they could accomplish the same task by simply using anonymized data and a lot of us would be OK with it. Adding tricky bits to the training set is really the only way you can improve the results.
[18:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:26] <exec> 08└─What is it that the man has picked up? "The truth". That must be bad business for you. "Not at all, I am going to help him organize it"
[18:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:16] <exec> 08└─You've certainly piqued my interest. You should put that one in your journal.
[18:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight; Successful Launch; All 3 Cores Landed - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:59] <exec> 08└─Additionally, that "I am Elon Musk. I was an ILLEGAL immigrant..." stuff isn't even a quote from Musk. It's some meme that was floating around. From the Snopes link here are a couple actual quotes: KIMBAL (his brother): When they did fund us, they realized that we were illegal immigrants. ELON: Well...
[18:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Cleaner Rocket Fuel Using Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:14] <exec> 08└─NASA is testing "green" [nasa.gov] fuels to make propellant handling and loading easier. This MOF/ZIF stuff sounds like a hybrid solid fuel, so maybe not for on-orbit reaction control. Are they replacing carcinogenic or aluminum exhaust products with zinc, cobalt, and cadmium products?
[18:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:59] <exec> 08└─+1 funny, or -1 coldhearted? Oh - there's no coldhearted moderation, so I guess it's funny.
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[19:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Releases Firefox Beta for Windows 10 ARM - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:34] <exec> 08└─I thought Windows 10 on ARM was locked down so no one could run third party desktop applications, even if they existed. Even the old NT/2000 ports to DEC Alpha (also a 64-bit platform, BTW) would let you write and run your own stuff. but it simply "was not x86" so no one wanted it.
[19:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Releases Firefox Beta for Windows 10 ARM - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:35] <exec> 08└─I had a windows RT tablet a number of years ago. The hardware was pretty nice. Quite thin. Good battery life, and a thin somewhat usable keyboard that detached. It felt pretty good in the hands. Actually using the thing was terrible though. It was slow as shit and didn't run anything. It had a webbr...
[19:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Releases Firefox Beta for Windows 10 ARM - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:37] <exec> 08└─I thought Windows 10 on ARM was locked down so no one could run third party desktop applications, even if they existed.
[19:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:54] <exec> 08└─The kids these days call it Molly.
[19:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:55] <exec> 08└─> Now it just makes me feel confused and horny. Hey, I know people that would pay good money to feel like a teenager again.
[19:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:57] <exec> 08└─You actually would pay money to get back to that state? I just never stopped, it's somewhat cheaper, except for the acne soap budget.
[19:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:00] <exec> 08└─That's kind of how illegal drugs work. It's not smart, but sometimes you have to live a bit.
[19:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:02] <exec> 08└─These days I just do the Mary-Jane ;)
[19:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/ [techcrunch.com] https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com [microsoft.com]
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:40] <exec> 08└─Funny you should say that, since I started with Linux in 2004. On Gentoo. To this day I refuse to touch RPM distros and run some combination of Artix, Gentoo, and Slackware, all systemd-free.
[19:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:42] <exec> 08└─I find that quite hilarious. Rewind to 1999. I'm a classic Mac software developer and Apple fanboy at this point in time. Have been writing code for two decades if you include college. Not just Mac code. PC code. Some 8086 assembler. Minicomputer code in college, including assembler. So I'm not exac...
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[20:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds High Levels of CTE-Linked Protein in the Brains of Former Football Players - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:43] <exec> 08└─Stop the presses! Getting hit in the head a lot is bad for you! The fact is, fans of the NFL and other forms of football know full well that the sport they're watching leads to long-lasting or even permanent injury. They sometimes even cheer the "big hits" that lead to those injuries, and for player...
[20:07:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:08] <exec> 08└─Back in my day we called it "X", 'cause X's were still cool. We'd go to a rave, takes some X, and tie an onion to our belt which was the style at the time. The kids these days call it Molly.
[20:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Australian Politician Admits MDMA Use Amid Pill Testing Debate - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:16] <exec> 08└─Says the fool who buys food from the store without bringing his mass spectrometer to test for heavy metals and pesticides!! Go home little runaway, it is time.
[20:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Enables Support for DirectX Raytracing on Non-RTX GPUs, Results Lackluster - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:43] <exec> 08└─Can we use GPU ray tracing to make POV-Ray faster?
[20:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Enables Support for DirectX Raytracing on Non-RTX GPUs, Results Lackluster - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:45] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. The technique Nvidia and others will use involves doing low-quality raytracing and then fixing the result with a machine learning denoiser algorithm. https://developer.nvidia.com [nvidia.com] https://www.nvidia.com
[20:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:43] <exec> 08└─In just a few years BMW will sell a dozen battery-powered models.
[20:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:16] <exec> 08└─And yet consumertards insist on brining these things in to their homes
[20:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:06] <exec> 08└─Someone take a pot shot at systemd, and the fella goes apeshit. Are you related to poettering or something?
[20:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthals Shared Genetic Similarities With Woolly Mammoths - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:58] <exec> 08└─Gone, perhaps, but not forgotten! Bad taste, or are the eds hiding something? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] All Posts regarding Tucker Carlson seem to be deep-sixed. But maybe that is a matter of having standards.
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[21:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds High Levels of CTE-Linked Protein in the Brains of Former Football Players - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:18] <exec> 08└─Stop the presses! Head concussions produce high levels of tau proteins, correlated to something called "chronic traumatic encephalopathy". I guess we'll keep seeing more observations come out as they scan more NFL players' brains over time? Hopefully people will realize that funding at least some sc...
[21:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds High Levels of CTE-Linked Protein in the Brains of Former Football Players - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:19] <exec> 08└─They sometimes even cheer the "big hits" that lead to those injuries,
[21:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds High Levels of CTE-Linked Protein in the Brains of Former Football Players - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:21] <exec> 08└─It would be funny if the major driver for regenerative medicine research becomes American football. We need to heal the brain so that our gladiators can keep bashing each other in the head. Side benefits? Partial anti-aging.
[21:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds High Levels of CTE-Linked Protein in the Brains of Former Football Players - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but if we went back to gladiator games, we could at least force people who change lanes without signaling to participate. They'd be super boring in football.
[21:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds High Levels of CTE-Linked Protein in the Brains of Former Football Players - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:26] <exec> 08└─I look forward to telling Furrigners who complain about American "Football" that at least the American version solved aging.
[21:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Enables Support for DirectX Raytracing on Non-RTX GPUs, Results Lackluster - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:22] <exec> 08└─Spoilers in summary have previous SN article Crytek Demos Real-Time Raytracing for AMD and Non-RTX Nvidia GPUs [soylentnews.org], so raytracing is already viable. And that was with AMD Vega 56, not the 64 or some pro model with everything enabled. Based in the NVidia RTX demo I saw weeks ago (somet...
[21:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Enables Support for DirectX Raytracing on Non-RTX GPUs, Results Lackluster - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:23] <exec> 08└─AMD's upcoming Navi GPUs or a future GPU generation will add some kind of acceleration for it, probably for a denoising algorithm.
[21:07:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:45] <exec> 08└─If people don't want to go through a web site to subscribe/pay then that really says more about the state of "modern" web sites.
[21:08:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 1210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:12] <exec> 08└─i dont think ICEs will disappear completely. Probably not. Here in the UK - a very small, densely populated country (you can tell how dense the population is - they voted for Brexit), 30% of electricity generated is lost in the transmission lines. Another 10% would be lost charging the car batteries...
[21:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:20] <exec> 08└─https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmenergy/386/38607.html [parliament.uk] 44. Energy is lost during transportation from production to consumption. Electricity distribution losses on average account for 8% of transported volumes, and vary between 3.1% to 10% for the individual D...
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─MS is too big to fail.
[21:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─Can you see the violence inherent in the Editors? Did you see him editing the FS? "Beware the janrinok, my son, the claws that snatch, the sharpie that redacts! The delete button the maims, the submission rejections that wound. It comes with a Burbling sound."
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:45] <exec> 08└─Please note that Microsoft are using LINUX for their BUILD SYSTEM.
[21:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:48] <exec> 08└─It was clearly a "ha ha only serious" joke, that you took way too seriously. On the other hand, whoever modded your post down here is also taking things too seriously.
[21:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:50] <exec> 08└─but it is pointless and basically wrong to blame others for the choices that they make.
[21:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:52] <exec> 08└─You're thinking too small. Poettering already has plans for incorporating browser functionality into systemd itself.
[21:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe I am just not getting it, but if the browser is based on Chromium, and it doesn't seem very much like they took a giant hammer to it and made it incredibly incompatible and then claimed it as their own--why would developers on Linux choose to use it instead of just using... Chromium and a user...
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[22:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Nature Is Lost Due to Higher Yields? - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:01] <exec> 08└─The population in Europe was declining as standards of living increased, this would have solved the problem under discussion naturally. However this was considered a bigger problem that had to be "fixed" by importing the Middle East and Africa. So now an increasingly less civilized Europe will plund...
[22:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Nature Is Lost Due to Higher Yields? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:03] <exec> 08└─Dark ages are just what the Muslim imams want.
[22:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Nature Is Lost Due to Higher Yields? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:05] <exec> 08└─Dark ages are just what the Western capitalist elites funding the Muslim imams want.
[22:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Nature Is Lost Due to Higher Yields? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:07] <exec> 08└─Figure out your population issues on your own. We don't want any more Europeans over here. We're all about diversity now and that means no white people. Or Asians unless they're from a poor or oppressed nation; the Chinese and Japanese have too much privilege.
[22:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Releases Firefox Beta for Windows 10 ARM - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:29] <exec> 08└─But I'm never going to own one of those.
[22:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tinder Dethrones Netflix as the Top-Grossing Non-Game Mobile App in Q1 2019 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:43] <exec> 08└─But you can't argue that for many people, especially straight women, Tinder is the app which most deserves the title Top-Grossing (out).
[22:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:18] <exec> 08└─In Germany i noticed that nearly half of all the houses had some solar panels on them already. That was a few years ago. They are pretty serious on an individual level.
[22:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:51] <exec> 08└─They also described hearing distressing clips such as a potential sexual assault. However, they were told by colleagues that it was not Amazon's job to intervene.
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has been doing a lot of work in linux lately. Their cloud solution (Azure) runs in linux. They have MSSQL running in linux. C#/.NetCore programs compile and run in linux. They have a web server called Kestrel that runs in linux. Visual Studio Code runs in linux. You can be a full microsoft...
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[23:06:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06How Much Nature Is Lost Due to Higher Yields? - 678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:10] <exec> 08└─The population in Europe was declining as standards of living increased, this would have solved the problem under discussion naturally. However this was considered a bigger problem that had to be "fixed" by importing the Middle East and Africa. So now an increasingly less civilized Europe will plund...
[23:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Nature Is Lost Due to Higher Yields? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:15] <exec> 08└─..but how to maintain a healthy welfare state with declining youth population segment? Importing earners is the only answer.
[23:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06How Much Nature Is Lost Due to Higher Yields? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:17] <exec> 08└─Yay, racist garbage modded up. Yall-qaeda are fucking dumb, can't even see they're fighting with their religious brethren. On an intelligence scale of 0 - 100 I'd give Yall-qaeda a 10 and Al-qaeda a 9. Jmorris is super special though, he gets to be the genius of the idiots. A shitty savant if you wi...
[23:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Nature Is Lost Due to Higher Yields? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:19] <exec> 08└─Transsexual whites and Asians are OK for now. And your government seems keen on bringing at least one white person from London.
[23:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much Nature Is Lost Due to Higher Yields? - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:21] <exec> 08└─Obviously, if life had never arose on earth, we'd have a perfectly pristine planet. For some value of "pristine". But life is messy by its very nature and problems arise. The only reason that e don't see the problems that arise all the time in nature even without man is our amazingly short timeline...
[23:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much Nature Is Lost Due to Higher Yields? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:24] <exec> 08└─On a separate topic: https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] Please explain how McConnel and Trump are NOT leading us into the jaws of fascism? Is "owning the libs" truly worth selling out the idea of a democratic republic and the basic rule of law?
[23:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Enables Support for DirectX Raytracing on Non-RTX GPUs, Results Lackluster - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:36] <exec> 08└─The point is obviously no to play games with ray-tracing. We all knew it would be slide-show speeds. The point is to accelerate rendering of ray-traced images for the many systems who don't need real-time (stills, architecture...) and to allow developers to check the improvements and their work even...
[23:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of Engines - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:36] <exec> 08└─none of the big car companies are led by a charismatic figure like Elon.
[23:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:11] <exec> 08└─Also, to spead word to others, so they also do not purchase.
[23:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:12] <exec> 08└─And yet consumertards insist on brining these things in to their homes
[23:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:14] <exec> 08└─Um, in Australia at least, I think this is illegal. If you are witness to a crime, you have a legal obligation to report it. Except if you're a confession Minister of course.
[23:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Threatens to Bring Edge Browser to Linux - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:11] <exec> 08└─Joining is slightly different from acquiring.
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