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by corty 6y ago
Signal claims to specially protect some of that data, such claims need verification. Storing or not storing that data needs verification, without the trust that they do what they say they are no better than their competition. Trust is earne
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by corty 6y ago
List of phone numbers? Pairs of communication partners? Timing and size of messages? Metadata about transferred media? There is still a lot, sufficient for targeting a drone strike as the usual wisdom goes.
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by corty 6y ago
Simple chan deadlocks, lifelocks or loops will do that for you.
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by corty 6y ago
Why the hell isn't this obvious? Presidents are recruited out of senators. Being a senator often runs in the family. And there are clans providing a lot of the past and current leadership, think Kennedy, Bush, Clinton. Of course there
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by corty 6y ago
Well, there are attempts, especially in France, to pick national champions in different industries and concentrate public funding on them to build up companies that are relevant on the international stage. This has also been tried on a (som
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by corty 6y ago
I'm not quite sure about most other European countries, but German cinema is famously bad. There is the occasional comedy that is at least watchable to pass the time if nothing else is on. But other than that, formulaic, badly acted dr
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by corty 6y ago
Artificial production alone doesn't do the trick. It would have to be low in energy consumption, preferably exothermic. I don't think there is such a reaction with plentifully available material. Otherwise you spend more energy on
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by corty 6y ago
It depends on the area of the law and the field of application. E.g. criminal law and stuff that is meant to cut into civil liberties is very precise and letter-of-the-law style. Any criminal act needs to be defined in the law, you-know-wha
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by corty 6y ago
We do know that "far" mutations are more rare just by simple mathematics. The higher the number of mutated genes, the lower the probability for that mutation.
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by corty 6y ago
Those infections in China were a problem because there was no sufficient partial immunity in the world's population. New mutations will have to overcome that partial immunity (through vaccination or prior infection), or mutate very far
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by corty 6y ago
Well, two shots a year, probably, maybe less. The real reason the EU needs this kind of capacity is that the current EU vaccination campaign is going very poorly. Most of the population will only get vaccinated late in summer and autumn, so
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by corty 6y ago
Problem is, Motorola took its time certifying the keyboard and by the time they were done, hardware components where no longer available, so they had to redesign. Same thing happened again, but they successfully delivered a few prototypes.
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by corty 6y ago
Tested by a citation cartel known to sell their junk science as books and expensive water bottles. https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/deuterium-depleted-w... There are differences in the chemical behaviour of deut
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by corty 6y ago
Cancer comes in variants per cell type times the number of ways this cell can mutate. Each of your organs comprises a number of cell types. And for any given cell type there is often more than one place in which a mutation can cause cancer
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by corty 6y ago
Cheap bulk methods for graphene production will also create other modifications of carbon such as nanotubes. So even if Graphene should be harmless, it might be impure and therefore dangerous.
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, but even with companies, preferrably small ones. The ones who don't have a lawyer on payroll who handles such threats between second coffee and first lunch. Such that paying the demands is cheaper than hiring a lawyer.
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by corty 6y ago
Problem with most sources is, there are always assumptions and caveats: Such as cost-based calculations (maybe or maybe not) including teardown and recycling, storage cost, capital cost, land cost, etc. Others do market-price-based calculat
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by corty 6y ago
Nuclear costs about the same as wind power and is cheaper than solar, all inclusive. Page 71 of https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5... (pdf is huge).
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by corty 6y ago
Finland seems to have gotten the prototype, the same reactor type has been finished in China, twice: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Taishan However, also 50% over budget.
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by corty 6y ago
The IPCC report on climate change mitigation puts nuclear median cost on par with wind power (cheaper than offshore, slightly more expensive than onshore), cheaper than solar, more expensive than hydro. In total, squarely on par with the us
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by corty 6y ago
Linux kernel license enforcement is very lax. Most binary blob drivers probably violate GPL in one way or the other, as do the "GPL-condom" half-open-source "drivers" that do most of their stuff in a userspace blob. When
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by corty 6y ago
The theories I know there are centered on different compositions of skin bacteria. Sweat is decomposed over time by certain bacteria, producing a characteristic "old sweat" smell. People you interact with can transfer some of thei
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by corty 6y ago
How the hell would you generate neutrons from X-rays? The energy is nowhere close to neutron-antineutron pair production. Higher energy gamma rays can do that, but you need a really big accellerator to produce them. Splitting nuclei by gamm
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by corty 6y ago
And then that modern yellow pages will be flooded by tons of "AAAAron's totally serious business" selling you bridges and non-counterfeight merchandise. This has never worked.
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by corty 6y ago
There is a tiny 'sold by X and shipped by Y' somewhere on the right in small print. I'm not sure that that's sufficient, but it is there. What is really lacking is a filter to get rid of all results not sold by amazon.
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by corty 6y ago
I'm not so sure there. RedHat is what you pick to check a box somewhere that says "OS supported with this software/hardware/whatever". There isn't really a technical argument to pay for RedHat over CentOS, beyo
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by corty 6y ago
Unsurprising, really. I wonder if they can ever pull a SuSE and get out of IBM again, just as SuSE got out of Novell.
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by corty 6y ago
Also, the sherrifs are elected by the Common Hall. The Common Hall consists of the senior members of the Livery Companies which are the guilds and trade associations. So the police is exclusively elected by the businesses.
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by corty 6y ago
CoL is far weirder. First, it is not the same as "London", it is just the central part of London. CoL has a different election system from all other parts of England, corporations get a vote (actually, several, how many depends on
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by corty 6y ago
The City of London is an age-old construct by the financial and aristocratic elite to further their interests and evade a few taxes and regulations. The CoL police is more like the financial police, and therefore primarily enforces business

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