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baud147258··on 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
that's not really clear... Like if I knew enough those those two groups to identify them with those descriptors, I would have already understood who they were from the fact they tend to refuse HPV vaccines
baud147258··on A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
> have not tested it themselves while driving.

I don't think the driver is supposed to use the touch screen while the vehicle is in motion

baud147258··on LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
Really? Apart from the one at the Moulin Rouge, I had a great time at all of the Christmas parties I've been invited to by my current employer. Of course getting with the vast majority of my colleagues helps.
baud147258··on 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
what kind of demographics? I don't think HPV vaccine is a subject I've ever heard about in the social circles I've been in (whatever the opinion on the vaccine).
baud147258··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
Teams can already do that, at least the computer version, no idea about the mobile one.
baud147258··on Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising
Hey, at least they used pictures from actual students. I remember looking at promotional material from the higher-ed place I attended and I think I spotted one picture of a familiar classroom with someone I knew, with all the other pictures being of total strangers in rooms that I had never seen. As the school was rather small, I was surprised that it was the case, until I suspected the communication department, unsatisfied with what pictures they had, reached for stock photos.
baud147258··on US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut
I remember a story from an acquaintance working in construction. In one case they had to dug up right where a fiber optic ran, so they had cleared it with its operator and waited for their go-ahead. And waited. And waited, until the boss said something to the effect of 'start digging, we have a schedule to keep'...
baud147258··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
Here in France, while Polymarket is blocked, I was able to access Kalshi without any issue. But I didn't try to use Kalshi's services
baud147258··on Paramount 'Leaks' Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked
> Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked

Well, that might be a way to get Trump to go against the merger, considering his opinion of California...

baud147258··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Funny, I read it as 'Nike tried to chase after another market, while neglecting its core market in its advertising'...
baud147258··on Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
> plain old feed which twitter now offers

I'm pretty sure I've only had a plain (chronological) feed since I started using Twitter a few years ago... There's a few times I had to switch back/reenable it, but it's not new. Though I've always hated Twitter's algo so I would have stopped using the site if the chronological feed went missing.

baud147258··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
cyclists kill (and hurt) pedestrians, just like drivers
baud147258··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
> I also think that the current Apple big shots never use their stuff or they would have noticed.

Or they do and they don't think it's worth their time and energy to get them fixed. I think they just don't care about their products, unlike Jobs.

baud147258··on Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
and taking into account a minority that will have no choice but to interact with the new regulation (unlike service or white collar worker for whom it would be easier to take public transportation) seems like a good idea, no?
baud147258··on Global Trade and the United States Navy
Knowing the author through his work, it doesn't surprise me he's using that expression. And quickly searching on the blog, he's used it before.
baud147258··on Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food
> the real target was whale oil, the best lubricant

and it was used that way until the second half of the 20th century

baud147258··on Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
> very few people have those requirements beyond plumbers.

I'd say everyone who's working in the various home improvements/renovations, so carpenters, tillers, HVAC/boilers installers and maintainers, roofers, painters, kitchen designers, those who install plancher or carpets...

baud147258··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
what happened? I just use NM once every few years to download the same handful of mods
baud147258··on Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
My point is that the parent to whom I was responding didn't address the cases where one need a motor vehicle for their work. If it had been addressed as 'those cases will have to pay for the charge and adapt their prices', I wouldn't have mentioned it. Of course, as pointed in another (more useful) response to my comment, for those cases it might become cheaper since they might spend less time stuck in traffic.
baud147258··on Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
I like trams, they're cool. I wonder if, once automated driving is advanced enough, we'll go back to cars and trams sharing the road (here in France all the trams I've seen have their tracks separated from the road and for good reasons).
baud147258··on Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
> "What about all the people who need to drive into the city for work?"

How are they going to do if there's no public transportation available for their commute?

edit: and how about plumbers (and the like) who need a vehicle to carry what they need to work?

baud147258··on Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers
why did they use people instead of mechanical mean to pull the ropes?
baud147258··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
I've seen paid toilets in train stations (last month in le Mans, a few years ago in a corner of Montparnasse station, though that was before the last round of renovation) and in a mall (CNIT in la Defense). Some RATP train stations have public toilets that you can access with your train ticket, so it's not quite free.
baud147258··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
> We'll spend a trillion dollars bombing people halfway around the world that never meant us any harm

While I'm sure the US has bombed a significant number of such people, I wouldn't call Iran as 'never meant us any harm' (though I'll still say the current war is a stupid mistake).

baud147258··on Beauty in my backyard
If it happened, it wasn't in all of Innsbruck. I was there earlier this year and it seems a good chunk of the historical center hasn't been replaced by more modern buildings.
baud147258··on Europe's Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU's Budget
I don't know where in the EU you're thinking of applying that, but here in France inheritance are heavily taxed
baud147258··on 60 Years Ago, a Submerged Submarine Circled the Globe for the First Time (2020)
while it's not on that kind of level, but the wikipedia page on operation Sandblast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandblast) has a few details on the daily life aboard, between weekly routine and maintaining the machinery. Also "Beach [the captain] maintained that the greatest challenge facing the crew was a seemingly mundane activity, garbage disposal and cleaning"
baud147258··on A Dying Art: The last of the morticians
> It's not uncommon for the immediate family to visit the body before the funeral, but I haven't heard of restoration being used for that and I think embalming is quite unusual as well.

As you say, that would vary by country. Here in France, while I wasn't the one who managed that, I know that for my grandmother someone intervened so that the body could stay in her home where she died until she was taken for burial a few days later. I think it would have been a Thanatopracteur, which can be translated to embalmer. And for my grandfather, if I remember correctly, died after a fall that left him bruised, bruises which were hidden before I went to visit the body before the burial. But neither of those burials were open-casket, I think it's quite unusual here.

baud147258··on Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off
> And the hyperbolic headline strikes again!

I mean it's The Register, the day they stop doing hyperbolic/sensationalistic headline, they'll just be another tech news outlet

baud147258··on The last Romans are still around
Maybe they're French and forgot to translate that month (in French March = mars)
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