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zkms

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    Comment #45904944

    >An interesting part is the "we'll send you an email to confirm you're you", followed by a "enter validation code here" screen that immediately gets forwarded to the re-enrollment …

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    Comment #44892563

    My reaction to PCIe gen 8 is essentially "Huh? No, retro data buses are like ISA, PCI, and AGP, right? PCIe Gen 3 and SATA are still pretty new...". I wonder what modulation order …

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    Comment #44573385

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoggoth-with-smiley-face-art... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/shoggoth-meme-...

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    Comment #44229307

    His "The Shepherd" is amazing. Linking a PDF of it (it's 29 pages, and 100% worth reading) and not the wikipedia page for spoiler reasons: https://www.cessna150152.com/ubbthreads/a…

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    Comment #43984910

    "Wi-Fi calling" (LTE over IP over wifi) often allows you to get SMS messages over wifi only, on an ordinary cell plan: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108066 (Android supports it t…

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    Comment #43723483

    There are even multiple services that will mail a Potatoe to the recepient, possibly anonymously: https://potatoparcel.com https://www.mailaspud.com https://www.anonymouspotato.com…

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    Comment #43608869

    >(More surprisingly, there is evidence that lead is an essential micronutrient in trace quantities but its biological function is not currently known.) Do you have some links about…

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    Comment #42313130

    >it was 30 or so shots into my stomach, given over multiple days - and causing a lot of soreness and pain in between. I wonder if it’s still like this, because damn it's not like t…

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    Comment #40045684

    There has got to be some sort of two-man rule ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule ) integrated into the system that can't be bypassed by the people with authority to make …

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    Comment #39986958

    Looking into vitamin K2 (not K1) along with vitamin D is interesting as well -- I got my bone mineral density to 99th percentile (DEXA measured) without changes in physical activit…

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    Comment #39966515

    If there are plants (there is a patent and a paper describing this in some algae, IDK if it has been replicated or not...) that have preferences (kinetic isotope effect!) for one i…

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    Comment #37823089

    Have you tried some from Waveform Lighting? I have some of their bulbs (none of which has broken yet) and I selected them because of the low blue light and zero flicker. (No relati…

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    Comment #37680820

    The claim is that plants cannot run nor fight so their defenses must be chemical (or physical, like spines or needles or camouflage) in nature. It's far more difficult for a prey a…

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    Comment #37680619

    I feel the author is a bit too quick to debunk/discount the weird extreme claims of the carnivore tradfluencer set and jumps into the opposite direction: there seems to be a consil…

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    Comment #36298532

    > It's trivial to find people inside your echo-chamber being well-behaved --- this doesn't answer what a platform's moral responsibility is to society. I am not a Republican, Tom C…

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    Comment #36290299

    > I never met anyone who didn't equate "lab leak" with an intentional act by china The likes of Alina Chan and Richard Ebright are "easy mode" counterexamples for your statement. I…

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    Comment #36290016

    >I'm not sure I understand why you think this is evidence for the ability of the USSR to keep it secret or otherwise control perceptions? The USSR successfully manipulated many pro…

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    Comment #36110912

    > fluoride is created by nuclear weapons construction as waste and the government has to get rid of it somehow, so in the water it goes Like some wild conspiracy theories, there is…

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    Comment #35257319

    They claim to use the spontaneously immortalized UMNSAH/DF-1 chicken fibroblast cell line, which isn't a tumor cell line. I still wouldn't eat any "cultured meat" regardless of the…

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    Comment #30884180

    This is really interesting; is there somewhere with more detail on the work completed under this program?

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    Comment #28374097

    and belt-sander racing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-sander_racing

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    Comment #25998043

    > Are there any of those Japanese ones you can buy in North America? Any brands you're aware of? yeah, i'm curious as well.

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    Comment #25754575

    > The only success stories with this strategy are Australia and New Zealand, which are island nations completely isolated from anywhere else. Taiwan is another such success story (…