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That's why I don't use Google and others like that for anything essential, like email or storage. My operating principle is computing has to be done locally, unless I can't help it…

> I knew Google's automated processes were pretty bad... If you think Google's AI for Spam is pretty bad, then you haven't experienced Twitter's. I've had a Twitter account suspend…

Have you tried to create an account at this site - HN, using a Tor-enabled browser of over a VPN connection?

IS this title correct? The title on Reddit says: > Sent my phone to Google for replacement. They fixed the old one and used it to post nudes on my wife's social media and steal mon…

For a moment I thought we were in 2022 already. Oh, well, I guess I still have to wait another 30 days.

"Enhanced actual reality without silly looking headsets." That was funny. Would actually love to visit that place.

It all depends on where you're in the US, though in general, especially in smaller cities, honking at another driver is taken as an insult. When I first moved to Baton Rouge, it to…

The Yoruba system is very sane and logical. For example, the Yoruba word for: 10: mewa 20: ogun 30: ogbon 40: ogoji, which is a contraction of "ogun meji", or 20 twice. Meji is the…

That's VIP, but then there's this: > House 17’s expressed purpose was to maintain phony records and crank out millions of phony IRS 1099s on capital gains and dividends, trade conf…

If you have to do all that to not get turkey meat that's dry, then one has to assume that turkey meat, cooked like you would cook any other meat, like chicken, is dry, as has been …

And in parts of West Africa, palm oil is the principal oil used in many recipes. Before Western vegetable oils were introduced to that part of the world, palm oil was the number on…

Starting from about 6 years ago, Palm Oil began showing up in practically everything, even those foods you wouldn't expect to find it. Check the ingredient list in that jar of pean…

Either that or he didn't read the article.

But the article says: > The scientists were able to prove this by analyzing nasal swabs from around 300 patients. They could predict with a probability of around 90 percent that in…

Memories! I'm sure I have at least one Jabber account somewhere. Don't even recall where to find it. Easier to just creat a new one and see if things have really improved from way …

I get free eletricity from 8pm - 5am. And yes, I did mining for while during that time frame when it was still possible to mine with one GPU.

There were and there are plant sources of salt, just as with sugar. > Do we actually _need_ all the extra salt we’re consuming nowadays? Nyet! I almost got a heart attack after eat…

One, then, has to wonder what the consensus algorithm was to determine the truthfulness of the taste (lick) test. Did they manage to put it on a blockchain?

The horse or cow was not put there to plow our fields. We just figured out a way to get them to do that, until we developed enough to figure out ways to build more efficient method…

Everything we build is an attempt to replicate what already exist in nature. How close we come is a function of our expertise and understanding of the laws of life. As we understan…

> Organic does not taste or look different. You're missing the point of organic, especially produce, and especially those you have to eat the skin too. It's not the taste, but the …

So much in this article to comment on, I don't know where to start. But this... > Testing for residues is not common in American organic regulation. That's a loop hole built into t…

> just a decent messaging app that makes it easy to remain anonymous Anonymous from other users, not from the provider, right?

Fact is, most other living things are much smarter than we give them credit for.