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34,548karma·5,422submissions·July 2, 2018
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> Despite what the NCSC has continued to imply, the app will not, as it stands, work all the time on iOS and Android since version 8. The operating systems won't allow the tracing application…
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This will surely hit low-paid workers the hardest, especially in London where car parking (if available) is really expensive. I'd rather a price scale that discounted fares for essential and low-…
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> " ... the most interesting fact for me is that none of the best stories were submitted on Tuesday or Wednesday." Certainly interesting. Anyone have any ideas/suggestions about why…
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That was an interesting read. Thanks for posting.
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> The efforts to keep public health information under wraps came as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, moved to reopen parts of the state's economy after he delayed issuing a stay-at-ho…
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You are underselling this. As per the intro, it's apparently an "international force of rebel botanists". :-) As it happens, I find the idea charming, constructive and inspired.
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This is actually Planet of the Humans , which has been roundly criticised - and I would say fairly so - in many places. See previous posts such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…
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Also see previous post about locals taking imaginative steps to crush this and to incentivise students to read the relevant works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032487 …
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I did as you suggested but saw no trends that would suggest organised manipulation of comment votes. As for "paid shills", that is entirely supposition on your part. Be aware that there are …
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Do you have any evidence to support this, or can you suggest steps that one might take to replicate your experience and so help to confirm your suspicions?
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> "If you give your Wi-Fi password to a guest and they connect to one of your devices they can continue to control the devices when no longer on the LAN. They can remotely wake the devices up …
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> "What this gives us is insight into how the sun produces slow and fast solar winds. ... Defining that mechanism is key to predicting when a transition from slow to fast solar wind is going t…
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There is dispute as to whether Dirksen said that [1]. According to Wikiquote, when asked whether he had said it, Dirksen said: "Oh, I never said that. A newspaper fella misquoted me once, and I t…