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Re:The case for induction cooking on Saturday March 12, 2022 @11:55PM (#30658111)

A study found that range hoods don’t actually provide a significant reduction in NO2, but air filters helped.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4909253/

Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:34PM (#26003896)

  * It's not exactly the same, but I use Kanshi for dynamic output configuration. https://github.com/emersion/kanshi
  * https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard
  * https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi
  * https://github.com/yory8/clipman
  * There's wlrobs for OBS. There's grim/slurp/wl-recorder for use outside of OBS.
  * You can use grim to grab a particular color on the screen, but the UI wouldn't be as good, of course.

Re:Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:22PM (#23645224)

I was homeschooled, and there are a wide range of homeschoolers in the US. Generally it breaks down into three categories: "religious", "hippie", or "academic".

It sounds like Laura was from academic branch, where her parents were probably very engaged, and thought they could do a better job than the school system--which is great.

My parents, and most of their friends who homeschooled were from the religious branch of the movement, which is fairly large in the US. Their main motivation was to basically prevent the school system from teaching us things they didn't approve of, like evolution, etc. Of course, we learned about evolution, but from a very different (and very incorrect) perspective.

Regardless, we still took standardized tests, and performed really well on them every year. Overall I did fine in college--aside from a few academic blind spots, and I'm doing fine as a programmer today. The social stuff was a steep learning curve once I hit college, but I made it.

I will say there are a number of people I know who didn't "make it out". College can be a really big jump for a lot of these kids.

Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay user... on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:27PM (#23605009)

> The project’s signup form asks for people to put in all of the email addresses they use online to help identify how many platforms are currently profiting off of an individual’s data. It also asks for users to provide their PayPal information so any money that could eventually be gained from platforms could be deposited directly into a user’s account.

This seems like a wild thing to be asking for at this stage in the project.

Re:Ajit Pai is right on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:56PM (#15799600)

> Remember that ISPs bear massive fixed costs, which means they are motivated to maximize the number of end users. That means not cutting off sites and apps those customers want. Moreover, even in the worst case scenario where ISPs did decide to charge Google and Netflix and whatnot, they could price discriminate and charge the Netflix competitor nothing at all!

I don't really get this argument. If the ISPs are able to get another revenue stream from content providers, such as Netflix, etc, then this doesn't really follow. There could even be a world where they care more about content providers than consumer! Also: they're not necessarily going to "cut off" these other apps, they could simply throttle them, making that app seem to work poorly. So, the consumer just stays with Netflix, who is paying the ISP.

Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat App on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:22AM (#13003567)

The Labor Board eventually issued a cease and desist, and ordered that the hotel negotiate with the union: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/labor-board-trump-hote...

Re:Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS on Friday December 11, 2015 @03:05AM (#10715946)

This is almost certainly the ads that they're talking about in this post. They don't really have any control over what kind of trackers are included in 3rd party ads. I would wager that if you reload the site at different times of the day, you'll get different numbers.

It's a sad reality of the advertising world—the people building the ads simply don't care, and the ad networks can't (or won't) do good QA.

Re:The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and ... on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @07:06PM (#9696266)

> The new Safari release brings Content Blocking Safari Extensions to iOS. Content Blocking gives your extensions a fast and efficient way to block cookies, images, resources, pop-ups, and other content.

It seems like this feature isn't really just "ad blocking", it's the ability to write any kind of blocking extension. So a plugin that blocks analytics should be pretty doable.