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    Comment #49163133

    When averaged over 24 hours, probably.

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    Comment #49123234

    Thanks, Claude

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    Comment #49115485

    >If it just takes a few hundred rich people meeting up a few times a year A few hundred rich people and the world's politicians. Having secret off-the-record meetings, yes.

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    Comment #49114666

    There are a ton of legitimately free IPTV streams. You can watch them through most media players like VLC without having to download anything shady. https://github.com/iptv-org/ipt…

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    Comment #49083647

    Spore forming bacterium are notoriously resistant to most ways of killing them. There's even a species that can resist radiation amounts that are 1000x the dose needed to kill a hu…

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    Comment #49075249

    https://www.wikihow.com/Add-Cards-to-Apple-Wallet

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    Comment #49075200

    With Nordea, you get a code book full of one-time codes.

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    Comment #49075177

    From their site: >It is not possible to send Wero payments to friends & family via a web browser or on a computer https://support.wero-wallet.eu/hc/en-us/articles/25599074240... So…

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    Comment #49073660

    Remember Tay AI? https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/sites/tay-ai

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    Comment #49073304

    >Our pricing is clear and merchant-friendly: a small percentage fee with built-in caps https://wero-wallet.eu/e-m-commerce So they charge a fee, but they don't specify what a "smal…

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    Comment #49072109

    Does anyone know if a torrent is available? I think it would take quite a while to download 1.5tb from their servers.

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    Comment #49071057

    I would change it to "the expected natural life of the author" which is their birthday + 85 years. Regardless of whether they actually are still alive past that date.

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    Comment #49069627

    >what other possible explanation is there for someone putting a PIN visible on their phone that wipes it while crossing a border? For thieves, obviously.

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    Comment #49069020

    >Remember what happened to Aaron Swartz He killed himself before the trial even began. I think he would have won the case if he actually went through it.

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    Comment #49047680

    The Starcraft map was called Aeon of Strife.

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    Comment #49047569

    Yes, if you click the extension menu, there's a button that says "Always Open This Site in..."

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    Comment #49047555

    uMatrix handles this by allowing you to add whitelists on a site by site basis.

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    Comment #49012944

    At least with Github you did. What did you think would happen handing your data to a company owned by Microsoft?

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    Comment #49012674

    We should rewrite all Rust code in Python. Not for any technical reason. I'm just sick of the Rust cult at this point.

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    Comment #49011234

    The Atlantic Council and RAND corporation both report on this. https://www.rand.org/topics/taiwan.html https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-coun...

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    Comment #48980367

    Those are probably 50-60 hz flickering from the mains frequency rather than PWM. (Or 100-120 hz due to the rectifier). Actual PWM ICs drive LEDs over 10,000 hz, which is truly impe…

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    Comment #48937137

    DuckDB is a OLAP database. Its optimized for batch analytics, not for individual transactions. Its great for data science work, but I wouldn't use it for a production system.

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    Comment #48909605

    There's no need to build them in Dallas. Just keep them near the shoreline. The only reason you have so many data centers in North Jersey is so high frequency traders can make thei…

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    Comment #48909402

    Completely serious. Sea water cooling for data centers is already in use here in Helsinki. And water temperature in the Gulf of America doesn't seem to go above 30 C even in the su…

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    Comment #48909204

    That's not really a claude-ism. Its an important requirement for a many asynchronous tasks.