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by Laforet 9y ago
Novamin is technically a desensitising agent by blocking tubules on exposed dentin (boney tissue below enamel). There is some evidence suggesting it may aid remineralisation in combination with fluoride, however it is far from conclusive. A
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Carbonated water typically have a pH around 4, adding lime juice may reduce it slightly further, but not by a huge margin. Acidity of most beverages on its own is usually not problematic as saliva (buffered at 6.5 pH) rapidly restores norma
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To clarify, on MIUI devices one can install Google Play at anu time without having root or system fs access, though the author's concern still stands.
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the option to turn off autoplay is clearly visible on top of your recommended queue
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Indeed, though I am worried that advertisers and platforms will take a long time to find equilibrium again (and minor players may be priced out of the market). When the first ad exodus from YouTube happened, a lot of us thought that it woul
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Something interesting is going on here because I've never had a sourced comment downvoted so quickly without a reply. If someone is panicking then chances are I might be right.
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Have we finally hit the Minski Moment of online advertising predicted[0] several years back? I really doubt that corporations would care much about what is going on with these platforms as long as their ads yield steady returns. However if
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Correct, the engines were going to be retired anyway but they are keen to reuse the titanium grid fins on the boosters which cost a small fortune to make. The core actually had older ablative grid fins made of aluminium so no great loss the
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>As for China, no deficit problem there despite the boom in development. You are giving them too much optimism. The state budget is healthy only because the national government collect a disproportionate amount of tax revenue* and leave
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It's been going since the days of FDR. Whilst I don't claim it will go on forever, the US is in a mich better position to do thos than any other country so it's hard not to.
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Thanks for posting. A very similar operation is happening today in North Korea: Millions of counterfeit USD/CNY/EUR are printed and laundered through NK banks every year[0]. Turns out somebody has already done it before. [0]: http
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Depends on the airline. Most Middle Eastern airlines, for example, own the aircrafts they operate though a small number were indeed leased. A brand new A380 lists for $300 million dollars so not all airlines have the cash to pay for them u
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From what I could gather, pacemakers contain up to 4 curies of Pu-238 which is less than 300mg of pure metal. Enough to poison a few people but nowhere near enough to create WMD considering the effort. Industrial radiation sources, in contr
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It is a lot for embedded and mobile devices, even the ability to address 4GB memory adds to the cost of processor. Right now full history nodes on phones are a pipe dream, and people who run full nodes on raspberry pis are actually degradin
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The CME future trade halts at 20% deviation from reference rate, I am curious what effect it will have on spot prices.
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The SegWit2X non-debate is never really about keeping the blockchain size (i.e. transactional history) in check as that could be reconstructed relatively easily on demand. However the UTXO set (list of all unspent transaction outputs) has t
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This does not apply to bitcoin, however many alt coins have hash rates low enough that 51% attack is possible at any time of the day. Nobody cares as long as the price keep going up and the true degree of security is determined by the ~~cas
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Steam does not hold onto BTC, BitPay collect the user's payment, tells Steam to release the order and writes a USD.cheque to Valve once in a while after taking their cut. The system worked until network congestion and market volatility
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Problem is that the minimum fee for 24hr target could change a lot in an hour or less because some news story happened or simply when enough people noticed a lull in fees and decided to move their fees when it's still cheap. In that ev
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>This is precisely what Lightning aims to solve, and at least anecdotally so far, has done so in the case of LTC. Which LTC wallet support LN in production?
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Market cap defined as price * total supply is a fallacy because it does not account for liquidity. Order books are fairly [0] thin even at the larger exchanges that you only need to buy/sell a few thousand BTCs to have a significant im
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>If someone is able to buy Tether on credit, and the credit is actually backed by BTC then there could be a loop. Indeed, one of the BFX employees accidentally let it out that Tethers are not backed by USD but perceived value of cryptos
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>It's not a loophole and it was a business deal not a treaty. Participation in the Universal Post Union is a political matter. Countries cannot simply back out if they think certain terms are unfair. >The USPS exec thought he was
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In a strict sense, yes. The loopholes has been there for decades but widespread exploitation did not start until around 2008-2010 when sellers in Asia realised that they could send trinkets to US customers for next to nothing and still make
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There has been a wave of minor cryptos in 2012-2013 experimenting alternative economic models such as long tail emission, stable inflation, unlimited issue tied to difficilty, demurrage, etc. Most perished during the last major market crash
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I have a reasonably powerful desktop computer (i7 3770, 12GB ram) and tumblr seems to be the only site capable of consistently crashing firefox and chrome every 30 minutes with only a couple of tabs open. I have no idea how they managed tha
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Adding authentication needs to break compatibility with older versions to be safe, or else an attacker could simply masquerade as an older client and perform an effective downgrade attack. As in what's happening with DNSSEC implementat
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Pieter's background is in algorithms and cryptography, he's not a networking engineer. The other people you mentioned are solid but their involvement in development is fairly peripheral, with only a handful of commits between them
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Can you name anybody with a good background in networking? You can't point to a list of 100 odd names and assert that certain skills must be present.
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None of the bitcoin core developers have much experience in network engineering nor do they recognise the importance of having robust netcode. It is no susprise that they see no urgency to address the vulns. Morever, their obsession with ph

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