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elcano

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    Comment #39428669

    Many more will go out of healthcare once the medical insurance industry is allowed to demand that their customers use their AI software for the initial visit instead of going to th…

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    Comment #38235449

    That doesn't solve the problem. I mean, a manufacturer that doesn't want to grant you access to repair your car can use analog computers, analog transmission/reception protocols an…

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    Comment #38139200

    OMG, I had forgotten that Royal Crown ever existed. It was a minor, but still important cola beverage, here in Puerto Rico back in the '70s.

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    Comment #38068633

    Puerto Rico (USA Territory) - Digital payments in the form of debit or credit cards are pretty much universal here, but most fast foods, small business and even semi-formal busines…

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    Comment #37670332

    No thanks. I'll not be using alcohol-based mouthwash. https://drugfree.org/drug-and-alcohol-news/australian-study-...

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    Comment #37573707

    This is not possible. No other country have implemented a program against homeless that works, and those who tried in the past have given up because it's an impossible problem to s…

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    Comment #37292935

    You mean, to all possible sensors and spectrum signals in the arsenal?

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    Comment #37292895

    I wouldn't say 'never'. But the right thing to do is to keep the training wheels (radar, lidar) until it's proven that the system has learned to drive without them when there's goo…

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    Comment #37132430

    I can't believe you all fell for the whataboutism.

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    Comment #37015558

    I'll summarize it for you: 'I'm the bomb! Just awesome. Here's the evidence. If you are a CEO looking to improve your time management and delegation skills, you can throw lots of m…

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    Comment #36604902

    Heating under usual winter conditions would consume more energy than cooling under practical conditions. Yes. But that's very different than claiming than cooling is more efficient…

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    Comment #35920003

    With credits, Aisera base model may get close to that number. But you will have to wait for it to be released and there're lots of people in line ahead of you. With that price and …

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    Comment #29349932

    What legacy systems is the oil and gas using? MQTT? OPC-DA? OPC-UA?

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    Comment #29302150

    I wonder if the trend of using the 'Latinx' term falls under the hypercorrection definition or there's something else to describe it. I'm not passing judgement on the inclusiveness…

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    Comment #29223947

    That's an intelligent hypothesis, but this could go one way or another. I'd prefer to see empirical results.

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    Comment #29221967

    The article makes you believe that the 11% benefit from using masks in the Bangladesh study was for the whole population (100%) using the mask (experimental group) vs the control g…

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    Comment #29090779

    What are you saying? Lol I could attribute the little use of internet pre-1994 to lack of ISP services, or the fact that people preferred html and modern search engines to the old …

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    Comment #29090631

    Yeah. We still need to see how Facebook/Meta wants to materialize this. Maybe they want to break the boundaries between your real self (as you consume apps like WhatsApp and Instag…

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    Comment #28995539

    I have been using on device transcription on my old Pixel. Here is a demo of the 2 years old technology: https://youtu.be/zfOPF069Xn0 But what I'm looking forward is the new techno…

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    Comment #28494786

    I would assume that you would have to very mentally stable to resist all that humiliation without going nuts. I have a friend that wasn't homeless, but all unemployment money was u…

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    Comment #28494734

    ‘The Secret Apartment’ is the story of a Vietnam vet who claims to have lived in Veterans Stadium for years https://www.inquirer.com/news/the-secret-apartment-vet-stadi...

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    Comment #28434544

    Did you receive the keyboard? It is built like a tank. I received mine last month and had used their GUI customization app to switch the location of a few keys, but this weekend I …

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    Comment #28425655

    My wife's XPS has that coil whine. She avoids using it because of it. It's pretty old, so we have to replace it. However, no more XPS in my house. I bought one for my son last year…

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    Comment #28342597

    So what is the public policy value of this study? We all should try to get Covid to get immunity to Covid? This is nonsense. This other study add some value: https://www.cdc.gov/mm…

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    Comment #27561967

    Google services between Germany and Malaysia might be essentially the same. But that might not be the case if Google decides to relocate you out of the United States. Even those US…