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spauka

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    Comment #44555197

    Ironically, you've picked an example (Artemisinin) which is discussed at some length in the linked article - as an example where TCM success is overstated and not backed up by real…

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    Comment #44168145

    One additional fact to keep in mind - the ability to smell hydrogen cyanide has a genetic component and 1 in 4 people will not be able to smell the "bitter almond" odour [1]. I do …

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    Comment #43844747

    Without comment on the question of health benefits or harms, I'm curious whether you've had the well water you use tested. Fluoride concentrations in bore-well water varies quite w…

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    Comment #43758142

    One of the coolest revelations to me, just looking at the status page [1] is that the Wii only had 88 MB of RAM - split between 24 MB built in to the SoC and 64 MB of GDDR3. Given …

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    Comment #43757968

    Depending on how often you are refreshing - the status page only updates every 15 minutes: > So I put together a simple shell script that runs from the crontab every 15 min, output…

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    Comment #42620081

    Raspberry Pi's RP2350 microcontroller introduced a multitude of new hardware security features over the RP2040, and included a Hacking Challenge which began at DEF CON to encourage…

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    Comment #41968216

    It seems like the summary of this article is: No Encryption is mandated for data at rest and data in transit. There is a provision for encryption of data in use when homomorphic en…

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    Comment #34798511

    So ChatGPT didn't correctly summarize the text at all, this article does not talk about ethics at all, doesn't talk about potential uses and I would consider the statement about ca…

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    Comment #34769147

    Worth noting that the material is not conductive or otherwise metallic in any way. In a lot of ways this material is similar to Alumina (Sapphire) which you could also describe as …

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    Comment #29918775

    While your point stands - it's worth pointing out that this bug was NOT caused by an update [1], but seems to have been a long-standing bug in the HTTP3 stack that was triggered du…

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    Comment #28152166

    The paper does not make conclusions about whether the vaccinated are more likely to be asymptomatic - but in case you are interested the results are presented in Table 1. Of The 69…

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    Comment #27980870

    That is not accurate - take a look at Page 9 of the product compliance datasheet: https://downloads.dell.com/rdoc/dell%20alienware%20ryzen%20e... WOL and similar features do not ch…

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    Authentication errors across multiple Microsoft services

    https://status.azure.com/en-us/status SUMMARY OF IMPACT: Starting at approximately 19:15 UTC on 15 Mar 2021, a subset of customers may experience issues authenticating into Microso…

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    Comment #25264040

    This may be a joke comment - but this is not the idea of the study. From the introduction: the idea is to use alcohol inhalation as it reduce surface tension on the alveoli and mar…

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    Comment #24183012

    This reads to me more as if though G/FB have to tell news organizations what data is being collected, rather than disclosing the actual data. A quote from the Q&A seems to clarify:…

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    Comment #22298123

    Where does it say that? My reading of the linked page suggests that MSSQL and Oracle are being deprecated, but SQLite and Postgres are supported and maintained. In fact, SQLite is …

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    Comment #17651175

    As other commenters have pointed out below, the issue the ACCC took was not that they didn't request reviews from all customers, but rather that they specifically and actively excl…