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by satori99 3y ago
It is only a matter of time until the manufacturers include a GSM modem (under their control), and exfiltrate the info they want without using your network at all.
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by satori99 3y ago
Last year, Australian farmers lost automatic steering for their agricultural machinery for a significant time when a single geo-sync satellite, which broadcast a GPS correction signal over the continent, failed. https://www.thegu
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by satori99 3y ago
You might be thinking of the work led by Professor Shanhui Fan @ Stanford some years back; https://news.stanford.edu/2017/09/04/sending-excess-heat-sky... This is being commercialized, but I don't know h
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by satori99 3y ago
Humans have been using this technique (radiating heat into the cold of space) to freeze water in hot places, for a very long time. https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/07/09/how_people_...
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by satori99 3y ago
This reminds me of Pontifex, the playing card based cipher designed by Bruce Schneier for Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon . https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
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by satori99 3y ago
I have one in a pot in my yard. It was bought as a seedling and is now almost 2m tall. There were only about 100 specimens in the valley when it was discovered in the 90s, but now they exist all over the world in peoples gardens. https:&#x
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by satori99 3y ago
I think that is true. It is a particular type of steel alloy (weathering steel) that forms a stable oxide layer that protects the bulk of the material from further corrosion very effectively (after a few years).
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by satori99 3y ago
It is for modern architecture; https://www.google.com/search?q=rusty+steel+houses&tbm=isch
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by satori99 3y ago
My step father was diagnosed with metastasized melanoma in 2019, and was completely cured by treatments developed by professors Scolyer and Long. He needed surgery to remove small tumors on his lungs, but the drugs made his melanoma just di
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by satori99 3y ago
It was Techdirt founder, Mike Masnick, who first coined the term Streisand Effect 19 years ago: https://www.techdirt.com/2005/01/05/since-when-is-it-illegal...
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by satori99 3y ago
Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/01/24/fail/ "My conclusion: this entire ecosystem is deeply cursed."
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by satori99 3y ago
Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space novels describe a near future where humanity has achieved a similar level of molecular tech they called `Quickmatter`. Entire cities are built with it, until a particularly nasty virus which makes no dis
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by satori99 3y ago
Corrugated cardboard (boxes) can be a vector for cockroach eggs. I once crewed on a yacht whose captain forbid any cardboard boxes to be brought aboard for this reason.
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by satori99 3y ago
When I see this I think a clever kid and his grandma have fooled a BBC reporter.
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by satori99 3y ago
> Workers should have refused to work with the material if it were truly dangerous They did -- several months ago. The relevant unions members voted to refuse to work with engineered stone at all, if it was not banned outright by the gov
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by satori99 3y ago
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, is the short story that always comes to my mind when I think about this type of thing.
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by satori99 3y ago
In this case, the spherical shape is an advantage. See uoaei 's post (above); https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38043955#38045556
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by satori99 3y ago
Iain M Banks approach to 'magic' tech in Sci-Fi is to properly consider its full impact on the entire society, rather than it just being used to advance the protagonists plot. So, sure, he makes up a lot of nonsense, but he put se
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by satori99 3y ago
You can talk about your nefarious strategy openly if it is with a single person at a time.
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by satori99 3y ago
She did indeed. Brooks didn't even fight it. He just paid because he admired her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEQ3OxYL2Co
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by satori99 3y ago
Or perhaps Octopussies?
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by satori99 3y ago
The Australian native tribes who have lived among their Fairy Circles for at least 50,000 years, seem to be on the termite side of the argument. https://theconversation.com/first-peoples-knowledge-of-myste...
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by satori99 3y ago
A man did this in Sydney fairly recently. He discovered a vacant house whose occupant had died, changed the locks and tidied the property before renting it out to other people. After 20 years he applied for the deed. Relatives of the deceas
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by satori99 3y ago
You can buy cables or small splitter pcb's; https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/usb-c-pwr-splitter?varian...
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by satori99 3y ago
> anticipate? don't know about that. [...] After three cold snaps the scientists stopped changing the temperature and humidity and watched to see whether the amoebas had learned the pattern. Sure enough, many of the cells throttled
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by satori99 3y ago
This brings to mind the Nam Shub Of Enki from Snowcrash . https://wiki.c2.com/?NamShubOfEnki
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by satori99 4y ago
In my country, calling official emergency numbers is always toll-free, and these calls can be made even from handsets without a SIM at all. I believe this is a legislated requirement for holding a spectrum license.
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by satori99 4y ago
Vincent Van Gogh's work never shined while he was alive.
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by satori99 4y ago
...or just put a cellular modem on the BOM, and have the advertisers pay for it.
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by satori99 4y ago
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." ― Robert Heinlein

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