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by cryptoz 7y ago
Russia benefits from all its disinformation projects directly each time the US is distracted or wastes time discussing Russia's talking points. That is one direct negative ongoing consequence from the 5G scare propaganda.
902.
by cryptoz 7y ago
This 1-minute clip is usually good for a chuckle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jil0WCh_UoQ Hopefully that's not too off-topic. Maybe not everyone knows peppa pig.
903.
by cryptoz 7y ago
Interesting! I think I found my username there, but yeah, nothing loads :(. It's probably gone forever, unless someone close to it specifically backed it all up. Oh well.
904.
by cryptoz 7y ago
Buzz's effect is still very much alive in production Google code. Gmail specifically bans you from using a label called 'buzz' due to this product bungle. Like 1B+ people plus are loading code today that references Buzz still
905.
by cryptoz 7y ago
Anecdotally, I've spent maybe ~$5,000 at starbucks in my life. I used a gift card for ~$25 of that and I have never given one as a gift. For me, it is the predictable atmosphere, the AC, the WiFi, the coffee itself, the hours of operat
906.
by cryptoz 7y ago
In 1998-1999 or so, starwars.com and Homestead teamed up to make the fan.starwars.com/ wysisyg fan websites. I loved mine and it's been gone for ~20 years, with seemingly no chance at all of an archive. Hardly anyone seems to reme
907.
by cryptoz 7y ago
This sounds like a failure in writing Acceptance Criteria for work completed rather than the devs' fault dealing with edge cases. When you assign work, make sure you are clear in what you want done. Left with ambiguities, many develope
908.
by cryptoz 7y ago
I really, really don't understand. Where did you get this information?? It is false - it is lies. > That person needs ID to be assigned to their polling station to vouch for you. That is absolutely not true. The site says, > The
909.
by cryptoz 7y ago
I don't understand what you're saying at all. From your link, Option 3: > Option 3: If you don't have ID lays it out pretty clearly: > You can still vote if you declare your identity and address in writing and have some
910.
by cryptoz 7y ago
Your post is a logical fallacy - it assumes that other countries have the same history, laws, political structure and modern problems as the US does, which is a verifiably false assumption. Your list is also flat out wrong. Voters in Canada
911.
by cryptoz 7y ago
I think lots of countries will stamp your wrist and check for a stamp before allowing a vote to happen. I could be mistaken, but something akin to this is possible.
912.
by cryptoz 7y ago
I do not agree with your conclusion that your story demonstrates that "Democrats as a whole" don't care, especially given that the events took place before many of the present Democrats were even politically active, elected D
913.
by cryptoz 7y ago
What is a "strong voter ID"? This sounds like voter disenfranchisement or a poll tax, or both (and both are unconstitutional). Voters are not required to have ID, nor should they be. Not everyone has an ID, and many states have sp
914.
by cryptoz 7y ago
> Senator Ron Wyden, a leading Capitol Hill voice on election security, has persistently pushed legislation that would federally mandate paper ballots, among other security measures. The legislation has been blocked by the Republican Sen
915.
by cryptoz 7y ago
We haven't managed such a thing for commerce and finances, though. Elections have far more consequences than money moving, as well, so failures are much worse and less tolerated. In NYC recently I did some ecommerce. I paid for 5 del
916.
by cryptoz 7y ago
It was a quiz game based on information in the Encarta Encyclopedia. You would uncover areas of a castle or something like that, as you gained knowledge and correctly answered questions. This looks like a video of the gameplay: https:&#x2F
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I miss Encarta, but most of all I miss Mindmaze.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
The second sentence of the article links to the paper cited, which shows the international data.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I am curious about the black swan events potentially changing this calculus; i.e. food replicators or tricorder-like medical help, or breakthroughs in life extension biotect, etc. Hans Rosling knows far more than I do about all this, but I&
920.
by cryptoz 7y ago
I have often wondered how history might have been different if the moon were covered in greenery and blue oceans. Since we can see the moon's shapes and craters with our naked eyes, I imagine that we might have seen weather features an
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Well, it's a twist on the trolley problem because there is a background state of coral reefs and beaches dying already. So we're killing the beaches and saving none, presently. I think this is a case where the trolley problem is e
922.
by cryptoz 7y ago
Really, you only need 1 contact - as long as that contact will store your other contacts for you!
923.
by cryptoz 7y ago
> Nobody at the time made it happen so it didn't happen and the same could be said of any improvement. Not in this case. These particular improvements were held back intentionally by megacorporations like Exxon, who spent billions t
924.
by cryptoz 7y ago
You shouldn't have any trouble finding the Play Store page online: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.shakea... . I believe the Play Store shows users any app they're looking for, even
925.
by cryptoz 7y ago
I think battery life is quite simple to solve for, actually. A common method to work through this, especially for earthquakes, is to only capture sensor data when the phone is stationary and plugged in+charging. If the phone is moving or un
926.
by cryptoz 7y ago
No mention of MyShake [1], a California-based effort to use smartphone sensors to detect earthquakes. The potential is incredible but with actually popular apps - presumably like ShakeAlert - not contributing data it seems like an epic lost
927.
by cryptoz 7y ago
Why wasn't that strip of land right by the road converted into a solar strip instead? It looks like that shoulder has almost as much physical area to it and would take a lot less wear and tear. I never understood this idea to begin wit
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I read the article and tried to read the linked study (paywall). But I see no mention of the 'random' part of this outside the introductory paragraph. In order for the headline to be true, wouldn't the study have had do asses
929.
by cryptoz 7y ago
I think about this a lot, and how it happens in the Foundation novels. A whole galaxy-wide civilization with FTL spaceships and everything - but where nobody knows how anything works. The story vaguely resembles The Decline and Fall of the
930.
by cryptoz 7y ago
It's incredible. That would be, from ~250B stars in the milky way to ~62B Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone. Assuming even distribution across the whole universe, that's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars *.25 = 2.5e+20 Ear

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