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by chimeracoder 3y ago
That "study" was commissioned by a trade group whose sole purpose is to lobby against plastic bag bans, and whose members consist of entities who have a direct profit motive in disposable plastic bag sales. This is, almost literal
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> I don't understand why they recommend against it. I guess the monetary costs don't outweigh the benefits, but that's only if you care more about saving money than potentially preventing cancer. It's not like the vac
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> Why did she believe that? I like to believe are politicians aren’t completely insane I'd hope that any appreciable amount of time spent looking into Michele Bachmann would disabuse you entirely of the notion that the presumption o
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> The CDC recommends against it. The CDC does not recommend against getting vaccinated for people in their 30s. They don't issue a general recommendation for vaccinating people in their 30s. That's an extremely important di
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> Doesn't look like he recorded much (outside the show), but definitely will be looking into what he has recorded. For anyone who hasn't seen it, one must-see video outside the show is Fred Rogers testifying before the Senate i
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> "fair skin, brown eyes and hair, no freckles, and bushy eyebrows" isn't enough entropy for facial recognition to work. No, but it's more than enough to profile people, which is the real point.
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> The cops should think it's a bad idea too. The data will be junk and lead to worthless expenses to track down those garbage leads. You're assuming that their goal is to find the correct culprit. But that's not the case.
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> Any examples? Pretty much everything that makes up "forensics", except for DNA analysis (and even that carries a huge asterisk). Fingerprints, bite marks, blood spatter... the list goes on. Drug tests are borderline - reliab
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> I would hope that no one is convicted on this tech alone. I have bad news for you about what is already regularly used in court to convict people, and the scientific validity thereof.
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> That was a very long time ago though, so I could imagine that there's not much left from the original code base after it was moved onto Meta's infrastructure. They only linked them a few years ago, in anticipation of an antit
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> The claim being that its all propaganda, and what we know as 60s ideology (peace love etc) actually never really happened. What did happen was that those that prescribed to that line of thinking either moved to communes, or they droppe
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> It's still better to flare it than to vent it without flaring [0]. Yes, though that's just because methane is itself 2 orders of magnitude worse for the environment than carbon dioxide, not because combustion itself is actu
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> I've never understood why Gmail itself is a LSA in the eyes of other Gmail accounts. Because Google isn't special-casing itself (which is a good thing). You can enable 2FA on the other accounts and then use app-specific pass
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> I have never heard a story where a police officer intervened to stop the event. The Supreme Court has ruled that the police have no duty to protect the public[0]. Worse, in that same decision, they ruled that states cannot impose a d
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> I do wonder if A1C remains a useful metric though, as perhaps it better captures the actual damage done by consistently high blood glucose. Both metrics have their own use. Continuous glucose monitoring is better for measuring the shor
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> A1C represents the long-term glycation of hemoglobin due to blood sugar exposure. You're not measuring HbA1C in real-time; you're measuring the blood sugar in real-time. HbA1C is a lagging indicator, used because it's a
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> ). But it takes 3 months to see if my A1C goes down (a measure of the past 3 months of blood sugar), so I won't know for a couple more months. Yes, though depending on what your diagnosis is, you may be able to get a monitor which
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if Tor was a honey pot designed to catch people doing nefarious things. So far, the high profile busts involving Tor all involve some other weaker link in the chain, such as traffic analysis[0], a CI, a tar
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> I don't really see a decline in Bandcamp yet. It was great when it launched and is still great today, regardless of its current ownership. It's only been a couple of months since the sale[0]. They've already shut down a
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> GP agrees with you? DC and marvel are what most americans think all comics are And I'm saying that's not even an accurate description of DC or Marvel.
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> The traditional comics industry has done such a disservice to consumers by painting comics as toothless drivel. > > There is no drama in a Batman comic because nothing that happens in Batman comic matters since it will all be res
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> To be fair Germany could at least reach France's or Italy's level first. I'm not sure Germany should be looking to Italy for advice on getting the trains to run on time.
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> And didn't Signal used to be able to send and receive SMS on iPhone, anyway? Thought it could. On Android, yes. Not on iOS.
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> Do you have on-demand car sharing in your city? Like Zipcar or similar? You could go on a heck of a lot of hardware store trips in one of these cars for the price of a car payment + parking + insurance + taxes + maintenance. I think yo
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> Being born in a place is a lottery with random chance deciding the rules for you. Sure, as an adult, you can potentially choose to leave for the less green pasture and live in an urban environment of city designed for other means of tr
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> No, those numbers don't show that by themselves. That's because there's nothing about cars per person, only spaces per car. Cars would not be a problem at all if there were even 50 spaces per car... but only a total of
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> I've been without a car for 4 years now, and it is becoming a burden. For the first 2 years it wasn't so bad because of lock down. Now, even with my e-bike (which I love and would continue to use if I had a car) there are ce
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> LA is a disaster for transit and housing, but your numbers aren't a problem on their face. Any car being used will need >1 space at all times: one at home and one wherever it's being parked when its driver has gone somewhe
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> Using HIBP is a partial solution, but not sufficient to prevent a leak like this. I didn't say it was sufficient to prevent this. I said it was another tool that would have mitigated some of this (and which presumably 23&Me di
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> (And yes, 2FA is the only real answer here) It's not the only answer. You can also use tools that detect and reject insecure passwords, integrate with HaveIBeenPwned to force-roll passwords that have been previously compromised, e

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