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"You will be annoyed" and "you will be served malware" are two different classes of need. The first is enough to get me running Firefox/uBlock Origin on my own devices. The second …

yeah good idea, I'll just pop it into my xbox -- oh.

This was Washington, D.C. during the Bush years. I could more easily have admitted to an ongoing affair or a cocaine habit.

There's a large middle ground between saying nothing in the face of bigotry and proceeding immediately from "oh you're a member of ?" to an itemized list of hypocrisies, without st…

Having previously been a member of such a religion, and having left it specifically over human rights issues, I am delighted to inform you that there are many individuals who ident…

Of course people know how to hide things that aren't safe to tell everyone. I do, however, genuinely mean what I'm saying. I worked somewhere once where the nature of the work mean…

I don't own a company, and nobody reports to me. I simply said I want my coworkers to feel safe being themselves. I've had jobs where that was true, and they were better places to …

Maybe not your whole self, but I'd like the people I work with to feel safe talking about their family, their disabilities, their religion, their culture or subculture, the things …

It's fascinating reading if you're interested in finding out the details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station)

To clarify my point, I am fairly sure the issue is not fountain pens requiring less pressure to write with than everything else, but rather ballpoint pens requiring more pressure t…

The cursive thing is almost certainly because he's using fountain pens. Pencils and ballpoint pens lend themselves to printing more easily, because they require pressure to write, …

I don’t know whether you wrote this by hand in the most painfully LLM style you could gin up, or whether you got an LLM to do it for you, but either way I tip my hat to you.

Oh sorry, I didn’t mean to imply you didn’t. If you were lucky enough to get a doctor to diagnose you before you figured it out yourself, congrats. That should be more common than …

Not OP, but this is fairly common knowledge. Here's a reliable source - search the page for VAPP: https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-detail...

Autonomic neurologists are the relevant specialists. I invite you to look for one in your local area and see how rare they are. The last I checked, the Seattle metro area (and in f…

I read novels voraciously, all of them on my phone. I haven't bought a paper book for myself in maybe a decade.

As someone with a degree in literature, I'm gonna disagree there. It depends on both the novel and the programming.

All of those may be correlated to the rise in obesity. I see no evidence that any of them is causal. I don't even think all of them are correlated, honestly. The rise in the number…

What evidence do you have that it is a cultural shift, rather than, say, a chemical in the environment that wasn't there before, or a difference in the food supply?

The word you're looking for is "sterilizing."

If you're not vegetarian, I recommend looking into heme iron. It's a lot more bioavailable, even more than iron bisglycinate, and in my experience it's much easier on the GI tract.…

Yes, exactly. I don't object; it's salutary to find out you don't know anything about topic X. It's just disconcerting after having read and understood an article purporting to exp…

Do you mean “simpler” or do you mean “more accurate”? I’m quite willing to accept your explanation as more accurate, but it is not simpler, at least if you don’t know much about mo…

I read and understood the article, including the math in it, then came here (I know, that’s the wrong order) and read your comment, and promptly decided I knew less than I did befo…

> just to understand block ciphers I have a decent intuition for what a hash function does after twenty years of encountering them in the wild. I don't even know what a block ciphe…