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Just use Thunderbird Portable as email client. Since M$ is doing away with simple free apps (such as Mail) and forcing users to move to cloud-based expensive apps, you can use FOSS (Free and Open Source) alternatives -- especially the Port
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AI LLMs are not profitable because they are not the product, we are the product (our data - our information, our privacy, our identity, our needs, our desires, our family photos/videos, etc.). So no, the AI "feature" cannot b
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And we don't even need to wait till Copilot starts serving us popup ads. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2633816/giant-ai-ads-are-com...
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Umm, I don't want to nitpick, but what's the purpose of releasing a hotpotch shell of an OS, that doesn't work in even basic functionality?! Meanwhile Tiny7, Tiny10, Tiny11 entered the chatroom.. And though they are 10x+ bigg
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Nah, snakes and jellyfish serve a valid purpose in the ecosystem. But yeah, mosquitoes and cockroaches should be made extinct, even if they are tough critters. Talking of tough though.. Say hello to the only creature that's evolved to
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The statistics are indeed quite telling.. and chilling! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enfor... In the United States, law enforcement officers shoot and kill more than 1,100 civilians each year,
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Related: "Project Solar Sail" by Arthur-Clarke and others, is a good anthology (stories, essays and illustrations) about the new Age of Sailing (Sailing in Space)via lightships and solar sails.
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We all know the cops will go for the easy prey: * Even hundreds of cops in full body armor and armed with automatic guns will not dare to engage a single "lone wolf" shooter doing a killing spree in a school; the heartless cowards
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The question is whether that Doritos carrying kid is still alive, instead of being shot at by the violent cops (who typically do nothing when an actual shooter is roaming a school on a killing spree; apropos the Uvalve school shooting, when
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Speed of light is a constant and law only in the 5% of the Universe that's made of Matter and Energy. Light is energy, it is a form of electromagnetic radiation, that travels in waves and consists of particles called photons. While ph
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The short lifespan is an issue only for species with a fast metabolism. Advanced alien species could have some unique biology (maybe capable of withstanding extreme environmental conditions), and they may have a slower metabolism that allo
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Oops, yes, you are right. I meant "dark matter" and "dark energy" (comprises 95% of Uinverse), not "anti matter" and "anti energy".
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So it's basically Cortana for Windows in a brand new powerful AI LLM avatar? ;-)
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Thank you!
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And yet Wikipedia is biased (and hence may even be misinformative) on many topics, because its editors and moderators are biased. Source: the Wikipedia founder himself.. https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/12/
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We really don't know much about the universe and it is too vast and unfathomed. Scientists computed the mass of all matter and all energy of this Universe, but their calculations told that all this stuff comprises merely 5% of the Univ
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Read up on colonial history. The stronger civilizations have always exterminated or exploited & subsumed the weaker civilizations.
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Reminds me of belt/plate trick and anti-twister mechanism. The belt trick / plate trick / Dirac's string trick is nicely demonstrated in below video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EgsUDby0X1M https:&#x2
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What is SciFi today may become the reality in the future. The iconic flip-type TriCorder telecommunicator of Star Trek, became the inspiration of the world's first portable cellular phone (first of which was the DynaTac, quickly follow
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The aliens, if they exist, will certainly powerful enough to destroy humanity's paltry defenses (and our satellites will be first to fall during an alien invasion), but you are right, they won't bother negotiating or defeating us,
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The movie Don't Look Up is still an apt metaphor, because the variable (how the apocalypse will happen) may change, but the outcome won't. The same richest elites that refuse to acknowledge and do anything to revert climate change
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You should see the movie Don't Look Up. It is even more painfully accurate portrayal of our times, and it eeriely explains why the world's richest men are building and testing rockets and spaceships. (Answer: No, it ain't mer
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Hilarious!
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I just did a quick search for "why cat pee is so pungent", and pasted the info here, since it felt relevant to this discussion.
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The moot question isn't what will happen after Earth receives and confirms an alien signal. The question is moot, because any alien species advanced enough to send directed signals across solar systems, can and will reach, overwhelm an
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Don't Look Up
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You all have clearly never smelled cat pee and cat poop . Now that is pungent and nauseating. I like cats, but their pee and poop make me cringe. Studies show that cat urine contains more concentrated urea and ammonia than other pets’
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I just love such nerdy debates on HN on a hypothetical scenario/example. I think this thread would also be loved by the nerdy folks at https://Reddit.com/r/theydidthemath
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SBI awarded Best Consumer Bank 2025 award by Global Finance magazin(bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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SBI (State Bank of India) was honored with two prestigious awards by Global Finance, New York. 1⃣ World's Best Consumer Bank 2025 2⃣ Best Bank in India 2025 These honors reflect SBI's exceptional focus on customer service and its

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