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HanayamaTriplet

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HanayamaTriplet··on iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes
If your clipboard contents were overwritten with an arbitrary wallet address immediately before you paste into an exchange's "Send BTC to..." field, that would be a pretty big problem.

I wouldn't expect that most people would double-check to make sure a series of gibberish characters matches what they expect, especially if they don't have any reason to suspect that paste wouldn't output exactly what they copied a moment ago.

HanayamaTriplet··on A struggling Rust Belt city pinned its revival on a self-chilling beverage can
Stanford is on quarters, so they could have graduated at the end of the winter quarter in early April.
HanayamaTriplet··on E-bikes could be the electric revolution cities need
To add context to your downvotes, it is clear that the author you cite used "market share" in an unusual way (possibly due to a language barrier), since there are certainly more than ~503,000 bicycles in the whole country of Belgium.
HanayamaTriplet··on Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’
He was able to negotiate that $4M debt down to $2.125M, [A] proving once again that if you owe the bank $100 million, it's the bank's problem.

[A]: https://pando.com/2012/11/01/how-chris-sacca-turned-his-stud...

HanayamaTriplet··on Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
There was a WHO study published just last month[0] which did not find any dangers associated with microplastics in drinking water. One of the conclusions mirrors your reasoning:

"Although it is not possible to draw any firm conclusion on toxicity related to the physical hazard of plastic particles, particularly the nano size particles through drinking-water exposure, no reliable information suggests it is a concern. Humans have ingested microplastics and other particles in the environment for decades with no related indication of adverse health effects."

[0] https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/326499/9789...

HanayamaTriplet··on Feds ordered Google location dragnet to solve Wisconsin bank robbery
In addition to your concerns, I don't think there's even anything to be gained by intentionally trying to create a false trail since the warrant only looked for phones in the area of the bank around the time of the robbery. The robbers could just as easily leave their phones at home (or any other place far away from the bank) and they would not be flagged by the reverse location search.
HanayamaTriplet··on Human-level performance in 3D multiplayer games with population-based RL
The ML-based AI (or "agent" as the authors referred to it) in the article never achieved perfect aiming, only up to 80% at close range and 0.5% at long range. After artificially delaying reaction time, a team of one strong human plus one delayed agent was only able to win against a team of two delayed agents only 21% of the time. While this only controlled for reaction time and not accuracy, the authors note that the human and delayed agents had similar numbers of hits per game. Meanwhile, the agents had 4-5x more flag captures than humans, leading them to believe that it had developed superior strategy which carried the games even without god-like aim.
HanayamaTriplet··on Show HN: PiShot – capture high-speed strobe images using a Raspberry Pi camera
Very neat! Was this also tested to see if it works on the Camera Module V2, by any chance?
HanayamaTriplet··on Biography of Christopher “moot” Poole: The Hacker Known as “4chan”
To address the advertising situation, moot's successor spun off all of the worksafe boards into 4channel.org last November, which now has AdSense ads. Note that "worksafe" only applies to images; you still would not want your boss to be reading the text, which is as just as (almost entirely) unfiltered as it was before the split.
HanayamaTriplet··on Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work
The population of San Francisco itself was actually only about 880,000 as of 2017. The Census Bureau calculated a net 20% increase in SF's daytime population from commuters in 2010[0], so that would bring the number of people up to just over a single million at the lower bound.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-weekday-population-increas...

HanayamaTriplet··on Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously
I think you misread the question, which could perhaps be more clearly phrased as "What’s worse to suck into a jet engine - a bird or a bird-scaring drone?"
HanayamaTriplet··on Sniper – An efficient multi-scale object detection algorithm
The current title refers to the algorithm as "Sniper", but the name appears to actually be "SNIPER". According to the paper [1] linked in the repo, that stands for "Scale Normalization for Image Pyramids with Efficient Resampling."

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09300

HanayamaTriplet··on Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]
Another alternative would be to thread a small steel cable with looped ends large enough for two locks through the eye and then lock the loops together.
HanayamaTriplet··on A new grad SDE makes 2x more in SF than Toronto after tax and COL
I find it an odd choice to single out SF for the title (currently "A new grad SDE makes 2x more in SF than Toronto after tax and COL"), given that the data show that Seattle pay after tax and COL is almost 2.4x Toronto.
HanayamaTriplet··on The Corrosion of High School Debate
I agree with the article that debate competitions get gamed very quickly with age. I competed in Parli in both high school, where it was a new event in our circuit, and in college, where there was an established scene. The difference was night and day.

High school Parli was similar to what you described and was a joy to compete in; a more "pure" debate where clever argumentation and thinking on your feet really mattered. College Parli was a nightmare morass of arguments over rules technicalities in attempts to define the topic as something obviously favorable to your side - my team had a stock "farm subsidies are bad" speech we would try to guide every possible round towards. On average, 60% of each speech was spent on arguing over what the debate round should be about rather than anything of substance.

HanayamaTriplet··on New theory why languages don’t all have the same number of terms for colors
That reporting is completely factually incorrect [1]. There is no evidence that the tribes are unable to distinguish colors or are able to see colors that other people can't.

[1] http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18237

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