dyslexit

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How urban planners' preference for male trees has made hay fever worse (2020)(theguardian.com)
7 points by dyslexit 6mo ago|0 comments
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by dyslexit 7mo ago
You're making it sound like this is commonly practiced and a standard procedure for the DoD, yet according to Anthropic, >Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would be an unprecedented action—one historically reserved for US
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by dyslexit 8mo ago
> This software dependency that Europe has on the USA is very, very bad - no just with regards to Zoom, but literally anything. More to this point, the article points out that one of the drivers of all this is when Microsoft killed one o
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by dyslexit 10mo ago
I think you might have a different definition of "merit" than OP. "Merit" to me means how much value the company brings to society. If I'm reading correctly about your point of it being legal, to you it seems like &
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by dyslexit 10mo ago
The article also points out that some states and a lot cities require retailers to provide exact change. Congress would need to pass legislation to allow rounding nationally. I'm guessing in the meantime they'll continue holding p
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by dyslexit 1y ago
This is exactly what the article is arguing people are doing when betting on the Jesus thing: > [Time Value of Money] The Yes people are betting that, later this year, their counterparties (the No betters) will want cash (to bet on other
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by dyslexit 1y ago
I'm pretty sure the comment was sarcastic. The grandparent comment was so over the top with its moral outrage that sarcasm feels like about the only appropriate response.
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FBI warnings are true–fake file converters do push malware(bleepingcomputer.com)
8 points by dyslexit 1y ago|0 comments
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by dyslexit 2y ago
This opens the door for fully legalized bribery. Which is already happening. The SEC recently asked a judge to halt its own investigation into Justin Sun for fraud after he bought $75 million worth of Trump's WLF coin, $56 million of w
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by dyslexit 2y ago
The only reason he tried to get out of it was because tech stocks tanked shortly after the bid and he knew he could have gotten it for far cheaper than the $44B. The entire time it was happening I was convinced that if he could get out of t
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by dyslexit 2y ago
I wonder if this effect can be explained by the we form the "bouba"/"kiki" sounds when we speak them. "Kiki" has a sharper enunciation when using your tongue and mouth to form it, while "bouba" f
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by dyslexit 3y ago
As I said, it means parents who don't want their young children seeing porn (whether you agree with them or not) would no longer be able to let their children use SD. I'm not making a statement on what our society should or should
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by dyslexit 3y ago
This question narrows the scope of "safety" to something less than what the people at SD or even probably what OP cares about. _Non-random_ CSAM requests targeting potentially real people is the obvious answer here, but even non-C
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by dyslexit 3y ago
I don't know, but even if I did you're making a weak argument. You're comparing temporary pain relief for lost and destroyed lives.
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by dyslexit 3y ago
> The harm to society of people who need them not getting pain drugs far outweighs the pain to society of those who don’t need them abusing them. How do you measure that? Opioid overdoses accounted for at least 72,800 deaths last year [0
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by dyslexit 3y ago
The incidence rate is per year and the study was over an average of 32 years per patient. At that rate you'd expect around 105 incidents instead of 4, although there are other considerations like age to take into account.
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by dyslexit 3y ago
You can argue whether or not Palestinians deserve the response, but what makes you think Hamas does not represent Palestinians? A recent poll by the Arab World for Research and Development shows that 75% of Palestinians support both the Oct
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by dyslexit 3y ago
For what purpose? Do we know what this is used for?
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Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center(science.org)
247 points by dyslexit 3y ago|144 comments
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by dyslexit 4y ago
Unfortunately for the rest of the world climate change doesn't wait to see what a Congress hamstrung by one political party that denies its very existence is going to do. That change has no political reality of coming from that branch,
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by dyslexit 5y ago
> The narrative has evolved to suit the deficiencies of the vaccine and keep profits from sinking. The narrative may have evolved but that was more due to the virus evolving rather than some conspiracy driven by Pfizer and Moderna to sel
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by dyslexit 5y ago
> Forest Service agents also measured and recorded data about the tire tread pattern left by Maynard's car — evidence that they say ties him to a string of arson wildfires. That's linking his car to the fire. That's from t
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WeChat suspends new user registration for security compliance(reuters.com)
187 points by dyslexit 5y ago|182 comments
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How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil(elliptic.co)
232 points by dyslexit 5y ago|261 comments
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by dyslexit 5y ago
You're talking about a different feature. Google can screen an unknown call with an automated message asking them to leave their name and why they're calling before giving the user the option to pick up.
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by dyslexit 5y ago
It has value as a currency on dark markets and possibly for companies paying hackers off to disable ransomware. I can't really think of why people would use it instead of fiat for something like a Tesla though.
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by dyslexit 5y ago
I'm not sure how this can be broken down any more clearly. The customer is always losing money when they ask for a refund if they pay for the Tesla with BTC unless the price of BTC is exactly the same as it was when the purchase is m
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by dyslexit 5y ago
It is what the clause says, you cut it off just before they say it. > If you are entitled to a refund of your payment or to a buyback, we reserve the right to refund to you either the exact Bitcoin Price that you provided to us at the ti
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by dyslexit 5y ago
Why is this a terrible take? The majority of this short article focuses specifically on the refunds, while you're focusing on the part about missing out rising BTC* price. That's where Tesla has only upside and the customer only d
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by dyslexit 5y ago
You don't get your USD equivalent back if they pay you back in depreciated BTC.

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