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by miles 4y ago
From "Tesla Wireless and the Tunguska Explosion"[0]: "Tesla said his transmitter could produce 100 million volts of pressure and currents up to 1000 amperes, with experimental power levels of billion or tens of billions of wa
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by miles 4y ago
The same link was posted 14 hours ago and garnered 16 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35007071 The dupe detector does not seem to work consistently.
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by miles 4y ago
> Why did it take this long? The story is dated April 27, 2022.
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by miles 4y ago
“The agencies even considered the possibility that extraterrestrials were responsible...” They mastered faster-than-light travel only to come mess with U.S. officials based overseas.
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Popular diets in U.S. show wide variation in carbon footprints and diet quality(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by miles 4y ago|0 comments
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First in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot(welivesecurity.com)
286 points by miles 4y ago|76 comments
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by miles 4y ago
"The US government 'has been...abusing state power to suppress other countries’ companies', Mao Ning said at a daily briefing on Tuesday." This surely must be one of the all-time great comedic pronouncements by any gover
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by miles 4y ago
Reminded of the Japanese native words known as "wago" or "yamato kotoba"[0]: "Wago...are native Japanese words, meaning those words in Japanese that have been inherited from Old Japanese, rather than being borrowed
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Covid-19 pandemic likely came from lab leak in China, says US energy department(scmp.com)
9 points by miles 4y ago|1 comments
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“So @rackspace have screwed up their mail system – again”(twitter.com)
2 points by miles 4y ago|0 comments
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by miles 4y ago
There's no need to try; ChatGPT is often wrong right out of the gate. I asked which movie a quote was from as my first question, which ChatGPT identified precisely. The problem: it was precisely wrong. When I said I just searched the s
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by miles 4y ago
The current headline on both the article and HN submission ("Amazon Takes a 50% Cut of Seller's Revenue") is not accurate; the actual base rate is 8-15% according to the article. If a seller elects to use Fulfillment by Amazo
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Minimum wage ‘ghosts’ keep AI arms race from becoming a nightmare(latimes.com)
66 points by miles 4y ago|76 comments
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by miles 4y ago
Process Monitor ("an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity") may be the closer parallel: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternal
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by miles 4y ago
FSMonitor[0] is similar to the old FileMon[1] but for macOS. In the default tree view, as new data is written, the entries are highlighted and sort of throb, so it's easy to track what's going on. [0] https://fsmonitor.
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by miles 4y ago
Right on - thanks Dan! Oddly, I didn't have any trouble opening the first link in Safari without any sort of bypass. Perhaps I haven't visited BI enough to trigger their paywall. Out of curiosity, do you hit the same wall in anoth
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by miles 4y ago
The link should probably be to the original, cited source[0], since Schneier did not add anything except the word "Interesting" linked to yet another blog post[1] discussing the original source. [0] https://www.business
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by miles 4y ago
FTA: > Masking has widely been seen as one of the best COVID precautions that people can take. Still, it has sparked ceaseless arguments: over mandates, what types of masks we should wear, and even how to wear them. A new review and meta
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by miles 4y ago
The CDC changed the definition of "vaccine", since, unlike previous vaccines, the COVID-19 vaccine did not produce immunity: Yes, the CDC changed its definition of vaccine to be 'more transparent' https://www.
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by miles 4y ago
> Thus the default is to not use them unless there is some reason to believe they are actually useful or you’re conducting research. Yolo it is just a really really bad idea. There actually was such a reason to believe: 2021, The Lanc
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by miles 4y ago
>> Ivermectin beats all these novel drugs > No, it really, really doesn't. Ivermectin: Much Less Than You Needed To Know https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-les...
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by miles 4y ago
> All coins are worth more than their metal content. That does not appear to be the case: Penny Costs 2.1 Cents to Make in 2021, Nickel Costs 8.52 Cents https://www.coinnews.net/2022/01/18/penny-costs-2-1-c
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by miles 4y ago
Cannot see this link and not share Ron's delightful Google TechTalk (though I imagine many if not most here have seen or heard it already): The Graphing Calculator Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl643JFJWig
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I condensed down 30M JPGs to 2.6TB and it takes me 6 days to move them(old.reddit.com)
3 points by miles 4y ago|0 comments
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by miles 4y ago
The money quote: > The trillion-dollar-coin concept first emerged in 2010 before the first big Obama-era debt ceiling fight. A musing in the comments of a popular blog on economics and finance about the viability of minting such a coin t
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The Trillion-Dollar Question: Could a Coin Save the Day?(nytimes.com)
2 points by miles 4y ago|8 comments
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Apple sued for promising privacy, failing at it(theregister.com)
161 points by miles 4y ago|49 comments
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Bell Telephone launched a mobile phone during the 1940s(openculture.com)
251 points by miles 4y ago|100 comments
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by miles 4y ago
I'm surprised that the HN dupe detector isn't catching these submissions; this is at least the sixth within the last few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34474521 https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by miles 4y ago
The original font URLs are dead: http://images.apple.com/v/30-years/a/fonts/mac-icons/mac-ico... http://images.apple.com/v/30-years/a/fonts/mac-icons-simple/

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