Alex3917

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by Alex3917 4y ago
> We were able to travel for miles in most directions without being barraged by No Trespassing signs - each of them backed up by disproportionate penalties and an ever present risk of life-changing criminal records. That didn't happ
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Now that the evidence seems pretty clear that it reduces your risk of dying from cardiovascular events by ~30%, you should probably just get it every year: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5256393/
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Given that Tesla's can take months to get repaired when they have even relatively minor mechanical issues, who in their right mind would be a used one?
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According to a research report by Adobe, the average office worker spends 5.9 hours per day checking email: https://business.adobe.com/blog/perspectives/if-you-think-em... Whereas the average Google search suppose
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> it is definitely a centerpiece of google's business. THE centerpiece. The average Google user spends ~5min a day on search, and ~6 hours a day on Gmail.
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For those considering switching from Bootstrap to Material or Tailwind or whatever, fwiw PurgeCSS does a really good job slimming down the bootstrap CSS. That, combined with the fact that Angular with standalone components now properly tree
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One of my all-time favorite music videos.
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The reality though is you could plant 100 - 200 fruit trees and make the same amount of money each year as the coffee plantation with 99% less work.
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> I wonder if one could employ a legal strategy to 'taint' as many judges as possible by retaining spouses etc. to get a favorable judge. In practice you'd probably only want to taint the worst ones. In this case the judge
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The longer it's been since anyone has logged in, the more confidence Google will have that it's really you trying to log in. In all likelihood you'll be able to get back in within a couple weeks.
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> You can bootstrap a startup, but not every startup. There are also a lot of products and services that can't be built by venture backed businesses. If you are bootstrapping, there is a big advantage in building something in this c
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Can Dogs Smell Time?(npr.org)
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> I don't remember all this variety and quantity when I was a kid. We have the same thing happening in the United States. A few months ago I was walking with my kids, and some woman passing us was incredulous that they weren't
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> Feels like Amazon could eat Twitter's lunch here Amazon has spent decades building the complete opposite culture of what it takes to successfully run a social network.
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> He could still salvage the situation. That would involve him spending the time to learn how social media works. No doubt he's smart enough, but it seems like he may no longer have the attention span required to learn this.
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> he just put very little thought into his previous belief and changed his mind. The sad thing is he'd probably only need to sit down and read a dozen or so books in order to figure out how to make Twitter actually successful, but y
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> it's entirely possible that natural honey contains some organic chemical that increases metabolism in humans. Not sure about honey, but this is true for figs. Since humans co-evolved with figs and our ancestors have likely been ea
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I was remembering this: https://www.wired.com/2000/02/coffee-is-your-friend/ "A group of international scientists found that coffee filters can remove from 78 to 90 percent of dissolved heavy metals such
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If you're brewing it in a drip coffee maker, the paper filter should filter out the majority of the lead.
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> Google consistently picks the route you'd expect. This definitely isn't my experience. For me, Google consistently picks more dangerous routes even if they offer little to no time savings. The app consistently tries to kill m
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> This is why I refuse to use 2FA. That just makes it even more likely you'll lose access. If you have 2fA, Google will just ask for your 2fa. If you don't have 2fa, Google will pick some random device you signed in on once ten
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> The good thing is that if any country in the world would have the capabilities of lifting that ship it would be Norway. AFAIK most of the manufacturers of Atmospheric Diving Suits, which presumably you would need to raise this, are act
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> driving a Prius used to be that signal but today it has shifted The new 5th generation that just came out looks amazing, so it wouldn't surprise me if Priuses eventually become trendy again.
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> However a $70k car generally has a much better set of class leading accident avoidance & safety features than a $25k car which will generally be minimum legally required for compliance. That’s empirically false. Toyota and Subaru b
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She was one of the chief architects of NCLB, so on that basis you'd expect her to support high stakes testing and VAM. But obviously she's completely changed her opinion since the Bush era, largely based on the academic research t
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> How discredited is VAM actually? Diane Ravitch has an entire book about this. If you read the two chapters about the epistemology of the statistics behind VAM, you can see it's actually pretty similar to Theranos, an idea that can
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> I think the very worst thing you can pin on Gladwell is "broken windows policing" Mainstream political support of VAM in education traces back to Outliers.
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> It's oddly propulsive, it drags you in. Every chapter of every book follows the same formula, but it works and it's fun to read. And while arguably he's kind of a grifter who set back society by a couple of decades, he m
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by Alex3917 4y ago
> for the average person already using unencrypted iCloud backups, it is a considerable step forwards Maybe I'm missing something, but how is having a 6-digit password functionally any different than having no password at all?
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This. It seems like for the average person, if you go from not using cloud backups to using cloud backups with their pin, then this is a huge step backwards for security.

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