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by pax 5y ago
What about, instead of plainly denying service, the pages would be spoofed , with slight alterations – showing some bits of reality / counter propaganda? might that have any merit? not to everybody at once, ideally to selected audienc
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People vaccinated against Covid less likely to die from any cause, study finds(cnn.com)
12 points by pax 5y ago|10 comments
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by pax 5y ago
looks inviting! I was looking for a description of the concepts / chapters covered – I'd suggest having a prominent link to https://futurecoder.io/course/#toc on the front page. I'd also add the 'no
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by pax 5y ago
ugh, that upbeat music choice for the presentation video made me slightly sick. Had a similar reaction once before, after randomly walking in a military exhibition. While I understand the need for defence capabilities, and I can be impress
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by pax 5y ago
In this aspect, Pownce[1] had 'channels' and later on Google+ had 'circles', so one could subscribe to a subset of one's interests. Pownce came along one year after Twitter and was quickly abandoned. Meanwhile, some
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by pax 5y ago
If just enough celebs could be convinced to adopt & evangelize a new platform. The last time I remember being excited about a new social platform was Quora. I was quite amazed by the quality of answers in the early days. I wonder how th
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by pax 6y ago
This. The gReader feed was manually curated & annotated by sources we trusted and their friends. Less ramblings, no pushy algorithm suggestions. The UI was snappy but it was essentially about the community. After Google Reader got plug
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by pax 6y ago
with the downside of them being different services, thus you can't have the same account (saved places / routes) on both the web version and the mobile app. Am I wrong?
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by pax 6y ago
this might be a hint: https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/QyEBOaV6/status-of-our-...
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by pax 6y ago
whoa, detail from: 'Many cardiac procedures are based on a 1929 experiment by a German doctor who inserted a catheter into his own heart' > In 1929 the physician Werner Forssmann saw a picture in a book showing how a tube was i
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by pax 6y ago
€5? Could you provide a link? there was a bit of scandal here in Romania with a picture of a €19 covid test from Germany, which made the rounds, shared even by some politicians – which later proved to be fake. Tests being €70-90
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by pax 6y ago
My 2c of insight: I found Svelte's docs & examples greatly sweetened the on-boarding. While I presume writing specs is a boring collateral, a friendly / bitesized / WISYWYG documentation would make a world of difference f
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by pax 6y ago
Somebody laid a joke there: > In the past three years whale fall sites have come under scrutiny, and new species have been discovered, including potential whale fall specialists
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by pax 7y ago
I have a different beef :) This is a tool for sharing personal information, but I couldn't spot anything close to an 'about us' / 'contact us', even a twitter link. I wonder if that's on purpose. Or most
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by pax 7y ago
As the most bootstrap solution I could think of, a link dump with google sheets as backend -> rendered as static html with a few extra formatting options. Quick & dirty but something that most people are able to edit without needing
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by pax 7y ago
it might be awesome, if the signature is somewhat obvious, to have an independent entity flagging / creating a suspected bots database? _maybe_ that would put some pressure on Twitter? https://osome.iuni.iu.edu/too
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by pax 7y ago
That's always the problem with novel networks, reaching critical mass. Though I can't see why a #deletefacebook sort of campaign couldn't snatch users away from the incumbents. It might just need enough influencers to switch
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Brain study identifies possible causes of ethnic pain disparities(eurekalert.org)
1 points by pax 7y ago|0 comments
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by pax 7y ago
I wish this model catches on. Somewhat ironically, it looks like Brave Browser doesn't work with Scroll, as there's still(?) no way to globally whitelist specific script domains :/
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by pax 7y ago
On this note does anybody happen to know an alternative to https://recordit.co ? It used to be a minimalistic screen recorder, where you'd select a selected area of the screen and it would automatically upload it to a url,
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by pax 8y ago
how else would/could be an atheist (or believer, for that matter) if not self-proclaimed? Does an atheist need external vetting to be a proper atheist? Also, what was the reason for the ironic quotation marks, do you imply those aren&#
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by pax 8y ago
160M daily active users might beg to differ. Otherwise, I (xennial) tried it twice and found the UI rather confusing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat#Growth
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by pax 8y ago
They're not such a rare sight in Transylvania/Romania. There are even some "journeyman friendly" pubs. I've once encountered 4 that made it all the way to Indonesia.
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by pax 8y ago
fixed, thank you
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by pax 8y ago
- reasonably lightweight & fast – should stay open all times, ideally out of your way – invoke by keyboard - text based storage - markdown or similar, with inline markdown source preview – see Typhora, or ST/Atom/VScode - hier
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by pax 8y ago
is cell count / microorganism density relatively constant through species? How different would 'a blue whale worth of lab mice' be if counting volume/mass/cells/microorganisms?
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by pax 8y ago
> If you are a tourist you'll get accommodation and travel tickets to these "reviving" towns (free of charge) as well. https://www.detouur.com/rikuzentakatamain/ This particular example you gave, whi
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by pax 8y ago
Waiting forward for the Chrome extension. I'd rather not have another app open all the time / or open it each time I want to add a bookmark. Meanwhile, I'd find helpful a shortcut for the 'Capture' command – ideally
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by pax 8y ago
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12885980
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by pax 8y ago
Also from shells https://luangkanlahsejenak.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/lp-in... I've seen a pair of wooden goggles, long time ago – also in one of the areas with Bajos, in Indonesia. I don't remember th

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