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Mucormycosis: India records more than 4,300 'black fungus' deaths(bbc.com)
3 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
The problem with rare earths is not that they are really rare [0]. Many of them are pretty common in the earth crust. The real problem is that they only occur in low concentrations, and it takes a lot of energy and environmental damage to h
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Dicamba is a herbicide, something that is supposed to kill some plants[0]. From the article: > In my opinion, dicamba has caused more damage to American agriculture than anything I have witnessed in my lifetime. In many cases chemicals t
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The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth(theguardian.com)
26 points by NotSwift 5y ago|6 comments
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Stories About My Brother(jezebel.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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Penniless: Why a Victoria man has gone two decades without money(capitaldaily.ca)
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Fifty people linked to Mexico’s president among potential targets of NSO clients(theguardian.com)
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by NotSwift 5y ago
I really like articles about obsolete technology. But author of the video was surprised that the calculator was using Reversed Polish Notation(RPN). Hewlett-Packard (HP) produced a whole line of calculators that also used RPN. It is a prett
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Does no one make a distinction between data and information any more? Data are just observed facts. If you have a good and fast random number generator it will generate a lot of data. Information is about patterns in your data that are unli
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Intuit has been scamming low income users into paying for their services that were supposed to be free: https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you... Intuit just decided that it could not make enough
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The Bat-Virus Détente(knowablemagazine.org)
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Study Shows Dogs Don’t Return the Favor After Strangers Feed Them(smithsonianmag.com)
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How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (2016)(smithsonianmag.com)
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Reddit Spotted a UFO from the ISS Live Stream. The Explanation Involves Squid(iflscience.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|1 comments
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Scientists Recover 15,000-Year-Old Human DNA Just from Dirt(iflscience.com)
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A Man Who Had Constant Hiccups for 68 Years Straight(iflscience.com)
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California’s Cliffs Are Collapsing One by One(theatlantic.com)
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Most humans act pretty decently when they encounter other humans in real life. However, this changes rapidly when they are using technology. Many people who are pretty decent otherwise can say horrible things on the phone or email. I have s
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by NotSwift 5y ago
May I politely disagree. A lot of software in financial institutions is written in Java (maybe this is a cultural bias because I happen to live in Western Europe). The fact that some of the HFT software is (or was) written in Haskell is pr
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Telling a difficult story in 2 hours is difficult anyway. The directors made some reasonable choices. The overall level of acting was very good (perhaps this is not surprising when you know that the cast included some very famous British ac
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The problem with the title is that it will suggest to many people that vaccinations are not working. This is not what the author is saying. A large proportion of the Israeli citizens have been vaccinated. Vaccines are not perfect, so there
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by NotSwift 5y ago
This is an extremely misleading summary of the contents of the tweet.
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OK, you are probably not very happy with this article. Could you please point us to a better one?
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by NotSwift 5y ago
The number of cases of persons with diabetes has been increasing over several decades. Diabetes has serious consequences for the patients. There should be a lot more attention for this disease. The number of patients with diabetes has been
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Diabetes (a serious diseases that is still increasing)(who.int)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|1 comments
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Automated facial recognition systems have an extremely bad record when they are presented with faces that have been underrepresented in their training sets. Classifying a black person as a Gorilla is a very serious error. Assuming that all
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by NotSwift 5y ago
This is a post by Matthew Green who is a respected cryptographer about Kasperky's password manager. This is the original post by Bruce Schneier that helped me find it: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/20
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Matthew Green:I’ve never seen so many broken things in one simple piece of code(threadreaderapp.com)
25 points by NotSwift 5y ago|9 comments
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This hack might have put some people into real danger: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57830677 The current Iranian government is not a nice government. But then again the US was also not a very nice governmen
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Being Impersonated by Iranian Hackers Was Stressful but Good for Networking(vice.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|1 comments

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