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Eli_P

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    Comment #25099971

    > editing it on a computer, and then "printing" it back out to a DNA molecule That's kind of what Novavax claims, search for the interview with David Rubinstein on WEF. NVAX wants …

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    Comment #25092306

    I use open source app Nebulo[1] which is a localhost pseudo-VPN which reroutes all DNS to any DoH/DoT you want. It also has a request log, I was (not very) surprised when it came m…

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    Comment #25027705

    Accessibility utils like screen readers do OCR and read aloud the content for blind people.

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    Comment #24944984

    All correct. It's just important to remember who's the attacker: Alice -- ISP1 -- 1000 hops -- ISP2 -- Bob Alice and Bob's identities are protected from each other, but not from th…

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    Comment #24937120

    Yes, overlay network 's configuration will be somewhat different, but physically it will be the same. It's like you're rearranging apple bits in a pie to save them; the pie will be…

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    Comment #24936002

    I doubt the number of nodes is important when you can split a large group of them into a few subgroups and analyze them or alter how they interact with each other, then repeat subd…

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    Comment #24933762

    > I wonder why there are so few people Maybe because people understand that it's security model is flawed: the peers in the mesh treat all the other peers as not trusted, that's ok…

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    Comment #24928124

    Huh, your imaginary city reminisces one in The Murderer by Ray Bradbury.

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    Comment #24878976

    > Abolish copyright If they did, it'd be still complicated. A real example, a modder makes some content for an old abandoned game. He needs some voice over, so he contacts the orig…

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    Comment #24638743

    > I don't fully grasp what privacy is > people like me find it hard to quantify what that thing is Privacy is [REDACTED]. Intelligence is not privacy. Recently I cleaned some olde …

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    Comment #23866395

    It seems like the context is built with a simple bag of words model. One day I searched "how to make a mousetrap", the following day I got a recommended video about statistics, whe…

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    Comment #23792069

    > that increased exposure to any porn has effects on attitude What does your research say about the fixation of that attitude? Is it like, forever and ever? How those effects compa…

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    Comment #23790825

    This might help https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/covid-19

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    Comment #23637138

    It's not that easy. Take into consideration spreading of sensors like light/water/gas/sewerage meters, which report measurements to a central SCADA. I touched that around a decade …

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    Comment #23624371

    High entropy edition: with RSA padding, signed by famous cryptographers.

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    Comment #23624169

    > the protections of an LLC Won't protect one guy or a small team in case of legal disputes, it's called piercing the corporate veil. I wonder if the EU has something similar.

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    Comment #23458608

    What's interesting, does that strategy end like: less effective ads -> need more of them -> raise ad price + show more of them? Another thing is regarding k-anonymity which I suppo…

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    Comment #22252357

    For entities whose behavior fit their model, it's called negative selection[1], a mandatory attribute of emerging dictatorship. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_selection…

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    Comment #22243619

    If I use a bunch of older Chromes from portableapps, are those affected by feature testing, provided I've disabled google update but I'm not behind a firewall? In other words, is f…

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    Comment #22239155

    You might be a visual kind of person, those make a good mathematician. After a decade of experience I happily dump all the boring stuff to type checkers and linters. One day in the…

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    Comment #22185938

    The link you gave, says (sic): > Sign up now for free access to this content > [...] > Email (NOTE: Free email domains not supported) I think this sort of antinomy[1] sounds ironic…

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    Comment #21919529

    > in the devtools console Wow, you are right, thanks. Lesson learned.

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    Comment #21912772

    I found it interesting how Chrome and FF handle differently cpu-heavy code like this: arr = new ArrayBuffer(4) arrInt = new Uint32Array(arr) t0 = performance.now(); for (; arrInt[0…

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    Comment #21308979

    I'd pitch that to the board like the algorithm was just smart enough to detect the partial activity coefficient ranging in [0, 1].

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    Comment #21079873

    Dating apps today are more like gambling with your time. Its mechanics is pretty same as for lottery game, so it will generate profits for the same reason all scams do with our pri…