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Re:Robertson vs. Torx screw drives (2021) on Monday July 04, 2022 @09:11AM (#31976635)
I have used square head on deck wood, stainless screws, sux so bad, the squares strip out so easily, torx is way to go, wish price would come down.
Re:3D-Printed Homes for Sale in Austin on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:58AM (#31967365)
City of Austin should require a fully "paid up in advance" insurance fund to completely protect all buyers (and sellers to buyers no matter how many times in future) for the full current value of the purchase price - - against cracks in slab, walls, structural failure, etc.
Re:Kyshtym Disaster on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:31PM (#28859568)
I have Ukrainian relatives who survived Chernobyl. They are physics professors, who to this day - - are very nervous of anything emitting radioactivity.

They even refused to view a small alpha particle device I bought from United nuclear that had only a tiny piece of uranium ore from Canada inside it (virtually all alpha particles emitted)

Heh, so Zuckerberg's baby is now enabling predators and stalkers ?

I smell lawsuits going for the very deep pocket of Zuck . . . .

Telegram's "secret chat" option get's around this ?
Most apparent was the $200,000 in annual costs one of the farming operations saved by dumping the agro-chemical suppliers herbicides and pesticides.
Belarus dispatches MiG-29 fighter jet to corral RyanAir flight bound for Lithuania - - - - forcibly diverted to Minsk . . .
Re:Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:33AM (#26942903)
Bill Gates was already involved in a startup to radar identify and kill mosquitos with lasers . . . guess it did not go well.
Indeed, however Oxalobacter formigenes is not widely present in all human biomes, even those without antibiotic therapy.

I have attempted to garner the interest of major enzyme corporation (Novozymes, for example) in mass producing the oxalate degrading enzyme through fermentation, but no response.

From Lab Escaped Covid to Now Carbon: China Emits More Carbon in 2 Weeks Than Australia Does in One Year
Electric cars still require rubber tires, most of which are made from fossil/petro resources.

Electric cars still require roads to drive on, many of which are asphault, which contains cancer causing aromatics, and is the lowest, heaviest product in a refinery crack tower.

Many lubricants which are derived from fossil/petro are used in electric car transmissions, etc.

Electric cars have no less fossil/petro derived plastic and polymers than conventional cars.

The "new shorts" are the options traders who have placed millions of calls since Friday . . . no margins, but increased leverage
Re:Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:52AM (#25747634)
Just tried to download and install handshake. Requires docker. Just tried to download and install docker on windows 7, failed install, requires more stuff.

Opinion: This will never become a realization until these people realize the average Joe is not going to jump through all these hoops just to get an alternative browser up and running. It should be simple and seamless. Less than 1% will bother with all this.

Dr. Pierre Kory represents a group of well published, highly regarded American physicians presenting new studies and research which they claim conclusively proves that ivermectin has been found to be the closest thing we have to a miracle drug for covid19 (both prophylaxis and treatment). Ivermectin is an well established, inexpensive existing drug with over 3 billion pills taken worldwide in past decades, very low side effects.
Re:A family with no fingerprints on Saturday December 26, 2020 @09:01AM (#25543485)
palm prints are standard now along with fingerprints, the creases within palms and fingers are verifiable.
Re:Facebook's attempt to vilify Apple looks like sour grapes on Monday December 21, 2020 @09:05AM (#25495021)
The real dirt behind the scenes is that Apple paid to have an evaluation of how much access was worth to Facebook, told Facebook to pay up or else. Facebook balked at the number, and now Apple is gonna cut them off. Just simple business.
Internal Conspiracy. Rico Act stuff. Corporate criminals . . .
So, do I understand correctly this OnlyFans site is mostly a site where attractive women can post custom videos of themselves for serious money ?
SEC should also place an individual limit of how much a "non accredited individual" can invest, like $10K.
Re:Ask HN: How are you downloading YouTube videos? on Saturday October 31, 2020 @08:41PM (#24956435)
Not quite that simple.

I brought up YouTube, clicked on sample video, dragged it into VLC where it displayed.

There is no "video info" in latest VLC download, there is >tools>media info, which at the very bottom yields location:

I copied pasted that URL in location: (https://r2---sn-bg5oqxjvh-xa2e.googlevideo.com . . . . . ) into Firefox and it would not resolve.

90% of that cellphone data is Google based. . . so, Google is participating in this destruction of privacy, just another reason for trustbusting of Google.
Re:Portland passes broadest facial recognition ban in the US on Sunday October 11, 2020 @09:17AM (#24745552)
FEDS are laughing at this, they do whatever they want to.
Not only are almonds (and most nuts) high in oxalates, but almonds as a crop use stunningly high amounts of water.
This was inevitable . . . it also will make Space X's constellation of satellites a target for Russian and Chinese military.
If you read the research publication the dosage given to mice was 100 mg. per kg. - - which is about 8 grams per human, that is HUGE.

pterostilbene is related to resveratrol

Does anyone really believe that the principals of these pirate suites freely give out their real phone no's, addresses, and anything else useful ? They know from the start that the authorities will be using the legal system to obtain this information (which is typically all false information anyway).

and if they hail from Russia no Western legal process applies in Russia, Russian courts don't respect any Western demands, in fact, Western lawyers who dare to show up in Russia would likely be beaten or killed, so they could hire local counsel, but the criminals can hire hitmen to take out local counsel cheaper than they can hire defense lawyers.

That says something about the legal trade: when guys can hire hitmen cheaper than you can hire a lawyer (and typically with more certain results)

So have the shower head shipped to a friend anywhere else, who then privately ships it to you.
Let's not forget that this neutron star is measured at 5.8 kiloparsec distance from earth which is 18,917.1 light years.

Even if observable electromagnetic radiation was traveling at the speed of light, which most is not, we are looking at ancient history, because once this EM reaches earth we are studying phenomena that occurred >189 centuries ago.

We don't have a way to know if this star is even still there.

Everything studied in astronomy at significant light years distance is ancient phenomena, we are just seeing it/sensing it/evaluating it now.

"We've made 3 applications requesting recognition as expert fair trial monitors and all denied" . . .

Because it's not a fair trial, it's a sham trial which is being overshadowed by the US Gov't.

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