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by makomk 5y ago
Once upon a time that may have been true, but even the better smartphones use phase detection for their autofocus these days.
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by makomk 5y ago
What's new is that (amongst other things) evidence has come to light proving that they were literally owned by the CIA for most of their operational lifetime
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by makomk 5y ago
When Hamas shoots missiles at Israel, Israelis have bunkers to hide in. When the Israeli military bombs the Gaza Strip, there are no bunkers for the people there to hide in - Israel has made sure of that by blocking imports of concrete and
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by makomk 5y ago
The attacks they want to carry out are inherently loud. They're attacking visits to well-known websites at scale in ways that require changing the response returned when visiting those websites in a way that's trivial to detect (t
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by makomk 5y ago
South Korea has been demonstrating the limits of contact tracing for a while - "looking for one’s lost keys under the glow of a streetlight" is about right - but you wouldn't get that impression from the coverage in western m
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by makomk 5y ago
This kind of gets at the problem: "the 1998 ad doesn't have 32" TVs and the modern website doesn't have 27" TVs in stock". We're not talking about everyone being able to afford a better TV than before; ins
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by makomk 5y ago
The instances of outdoor infection that have been documented aren't just random strangers passing each other on the street or sitting near each other - as I recall they involved people who knew each other, which obviously makes contact
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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble is that the reality is probably closer to it simply not being financially worthwhile for manufacturers to offer the lower-end variants anymore - in the case of cars, partly because they're legally required to include these
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by makomk 5y ago
They probably can't actually know the answer any better than that. Think for a moment about this statement from the article: "There is not a single documented Covid infection anywhere in the world from casual outdoor interactions,
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by makomk 5y ago
Oh yeah, choosing what to fact-check is a really powerful tool. For example, I remember a Snopes fact check going hugely viral a while back as proof that the reason people believed that antifa is violent was because of right-wing lies. The
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by makomk 5y ago
Hopefully the Tor operators have improved their process for handling this since a few years ago when the e-mail address for contacting them about malicious exit nodes went to someone whose email provider bounced any emails containing the na
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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, this looks way more compliant than any package I've ever received from China. Most of those don't even have the appropriate HS tariff numbers on at all...
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by makomk 5y ago
Not sure it'll do much about news videos - Google seems to force the same presumably hand-picked selection of news videos onto everyone's front page, generally covering the kind of political topics tech workers think everyone shou
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by makomk 5y ago
I'm not sure how easy it'd be to link Covid infections to the Mexican border - they were having serious trouble even reporting accurate Covid death numbers, never mind anything more useful: https://news.sky.com/sto
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by makomk 5y ago
If California did underreport Covid-related deaths compared to Florida, that in itself would be interesting because endless column inches were spent on claims that Florida was underreporting its Covid deaths as part of a cover-up by its evi
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by makomk 5y ago
> This is probably the most convincing argument: if they actually had worked on viruses similar enough to plausible be modified into SARS-CoV-2, this would have left evidence in scientific papers etc. If I remember correctly, wasn't
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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, normally companies carry out a stock split way before the price reaches this level because having such a high price makes trading and holding their shares a bit of a pain. Berkshire Hathaway is just unusual in that Warren Buffett con
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by makomk 5y ago
Depends on your definition of "radioactive waste". From the figures I've seen, coal fly ash is pretty similar to say granite in terms of overall activity and isotopic composition. It doesn't seem to enhance the concentra
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by makomk 5y ago
As I understand it, the big problem isn't so much chemical as physical - they need to encapsulate the mRNA evenly within lipid particles of a reasonably uniform size, and there's some pretty advanced microfluidic technology involv
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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, and if Trump was still in power I have zero doubt the media would call him out on what a cynical stunt this is - but Biden is in charge now, and that makes a huge difference to how they report on everything.
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by makomk 5y ago
Even UK housebuilders seem to be putting up a lot more timber framed houses than they traditionally used to, just often with an imitation brick facade.
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by makomk 5y ago
So. It turns out that the EU propaganda may have been just as misleading about US vaccine exports as everything else - although no finished vaccines came from the US, apparently a good chunk of the raw drug substance which AstraZeneca packa
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by makomk 5y ago
As far as I can tell, we actually have no way of knowing that the NY variant doesn't spread more easily than other variants. There just isn't the data to disentangle whether that variant became more widespread because everyone d
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by makomk 5y ago
Most reasonably large developed countries probably have the capacity if they care enough - for example, I don't think the UK was particularly well-equipped to do local vaccine manufacturing, most of the pharmaceutical industry here bug
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by makomk 6y ago
Yeah, it's clear that Singapore's ruling party has worked hard to ensure that no-one can call them corrupt, or even publicise any information that would give the appearance of corruption.
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by makomk 6y ago
The American media certainly spun it as an act of deliberate sabotage, but that has nothing to do with whether it actually was - they spun almost everything done by the Trump administration as one regardless of the actual evidence (plus a f
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by makomk 6y ago
Manually sorting letters isn't actually the alternative here - what the US Postal Service was moving towards under DeJoy (and probably before him too) was sorting the same letters using the same kind of automatic machines, but a smalle
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by makomk 6y ago
More specifically, letter volume has been going down and parcel volume has been going up. Basically, there's been a huge shift in what the US Postal Service actually does, and their ability to cope with it has not been helped by - for
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by makomk 6y ago
The demand side of the economy doesn't seem to be the problem right now. There's enough demand that there's shortages and price increases for almost everything at this point.
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by makomk 6y ago
The flu vaccine isn't hugely effective at the best of times, and with flu disappearing worldwide and global travel locked down I don't see how they'll even be able to figure out what strains to target for the next one.

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