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Doesn‘t that number alone arouse suspicion in you? I suggest you read the paper in question and ask yourself if their methods really measure what they claim.

Sounds disturbing, but when I think about the thousands of flights, 100000s of passengers, almost all with at least 1 LiIon device…a lot more incidents should have happened at this point.

Semi-related story: I started a flight from a not-1st world country to another not-1st in the times when all cell phones had to be switched off. When we approached landing, the cellphones got contact and started buzzing and ringing with incoming messages. Apparently a lot of people had ignored the order to turn off the phone. I realized that in my 1st world, people follow those orders, in other countries they just don‘t. If cell phones posed a danger to flight safety, somewhere a plane should have crashed already. Similar to here.

I slowly grinded my way through BOTW over the last years, every few months a few steps forward, then getting bored. Left the plateau, tamed a horse and have now the full picture of the princess and a long sleep. Nice, but still little curiousity what happens next. I wish I could feel what everyone else seems to enjoy…

I used to think the same way, but not anymore. The amount and variety of attacks on the devices have increased too much in the last years. The device could be encrypted, money could be stolen, some malware could sit silently and do surveillance for who knows. I always wanted to install software on my iPhone without the manufacturing company deciding what I can and can not have (according to californian standards!), but would I let my kids do that nowadays? No way! Stay on the app stores, also on Windows and MacOS is the first line of defense. It‘s sad but the safest approach. Regular users don‘t need to install software on their own anymore, the same as they don‘t need to put processors, storage and Monitors together or install a sound card.

Interesting, the same word with the same insulting meaning is used in northern Germany…TIL it‘s in English too. Maybe a leftover of the british occupation after WWII. Spacken Spacko Spack

It‘s not unreadable, just a tad more difficult. And as others have pointed out, there are other ways of making it easier again than using a specific character. But the real point is: The information transported in both examples did not change its meaning and will be understood by the reader / receiver in both cases. If it‘s not, it matters. As long as it is, it‘s pedantic.

The results of Google today really look like Altavista in 1999. I started using you.com, which looks like Google 10 years ago. You get actual non-SEO-optimized search results on the first page. I‘m sure that will change once more people use it, but at the moment I have a working search engine again.

QuakeC always reminds me that Carmack was a genius and I am not. I mean, besides writing a almost fully customizable 3D-engine and a mulitplayer stack, he created a program language for game control, including a compiler. I home-studied it all back in those days, but even today with all my experience I still couldn‘t build any of those things… so congratulations to the author, even if I don‘t quite see the point.

But he didn‘t use any of these words. It‘s you who reacts to a stereotype here, instantly connecting „secret worldwide control group“ with „of jewish faith“ or something - in your head. Not that I would follow the OPs opinion. Yes to smokescreens, corruption and instilling fear in people to control them. Only I think that we are not yet there, development-wise, for a group that could plan this deliberately. Ideology and power dynamics work by themselves, especially in the lawless secret services of this world (and I mean all of them, there are no good ones).

Same here, past 50 and while my job doesn’t fulfill me, I can do it with little effort and it pays the bills. I’m too tired and lazy to try something new, rather look for fulfillment in my spare time. Actually, all my previous experiences say that every job sucks, no matter how promising it looked like at the start.

Whenever we find the way to immortality, it will be exclusive to the richest of the rich at first. But equally inevitable, it will eventually trickle down to all. The business will be just to good.

Strange, my POV is completely different. Humans can adapt to everything, look at those native tribes in Brazil. I am certain that once humanity fully decrypted its own genes, immortality will arrive with all the implications one can‘t now even imagine. I also believe that this discovery was inevitable, it is literally in our genes and was already waiting to be discovered when the first stone tool has been made . Immortality is the destiny of this species. It will transform everything, altough I’m not sure it would all be good. Unfortunately, chances are that I won‘t live long enough to see, unless cryo. A minimal chance that it would work, but better than no chance at all…and I would die -well rather not die- to see how everything continues. The world now is different than the world when I was born, it‘s constantly changing in small and big ways and I‘d love to see it. One day, the white house will look like the forum romanum.

Thank you!! I was unsuccessfully searching for something like this. Btw I also see a full screen, not closable login nag when scrolling down a few tweets. The solutions is to tap on login and close the dialog on the following screen. I won‘t make an account, twitter. Shut me out completely and I‘ll be gone, just like with reddit.