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Amazon admits Alexa is laughing at people and is working on a fix(theverge.com)
153 points by gregcrv 9y ago|43 comments
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by gregcrv 9y ago
http://www.airdemontcuq.fr/ It's already sold in France. "Air de Montcuq" -> air de mon cul ( air from my ass )
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by gregcrv 9y ago
There was no fat to remove from pasta sauce. Maybe they also figured out that sugar was addictive and added it everywhere to sell even more food with sugar?
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No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move(arstechnica.com)
62 points by gregcrv 9y ago|9 comments
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by gregcrv 9y ago
No need for a 23AndMe breach. They can just collect your fallen hair after your interview ;)
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by gregcrv 9y ago
You can't compare European budget airlines with fares way below $50 (Ryanair average fare is 33 euros! [1] to American airlines which you will never find fares below $50 (one-way) even on the shortest flights. [1] http://www
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by gregcrv 9y ago
Some cultures considered the practice of eating animals to be barbaric already more than 2000 years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_vegetarianism
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Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start(nytimes.com)
2 points by gregcrv 9y ago|0 comments
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by gregcrv 9y ago
This is how democracy was orginally designed in ancient Athen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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Abivax’ shares jump on new Phase IIa HIV data(european-biotechnology.com)
1 points by gregcrv 9y ago|0 comments
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by gregcrv 9y ago
And it makes browsing for surprise gifts pretty impossible !
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by gregcrv 10y ago
Some cities already have them and a lot of new projects are being built too. http://www.curbed.com/2016/7/25/12248896/urban-gondolas-cabl... http://www.curbed.com/2016/5/19&#x2F
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Robots, Growth, and Inequality(imf.org)
2 points by gregcrv 10y ago|0 comments
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DNA revelations from Ötze the Iceman’s leather and furs(arstechnica.com)
2 points by gregcrv 10y ago|0 comments
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Climate Change May Already Be Shifting Clouds Toward the Poles(npr.org)
1 points by gregcrv 10y ago|2 comments
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by gregcrv 11y ago
USGS now tracks these kind of quakes: http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/induced-ea...
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2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record(washingtonpost.com)
177 points by gregcrv 11y ago|238 comments
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by gregcrv 11y ago
"That case concerned Percy Schmeiser, who discovered that canola growing on his farm in 1997 was Roundup resistant. He had initially discovered that some canola growing by a roadside along one of his fields was Roundup resistant when h
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by gregcrv 11y ago
But I remember paying for WhatsApp like $1/year, is it free now ?
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Perth engineer invents robotic bricklayer(perthnow.com.au)
66 points by gregcrv 11y ago|42 comments
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Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck(huffingtonpost.com)
5 points by gregcrv 11y ago|0 comments
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What If Everybody Didn't Have to Work to Get Paid?(citylab.com)
5 points by gregcrv 11y ago|4 comments
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by gregcrv 12y ago
Doesn't tastes like milk: it tastes like something labeled "milk" in supermarkets. Not that many people anymore know the taste of a real fresh milk that just came out of an animal. edit: if you never did, go on a farm and try
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by gregcrv 12y ago
I believe cash is also decentralized until you have to much to store and it becomes complicated and risky to keep it under your bed. Keeping your bitcoins inside your computer comes to a cost of security and maintenance with the risk of los
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Sleep disorders put some workers out of sync with traditional schedules(citylab.com)
3 points by gregcrv 12y ago|0 comments
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by gregcrv 12y ago
I am still recovering from a labyrinthitis I had more than a year ago. I was indeed surprised by the lack of research in the ear field and how much doctors don't know what is going on and how to fix it. Happy to read that some start-up
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by gregcrv 12y ago
this. The problem is not gluten. The problem is how wheat, especially in the USA has been selected and/or modified to increase its gluten amount to a level more and more people can't tolerate. The increase of pollution and pestici
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by gregcrv 12y ago
During the industrial revolution, the goal of progress in technology (and machines to be more specific) was always to, one day, have no humans working to survive, but living lives and do whatever they want. Progress in technology is now fue
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by gregcrv 12y ago
I never talked about cosmic radiation but alpha radiations in general.
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by gregcrv 12y ago
agree, this device looks like it can detect any alpha radioactivity regardless of what is emitting it. edit: re-reading I found this "In order to make it more sensitive, I added an electrostatic concentrator to capture one of radon’s a

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