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Just FYI, the credit/debit card company is often stylized as "VISA", and the travel document is a "visa".

Keep in mind that the requirements for an IV drug are much higher than those of nootropic enthusiasts. All compontents have to be within a narrow concentration range (consistently,…

What's the rationale for disclosing vulnerabilities to for example Google before going public (unless the bug is in Google's software)?

After reading it twice I'm still not sure what the horizontal axis represents. Is it time in days? I know this is probably meant to be read by people who know more about the subjec…

Those polls don't necessarily mean that people aren't choosing the lesser of two evils. Those questions aren't asked in a vacuum. Most of the polls ask about people's opinion of th…

> It won't resolve everything but it's a lot nicer than naming&shaming businesses who have effectively done nothing wrong. They are putting their users at risk through negligence. …

According to the article, the stores were running malicious javascript which grabs people's credit card info. This obviously means they are vulnerable in some kind of way, but I fa…

The human genome and body are extremely complex. Concluding that something is caused by environmental factors just because a few genetic markers can't be found, would be a massive …

Isn't this correct though? That the probability of picking only four asians (if you chose at random) is just over one in a hundred million

There might be a good reason why they use glass ceramics instead of for example stone. Maybe because it's harder to manufacture consistently (ferromagnetic impurities?), has a larg…

Bamboo is made of cellulose, which is not what you would want to use for making plastics. The problem with cellulose is that, because it is fibrous, there aren't really any efficie…

> First, they showed that the police here, got from some US organizations, access to some kind of realtime NSA style spying tools, they showed on tv that their software show realti…

> Posts that call for illegal actions (such as stabbing civilians) should be removed What about a post that calls for women to vote? Or for black people to sit in the front of the …

You could argue that Google is directly saving money by not paying people to train its ML algorithms (which I'm assuming they have a plan to monetize).

Diesel engines produces less CO2 by being slightly more efficient. Pretrol engines produce less nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. What's "greener" is just a matter of your de…

In many places (in Europe at least, I don't know much about the rest of the world), cars are prioritised on roads with larger amounts of traffic (pedestrians have to "ask premissio…

I don't see how an add-on posted on the Chrome store is subject to Facebook's ToS. It might be aiding people in breaking the ToS, but is there really a law against that?

> Did you know making a meme technically isn't allowed in many parts of the EU? Does Mozilla also think that a meme is an image macro or am I misunderstanding here?

The problem is that wind and solar are only a supplementary to nuclear power at the moment. It won't be able to replace nuclear until we find a better way to store energy.

The article is mostly about food fraud. The only references to "toxins" are arsenic in rice and formaldehyde used as a preservative in milk (which apparently is a problem in Brazil…

The comparison in the article is pretty odd, but it's still amazing to see how much effort goes into engineering F1 cars. I wonder what they could produce if they were allowed to r…

Maybe I was just looking in the wrong place, but I cound't find much info about the baseband processor. Is it open or proprietary?

They are mad becuase it isn't making them enough money. You can have a look at this, which was posted a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836291

The problem with blocking all google doains is the amount of sites it would break. Youtube, gmail, googleapis for js libraries, google's blog platform, maps based on google maps an…

What I found interesting is that Pinterest likeley got one (or more) NSLs. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought pinterest was a place where people posted pictures of their food a…