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testvox··on Boys trapped in Thai cave were drugged for risky rescue dives
> Not talking about miss-using drugs, only talking about approved usage by professionals

Well answer your question about why this is interesting to people. The difference between mis-use and proper use is the interesting question. This is not an approved use of ketamine, and the people administering and issuing the drugs were not licensed professionals.

testvox··on A barber shop on wheels that you book via an app
TMS is not done with a MRI machine.
testvox··on Storing UTC is not a silver bullet
Thanks for mentioning this. I came across this page which discusses the theory and practice of timezone databases. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html
testvox··on Blackmail Should Be Illegal
I will disagree, you have no right to both keep secrets and allow other people to know them. I think blackmail should be illegal in the case of threatening to disclose criminal activity. But that case has nothing to do with the right to keep secrets. It should be illegal because it's essentially using the threat of state violence for personal gain. Any threats of violence for personal gain should be illegal.

I will note even with this limited scope it gets complicated. For example if you are being harassed and threaten to report the aggressor for criminal harassment if they do not leave you alone you might be commiting blackmail.

testvox··on My Salary Progression in Tech
I think he meant more like minimum wage increases and health insurance mandates.
testvox··on Addressing Spotify’s Claims
There are lots of Android versions with all Google tracking code excised.
testvox··on Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s
They might have not been contractually allowed to admit fault. Many insurance policies do not allow the insured to admit fault, or they forfeit the policy.
testvox··on Cloudflare expands its government warrant canaries
Yeah but here the action would be to make a false publication, which as discussed higher up the courts have been reluctant to force people to do.
testvox··on BuzzFeed Journalists Vote to Unionize in Wake of Layoffs
Yeah I think their news and investigative journalism are top notch https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/intake
testvox··on Drivers claim Uber won’t pay fees to launch forced arbitration cases
That quote clearly says that you sue to vacate the award, not force the arbitor to pay you it back.
testvox··on Forensic Pseudoscience (2015)
Naw the easiest person to convict is some random stupid kid who you can pressure into admitting to any crime you want.
testvox··on Phenylephrine Is No More Effective Than Placebo for Nasal Congestion (2015)
The placebo effect is particularly effective for simple pain like headaches (also anxiety, and nausea).
testvox··on Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (2017)
Yeah it certainly still tells you something, but most people's intuitions about probability mislead them about the amount of information contained. Its like how people can be lead to believe they have a very rare disease if they test positive for it. Just because most people who have the disease test positive for it doesn't mean you can just ignore the prior probability that the disease is extremely rare in the first place, so you still likely don't have it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
testvox··on WasmWinforms – .NET WinForms in a browser
If you are using a fairly new version of chrome any wasm should indeed show up under sources, under a special wasm domain. It looks like this https://webassemblycode.com/wp-content/uploads/Chrome-Wasm-D...

It doesn't show the source file because the browser is not actually aware of where the js on the page got the wasm its running from. From the browser's perspective it just fetched an opaque file and then separately got told to run some wasm.

You can see the actual source file for the wasm for one of the demos here, it still shows up in the network tab (but for example if the js on the page generated the wasm then it wouldn't). https://webassembly.z19.web.core.windows.net/mono.wasm

testvox··on For the Love of Pipes
Allow programs to specify the type of data they can consume and the type of the data they emit. This is how powershell does it (using the dotnet type system).
testvox··on Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test
He is just wrong, the twins in this case got the same "results" as far as the genotyping is concerned. The differences were in the analysis provided.
testvox··on A Year-Long Undercover Plot to Blow Up Eve Online's Most Notorious Space Station
In normal space you do not see everyone on the map either, you must launch scan probes to track people down if they are not on the same grid as you. The difference is in wormhole space you not only need to scan down their location, but you need to be constantly scanning in order to know someone else was in the system at all.
testvox··on Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal
We have a few available in the US, my favorite is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn#Production which is not vegan as it contains some amount of egg. But the majority of the product is made from soil mold protein, which is what makes it unique among the options I have available.
testvox··on A demographic time bomb that could hit America
How do you explain then that many states have almost no regulations on small child care operations while others have extremely harsh and specific ones?
testvox··on Fully static, unprivileged, self-contained, containers as executable binaries
Containers are usually pushed from the ops side. I don't see how they make things more convenient for developers at all.
testvox··on Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar
I haven't seen this personally, but people should know how modern milk is made. First all the parts are separated (milk proteins, fat, lactose) then reconstituted in different proportions for each type of milk. I've noticed that low fat milk generally has the same caloric content as high fat milk, they just add in more lactose in place of the missing fat (I presume to ensure the milk doesn't taste gross and watery).
testvox··on For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain
I think the idea is any extension beyond the fixed term would require registration (as it does in existing copyright law). So you would always be able to determine if something is in copyright or not if you had the copyright date.
testvox··on Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML
Seriously, besides the occasional webgl demo I haven't experienced this either.
testvox··on Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies
See also https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/queenslan...

https://mobile.twitter.com/1EarthMedia/status/96365636438716...

testvox··on First baby born after deceased womb transplant
I think you are the ignorant one, people can get pregnant without functional ovaries, it happens all the time. It just requires an egg donor and in virto fertilization to be performed.
testvox··on There’s something very weird going on with this House election in North Carolina
Yes, it would be a violation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

> In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right... to be confronted with the witnesses against him;...

testvox··on Canadian Supreme Court: Reporter must give RCMP material about accused terrorist
2-5 years in Canada it seems for civil contempt. In the US it can be indefinite though. To be held in civil contempt you are supposed be able to free yourself by simply complying. If complying is not possible you can generally make a impossibility defense. The court should allow you free if it cannot be proved to the standard of clear and convincing evidence that you have the ability to comply.
testvox··on Backdoor in event-stream library dependency
Lots of projects, including windows and linux have had security holes that allow remote control of your system. Security flaw does not mean failure, its always about weighing the cost of security flaws against the utility the software provides. Even a completely compromised system can provide utility to many users.
testvox··on Swedish ISP forced to block Sci-Hub by Elsevier also blocks Elsevier
Original title "Swedish ISP punishes Elsevier for forcing it to block Sci-Hub by also blocking Elsevier" was slightly modified to fit the title length requirement.
testvox··on An Indian man in prison for cracking 'offensive' jokes
It makes a huge difference. Living in fear is still better then living in a jail cell. You sound like the judge from the article,

> The top court judge said jail was the safest place for him if he feared for his life, a remark which rights group Amnesty International found "deeply worrying".

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