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Comment · 12 days ago
Add in hormone replacement therapy to reduce menopausal problems and these studies are going to get very confusing.
Comment · 17 days ago
Huh, my passkey isn't working. Guess I have to go do the account recovery dance or login old school to fix it.
Comment · 17 days ago
So password managers work right up until you stop using the password manager. This also applies to passkeys magic protection against phishing. Because of limitations with passkeys, there is always an alternative login mechanism or recovery process and that is just as easy to phish. Maybe easier given the complexity of passkeys and befuddled users.
Comment · 24 days ago
And Orange Roughy, available in Australian fish and chip shops, spawned around the same time as the first British colony there.
Comment · 24 days ago
I don't know. It could be profitable enough to fund the later stages of the build, or proof enough to bring in more risk adverse investors. I don't think we would be seeing press releases if the numbers show that continuing the build is economically doomed.
Comment · 26 days ago
This plant became operational after 2 years and has started paying back the investment. If your project is going to take 20 years before it comes online, you are going to need much, much higher returns to justify the investment. There is also a lot more risk involved in keeping a project alive and viable over a 20 year period, again pumping the expected returns needed before investors will invest.
Comment · 29 days ago
If a human was manually reviewing your logs, maybe. But that isn't the problem. Your stream is already a pile of garbage amongst billions of other piles of garbage. Programs will find the keywords they are looking for no matter if they are looking in a big pile of garbage or small.
Comment · 1 month ago
If you want supply independence, you have to start sometime. It is unlikely that Taiwan joins the EU and solves the problem that way.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, that sort of boycott requires sacrifice, choosing to not deal with people who have different opinions. Its why mostly people might boycott meat but not people who eat meat.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think it is the point. Bots have become the enemy. Most websites will have a strong opinion first time they look at the weblogs and realize how much of their capacity and money is being used for... something other than what they wanted it to be used for. Bots are no longer a rounding error. And yes, there are certainly innocent victims in the roadkill.
Comment · 1 month ago
A bot owners enshittification is a site admins salvation. The toggle is trivial to turn on or off. What will site admins do I wonder?
Comment · 1 month ago
Capitalism, starting the moment TLD registrars first bid for the monopoly to charge rent. And continuing today, where I think only Cloudflare offer below or at cost domain registration, charging nothing themselves and just passing on the other mandatory fees to the rent seekers. It has had centralization at its heart since the beginning, when someone had to allocate IP addresses and everyone else had to agree (or we would have internets and not The Internet), which enabled this. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if, instead of central IP address allocation, clients had generated a UUID and it was accepted on The Internet unless consensus agreed it wasn't unique? But I don't think we knew how to do that then and technical limitations. Heck, crypto export laws would have killed it and required a central authority to prove that a UUID was you and not an imposter.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm surprised the market accepted this sort of franchisee set pricing. When I saw how airport prices differed from regular prices, I just tried harder to avoid airport food. Its a world where people drive distances for a cent per liter in petrol, but they don't pay attention to where they can get their same dinner cheaper?

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