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by modzu 7y ago
Freeman Dyson
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Destroying asteroids shown to be more difficult than expected(physicsforums.com)
1 points by modzu 7y ago|0 comments
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by modzu 7y ago
there has been plenty of genuine scepticism from within the scientific community (as there should be). what has happened is that it has become politicized such that the science is suffering for fear of being labeled a heretic. much of the r
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by modzu 7y ago
reviews for that look harsh. its limited to 5 sites?? another alternative is (shameless plug) this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/night-light-m... its open source :)
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by modzu 7y ago
a lightweight alternative to dark reader is this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/night-light-m... YMMV
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by modzu 7y ago
well what everyone seems to be missing here is this: we don't have a choice. the alternatives are not better. so apple has no incentive to make its products better, in fact there is incentive to make them worse in order to cut costs an
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by modzu 7y ago
what happened to the delorean motor company?
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How to classify all possible phases of matter(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by modzu 7y ago|0 comments
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by modzu 7y ago
"While roadkill cuisine may not yet be mainstream" (like it will be someday) "stereotyped hillbilly eating roadkill has been replaced by an environmentally and food conscientious middle-class urbanite" lol am i reading t
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by modzu 7y ago
before yall get too ahead of yourselves: "The current version of the hearing aid, which involved direct implants into the brain, would be unsuitable for mainstream use"
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by modzu 7y ago
what kind of keyboard is that?
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by modzu 7y ago
what is your relationship to the police that you expect to know whether they are using facial recognition or not? here in Canada they certainly are
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by modzu 7y ago
if you don't have the money, how do you have the time?
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by modzu 7y ago
kde: still a cartoon edit: i mean this as the conscious aesthetic , no disrespect is implied
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by modzu 7y ago
would be interesting to see what the counterfit measures are. could a kid with photoshop buy beer with their phone? or would there have to be some kind of corresponding tech on the POS to verify the ID? that sounds peachy.
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by modzu 7y ago
are you claiming Volkswagen is in the ev game because of california?
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by modzu 7y ago
well those mandates aren't doing much: https://i2i.org/california-ev-mandates-fail/ i agree the comptetion between established players is required and hopefully leads to solutions to the main problem keeping many
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by modzu 7y ago
i've always assumed paypal was software and hence why they were so profitable -- those decisions, appeal processes, everything is all automated. you're sending emails complaining to... the email server. actually thats a growing bu
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William Friedkin's Favorite Films of All Time [2013](youtube.com)
1 points by modzu 7y ago|0 comments
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by modzu 7y ago
Ugh. "Private browsing detected. In order to continue browsing The Gazette in private mode please login". > Inspect element: delete
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by modzu 7y ago
science isn't easy. if we could just trust our intuitions there would be no point. your sentiment reminds me of the surgeon mentality before germs were discovered. "ive been operating on people for years and saving their lives --
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by modzu 7y ago
see that's what i mean; "encrypted search" is on the list, which is referencing this: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/7631341?hl=en and does not have anything more to do with "anony
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by modzu 7y ago
that site is a bit disingenuous -- it doesn't distinguish between projects that were merely upgraded/renamed/deprecated for good reason for example, "secure google search" was "killed" but all this means i
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Detecting Lies in the Brain(theness.com)
2 points by modzu 7y ago|1 comments
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by modzu 7y ago
its interesting how long its taking for MS to do command-line well and linux to do the gui well. after decades you would think each could be considered a solved problem, at least given that they are solved by their respective OSes, yet ther
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by modzu 7y ago
oh yes my bad, thanks. i was thinking extensions (maybe thanks to all the ff news!). wrt fingerpritning plugins, it seems to be the least of the issues and hopefully not an issue for long :)
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by modzu 7y ago
thats like saying programs should go away if its not implementable by the OS. its just a different layer. browser plugins are tremendously useful edit: also your comment seems to imply that plugins are used for websites trying to do somethi
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by modzu 7y ago
what? this is like asking, do elephants go to heaven? isn't the proper question, phrased scientifically (albiet a nascent science), whether elephants have consciousness? EDIT: skimming the article i see it's quite literary so i th
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by modzu 7y ago
see also how Runa Sandvik got a copy of all her photos from the DHS: https://medium.com/matter/how-i-requested-my-photographs-fro...
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by modzu 7y ago
accommodating a disability is different than a vow, though, right? it just strikes me as interesting.

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