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I used to have a similarly priced Withings smartwatch clone; worked very well for years until I switched to a new phone and the app turned out to be gone from the store and the log…

Living was always expensive, in developing countries, goods are still expensive but so is living. Save for subsistence farmers, but those are a minority in all but the poorest coun…

High 5 figure salaries can bribe ethics, especially if the engineers are on a Green card

Not to mention they charged $45 a year for a service that included backups in their cloud should your save become a dead link. Imagine paying that amount for several years and when…

Consider this too next time you read about a billionaire supporting charity (besides their motives likely being tax breaks). For example Zuckerberg donated $75 million to a San Fra…

I found several websites switched to 'press here until the timer runs out', probably they are doing the checks while the user is holding their mouse pressed, it would be trivial to…

You are confusing installed capacity with power used. The consumed power is going down since the early 2000s, but since the generated power by most renewables depends on the weathe…

Not having my browser nagging me to install Chrome every time I open search, maps or gmail?

>Sometimes, people want a more efficient way to read articles, rather than actually reading them. Is it too much to assume that readers have had at least high school education and …

But those were sold with the expectation to be used by Saudi Arabia for that purpose.

I feel that we are employed above of all to be available when it matters rather than to do a certain amount of work for the hours you are paid for. Compare it to a workshop with so…

Drum brakes are in the same spot and can last for the life of the vehicle.

Hub motors are in development for cars too, e.g.: https://lightyear.one/articles/lightyear-and-elaphe-develop-...

WhatsApp has led to dozens of brutal deaths in India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings

There appear to be few good apps left that do not use a subscription model, and when they do, more often than not they charge at least €5/month, or a yearly €40 subscription. I rem…

>Too bad you used the same phone number that you have on file with the university. Regardless of the legitimate discussion on cheating, why would a lecturer have access to student …

I was hoping most people would be familiar with the exponential chessboard story, of which this is pretty much the inverse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_probl…

>100% of all villages had erected strict and high barriers to quarantine their villages off from the rest of the China. https://www.ifpri.org/blog/lockdowns-are-protecting-chinas-r…

>just try things out without so much pressure. I highly doubt you have any experience around promovendi

A similar thing is happening in inorganic chemistry. On https://materialsproject.org probably the majority of materials are 'discovered' computationally, by using DFT simulations t…

If there is a wikipedia entry on the topic, use the interlanguage links to find the most commonly used words for that term in a foreign language.

>Works like precaution To keep scientists of Chinese descent out of US academia, yes indeed.

What is a crime depends on local legislation. Being homosexual is a crime in many countries, hence there is still nothing wrong with 'criminals' performing forced labour?

SponsorBlock has a video highlight part option now, as more users start submitting it, you could use that to judge.

Have never used OF, but does it really have a good discovery algorithm? From the outside it appears that most new subscribers are from the links that are shared everywhere, similar…