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by zkms 9y ago
> What we need is instant clearing, 24/7/365. Nobody cares that it's Sunday. Nobody cares that it's Presidents Day. UK has had near-real-time transfers for a while, it's called "Faster Payments" and the
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by zkms 9y ago
It's also a "push" system (and not a "pull" system like ACH) which has serious advantages -- you can send money to anyone given their sort code and account number, and those numbers do not need to be kept private. W
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by zkms 9y ago
I wonder when this "lawfare" (really more like TOSfare) on registrars, hosting providers, CDNs, payment processors, and fundraising sites (like patreon) will escalate into the use of censorship-resistant/distributed alternati
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by zkms 9y ago
The legit / non-counterfeit versions of this product have the {ingredient list, usage instructions, country of origin} printed directly onto the plastic of the pump bottle -- no paper label involved. An instance of the product that I o
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by zkms 9y ago
I've gotten counterfeit body wash (Shiseido Super Mild) and counterfeit microSD cards off Amazon, and, ironically, the only things I buy off amazon.com now are books, because if they're counterfeit, it'll be obvious, and it c
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by zkms 9y ago
> Only one group has published their findings here http://insight.jci.org/articles/view/89376 that is a very interesting paper, ty for linking it here.
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by zkms 9y ago
I've gotten counterfeit body wash (Shiseido Super Mild) and counterfeit microSD cards off Amazon, and, ironically, the only things I buy off amazon.com now are books. Everything else I'd rather buy from the manufacturer (and pay t
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by zkms 9y ago
Reminds me of how prisoners boil water in their cells -- by passing mains current through the water (with a device known as a "stinger").
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by zkms 9y ago
> One big UX mistake of IPv6: it was not made backward compatible with IPv4. The sin was committed when IPv4 was made and not initially designed to allow for variable / expanded address space -- it is not IPv6's fault. Adding a
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by zkms 9y ago
Use a JS blocker, I'm blocking that site's JS and i don't have any popups.
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by zkms 9y ago
I think most people who use SDF are aware that it is a public good whose existence depends on its users not drawing too much fire to it. If you want to do evil and/or illegal things, there are better places to host content.
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by zkms 9y ago
I love it when people link slides -- it is much more accessible than video!
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by zkms 9y ago
I am interested in this as well.
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by zkms 9y ago
Does this represent a sui generis rise of violence or is this the result of substitution of weapons to commit crimes (like mugging, say) that were already happening?
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by zkms 9y ago
I wonder how this works with people who have gotten legal name changes, or people who regularly go by a non-legal name or a pseudonym.
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by zkms 9y ago
The paper itself is another problem with modern boarding passes. I miss the old-style boarding passes (the kind you'd find a magnetic strip on), when they were printed on thick cardstock (that wouldn't rip if you put them in a poc
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by zkms 9y ago
So the guy keying up and saying "Where is this guy going?" and "He's on the taxiway" might actually have made a difference in the outcome, huh: > The flight crew of the first airplane in queue on taxiway C (UAL1)
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by zkms 9y ago
How is this test methodology affected by phenomena like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle
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by zkms 9y ago
This does not affect anyone who is affected by the criminalisation of non-marijuana drugs. This is just a "the drug war is fine, it just needs to have minor parameters tweaked" law, not an end to drug criminalisation.
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by zkms 9y ago
> But let's say that in turns out cytokines do, in fact, cause CFS, and that -- for the sake of argument -- banning them would be a good thing. > banning cytokines Cytokines are endogenous. I fail to see what "banning cytok
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by zkms 9y ago
I hate it when LED light output isn't continuous or visibly flickery, especially when it's from LED lights that are on (or are visible from) moving objects -- such as LED taillights on automobiles or in-road lane lights. All the e
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by zkms 9y ago
This seems like an extraneous tetchy comment but I don't think it is. Extant slow internet connections would be a lot more usable if websites weren't full of video/audio adverts, trackers, and JS being used for stuff (display
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by zkms 9y ago
It's not a logical tactic, just, without professional equipment (whose sale is restricted!) working with drugs whose doses are measured in micrograms is a hard task and likely to result in failure. Why are the drugs in the illicit mark
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by zkms 9y ago
> At some point you'll be giving someone a dose so high they are guaranteed to die. This is not how opioid pharmacology works. Tolerance to the desired effects (analgesia) increases but so does tolerance to the problematic effects
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by zkms 9y ago
> the numerous peculiar artifacts of that data that will damage the quality of a naive implementation. Do you have examples (or a link/reference to something that has such examples) of those types of artifacts?
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by zkms 9y ago
I very often get spam robocalls to my cell phone (on T-Mobile US prepaid) that come from a number identical to my phone number but with the last 4 digits altered (and random every time).
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by zkms 9y ago
Ah, so it's like the dancing kame of old: http://www.kame.net/
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by zkms 9y ago
> All this due diligence and much more was done. I don't have any connection with Nest Protect and don't own one, but the fact that the Protect does not use an ionisation sensor (they suck because they suck at detecting fires e
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by zkms 9y ago
Use sci-hub to avoid paying anything to get full-text PDF.
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by zkms 9y ago
> if you run your refrigerant loop through the ground instead of cooling it using the hot ambient air In the same vein, rejecting heat to the cooler night air is a lot more efficient than using hot day air. You can operate a chiller at

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