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[00:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:04] <exec> 08└─so Mr. Fusion is real? [backtothepredictions.com]
[00:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:05] <exec> 08└─Maintaining a pool of water underground sounds awful. Does it need to remain full year-round - i.e. sealed from the environment? Where's the ease of deployment for a small reactor that only works underground inside a "huge pool of water"?
[00:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:07] <exec> 08└─Very sad news coming out today. Three Mile Island, very famous, historic Nuclear Site, will be closing down next month. And that's 15 years sooner than anybody expected. Lot of life left in that one, lot of life. But, they've been losing a lot of money. We haven't been paying our Coal, our Nuclear w...
[00:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:09] <exec> 08└─I wish they'd provide a general sense of how large a village/town/city/metropolis this could service. Or if they could standardize on a city size to define a unit of consumption/management for power/water/sewage/all utilities. I propose a 'SimCity' unit.
[00:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'ClusterDuck' is IBM's Rubber Duck-Inspired Wifi System for Emergency Relief - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:31] <exec> 08└─"Papa Duck" "Who's your Papa, duckboy?"
[00:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'ClusterDuck' is IBM's Rubber Duck-Inspired Wifi System for Emergency Relief - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:32] <exec> 08└─This is very similar to an idea for a division level military communications system that I dreamed up in my spare time off shift when I was a communications type for the Army/Natl. Guard in the 80s. Large numbers of small spread spectrum puck type repeaters/wireless points that talked to each other...
[00:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:58] <exec> 08└─They have the biggest, and most famous Gardens in the entire World -- Kew!!!!
[00:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundred Petaflop Machine Learning Supercomputers Now Available on Google Cloud - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:11] <exec> 08└─It's a ring of ring networks because a 3d torus is made of a 2d toroidal mesh
[00:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundred Petaflop Machine Learning Supercomputers Now Available on Google Cloud - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:12] <exec> 08└─Can someone explain to me a two-dimensional toroidal anything ?
[00:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:36] <exec> 08└─I do not believe that the government should have the authority to decide what goes in my body. Establishing that precedent is dangerous.
[00:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:37] <exec> 08└─School around here has always allowed 10 days per year unexcused absence, and something like the measles would get a doctor's note excusing the absence. Work, YMMV, laws schmaws, local management can still screw you over for staying home one day that they think you shouldn't have. I've totally shown...
[00:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First - Israel Responds Physically to a Cyber Attack in Real-Time - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:59] <exec> 08└─Since when is an indirect mode allowed with the x register?
[00:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First - Israel Responds Physically to a Cyber Attack in Real-Time - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:00] <exec> 08└─Prove to me that such a thing happened.
[00:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First - Israel Responds Physically to a Cyber Attack in Real-Time - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:03] <exec> 08└─Orthogonal you say? Must have been nice. Poor 6502 coders were allowed to have LDA [45,x] but not LDY [45,x] or even STX $C000,y.
[00:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Mysterious Force Has Been Blocking Car Key Fobs in This Small Ohio Town - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:53] <exec> 08└─If he passed his ham license exam, he should have gained some appreciation for why there are ham bands in the first place, and what his cheap-o 315MHz chip would do to his neighbors' stuff.
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[01:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:13] <exec> 08└─Nuclear power plants are so big, complicated and expensive to build that more are shutting down than opening up
[01:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:15] <exec> 08└─The article mentions that these Small Modular Reactors can use light water as cooling. That is the single biggest problem with current Light Water Reactors, the water needs to be kept cool or under a LOT of pressure to keep it from boiling off. What went wrong at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fu...
[01:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:17] <exec> 08└─Capsule nukes were designed and proposed for widespread use at least 20 years ago. Fear of security of the fissile material + NIMBY were two of many factors that made them a non-starter then, and I don't think they have any better chance now.
[01:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:19] <exec> 08└─If you like thorium because it is cleaner, you'll love Clean Coal fired plants, which produce no nuclear byproducts and are inherently safe from meltdown issues.
[01:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:21] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's a mix of environmental movement, NIMBYism, regulations, shitty companies like Exelon, and decades old reactor designs. Can big nuclear be done right? Maybe. But this is the same country that can't do high speed rail.
[01:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:23] <exec> 08└─What about the Uranium and Thorium in fly ash?
[01:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:25] <exec> 08└─which produce no nuclear byproducts
[01:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:28] <exec> 08└─Both, but mostly the former. If gas wasn't cheaper, the US would still be building coal plants. The economics of the giant complex nuclear plants, especially after the lessons from the major accidents, make the ROI unsustainable for short-sighted investors. The ecologists nagging about waste and and...
[01:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:17] <exec> 08└─Who are you, and what have you done with the real ~/realDonaldTrump?
[01:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundred Petaflop Machine Learning Supercomputers Now Available on Google Cloud - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:30] <exec> 08└─I know. But if it's 2D, then it's a Pac-Man topology. Toroids are 3D objects.
[01:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundred Petaflop Machine Learning Supercomputers Now Available on Google Cloud - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:32] <exec> 08└─Topology doesn't care as long as you preserve the navigational - in this case, connectivity/networking - properties. The RAM in your computer is 3D too, yet you are addressing it as 1D.
[01:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundred Petaflop Machine Learning Supercomputers Now Available on Google Cloud - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:34] <exec> 08└─Hey ! Work with me here ! I wanna see the faces of CEOs when they have to deliver the presentation to the press, and their schmancy multi-million dollar supermachines run a Pac-Man topology.
[01:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 2916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:58] <exec> 08└─No papers, no entry to a hospital as a sales rep. And, I'm cool with that: high risk area for you and others. Schools are trying to establish themselves as a high risk area, which they are to an extent, but since attendance is mandatory there should be some leeway for the whole freedom of religion/p...
[01:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:59] <exec> 08└─Eh, I keep the WiFi router outside the house, on the telephone pole - that makes it O.K.
[01:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:01] <exec> 08└─Our family had some Amish friends up in Illinois. They did the dresses without buttons, stores without electricity, baked awesome pies, etc. But, their community leader, most strict of the clan, came around and gave us a horse-drawn carriage ride... on a carriage with properly inflated pneumatic tir...
[01:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:04] <exec> 08└─Does your state have "employment at will"?
[01:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:06] <exec> 08└─Vulcanized rubber tires are still a far cry from getting electricity, an ISP that serves people who usually refuse electricity, a working computer, and the desire to frequent such a wretched hive of scum and villainy as this place... That's quite an amazing departure from what Amish typically is.
[01:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03zdammit [5626] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:16] <exec> 08└─The stoats fixed that though. </sarcasm>
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[02:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:08] <exec> 08└─This is totally anecdotal and perhaps too specific to me, but I've always found that I have a much easier time keeping digital notes organized. It's not just that I can grep them, it's also that when I put them in a directory backed up on another machine they actually stay there. By contrast, every...
[02:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:09] <exec> 08└─As a student, I always found that in classes where the teacher provided copies of the class notes, I could focus on paying attention and understanding the content rather than taking notes. In the classes where I had to make notes myself, I spent all the time writing and then had to go back and try t...
[02:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:11] <exec> 08└─I still use a spiral notebook when monitoring expensive physical tests for my customers. By expensive, compare to watching a wind tunnel test, perhaps $2000/hour occupancy charge. We come prepared with our test samples all lined up and a test matrix worked out in advance (based on hard won past expe...
[02:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:13] <exec> 08└─What worked for me in college was to go to class and pay attention, try to get ahead of the professor's lecture, predict where he was leading. In the boring, obvious classes it just didn't matter if I attended or not, but in the challenging ones I could generally keep up with the lecture presentatio...
[02:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:16] <exec> 08└─Use a punch card typewriter to write code. Slower means better thinking, less bugs in code and stack of cards is easy to edit by hand. Just do not spill the box holding your program in it.
[02:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:18] <exec> 08└─People generally "learn to study" in one way, and taking notes is sometimes necessary - so, taking notes all the time is just following their ingrained pattern. I tried a tape recorder one summer session - I had a 7am BIO lecture that generally put me to sleep by 7:15. Unfortunately, just listening...
[02:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:37] <exec> 08└─Yyyyyyeah, uh, about that... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Coal also contains low levels of uranium, thorium, and other naturally occurring radioactive isotopes which, if released into the environment, may lead to radioacti...
[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:39] <exec> 08└─I love coal fired plants, other than the CO2 emissions contributing to climate change, the environmental devastation that often results from the mining of it, the health hazards to the miners (black lung, etc.), and the fact that a single "clean coal" plant releases more radioactive substances into...
[02:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:41] <exec> 08└─Thorium is a meme. I'm not against it but arguing for it is wasting energy. What we need >Molton lead reactors. Lead keeps the system cool and when you are transporting the reactors you get to let it harden and it gives it a nice shield >CO2 heat exchange, 1/3 the size of what we have currently for...
[02:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:43] <exec> 08└─I agree, it's very useful to know and compare relative sizes, amounts, etc. IIRC, a typical full-sized reactor is in the 1-4 GW range, and these smaller ones are "up to 300 MW", but I think that's a total of several even smaller reactors, so maybe 20-50 MW per reactor.
[02:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:45] <exec> 08└─And just because I feel like typing some more ... ... are inherently safe from meltdown issues.
[02:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:48] <exec> 08└─The article mentions that these Small Modular Reactors can use light water as cooling. That is the single biggest problem with current Light Water Reactors, the water needs to be kept cool or under a LOT of pressure to keep it from boiling off. What went wrong at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fu...
[02:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:23] <exec> 08└─Same guy used the telephone on the pole just outside his property line to call the fire department (who arrived on English air, of course) when his field was burning. I could see a solar powered tablet and "municipal" wifi creeping into the odd Amish home here and there... We had Mennonite cousins w...
[02:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:24] <exec> 08└─We all agree. We are all individuals. We are not a hivemind.
[02:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:26] <exec> 08└─It's a bit like wildfires. If you have regular scrub fires they don't get too big. If you start suppressing fires, the leaf litter and dead wood builds up, and then when you finally get a fire, it is huge. Vaccination is a like trying to clear the deadwood by having very small fires. It doesn't clea...
[02:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:38] <exec> 08└─Having raised a few back in my youth, I'm pretty sure they're just too stupid to connect the pain in their mouth to what they're chewing on.
[02:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:39] <exec> 08└─I wasn't sure about goats, but every time I eat lamb chops I think back to my youth working in shearing sheds, and how stupid, smelly and ill-tempered sheep are and I enjoy the revenge of eating their offspring all the more. I hate sheep. Cows are pretty laid back usually, but sheep are arseholes.
[02:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber and Lyft Drivers to go on Strike - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah I always hear "I'll call an uber". It's always said it the same way as "I'll call a taxi" To pretend it isn't a taxi service is just splitting legal hairs.
[02:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Says Flashing Headlights To Warn Drivers Of Hidden Cops MIGHT Be Protected Speech - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:04] <exec> 08└─Why do so many people need to personally experience something bad before they become wary of it?
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[03:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:24] <exec> 08└─I haven't done "school" like things since 1994, but... these days my professional notes get stored on a wiki-server in the company intranet. I encourage my colleagues to do the same with theirs, and we can hyperlink back and forth and out to sources on the internet. Some, maybe most, of it is out of...
[03:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:25] <exec> 08└─You jest, but I go OCD on indentation and other things just to slow me down and mentally process the code I'm working with - it helps to understand it better if you spend more time thinking about it than just the time it takes to type and read it. It's all too easy to glance through something and th...
[03:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 2099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:27] <exec> 08└─I would agree with the research. As a student I always took notes on paper, even if there was a compendium or something such handed out. Why? My notes are better then their notes cause my notes are my interpretation of what was said and done while their notes are their notes. It might not emphasis w...
[03:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:29] <exec> 08└─I have off-and-on tried top get into just photographing my notes for long-term storage. It works well when I do it, I just tend to stop doing it after a while. Some of the best luck I've had was using Windows Journal on an old XP "transformer" laptop/tablet with a decent Wacom digitizer built into t...
[03:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:32] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you have your reasons, but might I suggest making the notes available *before* the lecture? Provide plenty of whitespace and students can then print out your notes before the lecture and annotate them with the details they find relevant to themselves.
[03:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─I now use grid-paper composition notebooks. Seeing my old, full, well-abused notebooks on my bookshelf gives me a subtle pleasure. 99.9% of my work is electronic and intangible. These books are my physical memento of that work. I existed. I can prove it. It's in my notebook.
[03:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:36] <exec> 08└─For some reason, when I write things down, I retain them better. I can trash the notes afterward because they usually aren't as good as what I can get from someone else and most of the stuff's already in my head by then anyway.
[03:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:38] <exec> 08└─Article: Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand Me: Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes into the test by on your Hand
[03:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:40] <exec> 08└─I have actually toyed with this, and some of my colleagues attempted it. It was found that if the lecture notes are provided ahead of time, students do not attend the lectures as much (and thus do not ask questions to help with their understanding). Though we record all our lectures and attendance i...
[03:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:06] <exec> 08└─Thorium is a meme. I'm not against it but arguing for it is wasting energy.
[03:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:07] <exec> 08└─The concept of these smaller reactors is that there's enough water in the pool to cool them down passively if there's a problem.
[03:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:09] <exec> 08└─Uranium and thorium are actually negligibly radioactive - that's why they still exist after 4.5 billion years of decaying in the Earth's crust, preceded by who knows how long floating around in nebulas formed by the same exploding stars that created the heavy elements. The longer the half-life of a...
[03:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:11] <exec> 08└─(FYW: the fly ash form a coal contains Uranium and Thorium in non trivial amounts, and it goes right into the atmosphere)
[03:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Low Investment Honey Pot via SSH Keys - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:19] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as a 'low investment' honeytrap.
[03:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'ClusterDuck' is IBM's Rubber Duck-Inspired Wifi System for Emergency Relief - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:37] <exec> 08└─That was my thought. The disaster created a clusterFk in the first place. The emergency response is quite possibly its own clusterFk, possibly even making things worse (cholera in Haiti?). But the communication infrastructure? That's a ClusterDuck - it's holding together just fine.
[03:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:06] <exec> 08└─Oooh, Ari being called out as a false flagging alt-righter!
[03:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:54] <exec> 08└─That would be difficult to prove either way. It is such an article of faith that I have heard of doctors claiming that if the current disease is measles, the earlier disease must have been mis-diagnosed.
[03:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The great protector protects all of us, not each of us. If one of us must die for the protection of the rest, so be it. All hail the great protector!
[03:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:58] <exec> 08└─I have anti-vaxxer friends who also happen to be atheists. For them, it was honest to 'god' civil disobedience to protest the profiteering of big pharma. They see the vaccines as a govm't mandated money grab. Some people can be so reasonable in some ways, and simply have no sense at all in others. T...
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[03:13:00] <exec> 08└─20 years is probably not frequent enough if the waning rate is increasing to 4% of vaccinated people losing immunity every 5 years. But anyway clearly they do not want this solution for some reason.
[03:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:02] <exec> 08└─It is a difficult issue, but I pretty much agree with that rule. If you find something ethically objectionable, you should be free to walk away from it. I don't think they should be able to prevent the patients seeking treatment elsewhere, but forcing people to carry out duties they object to is on...
[03:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:15] <exec> 08└─Those are heavily-bred sheep. I have heritage variety sheep, and while they can be smelly if you confine them, out in the open they're fine. They're also quite smart - cunning even. And they're pretty mellow as long as they know you. If they don't know you, and you try taking liberties with them, ge...
[03:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:17] <exec> 08└─Natural progression of population booms and busts based on predation and food cycles. You get to see a lot of this if you study ecology.
[03:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:19] <exec> 08└─Knew a guy who was a wildlife biologist and worked in the Middle East. He said there are feral goats in the Saudi desert, where NOTHING grows -- seems the goats survive by eating newspaper that blows out of the cities. Goats can be taught to prefer some particular plant, but when they get hungry, th...
[03:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they seem to think giant thistles are delicious, even when they're dried up and can readily substitute for daggers and caltrops. Seen three goats reduce an acre of dead thistles (12 feet tall, not your average backyard thistle) to bare dirt in about a week.
[03:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:23] <exec> 08└─Lived in the desert where there were copious coyotes, and plagues of rabbits. Coyotes seemed to at least thin down the cottontails, but didn't do squat against the big jackrabbits -- which incidentally will jump onto lawn furniture in search of something tastier than sagebrush. (How I learned not to...
[03:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:25] <exec> 08└─Me, I want some of them fainting goats. They clear all the garbage off your property and if you're having a bad day just step outside and yell at them for a quick laugh.
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[04:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Defaults Hit Record in 2018. 2019 Pace Is Triple That - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:07] <exec> 08└─Never, but never, interrupt the enemy when they are destroying themselves. If it turns out the "Communist" Chinese destroy their economy with unchained capitalist idiocy, I will laugh hard enough to pass out.
[04:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Defaults Hit Record in 2018. 2019 Pace Is Triple That - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:08] <exec> 08└─Remember this? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The way China keeps its economy growing and growing is by pumping money into the economy by way of loans. It's important to keep up the facade, you see. But what happens if you keep loaning out money when the ec...
[04:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:16] <exec> 08└─I would recommend learning lockpicking for the sole purpose of understanding just low little security traditional pin and tumbler locks provide. I would very much trust a digital lock over a physical one, given that the digital lock is FOSS and properly designed which admittedly is asking for a lot....
[04:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:38] <exec> 08└─This. I never referred to my notes in college, but if I didn't take notes I had a hard time doing the homework. Obvious counter-examples are things like which problems to solve, when the test is, etc.
[04:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:39] <exec> 08└─You need a better note taking system. I've always used notes and I've rarely gone over them again after having taken them down. The point is as much about paying attention during the lecture as it is having something to review. In most cases, there's a textbook of some sort and other places online w...
[04:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:41] <exec> 08└─You really shouldn't do that, it's doing the students a disservice. The point of the notes is that they force you to pay attention to what's going on rather than tricking yourself into thinking that you're understanding things just because you're hearing them. This is the 21st century, chances are t...
[04:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:44] <exec> 08└─I love those engineer notepads, the ones with the squares and the neat rip indentation for the rare case where I decide to remove pages. I use them for just about everything as they work well whether I'm needing to graph something or write text at various levels of indentation. They also make it eas...
[04:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks for commenting with that extra info. I was too lazy to look up the rest of the radioactive elements in the ash and just went with the ones I remembered off the top. Something that most people don't realize is that the longer the half life the safer the elements is, and of course the shorter t...
[04:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cblood [1701] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:15] <exec> 08└─I will support the first nuclear plant that can buy insurance. It has yet to happen, because the insurance companies do risk assessment and determine it is not safe. The only reason we have these ticking time bombs conveniently located near large populations is because the government exempted them f...
[04:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:17] <exec> 08└─Agree that the NIMBY is going to be a big hurdle to overcome. I would expect these small systems will first be deployed in remote areas where its a choice between a nuclear powered generator that costs a $XXX but then works for 10 years or paying $XXX*2 every year for the fuel to keep your lights on...
[04:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:24] <exec> 08└─I think jack rabbits can outrun coyotes. Which means that hawks are better. And owls. Unfortunately lots of predatory birds have had their population decimated by lead poisoning and ddt poisoning. I think they're currently in recovery. But other stealth predators can also take them down. I'm sure my...
[04:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:25] <exec> 08└─Ehhh....no. You see boom and bust cycles occasionally. And things like prime year katydids. That's not really a population boom, it just looks like it because they synchronize their emergence. But they've been growing up underground for over a decade. I think the lynx/snowshoe rabbit boom and bust c...
[04:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Proposes the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019” - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:53] <exec> 08└─The CEO & founder of DuckDuckGo is Gabriel Weinberg [wikipedia.org], who created the Names Database [wikipedia.org], where registrants put in their personal information and then gave the website their friends' emails to refer them to the site. He then sold all of that personal information to Classma...
[04:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Proposes the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019” - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:54] <exec> 08└─DuckDuckGo's founder Gabriel Weinberg previously founded the Names Database, whose sole purpose was collecting user data and selling that data for profit. Is it possible Gabriel Weinberg had a revelation and now believes in privacy? Perhaps. But if I were him, I would have shouted this from the roof...
[04:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Proposes the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019” - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:56] <exec> 08└─What about the fact that DuckDuckGo's founder Gabriel Weinberg previously founded the Names Database, whose sole purpose was collecting user data and selling that data for profit? It doesn't prove anything, but it's enough for me to give DDG a wide berth. If nothing else, it supports GP's claim that...
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[05:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Defaults Hit Record in 2018. 2019 Pace Is Triple That - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:24] <exec> 08└─But what happens if you keep loaning out money when the economy is actually shrinking? Well, people can't pay the loans back.
[05:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Defaults Hit Record in 2018. 2019 Pace Is Triple That - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-31/hundreds-more-chinese-companies-just-warned-on-profits-overnight [bloomberg.com]
[05:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:34] <exec> 08└─"The physical part of the lock is always the biggest weak point. Cryptography when done well is mathematically unbreakable within a reasonable time frame. But no physical lock is unpickable or unbypassable." Correct. And any lock which protects real (rather than virtual) property has to be a physica...
[05:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:36] <exec> 08└─The pin and tumbler lock may not provide much security, but it provides the ability to unlock your door with purely mechanical means, independent of electricity and spy services. The real security is provided by the Smith and Wesson behind the door.
[05:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:02] <exec> 08└─the best, most effective method of passing tests? cheat. time tested.
[05:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:29] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, both my parents were born in EU sectors. My mother was Scotland. My father was Germany. And, you know, I love those countries. I respect the leaders of those countries, but in a trade sense, they've really taken advantage of us, and many of those countries are in NATO.
[05:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is those antibody assays aren't that accurate in predicting immunity to future infections. I went in to get a second vaccination, and they told me not only that they didn't think I needed one, having had measles already, but that the test for immunity level was not that reliable. They'd...
[05:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:24] <exec> 08└─Those same tests are used to "confirm" cases of measles. There are tens of thousands of suspected cases every year, and the vast majority are being called "measles like illness due to unknown virus" instead of measles based on those tests. I could also believe that those cases are all measles (which...
[05:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:26] <exec> 08└─And look at this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] People who had measles 10-15 years before the others got mmr (Group 4) still have antibody levels 4x higher. No one who got measles ~1970 had a problem with waning antibodies, but 15% of people who got mmr in 1982 had undetecta...
[05:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pinebook Pro Update: The $199 Linux Laptop is Almost Ready to Go - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:58] <exec> 08└─What does "Linux Ready" means when it comes to Chromebooks? Is it meaning that I can replace ChromeOS with a distro of choice?
[05:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CIA Will Use its New Dark Web Site to Collect Anonymous Tips - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:56] <exec> 08└─Do you know of any other words that follow the pattern: Sing, sang, sung, song? Bring, brang, brung, brong fails. And for some reason my spell checker only recognized the first of that series. When I checked Google it was of the opinion that the past was brought. Well, ok, but that takes it totally...
[05:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CIA Will Use its New Dark Web Site to Collect Anonymous Tips - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:57] <exec> 08└─My guys(& ladies) did Precision Bombing, very successfully, in Raqqa. Check pictures!! dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5005501/Shocking-photos-city-Raqqa.html [dailymail.co.uk]
[05:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The CIA Will Use its New Dark Web Site to Collect Anonymous Tips - 2058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:00] <exec> 08└─"Sing, sang, sung, song?" The last one doesn't actually fit (though I get that it looks like it should.) The form of song doesn't actually reflect a regular inflection like sing/sang/sung. It wore down over time from something like *sangwaz which is a form exactly parallel to singing. Sang+waz being...
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[06:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:23] <exec> 08└─Extract water, sort the rest, no? You can drink water and get your electrolytes too. Can you actually re-use the amine solution? Is there a point where the Amine solution becomes too saturated with something where it can't be used or needs to be fixed up? Either way, that's cool stuff and like all...
[06:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:09] <exec> 08└─The lecturer generally makes notes available. And even when they didn't there was always someone like you with a digital copy i can get later, that are more organized, and searchable and so on. But I find taking notes myself has benefits. I definitely retain better if I take notes. But it was the TA...
[06:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:56] <exec> 08└─PartTimeZombie is from New Zealand. Taking liberties with a sheep has a whole different meaning down there.
[06:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dead May Outnumber the Living on Facebook Within 50 Years - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:53] <exec> 08└─In 50 years all forms of anti-social media are outlawed by our one party system.
[06:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pinebook Pro Update: The $199 Linux Laptop is Almost Ready to Go - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:13] <exec> 08└─You could already do that. "Linux Ready" is referring to booting sandboxed Linux applications within ChromeOS. All of said machines also run Android apps within ChromeOS.
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[07:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:01] <exec> 08└─Researching fluid dynamics of Guinness at a level of detail that deserves an Ig Nobel prize nomination? Doing the Lord's work, they are.
[07:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:09] <exec> 08└─Hypersaline brines—water that contains high concentrations of dissolved salts and whose saline levels are higher than ocean water— […] result from […] inland desalination concentrate […]
[07:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:11] <exec> 08└─But I still want to see the graphene-based desalination.
[07:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:13] <exec> 08└─I do not claim to have expertise in this area, The problem is with the management of hypersaline brines. Many of the current methods are expensive. From TFA: TSSE utilizes a low-polarity solvent with temperature-dependent water solubility for the selective extraction of water over salt from saline f...
[07:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:33] <exec> 08└─I would recommend learning lockpicking
[07:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:01] <exec> 08└─Just do not spill the box holding your program in it.
[07:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:03] <exec> 08└─What is this arcane art you speak of?!
[07:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:36] <exec> 08└─No, this is Mr. Fission.
[07:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:38] <exec> 08└─Let me emphasize something in that quote … The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation's 1988 report estimated the committed dose 1 km away to be 20 µSv/a for older plants or 1 µSv/a for newer plants with improved fly ash capture, but was unable to confirm these nu...
[07:11:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:20] <exec> 08└─Investment into UK’s booming tech sector leapt to a record high of £1.89 billion in 2018...
[07:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:32] <exec> 08└─The term Brexit refers both to the process of leaving the EU, and the final action of actually leaving. The forecast made by many pundits was that, as soon as the UK voted to leave, jobs would suffer (they haven't, they are currently the best employment figures for a decade), the currency would coll...
[07:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:33] <exec> 08└─but in a trade sense, they've really taken advantage of us
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[08:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:08] <exec> 08└─Endlessly recyclable plastic (Javascript required.)
[08:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:15] <exec> 08└─Researching fluid dynamics of Guinness at a level of detail that deserves an Ig Nobel prize nomination?
[08:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:27] <exec> 08└─1. if you have a small amount of hypersaline brine you can put it in a barrel, leave it out in the sun to dry, and after you do this a few times you have a barrel of dry salts that you can bury or dump in a desert somewhere (details may vary on the specific type of salts). 2. if you have a large amo...
[08:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:28] <exec> 08└─Is there a point where the Amine solution becomes too saturated with something where it can't be used or needs to be fixed up?
[08:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Defaults Hit Record in 2018. 2019 Pace Is Triple That - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:39] <exec> 08└─well, there's few countries that started the long game at the same time that the Chinese did...
[08:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:51] <exec> 08└─>And any lock which protects real (rather than virtual) property has to be a physical lock, even if it has a virtual component - it can still be picked or bypassed. No it can't be picked, as there's no keyhole of any kind. It can be bypassed, but that is easier to secure relative to a keyhole. You c...
[08:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:52] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but any lock to a residence that only unlocks via a smartphone just seem bad. Running out of battery would be bad enough, but I've got friends that break theirs rather frequently. It would suck to be locked out of your house because you dropped your phone. Also, that would limit people's choi...
[08:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:54] <exec> 08└─Google lock sport and or locksport. There isn't much cruft on this subject. Picks are cheap, your real expense will be a collection of locks to play with. Buy some CHEAP locks to start. They will be easier and you don't want to start with the hardest lock. You can get there with practice but you don...
[08:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:57] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. If your phone is broken or lost, I'm sure you can ask the smart lock company to let you in. All you need to do is call them on your, er, phone....
[08:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:28] <exec> 08└─The lecturer generally makes slides available. If the lecturer is any good, they'll be talking around the bulletpoints on the screen, rather than just reading them out. It's often that extra stuff (that isn't written onscreen) that you'll be thinking about as you formulate and take notes. But I agre...
[08:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:00] <exec> 08└─"the best employment figures for a decade" are, with high probability, an indicator of an impending recession. The only indicator that's statistically better is the yield curve flattening/inverting. And the yield curve is practically flat now. I notice the property market has started to slump, and w...
[08:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:02] <exec> 08└─I had a similarly cynical reaction. As someone who lives in a poor-ish EU nation, I notice how much the EU invests in us, partially at the UK's expense. So if the EU's now investing more in the UK, doesn't that imply it thinks that the UK's likely to become one of us poorer nations?
[08:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundred Petaflop Machine Learning Supercomputers Now Available on Google Cloud - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:19] <exec> 08└─The surface of a torus is 2D.
[08:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:01] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen in the news over the last couple of years, there is a correlation between the outbreaks and more highly religion-dense population clusters. (And I distinguish not between cults and religions here.) The science is good, the anti-science is bad, positively harmful, and, yet again,...
[08:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Proposes the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019” - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:52] <exec> 08└─He is using 'taxes' in a deceptive way. In the the second bracketed term in the first equation it refers to personal income tax, as this is for an individual only. Disposable income = (wages + universalBasicIncome) - (taxes + costOfLiving + sjwExpensesDuesFees)
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[09:09:15] <exec> 08└─Seems to work just fine. Perhaps there are some bells and whistles missing but I can read the article just fine. Apparently the actual article is at http://dx.doi.org [doi.org] (Nature, paywalled)
[09:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:17] <exec> 08└─This is quite utterly irrelevant to average schmo. We don't have a recycling problem, we have a collection problem. 1. most of the stuff that comes in is contaminated with food and other crap 2. large of the stuff is composed of multiple materials 3. even larger amounts are never collected as recycl...
[09:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:26] <exec> 08└─BTW, when I say "oh my God", I claim ownership of Him (among some other interpretations arguably more fitting), so you should make everybody point out what they really mean when they utter that phrase, or risk being the usual content-with-half-measures atheist. Anyway today I learned that guinness,...
[09:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Defaults Hit Record in 2018. 2019 Pace Is Triple That - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:49] <exec> 08└─There's few countries that play the long game better than the Chinese, you really have to give em that!
[09:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 9521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:04] <exec> 08└─I would recommend learning carpentry because you can drill around anything in a door within seconds. Tumbler locks aren't secure - neither are maglocks, electric strikes, or anything else that you would need to implement to replace them. They're not supposed to be. Like car doors, they only need be...
[09:10:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 974 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:15] <exec> 08└─What worked for me in college was to go to class and pay attention, try to get ahead of the professor's lecture, predict where he was leading. In the boring, obvious classes it just didn't matter if I attended or not, but in the challenging ones I could generally keep up with the lecture presentatio...
[09:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:36] <exec> 08└─And you have mastered studying... 1. put in some effort ahead of time 2. pay attention 3. teach others
[09:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:11] <exec> 08└─I wasn't suggesting that things were all rosy, just that some of the doom and gloom forecasts have proven to be incorrect so far. The ailing car industry and the weak pound are other indications that things are not as good as some of the over-optimistic forecasts were either.
[09:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:13] <exec> 08└─A weak pound will be good for exports, which will benefit them.
[09:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A First - Israel Responds Physically to a Cyber Attack in Real-Time - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:56] <exec> 08└─There is a Red Cross report from just after the war when they were investigating the camps. They estimated that as many as 250,000 people died in the camps including all deaths from disease and malnutrition as well as executions.
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[10:09:16] <exec> 08└─Today, we burn 90 MILLION barrels of oil per day.
[10:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:26] <exec> 08└─BTW, when I say "oh my God", I claim ownership of Him
[10:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Defaults Hit Record in 2018. 2019 Pace Is Triple That - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:50] <exec> 08└─> they are quite opposite of Americans [sarcasm]China, renowned for its historical lack of hubris.[/sarcasm]
[10:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:06] <exec> 08└─What do they expect from living in a place called "Hell's Kitchen" ?
[10:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:39] <exec> 08└─OneNote is very good for notes and team dock. Not a ms fan here. Wiki was good but we keep going back to onenote.
[10:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:41] <exec> 08└─In my day, 20 odd years ago now, if you wanted the notes you had to turn up to the lecture to pick them up. This did not stop some people from turning up just for the notes then leaving. It did improve attendance. Of the I'm Here So May As Well Stay kind.
[10:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:16] <exec> 08└─> unsustainable for short-sighted investors The UK government is finding it hard to bring investors for nuclear new build as well, even with incentives like guaranteed pricing. The problem is that there is just too much risk for the private sector to stomach. https://en.wikipedia.org
[10:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:18] <exec> 08└─A colleague in the nuclear industry noted that, should they spill a (large) tub of coffee into their outflow pipes, it would be reportable to the UK oversight body (NII). This is because coffee is radioactive.
[10:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:20] <exec> 08└─EU budgetary allocations don't work like that. There are money paid into a pool from all nations and then they are allocated to projects. Some nations get more than others. https://www.dw.com [dw.com] As for TFS, that has nothing...
[10:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:21] <exec> 08└─Depends on how weak :)
[10:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:21] <exec> 08└─You mis-understand. I did have all of my vaccinations, I just have no idea where a piece of paper proving it might be, it was decades ago and I was too young to be responsible for the safekeeping of paperwork at the time.
[10:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pinebook Pro Update: The $199 Linux Laptop is Almost Ready to Go - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:00] <exec> 08└─X-ready = you kind of have X through some trick See HD-ready for TV.
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[11:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 1841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:57] <exec> 08└─I expect this trade show doesn't really have any principles, they only sail with the wind. If they think their attendees are a bunch of prudes and misogynists, they will create and enforce rules against porn, sex, abortion-- whatever their attendees want, even as they hypocritically encourage the us...
[11:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:07] <exec> 08└─You are rather poor at this "reading comprehension" thing? Can't even read to the end of the paragraph?
[11:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:09] <exec> 08└─Plastic burns just as well as any oil.
[11:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:11] <exec> 08└─if this tired ad-hominem is the only one you could memorize.
[11:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:21] <exec> 08└─Anyway today I learned that guinness, by featuring added gases, is one degree of separation closer to coca cola than I thought.
[11:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:22] <exec> 08└─Surely you meant "+1 Pedantically...", and no, I don't call you Shirley.
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[11:15:32] <exec> 08└─goat.se
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[12:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:22] <exec> 08└─He was born in the summer of his 27th year Coming home to a place he'd never been before He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again You might say he found a key for every door
[12:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:29] <exec> 08└─When will AMD reach parity with AMD?
[12:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:49] <exec> 08└─Society doesn't have a recycling problem or a collection problem. Society has a consumption problem. It doesn't matter how efficiently we recycle plastic bottles because the energy isn't free. The problem is all of these single use containers like plastic milk jugs that used to be reusable glass.
[12:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:16] <exec> 08└─Promising. [nature.com] And would be a lot more portable :-P
[12:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:47] <exec> 08└─"No it can't be picked, as there's no keyhole of any kind. " Yeah, that's not actually a requirement. As an example, many electronic locks with no keyhole are nonetheless easily pickable using a magnet. If you can manipulate the tumblers (or whatever are passing for them in the design) from the outs...
[12:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:59] <exec> 08└─That is the single biggest problem with current Light Water Reactors, the water needs to be kept cool or under a LOT of pressure to keep it from boiling off.
[12:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:00] <exec> 08└─The death of the nuclear industry in the United States is the shame of the environmental movement.
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[13:09:02] <exec> 08└─"Compared to the 'sinister' LSD, magic mushrooms are tame."
[13:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:03] <exec> 08└─It's just that guy's opinion of what other people believe. But I don't think he's wrong. LSD seems to be perceived as dangerous (although it's not addictive and it's difficult to overdose on, it's commonly believed to cause permanent brain alterations - although there's little real science on the to...
[13:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:05] <exec> 08└─Notice the "freedom" that you are being granted. Not the freedom to actually question things which challenge power, but the freedom to addle your mind by being distracted by a fantasy world.
[13:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:20] <exec> 08└─No, don't you get it yet?! Everybody who doesn't have regular menstruation who does anything remotely technical for a living is a dirty Russian Trumping alt-right misogynerd, and they're all collectively and severally accountable for 53% of white women voting for Trump, Kavanaugh, all those missing...
[13:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:35] <exec> 08└─Ever heard of pyrolysis? I'm not sure if it's just plain ignorance here, but if you are burning properly, you don't get any furans or dioxins. Those are *fuels*. No one is advocating you burn your garbage on a pile. https://phys.org [phys.org] https://ww...
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[13:09:37] <exec> 08└─tired ad-hominem is the only one you could memorize.
[13:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:39] <exec> 08└─It doesn't (does?) matter how efficiently we recycle plastic bottles because the energy isn't free. The problem is all of these single use containers like plastic milk jugs that used to be reusable glass.
[13:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:35] <exec> 08└─picking a digital lock with no keyhole, using a magnet.
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[14:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM's Self-Driving Division Gets a $1.15 Billion Investment, Valued at $19 Billion - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:24] <exec> 08└─but no way I'm commuting into the city for a job, when I live in the south bay. that's a hellish commute. have an office in san fran if you must, fine; but also have one in south bay for those who hate cities. fix that and I'll come work for you. (I currently am in the e-car industry, so my backgrou...
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[14:09:36] <exec> 08└─"Rocky Mountain High," indeed. How often are we gonna see Search & Rescue called out now to save hikers tripping in the Flatirons?
[14:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:11] <exec> 08└─Ever heard of pyrolysis?
[14:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 4470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:12] <exec> 08└─The problem is indeed in the logistics. For instance - when I was a kid, a truck turned up to each house in turn, took away bins of rubbish and landfilled/burned them en-masse. Now - I have three different trucks, they each turn up and take only a particular bin. They inspect the bins and reject tho...
[14:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:14] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with cellulose? I recycle pounds of that a week. OK it takes a plant a long time to rebuild it, but it is a cycle that's been going on for hundreds of millions of years.
[14:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:27] <exec> 08└─What if the AC's name was actually Shirley?
[14:11:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 990 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:02] <exec> 08└─"The physical part of the lock is always the biggest weak point. Cryptography when done well is mathematically unbreakable within a reasonable time frame. But no physical lock is unpickable or unbypassable." Correct. And any lock which protects real (rather than virtual) property has to be a physica...
[14:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:13] <exec> 08└─Youtube has a number of videos on the subject. I've watched several over the years. If you browse around, you'll learn that there is a brand of padlock, and a brand of doorlocks from Europe which are very nearly unpickable. Common Master padlocks and their like? I pick those routinely. Door locks in...
[14:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:15] <exec> 08└─Not all models have the same weakness, no. But the claim that they are as a class immune to being picked simply doesn't stand up. In the case I cited, you can (at considerable expense) have those locks retrofitted with non-ferrous replacement parts to prevent this from working. Rarely done, but that...
[14:12:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 945 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:09] <exec> 08└─Yyyyyyeah, uh, about that... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Coal also contains low levels of uranium, thorium, and other naturally occurring radioactive isotopes which, if released into the environment, may lead to radioacti...
[14:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:29] <exec> 08└─The back of your original birth certificate most likely. That is where mine is anyway.
[14:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:30] <exec> 08└─Well said.
[14:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:32] <exec> 08└─A sci-fi religion. Created by a sci-fi author. Over a bet that he could start a new religion.
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[15:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:16] <exec> 08└─LSD and shrooms are very similar in how they work so the comparison is intresting. Now LSD you can dose more precisely because it's a matter of dilution, but even so the LSD molecule is leagues more powerful than shrooms (as in more than hundreds time more effective). The average dose for an LSD blo...
[15:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:17] <exec> 08└─It's been over 10 years since I last did shrooms. I really want to do them again. Last time I did it, there were a few of us having a fire in a friend's backyard. It was a great night.
[15:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:20] <exec> 08└─Context: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:35] <exec> 08└─It isn't the place of non-people to direct culture, they should sit back and reflect it.
[15:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:23] <exec> 08└─Graphene has been a buzzword for SO LONG that it becoming synonymous with vaporware. I'm in the fingers crossed but not breath holding camp on this one.
[15:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:57] <exec> 08└─No it can't be picked, as there's no keyhole of any kind. It can be bypassed, but that is easier to secure relative to a keyhole.
[15:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:32] <exec> 08└─Or if provided with a PowerPoint ahead of time and having M$ Office with OneNote, I print up the PowerPoint to the OneNote printer which sets up the deck in OneNote. I then can pretty quickly annotate the lecture by either typing or (missing my Wacom-enabled touch screen laptop) using a stylus on th...
[15:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:33] <exec> 08└─When I went to college: * laptops didn't exist * GUIs didn't exist in any meaningful way * if you were really upscale you could have a very bulky desktop with CP/M and 64 K RAM with two floppy drives in your dorm room! * I have no idea what Fortnite is as I write this, but there was Adventure, avail...
[15:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:35] <exec> 08└─When I started in college I also used a keypunch. I don't think the slowness of typing cards is what results in better code. And I didn't type all that slow. I took typing in high school, specifically because I knew that computers had keyboards. What I think resulted in better code was the length of...
[15:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:37] <exec> 08└─In the really slow/obvious classes, I would program a lunar-lander type game on my programmable calculator... it's kind of BASIC and differential equations practical experience, and God knows I wasn't missing anything in the lecture details. Social media, of all forms, is far more tempting and engro...
[15:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:40] <exec> 08└─I found that mastering the material was the best way to do good on tests. It really worked! It may be a little known secret these days. But I practiced. Experimented. Tried out new techniques. I spent every waking free hour in the computer center. On Work-Study program I was moved to working in the...
[15:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:42] <exec> 08└─Back in the late 80's when Apple was a great company, Steve Jobs said that the competition for the Macintosh wasn't the PC or Windows. But was this . . . . . . then he held up a pencil. Today: My Pixelbook has a touch screen, works with a stylus. Can run Android apps and Chrome OS apps. There are a...
[15:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:21] <exec> 08└─Thorium is the way for power generation - unfortunately, the US developed a plutonium infrastructure for all the obvious reasons. As I understand it, building up the thorium infrastructure would be costly, like Gulf War II costly, and meet with opposition from those who would rather get paid to poli...
[15:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Low Investment Honey Pot via SSH Keys - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:30] <exec> 08└─true true.. still worth reading and clicking through to the honeywords project.. about fake passwords you can use to run commands without actually logging in: https://people.csail.mit.edu [mit.edu]
[15:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Low Investment Honey Pot via SSH Keys - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:32] <exec> 08└─'low' is relative to the investment typically required for honeypots, the only way for low investment honeypots to not exist is if all honeypot costs are either average or above average, the only way for this to be true is if all honeypots have effectively the same cost, and this isn't the case, the...
[15:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'ClusterDuck' is IBM's Rubber Duck-Inspired Wifi System for Emergency Relief - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:50] <exec> 08└─Because damn it, they are gonna track every human all the time and to hell with any natural disaster that tries to stop it. Natural disasters are a treasure trove of data about you (and society) and how you respond in time of need. Think of the guy who bought all those generators (in Ohio IIRC) and...
[15:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 4274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:28] <exec> 08└─You're very Politically Biased -- and it shows. Somebody asked, "oh, did Brexit actually happen?" Somebody else -- an obvious Dem -- tweeted back, "no, UK hasn't left." 100% true and something everybody knows. And I said, that's right. I agreed. And said, there's a lot of Fake News on your Site. A l...
[15:14:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:55] <exec> 08└─As much as I believe that vaccines are good, and not getting them is selfish and inconsiderate, I do not believe that the government should have the authority to decide what goes in my body. Establishing that precedent is dangerous.
[15:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:32] <exec> 08└─There are titer tests for many of the vaccines, and if you don't produce an adequate titer you probably needed a booster shot anyway. And, there we go again - if vaccination proof becomes mandatory (outside specialized professions), do we really want to haul out every person who can't find their pap...
[15:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:33] <exec> 08└─They can do that because, as you point out with the phone on-property and 911, the Amish are not "anti-technology". They also wear glasses and in many cases obtain modern medical care when required (all the members contributing to a community fund for such a purpose). The point being that the commun...
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[15:15:35] <exec> 08└─I basically agree. However, instances of the opposite can also be found [wikipedia.org], and more than once [wikipedia.org]. Many more times than once [wikipedia.org]. And of course it extends in the opposite direction [wikipedia.org] as well.
[15:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Dispatches Goats to Eat Brush, Prevent Wildfires - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:58] <exec> 08└─some run-down park in NY
[15:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First - Israel Responds Physically to a Cyber Attack in Real-Time - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:21] <exec> 08└─Also numerous soldier's biographies. And trial records. Someone (who is a prolific shitposter, so perhaps they would know) told me I had been trolled by the above "what Holocaust?" post. Possibly so. Because it is difficult for me to comprehend the level of ignorance that would allow anyone with eve...
[15:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A First - Israel Responds Physically to a Cyber Attack in Real-Time - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:22] <exec> 08└─The 6809 had every flavor of addressing it needed for any pointer register to do its various kinds of addressing with any other register, stack ops excepted (those were available with the S and U registers only as above.) It was a joy to program. Such a shame that it was the end of its line. I alway...
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[16:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:18] <exec> 08└─They should have called it, "MyMeat". Think of the advertising possibilities. I give them credit for not going with "iMeat", which you know someone in marketing suggested, but "Beyond Meat" kind of creeps me out.
[16:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:19] <exec> 08└─I'm interested to see the nutritional information on these things. Living where I do, basically in cattle-land, I have yet to run into a package of non-meat "meat", as it were. I'd sure like to. -- Distance Raptor ——————————————— = Velociraptor Time Raptor
[16:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:21] <exec> 08└─It might not be bad, but it is guaranteed to be inferior to lean, grass fed beef. GOOD meat is very healthy.
[16:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:23] <exec> 08└─"Beyond Meat" implies that meat eating is something you need to move past. I don't, maybe someone else thinks they do. But the name and inherent connotation was probably thought up by a pretentious vegan to appeal to normal vegans that make up the target demographic.
[16:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM's Self-Driving Division Gets a $1.15 Billion Investment, Valued at $19 Billion - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:32] <exec> 08└─San Fran: Of all the shitty places to open an office (literally) !
[16:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM's Self-Driving Division Gets a $1.15 Billion Investment, Valued at $19 Billion - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─Isn't commuting something people did in the 1900s?
[16:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:49] <exec> 08└─Ever tried visiting Yellowstone tripping on acid? Between the fucking bears and Geysers you're going to get screwed... Then there's literally every other sight. Why can't they have some mellow beaches or some shit? Man... It's bike trail this... Ass freezing mountain peak ski resort that... Dude, I...
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:50] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say "evil" so much as "powerful". And just as with cars or fire, powerful things are dangerous when used recklessly (as is commonly the case with drug usage in the partying scene). And actually there's a *lot* or real science about permanent brain alterations. There's nothing obvious for...
[16:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:00] <exec> 08└─When will AMD reach parity with AMD?
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─What they diversify into agriculture.
[16:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the temperature swing involved is. Water has significant heat capacity. The Liquid-gas transition takes a ton of energy but is the traditional way of freeing the water from the salt (old school evaporation pools using sunlight that is otherwise unused).
[16:11:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:23] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but any lock to a residence that only unlocks via a smartphone just seem bad. Running out of battery would be bad enough, but I've got friends that break theirs rather frequently. It would suck to be locked out of your house because you dropped your phone. Also, that would limit people's choi...
[16:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:34] <exec> 08└─Well said and +1. The two other things locks might do are: 1) cause a delay / allow a neighbor to spot the person trying to pick or break the lock, or 2) make noise. A wrecking bar, in most cases, is far faster than trying to defeat a lock - two persons with two bars (and in some cases just a single...
[16:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:35] <exec> 08└─Nitpicking (no I didn't change topics) In the case I cited, you can (at considerable expense) have those locks retrofitted...
[16:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 2103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:37] <exec> 08└─"Naaahhh, the approach is to just sell a higher security higher price model with pre-fitted non-ferrous components. Brass is good enough." Both options are available, both are rare. Not only because of substantially increased cost of purchase, but also TCO. Because when you *need* the locksmith to g...
[16:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:57] <exec> 08└─Heck, don't even bother washing the road, you could probably let your kid play in the salts sandbox-style. A banana is more radioactive. (Well maybe, if it's enriched uranium you're probably going to be getting some chain reaction effects even when heavily diluted with other elements) At least in te...
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:07] <exec> 08└─I was very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the World. In the most beautiful country ever. Trump International, Scotland. I built that one to further U.K. relationship. But they want to turn it into a graveyard for birds -- sullied by these awful windmills. We're fighting that o...
[16:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:08] <exec> 08└─(cont) And by the way, we love the Scottish people. Who, very proudly, voted in Brexit Referendum. Saying, "we want OUT of E.U." They voted overwhelmingly to take back their country. But TOTALLY INCOMPETENT U.K. government (David Cameron& Theresa May) has done nothing but delay, delay, delay!!!
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[17:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:01] <exec> 08└─No more carrying coal to Newcastle?
[17:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:03] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, America has more beautiful Clean Coal than anybody in the entire World. And we'll send it to Newcastle. Or anywhere else. But, not for free. Not for free and I think possibly, they didn't run out of Coal. They ran out of the cheap Coal. And until Brexit happens that's the only kind they...
[17:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:05] <exec> 08└─Soon, they'll have to carry wind to the North Sea, since they will have depleted all the local resource with all those windmills! And the brave men doing the job will get windmill cancer! It's a travesty!
[17:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:07] <exec> 08└─So, how many politicians does it take to make those wind turbines go, anyway? :P
[17:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:18] <exec> 08└─I had a vegan waitress tell me she doesn't eat the Impossible Burger because she heard it tastes too much like meat. I had to try it, and she is right, it really does replicate the texture of a medium burger. I rather liked it. I'm not sure if she found it funny when I ordered it with bacon.
[17:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:20] <exec> 08└─I recognize your assumption, but I don't see any data backing it up. Also, as much of this is off in the future and so there is no data for it, I don't see how your guarantee would be worth anything at all. But feel free to enlighten me. -- PMS jokes aren't funny. Period.
[17:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:22] <exec> 08└─Beyond Bacon. People won't know it's not bacon.
[17:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:24] <exec> 08└─That might depend on how you measure things. Some studies have indicated that heme is a very dangerous component of normal food. Others say we need B vitamins that meat is lacking. And the impossible burger might well be superior to grass-fed beef in both ways. (OTOH, they *did* need to include hem...
[17:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:26] <exec> 08└─Soylent Green contains meat. It's also made from all natural ingredients.
[17:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:28] <exec> 08└─Also, I found this. [impossiblefoods.com] -- Do you ever go out, and while you're out, think "this is exactly why I don't go out"?
[17:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─Whenever someone tells me they are vegan my first thought is "welcome to planet Earth".
[17:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:56] <exec> 08└─You just did. You just did. I mean, you didn't put a Question Mark. But it's what's commonly referred to as questioning. I'll tell you, I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't questioned, and challenged power. I asked, what about Benghazi? What about the acid-washed EMAILS? What about Uranium One (Russ...
[17:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:58] <exec> 08└─Very bad situation and the same thing happened in Paris. Should have used flying water tankers to put it out!!!
[17:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:00] <exec> 08└─It's not at all clear to me that the two do the same thing or act the same way. "Powerful" assumes that you have a decent scale that you are rating both on, and, AFAIK, the only such scale we have is news stories...which isn't a very reliable scale. You could also put caffeine on that scale, and alc...
[17:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:11] <exec> 08└─Considering 90% of end users wouldn't notice the difference, and most of the actual difference is because of useless crap added by Microsoft, since most users are not using OS features past Win98 functionality (yes, the underlying APIs enable features that weren't there, but ), it's a real shame.
[17:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─The political pressure to award this device was immense. A company headed by a woman came out with a device to specifically replace a man.
[17:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:24] <exec> 08└─Did you look at Article? It says they "cut out the hiring" of the beautiful Booth Babes. Too bad. That's too bad, because models & supermodels need to eat (not much). So, they need work. And we all love to look at them, right? Foolish move!!!
[17:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, sex toys for women never existed before. The pressure was because previous awards were given for other sex toys, so the ruling was completely arbitrary.
[17:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:28] <exec> 08└─The summary seems to imply that they haven't changed whatever their position is. Merely that they got embarrassed enough to scuttle for cover. I suspect that other such devices will find that they don't qualify for exhibition on some grounds or other that is difficult to challenge.
[17:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:49] <exec> 08└─The Ralph Nader Enviro Nuts, since the 70s, have been screaming for the ban on Poly Vinyl Chloride. Also known as, PVC. Because, "oh, cancer!" We've been using that one for so long, where is the cancer? But they did the ban in Nassau County. Not the whole county, little town called Glen Cove. Very s...
[17:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:51] <exec> 08└─That's not a bad point, but the wooden comb that I bought feels far inferior to the previous plastic one. I just hope it lasts 5 times as long. There are lots of thing cellulose is good for, and we should be using that more. But it sure isn't good for everything. And as for this latest offering....i...
[17:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:53] <exec> 08└─>What's wrong with cellulose? Water-solubility. Also flexibility, transparency, tensile strength, production complexity, environmental impact... Granted using grasses, hemp, etc as your feedstock instead of wood drastically reduces the environmental impact, but the others are more difficult to addre...
[17:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:55] <exec> 08└─Why ship things in bottles at all? Bring your desired bottle into the store and fill it from their cask. Use any size, shape, and material you want, with no energy wasted producing or shipping single-use consumption-sized containers.
[17:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:08] <exec> 08└─I call her anonymous cowardette, as a matter of principle, then.
[17:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:10] <exec> 08└─> Researching fluid dynamics of Guinness Yup. Some fields of research spend their time worrying about grants and their future. Some researchers just know that the future will be fine ... and smooth ... and just overall pleasant. Think about it before you choose a career, kids!
[17:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03crunchy_one [7884] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:03] <exec> 08└─Consider what happens when the power goes out, or phone service is interrupted.
[17:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:04] <exec> 08└─I often wish that traps (AKA "mantraps") were legal. I'd totally invest in — or just build — something along the lines of a pit of gnashing blades. "No, officer, there is no body. Yes, my roses are doing well — I just composted them, see?" -- I want to grow my own food, but I can't find pizza...
[17:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:07] <exec> 08└─Some people don't even have smartphones. -- The person who invented autocorrect should burn in hello.
[17:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:09] <exec> 08└─Or, what happens if you have a billing dispute with the lock company... because cloud also means extracting "rent" on a service. In addition to the power or phone service going down, what happens if the internet service is out?
[17:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 1363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:49] <exec> 08└─Curious. I suppose reviewing the notes beforehand might make them think they already understand the topic and would be wasting their time attending class. In principle I like AC's idea of having them available in class - but having done some teaching myself I shudder at the thought of the mountains...
[17:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:50] <exec> 08└─>I found that mastering the material was the best way to do good on tests. It really worked! Agreed. Not the easiest way to ace the test, but definitely the best. After all, the point of going to school is to learn things that will (hopefully) be useful later in life. If all you're going to do is ch...
[17:15:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:23] <exec> 08└─Go build your own city far from us if you want to live by your rules.
[17:16:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06States Seek to Cut Off Religious Exemptions for Vaccination - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:08] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that while this is going on Trump is trying to [npr.org] protect health workers who refuse to give care based on religious grounds. Seems like the states are the sane ones.
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[18:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:25] <exec> 08└─Coal fired plants only account for roughly 10% of electical generation. Right now, it's spring - not much heating going on, not much air conditioning going on. Electrical demand is down more than 10% which means they don't need the coal plants right now. This isn't an active measure on their part, i...
[18:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:26] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, everyone's favourite man of the people will reopen the coal mines https://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk]
[18:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:28] <exec> 08└─Well, according to https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk [templar.co.uk] they've fired up the Coal again, currently supplying over 1% of UK demand. Still, 1 week out of 7124 is quite an achievement.
[18:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:30] <exec> 08└─Isn't Britain kind of almost synonymous with the United Kingdom, and England, Scotland, and Wales? That heat of summer probably gets all the way up to 85 degrees F? Or, were we talking about a different Britain? Looks like my estimate of 85 is on the high side: https://www.currentresults.com
[18:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:32] <exec> 08└─You probably won't want your son, Travis, hauling that wind then.
[18:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:35] <exec> 08└─That's probably a bit short-sighted. What you describe is a seasonal effect and would therefore occur every year. But as the fine article states: this has not happened for a long long time. So there are other factors than what you describe at play as well.
[18:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link. That helps, although I would personally find it more enlightening if they had a side-by-side comparison between their product and real meat. Just an idea.
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:54] <exec> 08└─Soylent green, from the actual book (Make Room, Make Room, by Harry Harrison), which is a terrific read, does not contain meat — it's a seaweed product. Hollywood's (per)version of the book is a fabulous example of Hollywood completely ruining a good thing by turning it into meaningless tripe, whi...
[18:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:56] <exec> 08└─So perhaps this, [fatsecret.com] then. -- Kleptomaniacs always take things literally.
[18:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:58] <exec> 08└─I have tried "Turkey Bacon". It is an abomination that should be banned from Earth. It tastes wrong, the texture is wrong, it burns easily. It isn't even healthier than regular bacon, too.
[18:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:00] <exec> 08└─eMeat
[18:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:03] <exec> 08└─"Beyond Meat" implies that meat eating is something you need to move past.
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─It's shocking how bad of a copy turkey bacon is. I can tolerate eating it, but I definitely don't seek it out, and it gives other meat substitutes/swaps a bad name. Ground turkey is actually a decent replacement for ground beef, and its milder flavor could be better in some dishes. But turkey bacon...
[18:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─guaranteed to be inferior to lean, grass fed beef
[18:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:35] <exec> 08└─You've got it mixed up. You aren't being granted the freedom to take or sell a substance. You are (in part) being granted the freedom to not have your head smashed into the pavement and life ruined over merely possessing a substance. Also, many of the people who supported this initiative are less in...
[18:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:36] <exec> 08└─Ok, let's devellop: both are serotoninergic psychedelic hallucinogens. They both work by overstimulating serotonin receptors by bonding to them. This is why it's meaningful to compare them, because they do the same thing you can compare strength by how well and how long they do the thing. Meanwhile...
[18:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 1495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:47] <exec> 08└─AMD is currently pursuing a strategy of desktop/server CPU first, with mobile CPUs (but with GPU cores, so APUs) of the same microarchitecture up to a year later. Intel has basically done the opposite, to the extent of puking out the Intel Core i3-8121U [wikipedia.org], a "10nm" mobile chip, years b...
[18:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:02] <exec> 08└─A person familiar with the discussions says sex gadgets could be included in a health and wellness section next year, but that nothing’s been finalized. There isn’t currently a health section for the CES Innovation Awards.
[18:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:03] <exec> 08└─The shitstorm coverage after pulling it didn't stress that it was a sex toy, so much as a sex toy from a company owned by a woman, and oh how horrible that they are discriminating against a female entrepeneur who puts the power into the hands of women to satisfy themselves. The gender angle sold the...
[18:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:05] <exec> 08└─If they do create a sex toy category (which I doubt), they will have to consider toys that cater to all sexualities so as to be inclusive: normal toys, lesbian toys, gay man toys, etc. Expect toys meant to jam up your ass to warrant manadatory consideration at least.
[18:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:08] <exec> 08└─"health" ... because in 2019, under president PussyGrabber, the US is still too stuck-up to acknowledge we like sex. How's the "Innovation in dismemberment/gore/mutilation" award going ? They should already have that one, since it doesn't involve the wrong organs and bodily fluids.
[18:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:10] <exec> 08└─It could be that too few devices will be submitted to warrant a Sex Toys category, but surely it doesn't make sense to toss it into "Robotics and Drones". Putting it into "Health and Wellness" sounds fine. Wait a second, this is CES. Aren't all these awards rigged anyway?
[18:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:35] <exec> 08└─Oops, I accidentally hit https://sci-hub.tw [sci-hub.tw] and got the same paper. ed2k://|file|10.1038@s41557-019-0249-2.pdf|1822276|61F8174755F9D503CA2B794F38C45ADB|h=2RWO6E57EUM2OCJFLR6YUTNLNSTII7VW|/
[18:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 2571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:36] <exec> 08└─A big part of the problem is that in an effort to encourage people to recycle, we've tried to make it "easy" for them - and in the process destroyed the viability. You can't lump #1, 2, 3, etc. plastics together - it's all but impossible to separate them cost effectively for recycling ( To say nothi...
[18:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:07] <exec> 08└─I couldn't download the paper form the url. Some cookie non-sense. I got it from Sci-Hub instead: https://sci-hub.tw [sci-hub.tw] ed2k://|file|takeshita2007.pdf|965470|E3EAEE626508F0F3D80B462A6D6DCE91|h=3BP7FPQ2GMPJQKJIAQVUC6BVVGQHIRP3|/
[18:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radical Desalination Approach May Disrupt the Water Industry - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:08] <exec> 08└─Outlook for graphene-based desalination membranes Albert Boretti, Sarim Al-Zubaidy, Miroslava Vaclavikova, Mohammed Al-Abri, Stefania Castelletto and Sergey Mikhalovsky. We discuss here next-generation membranes based on graphene for water desalination, based on the results of molecular simulations,...
[18:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:50] <exec> 08└─I've worked in multiple jobs with badge-activated magnetic doors. They work when people use them a few thousand times a day, and if the power is cut long enough to drain the UPS, they'll let people out (long after an alarm lets you check on the door). Anything requiring a smart phone, especially for...
[18:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:34] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine what classes would be like today with cell phones going off, social media, etc. Babies crying? As for work meetings, I don't have it too bad.
[18:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:35] <exec> 08└─That should be the standard way. Students are supposed to read ahead, so if they come to class you should already have read what is to be the topic of the day. That way it is easier to follow what is said and taught and they can also ask suitable questions.
[18:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Investment in British Tech Sector Reaches Record High Despite Brexit - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:28] <exec> 08└─Scotland voted to stay IN the EU.
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[19:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:59] <exec> 08└─How much would one have to spend to play Magic the Gathering at those levels of complexity? Comparatively, is Hearthstone growing in complexity faster? With Blizzard driving it, I can see Wild mode Hearthstone eclipsing most card games in complexity just due to the sheer manpower driving it. Also: i...
[19:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 1567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:01] <exec> 08└─MtG is just crazy expensive. Expect to pay well over $1000 to amass a reasonably competitive collection of cards. And then, expect to pay hundreds more every few months as the game makers churn the collection, removing older cards from play and adding new ones. They certainly were pioneers of "pay...
[19:09:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:10] <exec> 08└─Soon, they'll have to carry wind to the North Sea, since they will have depleted all the local resource with all those windmills! And the brave men doing the job will get windmill cancer! It's a travesty!
[19:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:19] <exec> 08└─And many in rural areas have reverted to wood burners rather than gas for heating in winter due to costs. If it's really cold they'll burn coal.
[19:09:21] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 844 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:21] <exec> 08└─> Nothing has changed except the energy demands went down for a week. It means that the other sources have grown significantly, and all the other sources are better than coal. It also means that coal plants, which are usually base load, can be off without the grid falling apart at tea time. It means...
[19:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:24] <exec> 08└─They used to spin because the world revolved around them. These days, they're powered mostly by Brexit flip-flopping.
[19:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:26] <exec> 08└─The United Kingdom is Great Britain plus Northern Ireland.
[19:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:51] <exec> 08└─FYI, Impossible Foods is a different company, with different products. Impossible Burger is the one with plant-based "heme" that "bleeds": https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.womenshealthmag.com
[19:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─Never watch a movie supposedly based on a book you've read.
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:55] <exec> 08└─lab-grown meat
[19:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:25] <exec> 08└─Shut up and take your soma, AC.
[19:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:26] <exec> 08└─You tripped so hard that Yellowstone went to Colorado.
[19:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:56] <exec> 08└─> oh how horrible that they are discriminating against a female entrepeneur who puts the power into the hands of women to satisfy themselves. Yeah, it is horrible.
[19:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:23] <exec> 08└─Because the energy required to break the polymers into smaller components makes a very low profit commercial application.
[19:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:25] <exec> 08└─tax plastics severely
[19:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:27] <exec> 08└─Almost 8 billion people. They want to live. Living makes garbage. We need solutions, not punting the problem elsewhere.
[19:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win - 2340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:41] <exec> 08└─>The physical part of the lock is always the biggest weak point Only the biggest weak point *of the lock*. And only if the software/electronic component is theoretically sound and flawlessly implemented. Which is difficult even for seasoned computer security experts, much less cut-rate lock, car, et...
[19:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:26] <exec> 08└─force everyone to voluntarily think alike
[19:13:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 685 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─Both, but mostly the former. If gas wasn't cheaper, the US would still be building coal plants. The economics of the giant complex nuclear plants, especially after the lessons from the major accidents, make the ROI unsustainable for short-sighted investors. The ecologists nagging about waste and and...
[19:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:08] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the additional information. personally I consider ~5 atmospheres of pressure to be a lot. With the biggest issue being that the coolant would flash instantly into steam with a volume 1000 times greater than it's liquid phase, hence the large containment buildings that have to built aro...
[19:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:10] <exec> 08└─agreed. Its expensive to build any infrastructure from scratch. However, in areas that does not already have a deeply entrenched U/Pu fuel infrastructure it would be much easy for them to build one based on Thorium.
[19:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:12] <exec> 08└─the reactors you are talking leak at around 70psi.
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[20:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:13] <exec> 08└─To be fair, no one is forcing you to play tournaments for money. Most casual groups don't care about proxies unless it's your entire deck or something you'd literally never have as a new player (Black Lotus, etc.) Plus you never play with the really expensive cards, even in sleeves. You stick those...
[20:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:14] <exec> 08└─Admittedly I wouldn't have thought about it this way, so this is still scientifically interesting and useful to know. However, in retrospect, this is an obvious finding. We have a game system with exponential (or at least high-polynomial) game mechanic interactions; when a new card comes out which s...
[20:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:36] <exec> 08└─Well...you could do it any week... if you are cool with rolling blackouts.
[20:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:37] <exec> 08└─So when they named Brexit, they implicitly excluded Northern Ireland from it? :-)
[20:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─I respect your position because you are not an ass about it. I like to eat plants also and I appreciate that you will let me eat meat with them in peace. You are right on about developments for space travel and having products that have a status/signal attached to them. Seeing how they couldn't ge...
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:09] <exec> 08└─It's a qualifier. You've got Kobe beef out there, and you have pink slime. Lab-grown meat could encompass the whole spectrum, but it is made in a non-traditional way and is already facing intense opposition from the established livestock industry.
[20:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:43] <exec> 08└─"The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration classifies the drug as a Schedule 1 substance, meaning the agency has deemed that it has a high potential for abuse with no accepted medical application." clearly lying pieces of shit. someone should eradicate the DEA.
[20:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:44] <exec> 08└─i want to grow some and take them again too.
[20:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:46] <exec> 08└─Take a little more and you’ll be seeing Yogi bear in Jellystone national park.
[20:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:58] <exec> 08└─true stuff, but that's always the case. always much better stuff a few years out.
[20:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:00] <exec> 08└─i won't buy the pro versions. IIRC, they have the closed source remote access BS.
[20:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:51] <exec> 08└─Bingo. If we all had suitable glass containers we could do exactly that. We would buy new glass containers as needed, but otherwise save up a collection of glass. Either that, or we turn in our containers to the grocery store, they clean them, and then refill them. I saw that in Germany in the 80's....
[20:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:07] <exec> 08└─I guess being that pedantic is one way to keep the Robot Devil at bay. Or maybe he likes that level of pedantry in Robot Hell. Hard to tell, maybe just sit back and enjoy the song [youtube.com].
[20:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:56] <exec> 08└─I was trying for as many oxymorons into as short a phrase as possible. The best way to avoid conflict and encourage diversity is to force everyone to voluntarily think alike. Conflict is created by Diversity. Diversity is when everyone does not think alike. Force and Voluntarily.
[20:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:57] <exec> 08└─Here's another one I've posted here a few times: Religion is the best way to heal a world that is deeply and violently divided by religion.
[20:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:59] <exec> 08└─The point of the notes is that they force you to pay attention to what's going on rather than tricking yourself into thinking that you're understanding things just because you're hearing them.
[20:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Company Says The Future Of Nuclear Energy Is Smaller, Cheaper And Safer - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:45] <exec> 08└─Thallium 233 and its daughter products are very nasty indeed
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[21:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:11] <exec> 08└─The powerful lobbying groups will argue against it, because, well ... aren't loot boxes pretty much how laws are made?
[21:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:12] <exec> 08└─In that you can grind your life away without ever seeing one you like, but dump a few thousand bucks and suddenly you get everything?
[21:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:14] <exec> 08└─s/t
[21:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:16] <exec> 08└─I think the message is that if you bribe make a donation to your politician, then you can make your own laws.
[21:09:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 1567 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:25] <exec> 08└─MtG is just crazy expensive. Expect to pay well over $1000 to amass a reasonably competitive collection of cards. And then, expect to pay hundreds more every few months as the game makers churn the collection, removing older cards from play and adding new ones. They certainly were pioneers of "pay...
[21:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:29] <exec> 08└─It should be possible to play a digital version of the game, or even with counterfeit cards. I know there is a digital version of MTG, but I don't know if they have filled it with microtransactions or grind. But fundamentally, all the rules and card info are known and can be replicated. And they had...
[21:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:31] <exec> 08└─The reactions to proxies are partly because each player that is serious about the game considers his cards to be an investment. I've known players that offloaded their vintage deck (the most expensive format to play competitively) to help make a down payment on a house. Every "serious" player that i...
[21:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:54] <exec> 08└─> Coal plants which are usually a base load Totally not the case. Coal hasn't been a base load generator since the 50's. Even in the US where coal is promoted, energy production from that source only amounts to 14% of the total. Coal fired plants are used to pick up heavy energy demands, not as a pr...
[21:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:56] <exec> 08└─That's true, wind power seems to be picking up a lot of the slack. But as I stated, coal has only been at most 10% of their power generation. Cutting into that margin is not terribly hard and during luls in energy consumption the coal plants can stand down. But even if they were shutdown permenently...
[21:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:58] <exec> 08└─> Britain still relies primarily on fossil fuels. no question, and that's gonna be true for a while. But "not coal" is still better than any coal, especially for people downwind. That's the achievement being touted, after over 130 years of spewing nasty stuff. It's also happening for longer periods....
[21:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:00] <exec> 08└─if you are cool with rolling blackouts.
[21:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 3018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:32] <exec> 08└─I haven't ditched meat. I just had some today. But I am pretty sure that I could go weeks, months, or years without it, and that is what I will shoot for at some point down the road. One way to look at it is: if shit hit the fan and you had to become a subsistence farmer (maybe with some robot assis...
[21:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:33] <exec> 08└─Soylent Green?
[21:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:35] <exec> 08└─My wife likes Beyond Meat sausages. I took advantage of their abbreviation and told her the brown cylindrical objects she was eating were "B.M. sausages".
[21:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:12] <exec> 08└─All right, you've now actually made me excited to watch a sequel to the Yogi Bear movie.
[21:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:27] <exec> 08└─I think there's something to be said about getting a major upgrade within a year. If you bought the last generation of AMD's Bulldozer chips just before the Ryzen desktop chips appeared, you made a bad purchase because you could have waited a few months for that sweet 54% IPC gain and true core doub...
[21:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:28] <exec> 08└─some people like to throw their cash into crap vendors like wintel (tm)
[21:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Expands X, T Series ThinkPad Laptops with AMD CPUs - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:30] <exec> 08└─AMD has fallen behind Intel on the mobile front and it's their fault, not vendors. AMD does the server and desktop chips first, then releases the mobile version 6-12 months later. That's why we're talking about "12nm" second-generation Ryzen Pro Mobile when they are going to release "7nm" desktop CP...
[21:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:50] <exec> 08└─So what are the chances that they'll revoke revoking the revocation? :-)
[21:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:22] <exec> 08└─Still an improvement over the US, but far from ideal. I think a key to solving the problem is included in that article "But companies that produce synthetic materials only accept recycled plastics when they're at the same level as raw oil in terms of price and quality." Easy enough to tilt the balan...
[21:13:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 1149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:47] <exec> 08└─As a student, I always found that in classes where the teacher provided copies of the class notes, I could focus on paying attention and understanding the content rather than taking notes. In the classes where I had to make notes myself, I spent all the time writing and then had to go back and try t...
[21:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Want to Ace your Tests? Take Notes by Hand - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:27] <exec> 08└─Religion is the best way to heal a world that is deeply and violently divided by religion.
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[21:15:13] <exec> 08└─easy for them to build one based on Thorium
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[22:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Engineered Phage Therapy Saves Teen from Superbug - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:56] <exec> 08└─They can't even get their death panels working properly. Unbelievable.
[22:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Engineered Phage Therapy Saves Teen from Superbug - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:57] <exec> 08└─Be a shame to waste expensive therapy otherwise.
[22:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:21] <exec> 08└─I know there are too many dimensions to make a simple "card value" - but... that would be my approach to how to play a "fair" card game: both players get to have up to X points worth of cards in their deck. Having to buy random packs until you get lucky is just as crappy as baseball cards ever were,...
[22:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:22] <exec> 08└─Ha ha sounds like this but for gown-ups https://games.slashdot.org [slashdot.org]
[22:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:24] <exec> 08└─Now that's a business model. 👌
[22:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─No thanks Nicolás!!
[22:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:25] <exec> 08└─Even if you hated the book?
[22:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the carbs would kill it for me right now. I'm working the low carb side of the street right now, sadly. -- I before E except after C disproved by science
[22:10:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Psilocybin Mushroom Decriminalization Narrowly Approved in Denver, Colorado - 448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:51] <exec> 08└─Ever tried visiting Yellowstone tripping on acid? Between the fucking bears and Geysers you're going to get screwed... Then there's literally every other sight. Why can't they have some mellow beaches or some shit? Man... It's bike trail this... Ass freezing mountain peak ski resort that... Dude, I...
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[23:09:06] <exec> 08└─And, many places. Before anyone knew about Penicillin, they did, very successfully, the Phage Therapy. Where they take a virus that's been around for millions or billions of years. And it knocks the germs right out. And now, the Superbugs are going around. You take your Penicillin, you're still very...
[23:09:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:13] <exec> 08└─The powerful lobbying groups will argue against it, because, well ... aren't loot boxes pretty much how laws are made?
[23:09:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:15] <exec> 08└─In that you can grind your life away without ever seeing one you like, but dump a few thousand bucks and suddenly you get everything?
[23:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:19] <exec> 08└─There goes Clash Royale's business model. 😊 -- So you want children: "Daddy, what does Formatting 90% mean?"
[23:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:21] <exec> 08└─Loot boxes don't hurt kids: Devs hurt kids. BURN THE DEVS! Breaking news===== Devs go to local school and throw lootboxes at kids. Little Jimmy threw himself at the Devs to try and save his friends. Jimmy is hailed as a Hero. Loot boxes banned...NOT!
[23:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:24] <exec> 08└─Seriously does the congress not have a clue? Of course not. Loot boxes are no more "gambling" than trading card packs. They operate on the same principle. You'd have a first amendment issue if the government targeted game content (the loot box) rather than economic activity. Simply put, the governme...
[23:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator to Introduce Bill to Ban Loot Boxes - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:26] <exec> 08└─So how about this: Parents prepay all game purchases. There.
[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:41] <exec> 08└─Card value depends on how popular a game is. MtG has remained popular for many years, but that's not a guarantee for all games. The people who said they were investing in cards in Valve's Artefact have lost money on those.
[23:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─Most people go to the MtG 2ndary markets and buy what they want. In most cases that'll be cheaper. You might as well make your points "dollars". And then both players get to spend X dollars :) Although lots of people looking for more fair fights do sealed deck / draft. And in non-tournament environm...
[23:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:44] <exec> 08└─I was at a friends house for a party. The complete and utter effing wanker uni buddy of my mate saw that there were magic the gathering cards in a cupboard. I didn't know how to play. So, this effing wanker, the kind of person who spends their uni years drinking and crippling other people's chances...
[23:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic the Gathering: The World's Most Complex Game - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─There are MUDs out there that have been in operation for 2 to 3 decades
[23:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:14] <exec> 08└─> But "not coal" is still better than any coal Of course, but I think the headline makes it seem more like a major shift away from coal when in fact coal was never a major player in the first place. Sure, it's a step in the right direction but the article really over sensationalizes the whole thing...
[23:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain Goes a Week Without Coal Power for the First Time in 137 Years - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:16] <exec> 08└─Adani they call it. Environmental disaster I call it. Giving coal to India. For nix! They expect water for free. Impact on the barrier reef to be catastrophic. Shame, Australia, shame.
[23:11:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, sex toys for women never existed before. The pressure was because previous awards were given for other sex toys, so the ruling was completely arbitrary.
[23:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:07] <exec> 08└─You're a Trump Hater. And possibly you don't know, I met with the Video Game guys. With Melissa/Parents Television Council. And with the survivors of the horrific Parkland shooting -- in which so many beautiful young lives were senselessly stolen. And we talked about, are these violent video games d...
[23:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CES Unrevokes Award for Innovative Sex Toy - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:09] <exec> 08└─That's OK. That's OK. Because it takes so many kinds to make our incredible World. The Heterosexual. The Homosexual. Bisexual. Pedophile(unfortunately). The animal lovers. And now we have, Robosexual. Did you hear, they have toys for men now. Besides the ones for the asshole. Which for a guy that ha...
[23:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Develop "Endlessly Recyclable" Plastic: Polydiketoenamine (PDK) - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:41] <exec> 08└─It's a burning process. You just add oxygen. Pyrolysis [wikipedia.org] is not burning. Pyrolysis is the thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures in an inert atmosphere --- But in either case, the purpose of burning properly is not to be economically competitive with gas powered pl...
[23:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mystery of Texture of Guinness Beer: Inclination Angle of a Pint Glass Is Key to Solution - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:58] <exec> 08└─But what if Shirley was a guy [wikipedia.org]? (Funny story about him: Povich's first name accounted for his listing in Who's Who of American Women in 1958. He recalled in his autobiography that "Shirley" was a common name for boys where he came from, but many who read his column thought Povich was...
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