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by sva_ 6y ago
I think that they should've included something into the law, that makes it possible for a browser to automatically signify how a user wants their data to be used; for browsers to offer some interface to control these choices, and force
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by sva_ 6y ago
I don't know, but don't you think perhaps there's a reason other than being addicted to an app that makes said younger brother want to be hooked to his phone all day, avoiding things like school? Perhaps it's just an ave
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by sva_ 6y ago
See also the recent discussion of another article about the paper[0]. I'm also predicting this thread will have a meta-discussion about whether mathematics is invented or discovered. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by sva_ 6y ago
It's interesting that they say they've been logged out of Signal/Telegram and can't log back in due to being unable to receive a confirmation code as the cell services have been shut down. This type of thing seems to be
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by sva_ 6y ago
$ whois personium.io Domain Name: PERSONIUM.IO [...] Registrant Organization: Fujitsu Ltd. Registrant State/Province: Tokyo Registrant Country: JP [...]
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by sva_ 6y ago
The trouble with Vitamin D is afaik, as with some other vitamins, that it is fat-soluble rather than water-soluble. So the excess of the Vitamin won't be flushed out through the urine - but rather accumulates in the fat. At some point
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by sva_ 6y ago
As far as I know the solution used for sinus rinses is isotonic to the cells. Although I'm not sure if those microbes need the same salt content as humans (0.9%), but I would presume so.
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by sva_ 6y ago
I think there are limits to what you can express through pictographs, while this ideographic way of writing might be more versatile. Though, the article states that there are about 2300 symbols. That seems very excessive, and if there'
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by sva_ 6y ago
> How did this man get so numb to selling products that he knew were causing so much pain and suffering to others? If I had to take a guess, his income as the vice president of sales probably helped with that.
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by sva_ 6y ago
I heard that there is a 'trick' to getting a certificate for free ($) on Coursera: First you just review the course which is free of charge, and then after you're done with it all you start the free trial. Now you have 7 days
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by sva_ 6y ago
I've heard this phrase, that SLC is supposed to be the next Silicon Valley quite a few times, but in all of those cases it was from people living in SLC or around it.
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by sva_ 6y ago
Although it is probably not a cure in severe cases as that described in the article, I would also recommend paying attention to one's magnesium intake. However, I found that taking supplements is not necessary. Just find a mineral wate
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by sva_ 6y ago
Is it really necessary for your vacuum to work, that it 1) connects to a server 2) on a different continent? Why would anyone willingly put something like this in their house?
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by sva_ 6y ago
Even more fascinating, in my opinion, are Lyrebirds [0]. They have been observed the imitate artificial (human-made) sounds such as those of camera shutter, chainsaws [1], and construction work [2]. Not only do I find it impressive that the
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by sva_ 6y ago
I'd absolutely buy this if you made it support inline LaTeX fragment rendering (as emacs does[1]). Without it, it's sadly fairly useless for me as a math student. A subset of LaTeX would be sufficient, such as that supplied by KaT
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by sva_ 6y ago
It would logically most likely be two circles intersecting, as Venn diagrams don't usually make a statement about the sizes of the sets.
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by sva_ 6y ago
Sounds to me like it is perhaps a firewall issue? Also, I remember that MS used to still offer a "Skype for Desktop" native app on windows, additionally to the electron based app. I haven't used Windows/Skype for some ti
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by sva_ 6y ago
>“Mathematicians basically know everything there is to know about matrices. It’s one of the few subjects of math that’s thoroughly well understood,” said Jared Weinstein of Boston University. I'm genuinely curious how such a stateme
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by sva_ 6y ago
As far as I know these port scans are done using WebRTC. Using a browser extension[0] it is easy to deactivate it on the go. Personally, I always have WebRTC disabled by default (as it has several nasty security implications), and only acti