ColanR

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by ColanR 6y ago
I wonder if Oracle winning would reinvigorate software developement - by which I mean, maybe the resulting fragmentation would leave a lot of room for new ideas to be developed. e.g.: if this court case was decided before Google made Androi
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by ColanR 6y ago
Interesting quote from the abstract: > ...the natural origin theory remains supported by several novel coronaviruses published after the start of the outbreak....Here, however, we use in-depth analyses of the available data and literatur
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SARS-CoV-2 Is an Unrestricted Bioweapon (The 2nd Yan Report) [pdf](zenodo.org)
10 points by ColanR 6y ago|4 comments
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by ColanR 6y ago
Makes me think of my own duckduckgo usage. I wonder if Google is the only search engine being leaned on, or if they're just the only one with any publicity around the shared data.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I thought of addressing that, but figured it would be obvious from the tail end of what I quoted: > There are more than 30 kinds, but only three or four affect people. There aren't enough cold viruses around to allow for a 0.2% frac
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by ColanR 6y ago
Since neither of you cited anything, webmd says parent is right. Looks like you're only off by a factor of 100x. If you're going to call someone out for inconsistencies, might want to get your data right? > Coronavirus. These
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by ColanR 6y ago
Except that per your comment above, we're talking about the broader subject of "commiting crimes", not paying taxes.
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by ColanR 6y ago
There should always be somewhere to go, just in case you're being prosecuted unjustly. Snowden is a great example. Assange is another.
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by ColanR 6y ago
What's even more dystopian is mandated, invasive, mind-altering surgery. As far as 'my body, my choice' goes, there's little difference between that and the forced sterilization China used to mandate.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Use uBlock Origin. No ads at all.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> there's a push on campus to mandate the procedure, to combat "lookism." That sounds incredibly dystopian.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> that they didn't find broadly interconnected networks within the data. That seems to agree with what the parent said. It sounds to me like if a broadly interconnected network was found, that would be a failure on the part of the
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by ColanR 6y ago
> having to tip toe around words and not say what you think doesn't scream free country to me Being from the US, and not being part of the vocal minority that reacts like this, I will agree with you that the last few years have incr
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by ColanR 6y ago
> comments about "polite" Japanese versus "strict" Germans and "angry" Italians are also bigoted As the other commenter mentioned, "bigoted" implies "intolerant". A joke about culture dif
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by ColanR 6y ago
What's the utility of this? Do people track bitcoins as part of their trading schemes? Or is this only something that the IRS & law enforcement would do?
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by ColanR 6y ago
When I read it, the comment sounded like the emphasis was on stereotypes of the culture, not the gender. Maybe you're reading too much into it.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Working fine for me on Win 10 and firefox.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Source?
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by ColanR 6y ago
Which qualifiers make it unsupportive of the point? Given it was already specifically talking about customer reviews, I think it's plenty meaningful.
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by ColanR 6y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2009-10-15/amazon-tu... As I linked elsewhere, Bloomberg seems to think they were the "first successful online retailer to embrace consumer views".
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by ColanR 6y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2009-10-15/amazon-tu... It doesn't say if they were the first, but it looks like they were at least one of the first. Edit: yep, Bloomberg says they were the first
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by ColanR 6y ago
Yeah, it took me a while to track down a cheap bluetooth headset recently. When there's >50-100 reviews, usually someone mentions if the reviews are being bought.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> And yet Amazon has no real interest in solving its counterfeit problem I don't get this Amazon hate. Weren't they the ones who originally came up with the idea for putting purchaser reviews with the product, and the 5-star ra
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Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe Formula(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ColanR 6y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 6y ago
How would you check that? I remember there was a (rumored) suicide at my school while I was there, and it was hushed up really well so that even a lot of students wouldn't have heard about it. Far as I know, there isn't a searchab
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Education Dept Investigating Princeton After President Claims Racism ‘Embedded’(washingtonexaminer.com)
4 points by ColanR 6y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 6y ago
It sounds like you speak for the half of the population that lives near and in metro areas. I think if you were used to the scale of the less-populated areas, where a 'short' drive is 30 minutes, you might realize that what you ho
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by ColanR 6y ago
Given that someone has actually been convicted of attempted murder by voodoo doll (ridiculous as that is), that reddit discussion sounds a bit like wishful thinking. https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2004/dec&#x2
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by ColanR 6y ago
I just wonder where the point of convergence will be - I imagine that even consolidation of linux and Windows will be a local minima, just like Linux as the primary Unix-ish OS (not counting apple stuff) is a local minima. With the increasi
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by ColanR 6y ago
That's how the FBI has caught terrorists in the past. Agents work with the terrorist and build a dud bomb, then arrest them when it fails to go off.

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