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Re:The Gravitational-Wave “Revolution” Is Underway on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:13PM (#21009585)

He is suggesting that advanced civilizations would use gravitational waves to communicate because they are hard to detect.

This summary of Dark Forest helps explain why a civilization would want to conceal their communications[0].

Re:How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @01:53PM (#21008019)

The example used in the article seems pretty blatant to me. As does your comment.

Re:.su on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @01:49PM (#21007976)

Isn't that goo.gl?

Re:India bans e-cigarettes, citing youth health concerns on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @01:07PM (#21007458)

Driving people to something more harmful is a bad idea.

Re:Egypt’S 1.8 Gigawatt Benban Solar Park Nears Completion on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:57PM (#21007323)

And at night?

Re:.su on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:10PM (#21006830)

Assigned to Google, but I could not find any examples of it actually being used unlike .google

Re:.su on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:00PM (#21006733)

Re:Cities Where Job Growth Is Outpacing New Homes on Thursday September 12, 2019 @04:13PM (#20955932)

The abbreviation for Ukraine is UA.

Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:41PM (#20955540)

Vickrey auction?

Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:15PM (#20955243)

Germany is an ally of the United States and yet...

Re:Dark Mode for Slack on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:48PM (#20954930)

How else would it rewrite the styles for every page?

Re:Dark Mode for Slack on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:45PM (#20954888)

Do we know what Slack is doing with the data?

Re:Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:11PM (#20954496)

Isn't markdown just turned into html?

Re:Turn off DoH, Firefox on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:19PM (#20944214)

Maybe if the OS providers were more proactive about DNS over TLS/HTTPS, Mozilla wouldn't have needed to do this to keep users secure.

Re:Turn off DoH, Firefox on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:16PM (#20944192)

I wonder if they will deal with it now that all US Firefox users will be unable to use it by default.

Re:Turn off DoH, Firefox on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:11PM (#20944137)

Cloudflare has a better track record than most ISPs and governments.