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chilledheat··on Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (2017)
"I reach under my desk, unwrap a parcel addressed to “DIRECTOR OF CYBER, NSA”, slide out a yellow and black canister labelled “CHINA”, break open the safety seal, and use safety tongs to extract the following red-hot phish."

Gold.

chilledheat··on Drug cocktail almost doubles lifespan of worms
Did you read the article?

"The drug rapamycin is currently administered following organ transplants to prevent the body's immune system from rejecting the transplanted organs, but previous experiments by other research groups showed that it extends the lifespan of many organisms, including the C. elegans worms, fruit flies and mice"

Dr Gruber's team administered combinations of two or three compounds targeting different ageing pathways to C. elegans (worms).

chilledheat··on Is front-end development having an identity crisis?
I know some of these words.
chilledheat··on The Beauty of Programming (2001)
One of the reasons people have become so enamored with computers is that they enable you to experience new worlds you can create, and to learn what’s possible.

Could not have written it better myself.

chilledheat··on Tesla Model 3 is the top selling American car in the USA
Probably referring to the fact that they are Japanese companies
chilledheat··on Smoking around the world
Mauritania in Africa had the highest number of cigarettes smoked every day in 2012 ( more than 40 a day ) but the number of deaths from tobacco smoking was in the lowest..

Is this skewed data or do a lot of people die there for other reasons?