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by 13of40 7y ago
I went fishing today and had to drive some very sketchy, not-on-google-maps dirt roads to get to the first spot I tried. What happens to that sort of thing once we're all living in walkable condos and depending on driverless Uber for
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by 13of40 7y ago
Did the rate of marijuana use meaningfully change, though? It's been abundantly available on the west coast for decades. The only thing that changed is who you buy it from, and to a certain degree who you have to hide it from.
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by 13of40 7y ago
> can we find a way to reward the farmers who genetically engineered this plant by selecting for the strongest individuals for the last several thousands years? In a very concrete sense we cannot, because the people who did it are dead.
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by 13of40 7y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're not the typical user. Besides, in your case it would be a matter of selecting "hide from everyone" in the drop-down.
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by 13of40 7y ago
Hypothetical examples: I don't want the New York Times to ID me, but I don't care if my wife knows I read it. I don't want red tube to forget about my all access pass, but I don't want it in my browser history.
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by 13of40 7y ago
I think there are two use cases for incognito mode: 1. I don't want others who have access to my client machine to be able to see a history of what I did online. 2. I don't want servers to be able to know anything about me except
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by 13of40 7y ago
Just getting the information to forge half the bill is hard enough: Either you have the original, in which case you don't need to fake it, or you have the other half, in which case you've already compromised the bad guy.
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by 13of40 7y ago
That explains why I waited a minute for it to display anything over 2g before I gave up...
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by 13of40 7y ago
When I was a pre-teen/teen, I grew up in a pretty nerdy family with a scientist dad, a brother who eventually became a linguist, and stacks of Byte Magazine, Omni, Particle Physics Digest, etc. as far as the eye could see. I couldn&#x
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by 13of40 7y ago
There's a similar problem with AV automatically unsubscribing all of your customers from their spam (and newsletters) the first time you start scanning emails for malicious links. It's a little less than completely solvable, in f
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by 13of40 7y ago
I don't know if this is apocryphal or not, but several years ago I read that the original was a little bigger than pocket sized, so Sony had shirts with slightly bigger pockets made to demo it.
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by 13of40 7y ago
A better analogy: Barnes and Noble sets up a reading room down the street where you can pay a discounted amount to read books rather than buy them. One day you stop by and the place is boarded up, but the guy outside apologizes and explain
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by 13of40 7y ago
Off topic, but it's an interesting read how they originally acquired the land for Heathrow.
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by 13of40 7y ago
A little bit of googling shows the ROM is available. Might be a good weekend project to bust out your disassembler and find out...
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by 13of40 7y ago
Not tofu. It's beans.
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by 13of40 7y ago
So if one of these discs was dug up by a civilization with the level of technology we had in, say, the 70's, would they be able to tell what it was, much less make something to read it?
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by 13of40 7y ago
I love how it's published by Wiley and Sons. It reminds me of that episode of Different Strokes where someone asks the old rich patriarch how he got his wealth, and he says [paraphrased], "You know all that oil they got in the Mi
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by 13of40 7y ago
"The problem for a user is that after the system is shut down, anyone who has physical access to the PC..." This is what bitlocker is for, isn't it?
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by 13of40 7y ago
I just got back from my first real trip to the UK, and while I was there (in the Cotswolds and south) I saw a handful of the red-cross-on-white English flags at various places. It wasn't clear, and I'd be curious to know, if that
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by 13of40 7y ago
I backed my rental car into a tree and scratched the bumper on the vacation end of a business trip to Israel a couple of years ago. When I was at the rental agency working out how much I owed them, the lady handed me a paper to sign, compl
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by 13of40 7y ago
I think it's funny that some of the crazy new features we're seeing in bikes, like bamboo/wood hardware and direct gear drives, are already covered in this book.
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by 13of40 7y ago
I don't know if they still have it, but there used to be a similar question about communism, and all you had to say was "yes, but everyone had to".
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by 13of40 7y ago
By "overblown", I mean it probably happened to someone, but they're an outlier who's getting more press than the thousand other people who stopped and had nothing bad happen.
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by 13of40 7y ago
I'm absolutely not suggesting anyone should do this without their doctor's approval, but: When I was in my 20's I tried various SSRIs - at least three, possibly four different ones - and my pattern was always the same, which
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by 13of40 7y ago
This article is possibly where the poster above me read the 54% FP statistic, and its point is not about resolution but that the different wavelength of energy used will show things like sweat as surface, and combined with the automated det
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by 13of40 7y ago
Back when they originally came out, I'm sure you'll recall that the operator was basically looking at a high resolution nude image of the person being scanned. The false positives came when people protested and they changed the d
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by 13of40 7y ago
Not only that, but the senior technical role they hire for, Lead Software Engineer, maxes out at £56,984. I know a handful of people who've gone from GCHQ to my company, and they seem satisfied with forgoing the government pension in
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by 13of40 7y ago
"Virtually all of the world's data transmissions go through cables on the bottom of the oceans." I'd be mildly surprised if me posting this comment went through a cable at the bottom of the ocean, but who knows?
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by 13of40 7y ago
I think the point is it grew up eating weeds and bugs instead of corn meal byproduct. Maybe not better for the chicken spiritually, but a better choice for us to eat, nutritionally.
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by 13of40 7y ago
I've noticed the same thing with tomatoes and apricots. I've got a good friend whose family have an apricot farm in the Kurdish part of Turkey, and their apricots are amazing, but the same variety grown in Western Washington tast

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