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by bad_user 7y ago
People get concerned about the toxicity of fish, yet the air they breathe in the polluted city they live it does far more harm than a food can ever do. Not to mention smokers, but the rates of smokers with health concerns about food has bee
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by bad_user 7y ago
> It looks like it is just a repackaged a AdGuard in a way that complies with the GPLv3 license of the original project. If you replace all copyright notices with your own, it's illegal. The GPLv3 license, like most OSS licenses,
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by bad_user 7y ago
I'm not keen on defending the US, but as an European seeing these two countries equated doesn't make sense. The US is a _liberal democracy_ and at least when it comes to Europe, they have been a valuable ally. Saying that the US i
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by bad_user 7y ago
> If you activate WhatsApp on another phone while your first phone is still active and you open both apps it will copy them over, but that wasn’t the point I was making. To my knowledge, that's not true. But even if true, that doe
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by bad_user 7y ago
Are these settings persisted on their server? Does Dropbox know to not sync those files on a new computer, or do you have to set those settings everywhere? If not, if this works like Selective Sync (which is a local setting), then you can e
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by bad_user 7y ago
Recommending Syncthing kind of misses the point for many Dropbox users. I want cloud storage that's hosted on infrastructure that's not mine, because I don't trust myself to keep it redundant and up to date, a perpetual secur
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You can't extrapolate from a single individual. This coronavirus is said to be very similar with SARS from 2002-2003, which had a mortality rate of 11%.
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No, non-organic has more residue of expected pesticides . The often unspoken truth however is that many chemicals aren't tested for. For example copper sulfate, used as organic fungicide. In other words conventional agriculture uses
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by bad_user 7y ago
I'm glad to see someone retry building something similar, but the problem is that OhLife is a service launched 10 years ago [1]. Many of us were not aware of privacy issues then, plus we were naive enough to think that the services we
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by bad_user 7y ago
I don't use a mail server from an ad company. And the company's business model is absolutely irrelevant actually. You still need end to end encryption. > " But then will your diary service work right with it? " Yes, i
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by bad_user 7y ago
The service that Paul Graham mentioned is probably this one: http://ohlife.com Shutdown announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8345881 I used it and loved it. It was cool while it lasted. Unfortunate
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by bad_user 7y ago
You can encrypt those emails with PGP, the best encryption there is. A good email client can also learn to automatically encrypt when you send to a specific email, so you can send to a specific alias (with a plus or subdomain aliasing schem
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by bad_user 7y ago
Infections were a major cause of death, including in infants. Also starvation, violence and the elements. You can argue that those who survived infections, the elements, violence and starvation were in much better shape to survive everythin
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by bad_user 7y ago
Spoken language is also used to spread knowledge from the wise to the young. This is sometimes called culture .
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by bad_user 7y ago
Humans hunted the megafauna to extinction, which is probably why we invented agriculture: https://theconversation.com/how-the-extinction-of-ice-age-ma... Basically as the population grew, hunting and gathering became insuff
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by bad_user 7y ago
Google Drive's clients (Backup and Sync or Drive File Stream) are pieces of shit that barely work.
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by bad_user 7y ago
That may be true. I hope they'll survive because I don't think I can find a good replacement.
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by bad_user 7y ago
Dropbox is much better. Data is important and the difference between a premium service and one that is a complementary is that the later will be full of bugs and will corrupt your data. Dropbox surely had its share of problems but in my exp
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by bad_user 7y ago
We also had "Ded Moroz" in communist Romania, translated to "Moș Gerilă". It was imported due to the soviet occupation after WWII and the subsequent adoption of communism. The word Christmas was censored in 1948. In the
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by bad_user 7y ago
Cohort studies cannot show causation, indeed, but that's not very relevant for what's being claimed. And what they are saying with " finding was independent of other factors " is that they adjusted for demographics and h
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by bad_user 7y ago
I completely agree with this article, however ... > (4) End all forms of hotlinking Any advice on what to do if you want to embed videos? Bandwidth can cost a lot (maybe I'm wrong?) and AFAIK Cloudflare doesn't cache videos.
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by bad_user 7y ago
Wow, you're pretty easily upset. Was Mozilla alive for you before this? Their privacy policy is pretty straightforward: https://nextdns.io/privacy Not saying this is going to be good, but at least I'm going to wit
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by bad_user 7y ago
That justice isn't equally applied doesn't excuse the perpetrator. If you're speeding over the limit and the cops pull you over, you still deserve the fine, simply because that's the law. This doesn't mean that the
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by bad_user 7y ago
Also the core of their main product, IntelliJ IDEA, is open source. And it's actually pretty usable for Java and Scala development for example, which is my interest in it. The Ultimate version comes with bells and whistles, but truth b
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by bad_user 7y ago
I'm a DDG user. Unfortunately it's only a temporary solution. For one maintaining your own web crawler and index is expensive, DDG is outsourcing that to Bing. They use other sources too, but if Bing shuts down their API tomorrow,
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by bad_user 7y ago
The problem is the context of Hacker News, as the meaning of words is often in context. People coming here expect to read stuff involving caching, cryptocurrency and dating and that's what they'll think of first :-)
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by bad_user 7y ago
I'm from Romania and a taxi/Uber ride is somewhere between $2 and $5, which is pretty cheap compared with other countries. I used to ride with Uber and Bolt a lot, however they've been raising pricing during rush hour and I&#
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by bad_user 7y ago
> " The way to solve that isn't to surveil earnings and spending. It is to make a good case for why people should pay taxes " What makes you say that? Has that ever worked? IMO taxpayers should pay their taxes simply becau
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by bad_user 7y ago
It's the same story in many countries ... populist governments increase public deficit via corruption and salary increases in the public sectors in order to secure votes for the next election, then get loans to pay said debt and then e
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This is why we are obese. We eat ultra-processed crap designed for overconsumption. Food cooked at home is made of fresh whole foods, meat and plants, high in protein, potassium and all things good for your health. Whether you prefer high o

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