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Ninety-five Percent of Penicillin Allergy Diagnoses Are Wrong: New Test Helps(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by mysterypie 3y ago|1 comments
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by mysterypie 3y ago
Is it really that expensive or impractical to settle the contents of cereal boxes (and potato chip bags) on the assembly line so they aren’t 20-40% air? I assumed that the fill level was something that manufactures co-evolved to — based on
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by mysterypie 3y ago
> retirement in 1986 He retired in 1996.
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by mysterypie 3y ago
Are there any long-term effects on hearing or health caused by listening to white noise while sleeping? Or from the hum of an air conditioner, humidifier, or dehumidifier?
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by mysterypie 3y ago
I never heard of that. Could you talk more about how that works, what's it's officially called, and what the intended use is? Would it literally delete the SMS as you're looking at it? On any kind of cellphone?
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Aggression study: successful self-control can inflict greater retribution(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by mysterypie 3y ago|0 comments
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French Assembly to allow remote police surveillance via phone cameras and mics(engadget.com)
116 points by mysterypie 3y ago|108 comments
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by mysterypie 3y ago
> there is a "private review" portion What can a host do about low ceilings for example? It's something that matters greatly to tall people or people that feel claustrophobic. But this is the kind of thing that practical
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by mysterypie 3y ago
The problem with the Airbnb review system is that very few people are willing to leave a candid review because (1) it seems like bad manners when renting from an individual (as opposed to a large corporation like Hilton), (2) future Airbnb
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by mysterypie 3y ago
When these fake name/number sites first appeared about 5-8 years ago, they didn't have any ads or even outgoing links. (I looked without an ad blocker.) Ads might be the explanation for many of them today , but I don't think
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by mysterypie 3y ago
Does anyone know the purpose served by those reverse phone number search sites that list hundreds of thousands of fake names and fake addresses?
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by mysterypie 3y ago
> I peel the >2yr off and shred it Oh how I wish I had the courage to shred paperwork older than 2 years. Here are a few true examples where I'm glad I didn't shred too early: - lifetime warranty claim on an appliance requ
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by mysterypie 3y ago
I keep hearing that there have been significant breakthroughs in the areas of AI / ML / LLM / Transformer Models between 2012 and present. Can summarize what the breakthroughs were, who was principally responsible, and which
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by mysterypie 4y ago
> we had to store 11 million copies on disc The reason you were allowed to store 11 million copies is because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled[1] in 1984 that you were permitted to make copies of TV shows to watch later on your VCR. And th
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by mysterypie 4y ago
> Intense public scrutiny on Zantac started in 2019, when an online pharmacy found high levels of a likely carcinogen in the drug and its generics. And the linked article says: > Valisure discovered the link of Zantac and its gener
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by mysterypie 4y ago
> One way you might design a CPU is to have the CPU do all of the work for one instruction, then move on to the next instruction, do all of the work for the next instruction, and so on. If a modern CPU did no branch prediction, how muc
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by mysterypie 4y ago
> make hundreds per day, which is definitely not true I'm surprised by that stat, but how do you know it's not true?
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TSA now wants to scan your face at security(washingtonpost.com)
38 points by mysterypie 4y ago|42 comments
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by mysterypie 4y ago
> what percentage of my life is already gone by It's even worse when you consider your perception [1] of how much of your life has gone by. At age 20, you perceive that 50% of your life has gone by. That is, you feel like time pa
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by mysterypie 4y ago
> prior generations emphasized savings and prudence Even though I'm a native English speaker, I discovered right now that I didn't know what prudence meant. I knew the word prude so I naturally assumed that prudence meant
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by mysterypie 4y ago
Let me add back the newline that seems to have been removed: As you are, so I once was As I am, so you will be
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by mysterypie 4y ago
> Since it was likely on autopilot Why do you think that's likely? Because it was a long flight (to wherever it crashed), and pilots tend to use autopilot on long flights? Or is there some other reason? Would the pilot be able to
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by mysterypie 4y ago
In same vein some e-commerce sites and payment processors secretly distrust commercial email services and don't tell you that they've blacklisted your email provider. You go to make a car or flight reservation, enter all kinds o
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by mysterypie 4y ago
> long suspected that google would rank sites with Adsense higher than a website without Google says that they don't do that. I don't believe Google based on personal experience and it's interesting to see that you had s
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by mysterypie 4y ago
The earliest Apple camera that I'm aware of was the external iSight webcam which had both an LED to tell you when it was on and an iris that physically blocked the lens by twisting the camera head: https://images.techhiv
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by mysterypie 4y ago
> Benjamin Franklin was bemoaning the plight of his fellow Philadelphians: “Wood, our common Fewel, which within these 100 Years might be had at every Man’s Door, must now be fetch’d near 100 Miles to some towns, and makes a very consid
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by mysterypie 4y ago
Wow, I like the data format specification you devised. Especially that you insist on "no optional features or extensions" -- something that makes other standards so difficult to rely on. Is there anyone using it? It's always
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by mysterypie 4y ago
Comparing today to the early 1980s makes today's situation look even weirder. Today: - short-term savings account rate is ~1% - long-term mortgage rate is ~6% - the ratio is 1:6 Early 1980s: - short-term savings account rate was ~8% -
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by mysterypie 5y ago
I don't think I'd make that security tradeoff. From best to worst, I'd rank the options is this order: (1) signed open source (2) unsigned open source (3) signed proprietary (4) unsigned proprietary In some cases I might rank
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by mysterypie 5y ago
You can choose between American Megatrends and coreboot. They have a FAQ with the pros and cons[1]. But I have a hard time seeing why anyone would choose the proprietary American Megatrends firmware, especially since the laptop is targeted

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