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by evgen 3y ago
No one is preventing you from going to a private clinic and paying for the test yourself. The doctor is not 'blocking' the test or preventing you from getting it, they are just not authorising it. Sounds like you have a problem wi
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by evgen 3y ago
As an EC alum I can tell you that in the late 90s there was a lot of work on E to get both transparent remote objects and distributed garbage collection working. In fact, one of the first patents I remember us having approved was Arturo&#x2
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by evgen 3y ago
A good AI that can filter out the ads and product placement from the stream coming from a such a compromised AI is the next step. Let the AI phase of the advertising wars begin!
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by evgen 3y ago
No, but an early wireless midpoint between nascent wifi deployments and really shitty WAP in a world before data over cellular networks was Ricochet Networks. Frequency hopping over the public bands of the era (900MHz mostly I think) it was
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by evgen 3y ago
The humans inside the suits and lander also provided some useful heat. For most spacecraft, once you put humans into them the problem changes from conserving heat to getting rid of it.
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by evgen 3y ago
If you ever see something described as 'low-level nuclear waste' then it is sometimes talking about things like old reactor parts and mostly talking about items like gloves, bunny suits, used dosimeters, etc. Things that have been
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by evgen 3y ago
FWIW, we talked about using things like hashcash to prevent abuse and similar attacks for anonymous remailers back in the early 90s. Talking about it is one thing, actually making the commitment to do it is something else entirely. Given in
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by evgen 3y ago
> No one is using Python like that in the professional world. The most complex you'll see are simple comprehensions. It is possible that blub-Python and "let's code it in Java-flavoured Python" rules your particular s
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by evgen 3y ago
You think that a country that has a strong cultural history of venerating their elders is just going to pivot on a dime and decide to put grandma and grandpa onto an iceflow and cut them loose? Those elderly out in the hinterlands are also
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by evgen 3y ago
1.2 billion _old_ people. While quantity has a quality all its own, in this case the demographics are not what you want to see if you are predicting long-term Chinese growth just based on population.
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by evgen 3y ago
I was never a huge Uber fan but would use them occasionally, especially when I needed to take a trip that did not start or end in zone 1. These days? I ended up nuking the app from my phone because the service had become useless. Back to bl
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by evgen 3y ago
And just like that I have my new favorite put-down for low-effort comments and mediocre posts. Thanks!
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by evgen 3y ago
They are actually only good if the members of that crowd have some sort of empirical experience with the problem they are being asked to solve. Guess the number of coins in a jar? People know coins and have experience packing things in a li
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by evgen 3y ago
One could probably argue that Bittorrent identified a more actionable economic incentive on the part of the swarm participants (wanting access to a very specific piece of media) rather than the more general objective in MojoNation of partic
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by evgen 3y ago
Python on the mac is no bother. Like most Linux distros, you simply ignore the existence of any system python and install what you need yourself. You manage your python versions with pyenv and use virtual envs for everything. Problem solved
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by evgen 3y ago
I would guess the gap between Iceland and the U.K. for the same reason.
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by evgen 3y ago
> Those guys are pioneers, they are doing something almost nobody has done before, like going deep down 4 kilometres under the surface of the ocean. They are rich tourists going down to look at a famous shipwreck, the same as hundreds of
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by evgen 3y ago
And the Chilean miners trapped for a couple of months back in 2010? The fact that all I need to do to remind you of the event is mention 'Chilean miners' should be sufficient evidence to prove an exception to your proposed rule.
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by evgen 3y ago
> It is possible that CIA or some other intelligence agency has infiltrated Mullvad and logs them but that is nothing that will ever be used in a normal court case. Just so everyone is clear on a few facts, it is possible for a TLA or ag
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by evgen 3y ago
> The Sunday Times, one of the oldest, most reliable newspapers in the world, ( cough cough bullshit cough ) The Times is not quite as bad as the Torygraph, but it is a paper that has clearly been run directly to push the political v
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by evgen 3y ago
For non-locals the suspension was assumed to be a given once Johnson received the preliminary report and decided to resign. The length of the suspension suggested is the committee clearly stating that Johnson did not just lie to parliament
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by evgen 3y ago
It appears that the only thing that has declined here is the free money support for the fantasy valuation being claimed by the REIT. There are a lot of reasons that hundreds of billions in commercial real estate loans are going to be writte
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by evgen 3y ago
Given that it is mostly unsubstantiated bullshit it is not surprising that you have not heard of it before. The claims made are tenuous at best. While an undergrad Kaczynski participated in a psych experiment run by someone who worked for t
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by evgen 3y ago
I am expecting a lot of apps to be able to cast a window directly to visionOS devices by the time this thing actually launches or possibly a way to split out spaces into their own screens by the time this launches.
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by evgen 3y ago
A new entrant in the "No wireless? Less space than a Nomad? Lame." race...
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by evgen 3y ago
Rev 1 is going to do ok as developers figure it out, rev 2 is going to completely own the AR/VR space.
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by evgen 3y ago
I have often wondered why none of the other VR/AR companies really keyed in on this. While it it not as sexy as 'immersive video games' I can tell you that I would have been on the AR/VR train a long time ago if they wer
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by evgen 3y ago
All without the Google privacy-suck. Pure win. I know you are trying to be snarky, but I could not name a single feature Chrome has introduced in the past five years that I give a shit about other than various attempts to kill off any priva
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by evgen 3y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again. Easier to build something new than to tack on more cruft to the broken usenet model. At this point usenet has little remaining use other than being a low-profile warez distribution channel.
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by evgen 3y ago
No, not a UK thing. Have had a UK phone number that I know is on a couple of public databases and at worst I get a call every three or four months with the 'we understand you have been involved in a traffic accident' robocall. A q

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