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I have had tinnitus from an infection, which (very thankfully, and I admit very luckily) slowly resolved over a period of years. That said, I have experienced occasional reoccurren…

Ah, I think I get it. Article says: > In the Gmail app on iOS, it looked completely legitimate — the branding, the case number, everything. Even the drop-down still showed “@google…

I don't get this part either. if the scammers had spoofed the email, they would already have that code, and if they hadn't spoofed that email... I mean it looks like a case ID, why…

I feel like what trips people up is the abstraction layer. Viruses are abstracted on top of other living things in the same way that animals are abstracted on top of plants, in tha…

I remember that the "Slashdot Effect" used to be a thing, getting featured on Slashdot generated enough traffic that it routinely took sites down. Then digg came along, and I start…

There’s a good discussion in the previous article discussed on HN, including links to various papers. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893627 2. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.g…

This is true. Extensions currently (manifest v2) are able to evaluate net requests dynamically, and are able to modify requests according to a dynamic ruleset that the extension ca…

More wild speculation: an expansion point in the previous universe, centred perfectly on a quark-antiquark pair.

Whole genome sequencing is commercially available for $299. https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/

It’s a bit of a shame, the inability to modify requests for CORS will break a lot of frontend developer workflows. It’s going to force the adoption of cors-proxy type solutions ins…

If you consider only the selection pressure from the mother’s side then yes that is the case. However you must consider that the mother and the father are in an arms race with resp…

The forests of New Brunswick are routinely sprayed with large amounts of glyphosphate herbicide. Is it possible that this is the cause, instead of prions? [1] https://www.conservat…

Slashdot, to digg, to reddit, and now... nothing. I hope a new one emerges.

I think the answer here is alternate capacity. Canada gets a relatively small portion (11%) of its energy from natural gas, with no province exceeding 21% (Alberta). On aggregate, …

I think I have the opposite of this. I grew up on a bush lot, and my father used to look up and point out different species of plants. When I'm outside that general geographical ar…

Interesting. Could you comment a little further? I can see the analogy here to advertising making their other products appear less competitive internally, but it sounds like you ma…

Sorry about this. It is really shitty. Like you, I got a case of tinnitus via ear infection. In my case it was caused by a three-week-long infection. However, I count myself massiv…

Arthur C Clarke posits a consumable shield made of ice in The Songs of Distant Earth [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth

Take the idea a little further, to the end of the universe, and the rate of acceleration of expansion of space increases so much that stars become isolated from each other, then pl…

I started that book, got about 60% of the way through, and had to put it down. It seemed like Jocko was re-teaching the same lesson over and over again from slightly different angl…

Looks like some similar functionality to pushbullet... message syncing from Chrome to Android. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is preparing to roll out a message sync service of …

One example, Qiime[1] can now run on windows via WSL. Much faster than the previous best solution, which was virtualbox. [1] https://qiime2.org/

Ever tried to replace a screw? Finding the exact threading, length, etc?

In the 90s, yes. But in the early 80s when there were dozens of different computer architectures competing, the rise to dominance of MS-DOS brought about the standardization of com…

Am by no means an expert, but I believe it's something like: Invest in company in china -> company builds in valuation (pump) -> company IPO in america -> sell ownership share in a…