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3,140karma·1,202submissions·December 12, 2023
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> Kaleido color screens are really just regular black and white E Ink Carta screens with a fancy passive filter over the top... Yeah, and I remember an interview where they also said that is why …
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What is capitalism to one can be exploitation for another. Some examples where personal data can be used to exploit the consumer - Some online business actually used to show higher rates to Apple iDev…
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I am sceptical about this and the article confirms my suspicion - this is a Federal law that is meant to override other State laws on online privacy that are stricter: > The proposed agreement …
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They'll be in good company ... Shouldn't be too hard for them if they get their act together - Scientology has a good hold on Hollywood ( Scientology’s Hollywood Real Estate Empire - https…
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It is not obvious to me why people are downvoting you for sharing your professional experience. Can somebody explain?
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Politics. Israel. From admiration to contempt due to Netanyahu and the right-wing religious fundamentalists in power there.
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Look at Israel's history and you will find that religious fundamentalist Israeli Jews have always been at forefront in sabotaging all efforts at peace and in fostering violence whenever they can …
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> With SGI/Sun you were very much completely locked in to their hardware/software ecosystem and completely at the mercy of their pricing. How is that in anyway different from Apple toda…
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> Would Hamas dissolve? Their charter specifies that their goal is to kill all Jews. What happens after they are citizens? The same thing that happened to jewish terrorist organisations like the …
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You think Israel is winning? It's hate that has won and it will consume the Israelis soon. Unlike you however, I feel sorry for the Israelis too who will be harmed because of Netanyahu and his il…
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> And what should the 12 million people living there now do? Accept the idea of a single state where Palestinians and Israelis have true equal rights and live together as the best solution. The o…
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> The entire Palestinian war doctrine is built around attacking Israel ... Let me correct that for you - The entire Palestinian resistance is built around the idea of fighting a foreign occupatio…
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Does that mean Saffron is dangerous for pregnant women?
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I am not aware of ISPs selling geolocation data in India (will have to look up on that). Yes, my building does have a common on-premise ISP equipment to which all our routers connect.
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I know about geolocation by IP address. But as I mentioned, geolocation based on my previous ISPs IPs were never this fine-grained. What could my current ISP be doing different from these other ISPs?
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It's a national ISP, and not a small one. And no, IPs are not static and dynamically allocated each time I connect.
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> ... but his narrative on the Chinese experience in America is very unconvincing. That depends. As an Indian, I got the impression that his target audience were right-leaning / Republican Ame…
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> Surely this does not mean he proved that metals scream when twisted ? Well, the tin responded to a stimuli ... now how do we interpret that is the question?
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Paywalled: https://archive.is/kbDS0
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Didn't Jagadish Chandra Bose prove this a 100+ years ago? > The more responses Bose got from his plants, the more encouraged he became, and the more detailed his efforts became. Bose discovere…
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A doubt - why would someone do "yearly biopsy" when you already know the tumour is cancerous? Does an annual biopsy help in some other way?
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> "A joint media investigation ... findings from its five-year probe with The Insider and Der Spiegel ... Mark Zaid, an attorney with security clearance representing more than two dozen clie…
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Speaking of languages with an affinity to a specific characteristic, Urdu - a mix of Persian, Arabic, Hindi, Sanskrit - is another language that somehow seems "naturally" suited for romance …
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As he points out, India already has 300,000 chip designers. But that isn't the point - he is concerned that the policy is ill-thought and flawed. > "As the IT minister acknowledges, we al…
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> I would seriously question anyone who considers India to be an 'economically successful' democracy. I am an indian too. I consider Modi to be a useless, corrupt, duffer of a Prime Min…
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How do you adjust the microwave power? Microwaves with 2 rotary dials are far more useful and easily intuitive. (See https://www.amazon.in/Bajaj-Solo-Microwave-Oven-White/dp/…