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by deftnerd 7y ago
All the comments discussing the moral implications of harming insects are focusing on the wrong part of how useful this information is. As the link says, this research indicates that we can use insects to do basic research on Neuropathic pa
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I mean, I'm not too upset that they're focusing on one DB engine, but their reasons are a bit facetious. > There are lots of great use cases for MySQL, our specific needs just didn't seem to be a good fit. Our use of MySQL
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New tech allows lasers to identify a person from a great distance, even from a drone, using a laser that can analyze a persons heart beat. [1] https://futurism.com/the-byte/laser-identify-distance-heartb... [2] https:
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Additionally, the reporter went out of his way to say that the hackers promised to only target the hotel itself, but then goes on to describe how when it wasn't working, they ended up impersonating the Wifi and doing deauth attacks on
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Someone who knows this information, which is not hard to find, might have ordered isopropyl methylphosphonate and shipped it to facebook in order to set off a false positive. It's easy to order, unregulated, and most machines out there
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Sarin breaks down rapidly in the human body into a metabolite called isopropyl methylphosphonate. IMPA is the first compound for which the laboratories test, and finding it in a blood, urine or tissue specimen has long been considered evide
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Install the PrivacyPass Firefox or Chrome extension. It was developed by Cloudflare, Firefox, and Tor in partnership. It has you answer a ReCAPTCHA and using some crypto magic, generate a bunch of CAPTCHA bypass tokens that can't be tr
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by deftnerd 7y ago
It's dangerous to have wealth/value in prison because it's easy for other prisoners to extort you through threats or acts of violence.
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This is just a rewritten version of the AtlasObscura story from Jan 2018 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-union-pepsi-shi... It's rewritten paragraph-by-paragraph, probably automatically using "re
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For those who want to read the information without having to load TBB, you can use the clearnet URL: https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/2995/ice-payi...
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What if management was fined through increased income taxes in some way? If structured right, it would prevent a 5 million personal fine to a CEO being made up with a 5 million company bonus.
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This isn't what the author was asking about, but a different observation... I find it to be a put-off to ask people to create an account to review pricing and configuration options. You do give a range (free to $50), which is nice, but
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by deftnerd 7y ago
There is a firefox extension you can use to temporarily disable the PiHole blocking on your network with one click so you don't have to visit your PiHole webpage and do it manually. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US&#x2F
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This doesn't quite answer your question, but it's similar enough that you might find it interesting. Cloudflare offers their DNS-over-https service at an onion address. In their documentation, they say: " Protip: if you ever
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I know this is a somewhat controversial statement, but I sometimes feel that Democracy is ruining our chances of survival as a species. Long-term project planning and execution is very difficult when administrations, and their inherent focu
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by deftnerd 7y ago
That's really a weird way of looking at it. Most people won't drive in one direction and turn back and refuse to use a super charger. https://i.imgur.com/leKbJ4k.jpg (Map from April this year) Most super chargers
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This spurred me to think of a neat way to help the community. A site that takes requests for opensource code packages or modules (or refactors or contributions) and lets applicants work on one of those. The hiring company could select what
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I think I remember that same article, or a similar one from around the time frame. It also suggested some radical improvements. Once a car is based on a "skateboard" design, the front window can extend a lot further down allowing
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Backblaze also offers that option. You can mail them up to 8tb on an external HD and have it loaded into their system for $190, up to 256gb on a USB stick for $100. [1] You can also request a "B2 Fireball" [2] from them. It's
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This is spectacular, thank you. It's small enough to just inline into the webpage and provides a nice enough experience to just leave it alone for a very basic page.
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by deftnerd 8y ago
Good question about ratings and cigarette smoking. Some quick googling pulled up this well-researched article [1] last updated a year ago that does indicate that the MPAA is more inclined to give an R rating to movies that show smoking, alt
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by deftnerd 8y ago
The detectors are a big L-shaped pipeline that lasers bounce around in. Doesn't that just measure the X and Y axis of gravitational waves? What about Z-axis? Shouldn't they drill down as far as they can and add another arm?
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by deftnerd 8y ago
The header of the wikipedia article mentions that because the resulting particles are usually unstable, the exotic atoms typically have short lifetimes. If someone has the time to point to the research, the article would be massively improv
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As others pointed out, they're soaked with grease. In fact, the problem is so bad that enough pizza boxes bundled with clean cardboard has spoiled entire ton-sized bundles of cardboard shipped to China. Cardboard is valuable to recycle
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by deftnerd 8y ago
It's a low-comment sub, but I'm a big fan of /r/damninteresting It's described as "The reddit-specific version of the curated links section of DamnInteresting.com. These represent the nifty articles we've
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I will be forever grateful for Hack spurring some huge improvements in PHP from the 5 to the 7 branch when they were pretty compatible with each other. I just don't see a reason to follow them on this journey since they decided not to
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by deftnerd 8y ago
The financing required to buy the land and build a new house is more difficult than buying an existing house. Building a new house typically requires more collateral because the bank is wary of loaning the money and then the project falling
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There is no single "To Do" application that meets the needs of all of the users since everyone thinks differently. Find a niche that the others haven't really addressed yet and build your application in that space. The same a
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It looks very similar to the free and open-source BookStack platform. https://www.bookstackapp.com/
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by deftnerd 8y ago
Confessions of Guilt are an interesting concept and maybe they shouldn't be thrown out by NYS entirely, but signing one when there isn't guilt (especially in advance of the loan) is a horrible practice. Perhaps Confessions of Guil

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