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by eh_why_not 2y ago
> I wish they’d spin off Firefox and related stuff..., and abandon the rest of their “mission”. I wish the community (I don't have the technical skills myself) would fork Firefox back into a privacy-focused browser; strip out all
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
> In tort. New word for me. A tort is a civil wrong, other than breach of contract, that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act. Tort law can be contrasted wi
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
What's a good way to be an "Archivist" on a low budget these days? Say you have a few TBs of disk space, and you're willing to capture some public datasets (or parts of them) that interest you, and publish them in a frie
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
> All current China CDN customers must complete the transition to our Partners’ solution by June 30, 2026... Can anyone here who works in the field shed some light on why it takes a whole 1.5 years for such a change to take effect? Wha
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
Thanks for clarifying.
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
> It's time we acknowledge that the H1-B visa program creates a similar dynamic....leaving them perpetually at risk and easily controlled. By associating this to the subject of the post, are you implying that the perpetrators of u
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
In the recent past, I've accepted that all titles are not informative anymore. But that there was hope that the subtitles were actually informative (i.e. the subtitle was the real title, and the title was the clickbait). In this articl
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
> The mirror was designed by Bozani with the help of engineer Gianni Ferrari, and cost about €100,000... First reaction: why would a mirror cost this much? > Eight metres wide and five tall, it reflects the sunlight for six hours a
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
> ... will house a mirror the size of four tennis courts... What's with those "football stadium", "tennis court", etc measurement units? Is it assumed that everyone knows how much that is? Are they more underst
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
Looking past Nature magazine's unnecessarily fancy/clickbait title, the original work's [0] title is " Soft cells and the geometry of seashells ". [0] https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article&
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
Can we post clean and direct links to resources here, instead of those obscure links with hidden tracking?
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
Thanks, I think it would be informative if you put this spelling out in the article. People like myself not immersed in health fields won't immediately know what you mean without it.
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
>Undiagnosed sleep apnea affects more than 23.5 million people in the US alone, leading to $150B of wasted medical spend every year. What do they mean by "wasted medical spend" here? (1) Patients incorrectly spending money on
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
No-JS user here. A disturbing trend noticed in the past two months: can't login anymore to some financial/health services sites (bank/insurance/etc) without disabling all of NoScript - no amount of selective enabling of
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
This issue has been a plague in the area of Toys and Games. Good luck finding a good toy that does not *require* an app to run. Every year I have little gremlins asking me to "fix" a toy someone brought them the previous year; the
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PwC tells UK staff it will monitor office attendance using location data(ft.com)
30 points by eh_why_not 2y ago|27 comments
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
Here you go: 1) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664714902446469 2) https://twitter.com/aisolopreneur/status/1830664738495508815 3) https://twitter.com/aisolo
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Sora-like text-to-video model from Chinese startup Minimax, 10 examples(twitter.com)
10 points by eh_why_not 2y ago|2 comments
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Hvaldimir(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by eh_why_not 2y ago|0 comments
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Disney wants wrongful death suit dismissed because widower signed up for Disney+(cnn.com)
8 points by eh_why_not 2y ago|3 comments
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
I was curious how much of this water we lose to space via evaporation. Looking around, apparently not much; only few molecules achieve escape velocity. But can't find a good calculation yet.
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
> employers look out for As in, avoid? Or want?
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
What's dangerous about ham radio?
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
Good point. Which novels would you recommend that had no filler content?
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
Interesting that he's never written a full novel, only short stories. I wonder if that in itself made his works higher quality: no pressure for high word count, and thus economy with words and no filler content.
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
Not an expert on laws/jurisdictions; but data is collected, stored forever, and in some places is (legally) on sale. And laws get changed quickly based on lobbying.
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
I'd expect the number of users from browsers to always be orders of magnitude larger than torrent users.
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
I'm told Anna's Archive forces a javascript Cloudflare human-browser check on the visitor. Given how much data Cloudflare (and other similar giants providing this service) has, this pretty much identifies the person to them. Any p
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
It's buyer manipulation. "Here's this ridiculously priced item; but it's okay you can feel good about throwing this much money away, because we're planting a tree." Instead of segmenting/targeting the hi
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by eh_why_not 2y ago
> We plant a tree for every Author Clock sold.... > Shop: $199.00 USD Funny how products that claim a cause on the side are always 5 times the price they should be.

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