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From what I've read, a single drink is usually good for sleep, 2 or 3 is too much and will do more harm than good. Wikipedia currently agrees with me, but the reference is from 198…

How they do this is basically to send google.com in the TLS SNI then when they get to the HTTP level send Host: signal.org This will only work with compatible servers. In Signal's …

I don't think so - over-prescription of opioids and more common usage of fentanyl seem to the be the key factors in the death increases. Nothing to do with underlying socioeconomic…

That some tiny portion of the deaths in your country are from opioid overdoses? People voluntarily injecting themselves with drugs and fucking up? Why exactly does this concern you…

I'd advise reading the article I linked, the increases are far from modest in many cases. I'll agree with you on the environmental issues, but I think we're well on the way to solv…

That's a very niche problem in comparison - we're talking hundreds of millions of people leaving poverty across the globe compared to under hundreds of thousands dying of opioid ov…

There was a whole push for netbooks like the Asus EEE PC that happened around the same time as the original XO.

I don't think so, reading real statistics on this kind of thing instead of alarmist and politically slanted headlines paints a very different picture of how the world is doing. htt…

Stupid clickbait.

Yeah, I managed to miss a digit when I ran the numbers myself so I was off by an order of magnitude when I wrote my post. Glad you checked it. Fucking hilarious what these guys wil…

Are suspicions really enough to put you into illegal territory here? If so it'd be a very hard crime to prosecute as unless you were working for them or something it's very hard to…

> >6-7% annual returns I wouldn't say quite that low, even S&P averages are often higher than that. But 48% monthly is going to be something like a >1000% yearly interest rate. You…

They've already managed to use CRISPR to give color blind primates their full vision back... http://www.neitzvision.com/research/gene-therapy/

They might just be looking for some way to differentiate themselves on iOS given Apple's policy of not allowing 3rd party rendering engines.

How widely deployed is that display stream compression?

Looking for a way to do better remote access to Linux boxes - Microsoft's RDP completely nails it on Windows, I used to quite like NX, but don't hear much about it these days, how …