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Along with replies by ’ClumsyPilot and ’ruined, remember that Brown v. Board of Education was passed only in 1954 and 1954 is just yesterday.

Also see this HN comment from a day ago on how much a black person had to fear even in 1980:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30061511

An excelelnt book regarding these is 'Simple Justice by Richard Kluger

https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Justice-Education-Americas-Str...

Another book focusing on computing is 'Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing by Jane Margolis

https://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Shallow-End-Education-Computing...

There is a wealth of info regarding these things, see redlining for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

Maybe these 2 books are helpful:

Strength Training Anatomy, 3rd Edition by Frederic Delavier

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0736092269/

The Strength Training Anatomy Workout: Starting Strength with Bodyweight Training and Minimal Equipment by Frederic Delavier and Michael Gundill

https://www.amazon.com/Strength-Training-Anatomy-Workout-Bod...

I think for weight loss, seeing a dietician is better. Wikipedia says dieticians are better regualted than nutitionists - they list regulatory bodies in countries including USA.

Dietician:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietitian

Re:Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:33PM (#30074853)
Not off the shelf but here are some tools. I have no experience with them.

Wolf binarization - I think it makes the text more clear before OCR.

https://github.com/chriswolfvision/local_adaptive_binarizati...

This thing OCRs the pdf using Tesseract OCR

https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/

Two other pdf tools

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf

https://github.com/pikepdf/pikepdf

Re:Firefox about:config Menu Shortcut on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:59AM (#30074303)
Someone posted downthread to use this instead:

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates

It's from Mozilla.

Aside: see a physical therapist instead of a chiropractor.

Edit: search for 'vertebral artery dissections from chiropractic neck adjustments

Re:Firefox about:config Menu Shortcut on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:19AM (#30073630)
Is this ubuntu.com Ubuntu or flavors like xubuntu, kubuntu, ubuntu-mate etc?
Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:13AM (#30073527)
I might be remembering the details wrong, but I heard an actual doctor saying there is difference between fresh fruit juice and soda pop.

I found this that seems like what the doctor said, but I'm not sure. Click on 'transcript' and read it.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-abo...

Edit: Other than this, fresh fruit juice contains minerals, vitamins, antioxidants etc etc.

This might be something to check out:

ImportYeti

https://www.importyeti.com/

Re:Firefox about:config Menu Shortcut on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:34AM (#30072929)
what's your firefox version and OS name and version?
Sweet Apple didn't bother to create a real time Airtag tracking android app. They have one, but it's manual so it's useless. Thankfully, The Secure Mobile Networking Lab (SEEMOO)of the Computer Science Department of Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany has created an app for it. It's FOSS and available on Google Play and Fdroid.

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.seemoo.at_t...

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.seemoo.at_tracking_detection

Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:08AM (#30070521)
Or money power, or doctor power. Many people go to a doctor only when things get worse because of the cost
Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:58AM (#30070467)
Fruit juice means fresh fruit juiced without adding any sugar right? Some people refer to fruit juice as the ones you see in tetrapacks.

Real fruit juice is very much different from soda pop.

Re:Coming to grips with the American Civil War on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:03PM (#30066965)
In addition to that, "Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality" by Richard Kluger is a really good read.