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Re:New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @11:50AM (#27529904)
Anyone not using Firefox/Ublock; you can use NoScript to block the banners, and a lot of other adtech (including some paywalls such as Bloomberg) as they are all JS-powered.

It's quite surprising to see how many JS plugins are in operation on a typical consumer site, and satisfying to know they were all blocked unless expressly permitted :)

Re:Amazon's Relentless Worker Churn on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @11:34AM (#27529676)
Wow, they really used IRS/DMV as a model for their HR UX..

'Our systems make mistakes that affect your present and future opportunities in mere seconds with no human presence - Now that's what I call efficiency!'

Re:CRISPR Editing in Primates on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:31AM (#27231719)
"Tissue studies showed that the base editing took place almost entirely in the liver.. Modified sequences could be detected in the spleen and adrenal glands, and hardly anywhere else. Similarly, liver samples showed very low levels of off-target editing in their DNA sequences.."

Yikes there is a lot of important information being glossed over here

Re:CRISPR Editing in Primates on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:26AM (#27231682)
Why does everything have to be so polarized now? I fear it is because on the internet, people can join and leave an argument as they please. The choice between 'No animal testing whatsoever' and 'greenlighting any and all testing on primates' is a false choice. The right answer is probably 'as close to no animal testing as is possible'. Learn to seek the middle ground with others, hint: try to see it from their point of view
Re:Management by metrics leads us astray on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:14AM (#25856995)
I very much subscribe to combining this 'Common-sense filter' to metrics when choosing a course of action, and came up with a term for it: inform your gut.