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Re:Alterego: Thought to Text on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @01:44AM (#45177859)
> off the self

Was that deliberate, or a typo? I am genuinely wondering!

Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:54AM (#36503604)
It's in that CARB report posted above: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2018-11/Health%20...

Compare Table 3 to Table 5. PM emissions from exhaust are on the order of 1 gram per hour. Whereas fugitive dust emissions, depending on the surface, are 100s or 1000s of grams per hour.

Re:NumPy 1.24.0 has been released on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:57AM (#34049972)
Interesting. Both python and pyramid most likely come from Latin though, and in both Latin and French the "py" python is pronounced the same as the "py" in pyramid. So there must be more to it.
Wikipedia's Simple English page on Bell's inequality actually has a nice overview of a simplified way of thinking about quantum entanglement: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
Re:Police are requesting data from smart speakers on Monday October 05, 2020 @11:34AM (#24688649)
As already explained, there is still an important distinction. One would first have to be the subject of some kind of criminal investigation, and then your house could be bugged from that point in time.

When data is requested from a device like a smart speaker, suddenly everything that has been said, even before a potential investigation, would be accessible.

Re:Police are requesting data from smart speakers on Monday October 05, 2020 @11:30AM (#24688611)
Exactly, this is an important distinction. Self-censorship in the most intimate private sphere means one's freedom of expression is fundamentally limited in a severe way.
Re:Honey bee venom found to kill breast cancer cells on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:25AM (#24342044)
One of the episodes of the Netflix documentary series "Unwell" gives a very interesting overview of bee sting therapy. One doctor talks about its effectiveness against arthritis, because the body releases cortisol and analgesics in response to the bee venom, which explains why people with arthritis feel better.

However, the next point made is that a more straightforward way to achieve a similar result would of course be to inject the cortisol directly, instead of provoking this response by the body by injecting toxins first.