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This reminds me of a very old video game "Science Sleuths"[1] I ran into as a kid, where you had to identify a blob on the beach. [1] http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/Sleuths.html

I agree. Give me a short, concise, unapologetic error message. Some years ago, the Google Voice app for Android would put a message in the notification bar whenever there was even …

https://ijr.com/airbnb-ban-parents-conservative-youtuber-mis...

> NMS claims CLIA certification. This is the older law where labs self-certify compliance. Congress left CLIA in place alongside FDA IVD regulations to protect small pharmacists, b…

HN thread yesterday about lead contamination of Turmeric in Bangladesh and the government's response to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36481693

A music theory instructor from my past told us a story about his equivalent practical exam. He had to demonstrate proficiency with multiple string instruments. Instead of learning …

well, the government has definitely tried [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...

This is great, though with the usual formatting caveats of pdf printing from any browser! Firefox for Android used to have this feature up to version 60's somewhere but it was remo…

FYI Ebay no longer owns Paypal, and hasn't for several years. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_PayPal > September 2014 onward: It is announced that PayPal will be spli…

Per the article, Paypal is seizing the money as damages: > It also said that the money was taken from her account "for its liquidated damages arising from those AUP violations purs…

There was a HN discussion[0] on this back in 2020. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25226513

From the article, it sounds like nothing even remotely questionable was done by the reporter who found the flaw: > "According to the Post-Dispatch, one of its reporters discovered …

True. I did in fact have to explicitly downgrade TST to the <57-compatible version. The new version apparently doesn't yet support hiding the tab bar across the top of the browser.…

If you want to try these performance improvements (servo, e10s) but keep legacy add-on compatibility (at least for now) I suggest installing firefox 56, disabling auto-updates, and…

Will this address the absurd automatic updates/reboot "feature"? I've had the experience multiple times where a step away for a few minutes and come back to a blank desktop, even d…