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Becasue more and more browsers are limiting access to cookies not only depending on first-party context but also third-party context. So tracking users by web bugs becomes less rel…

And yet, Tesla costumers constantly poll as the most satisfied of all new car owners. Maybe there are more important things than bumps in the paint? Just guessing, I don't own a ca…

Great Wall, Geely and others have tried for many years. The problem isn't "stigma" but simply terrible test results for safety and quality. That's why most Chinese who can affort i…

They don't. That's just one of the things Westerners like to say about poor countries.

That's just one of the tales of the "aid" industry. Turns out, the real key is jobs. But try investing there, and the "aid" people will call you a neo-colonialist.

If a 100 km asteroid hit earth tomorrow, then all known intelligent life in the universe would cease to exist. Why not allocate 0.00..001% of our resources to ensure that the only …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius#Fabrication_of_... That guy had won several awards for his "reporting".

Turtleneck guy would have survived easily. But he started to trink herbal tea to cure his cancer. Surprisingly, it didn't work.

> DER SPIEGEL: Would it make sense to colonize Mars as a Plan B, as planned by Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk? It was never a "plan B" against global warming. Its a "plan A" in case …

Interesting. Maybe we should call it "jaydriving" when a driver acts entitled and doesn't slow down.

That's a very good point. In the future, an AI may well be able to find all identities of a person based on ways they express themselves, etc.

Early 2000s. One of the Schroeder reforms.

Under Swiss law, there is no "national security letter" equivalent. Also, mailboxes are encrypted client side.

They are in Switzerland and Swiss judges are pretty independent.

There is ProtonVPN. Proton is based on Switzerland, so no N eyes interference there. At least not via a legal route.

Could you post a source or two? I read this claim a few times, but never seen a credible source to confirm the claim.

No idea, but on Firefox just click "reader view" and it gives you the text nicely formated.

Look, the "Chlorhühnchen" are back! In Germany, this was the favorite scare topic of the press in articles about the TTIP negotiations. So I doubt that they will be able to include…

From their web sites, it sounds like some sort of Dogecoin remake?

Satellites would disappear pretty quickly without constant orbit adjustments.

My guess is, this is done because of Chunjie. For Chinese New year, people usually travel home to visit relatives. If the Chinese government wants to limit that, they need a very g…

Sounds nice, but good luck with the noise pollution. Start and landing still requires to move a lot of air downwards in order to make the vehicle float.

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