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by waihtis 3y ago
The real challenge with this is keeping the type of people out who let SF devolve into the feverish nightmare politics it's currently running on. Any progressive quality-focused community will, over time, be infiltrated by people who&#
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hail e/acc and the thermodynamic god
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fair arguments, I revert my position and agree the wording may have been ambiguous on my behalf.
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Either you're trolling or your comprehension is just totally off, but to reiterate the original point was that making breakthroughs in sciences often requires "leaps of faith", which are near impossible to do if you're a
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You are making exactly the same point I was making. * sans the quote from a random comedian
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"Nobel prize winner and superior neurosurgeon criticized as quacks by two internet users" Perhaps the reason they could stretch their domain expertise so far was precisely because they kept their mind open. "Imagination is mo
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perhaps, but more likely it's a bit dubious for the FBI to penetrate into computers unauthorized, even if the intentions are good
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They wouldn't need to do any redirecting if they had direct access to the computer, they could just directly install the patch/fix. Sounds like they hijacked a malware proxy server and had it forward the traffic to their own serve
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it's the nietzschean slave morality in action
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> (a) There's no such thing as "ethical hacking" Weird stance. Sure, you may disagree on the limitations of scope of various ethical hacking programs (bug bounties and such) but they consistently highlight some very seriou
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For the record we're on the same side here.
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I think most of the "malicious URL check" solutions literally compare the url string to a large, known bad address database
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Trump? Do you mean "orange man"?
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surely the request should'nt come from the client but a separate server? I presume the reason link checking exists is that the URL is reviewed for maliciousness, and that isn't likely to be done locally
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.. and of course, the "rocket man bad" crowd are very anti X for obvious reasons.
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The people demanding a "new twitter" are those who set up weird hierarchies and benefitted from the obscure, hidden "blue checkmark" game - more often than not, their only tweets were lukewarm pro-current thing babble. I
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Social proof is probably one of the strongest cohesive bonds of civilization. Cal Newport is a fairly well known person in tech. You might not respect him, but there are probably hundreds of people who's opinions you will take as gospe
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by waihtis 3y ago
Not a doctor but a relative of a parkinsons patient - the dopamine supplements are somewhat a dual edged blade given that external supplementation will further degrade your own production
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Is there any meaningful benefit to knowing you have Parkinson's a few years earlier when there's no cure to it?
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It should be completely apparent im not criticizing accessibility issues but instead the blog post, which resembles a revelation a 10-year old has when having had a bit too much cough medicine
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and why is this banality interesting to a hacker?
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We're all just temporarily alive also. What's the point of this article?
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Same situation here. For us it went away with gradually introducing dairy to her and that was the protocol given to us by the doc here. She hasn't developed an appetite for cows milk yet (prefers oat), but enjoys many other kinds of da
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by waihtis 3y ago
We simply don't have 1) and 2) - 1) nobody fancies freezing to death and 2) mentally ill people like you have do not exist over here. I can think of a maximum of 5 occurences in the past 10 years I've seen someone roaming on the s
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by waihtis 3y ago
Roaming outside and generally getting your hands dirty in all kinds of soil is also, btw, a potentially significant factor in relation to gut bacteria. That is something I still think the Scandis (and here in FIN) have a somewhat special em
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by waihtis 3y ago
For example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030691922... > ...increases in milk consumption over time are associated with large reductions in child stunting even after controlling for
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the article talks about it - the best antidote to allergy is early introduction: > Right around the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, when food allergy rates were starting to increase, the American Academy of Pediatrics said to withhold peanuts
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> A 2019 study led by Nagler showed that the gut of healthy infants harbored a specific class of allergy-protective bacteria not found in infants with cow’s milk allergy. Between milk being a significant growth factor for kids and now t
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by waihtis 3y ago
Some notable scientists like Freeman Dyson stand in contrast to your statement. He wrote an entire book around the concept -- which is by the way an excellent read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scientist_as_Rebel
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search is dying anyway and this will just accelerate that trend.

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