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On Twitter one can see various deepfaked ads of Elon Musk pushing various crypto schemes. I can't think of any clearer indication that absolutely nothing is being done about these scam ads. To me it seems like a clear indication that h
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>I don't see why privacy matters, I have nothing to hide. You are exactly right, "Nothing to hide" is also an invalid argument - because a valid suspicion of criminality will be authorised for subpoena by a judge. Without
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It’s a fair bit more common than you might assume. This article talks about 6 of such “body farms” in the USA. They are focussed on learning about decomposition in different settings, such as being wrapped in plastic, carpet, in a car’s tr
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I'll start on a slight tangent, but it may well be the solution to your problem. Earlier this month I received a price increase email from Microsoft for Office 365 - to the tune of a 46% increase. Not too keen on this I went to their w
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There are a very large number of posts which follow the format of the parent post, each clearly aiming to make TikTok appear equivalent to US-owned social media platforms, while ignoring the actual issue that TikTok is an active propaganda
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>Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty years. Way to upstage me, dude. Seeing that this was written by Rachel by the Bay, I thought it was going to be a post about Facebook's recent pol
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I recall Nokias which eventually let even a modest drop send the battery off in one direction and the phone in another. With the 7110-style nokias turn into e-sprinklers flinging the sliding cover off too.
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At this level of saturation it's not unusual to receive a pretty good one when a friend, family member or coworker upgrades. Giving the device further life and keeping it out of eWaste. In my opinion these bottom-tier phones are just e
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>Are AirTags actually useful for anti-theft purposes? For small items where the airtag is merely present, it can be useful from the perspective of being alerted when an item is left behind or taken away from your surroundings. Much theft
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The thing about building an uncharitable narrative is that one can spin anything to be a nefarious deed. Literally anything, and we're seeing that here. A common aspect to this is distilling something as large as a company of many thou
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This outlines how Apple approaches the immersive video format to put the most pixels on the horizon line: https://blog.mikeswanson.com/apples-mysterious-fisheye-proje...
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My assumption is that they're hanging it all on this: >"Even if a nuclear exchange is perhaps more survivable than many people think, I think the aftermath will be uglier than many people think as well" / "The fu
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The problem is that the profit making side of the business is becoming dominant. There will always be room for experimental procedures even if the US saw regulation that limited the profit-making abilities of health insurers. The situation
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This is the real question. One that I would love to know the answer to. If it's a Chinese run spider that flags websites that contain banned terms, does this mean that we can effectively block certain websites from China as a form of d
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>People will say that this is necessary to remain competitive, but it just isn't. In other countries there are private health funds that return all of their profits to their members by simply covering more types of care and lowering
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The $40k price is the current price in the USA. Generics aren't possible in markets where the patent holder enforces their rights. The article is about how Gilead will allow certain poverty ridden countries to access the drug without t
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I believe you might be referring to tablet-based PrEP, that treatment is a few hundred dollars a year depending on your geographic region. The $40k+ price is the cost of the 2x pa injectable form. This is a relatively newer treatment and no
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The problem is the cost, in Europe and the USA the treatment is over $40,000 USD per year, which isn't realistic for regular people.
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I don’t think we’ve lost the willingness to test products that push human/mechanical boundaries. I think rather it is about not retreading on the learned boundaries that we’ve already established or “solved”. So now we see concepts tha
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While it goes give developers a choice - it favours large business who can obtain a better rate. The only pro to apple's model is that developers small and large were on equal competitive footing to consumers. While I believe it's
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From an eWaste perspective this is great news, it just seems to be a pity that Spotify themselves hasn't been leading or endorsing it. (With the EUs continued focus on eWaste it also seems odd that the largest music service could just
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You don’t need to have a Facebook profile to be impersonated on Facebook.
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Your experience brings about an excellent point (and something that is coming up in discussion frequently with the proposed under-16 social media ban in Australia - a ban that is being supported by all sides of their government.) That point
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https://www.mycopigments.com/ also does lichen, and has plenty of guides and resources. Just a heads up however to be mindful about toxicity of the mushrooms you select, however generally speaking the dyed end product is sa
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There is zero willingness by Meta and others to even follow through on their own guidelines or government requirements. I think it's time a hard decision was made about the harms spread by these networks. I am definitely not alone in s
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This follows through into the app, which itself is a good demonstration for how a developer can tightly follow design guidelines while extended them with their own originality. This is generally a good thing for users - building a unique
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Benchmarking itself is of limited usefulness, since in reality it is only an internally-relevant comparison. Translating these scores into the real world is problematic. There are numerous examples of smart phones powered by Apple chips ver
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In view of how AI is changing graphics tools, my guess would be that Pixelmator's pay-once business model didn't bode well for long term competitive viability. We've already seen Affinity switch into releasing a "v2&quot
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I feel like leadership and vision are lacking at DropBox, so they don't have any good ideas of what to do with the staff they've got. They should be exploring new opportunities which leverage the skillset of their existing employe
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I see this quite often with gym equipment. If it's designed poorly no amount of padding helps, while better designed equipment may not even have much more than a rubberised pad for grip.

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