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If by quacks you mean doctors with 30+ years of experience, well, I love those doctors especially those with a passion for biology and chemistry . They are starting to awaken and write books now tha…
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What hammock said. They are right in that heavy metal deposits are unlikely to show up in a blood test. That's the root of the problem in that they are embedded in tissue in vital organs. To g…
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By all means fix insulation but lets not leave out another common cause that being nutrient deficiencies leading to thyroid issues. I used to sweat when it was 10F/-12C outside and I was just fe…
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Article is leaving out Number Lock (not to be confused with a SIM PIN) . Many providers now have the option to lock the SIM to a phone number. This does not stop the provider from having bribed empl…
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On the topic of heavy metal poisoning I triple-dog-dare researchers to combine their studies of this and idiopathic hypertension. Heavy metals are cumulative so levels pertain to time which is bad be…
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I've only personally seen it used to aggregate and summarize data-sets. Google search, Amazon questions about a product. It was decent for Google search but now they have cranked up their anti-…
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Shodan [1] is not the only place active vulnerabilities are stored up. Each nation have systems that track vulnerabilities and scripts can be stored up to mass exploit all these systems all at once. …
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On the demo I just get a jittery image at the very top of the page. What is it supposed to do?
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I can invoke the powers of Google as well. Let's ask it how many Americans are on blood pressure drugs. "Approximately 51.2% of Americans with hypertension (high blood pressure) are curren…
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There is a corresponding little spike on downdetector for OVH as well. Only 18 reports but that is uncommon.
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Every place I've been we measured such weirdness outside of the 95'th and 99'th percentile. Anything out of common occurrence beyond the 99'th could be weird or interesting or f…
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Yeah I'm not saying errors don't happen. I've been called into gazillions of them including many that "should not happen" . Those make for the best root cause analysis and …
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I hear ya but this would more than likely be something like a really sloppy human error such as following the wrong process vs. a miscommunication otherwise I would expect these outages to be much m…
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Something is fishy about this. A communication error would not result in a domain being placed on hold. On hold is usually the result of a legal order or in the case of the .us TLD a nexus complianc…
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The actual issue is that our business culture is antithetical to a healthy society. I agree with the unhealthy society and your statement got me thinking. In regards to health what happens when glo…
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A QR code might be easier.
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Appears hold was removed about 10-15 mins ago. It should start resolving again as caches expire.