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Comment · 1 year ago
> a billion dollars does not convince me more.

Buying up gasoline vehicles and buying fossil fuel for them will cost money. But I don't think that'll be a billion dollars.

Comment · 2 years ago
This is the oldest dental scam in Indian subcontinent. It's so much culturally persistent that my family resisted going to the dentist.
Comment · 2 years ago
> would humans be able to do anything in the same order of magnitude?

We can definitely try to increase wheat production by trying to make a GMO. This could be ground breaking for food production.

Comment · 2 years ago
Almost all living beings process signals(especially chemical signals), bacteria for example starts making beta lactamase in presence of antibiotics.
Comment · 2 years ago
The problem is we taught people to trust science, instead of teaching them science. People should learn to be able to critically analyze data and statistics.
Comment · 2 years ago
Still better than a preterm baby dying.
Comment · 2 years ago
DNA evidence is where it's hard to get a false negative then false positive.
Comment · 2 years ago
Unless the US passes extensive legislation to prevent US companies from unlawfully accessing their clients devices all over the world, Google will comply. But the US isnt likely to do that.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's extremely costly to deeply inspect terabytes of traffic.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Most ISP's have a central point of contact / administration, and can be compelled to only forward encrypted traffic if it's explicitly permitted.

We standardized https. So it should be a lot harder than usual techniques.

Comment · 2 years ago
Devices were procured through Hungary, they were made in Taiwan
Comment · 2 years ago
Just because my enemy committed war crimes doesn't mean I get a free pass to commit war crimes
Comment · 2 years ago
can't we just put manifest v2 support patched over in every oss chromium fork by default.
Comment · 2 years ago
but you can't submit your assignment through Google classroom.
Comment · 2 years ago
You need to get very significant amount of liver damage to the point scar formation already occured. Without constant damage and scarring liver tissue heals over time.

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