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makruiten··on MasterCard to open up network to cryptocurrencies
How does that email system work? Can’t you just do free instant wire transfers in Canada?
makruiten··on AstraZeneca/EU contract
AstraZeneca's CEO said this in an interview:

> As soon as we have reached a sufficient number of vaccinations in the UK, we will be able to use that site to help Europe as well. But the contract with the UK was signed first and the UK, of course, said “you supply us first”, and this is fair enough. [1]

It’s just an out of context quote and the problem is more complex than this, but I think it’s fair to say that you could interpret this statement as “first come first serve” and since the contents of the contract with the UK are still unknown, this also raises some questions.

[1] https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/01/26/news/interview_...

makruiten··on Ad block and you don't stop
NextDNS in combination with AdGuard Mobile Ads filter will do just that and it will encrypt your DNS traffic too.
makruiten··on Fairphone 3 review: ethical smartphone gets camera upgrades
To be fair it’s also made from “fairtrade gold and conflict-free minerals”, which is arguably more important than the plastic bottle that’s saved.
makruiten··on On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services
Linux works too.
makruiten··on Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
In Firefox CTRL+SHIFT+R does a hard refresh as well. I don’t know about other browsers.
makruiten··on Living without a SIM card
And some banks (ING, bunq, but also others) don’t require anything else than just the mobile app, using either a pincode or biometric validation through your mobile OS. That’s way more practical, because you don’t need to have a reader in your pocket in order to do payments.
makruiten··on Ask HN: Best Noise Canceling Headphones
Although it’s definitely subjective whether or not you like them, I can objectively say that the Sonys are more bass heavy than the Boses [1]. I’ve tried both of them extensively and I also found that to be the case subjectively. The Sonys do offer some ways to adjust this, but in the end I went for the out of the box sound of the Boses.

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tools/compare/bose-quietco...

makruiten··on Ask HN: Best Noise Canceling Headphones
The noise cancelling is very good, but not better according to rtings.com [1].

I think that the comfort while sleeping/resting is a valid concern. I really like how comfortable the QC-35 II are, but you can’t rest your head against them. The Bose 700 headphones appear to have better mics as the main advantage over the QC-35 II.

Personally I like the sound of the Bose headphones better than Sony’s, but judging from online comments I think that most people prefer the more bass heavy Sony sound.

My advice to OP for over ear headphones would be the QC-35 II. Physical buttons, decent sound quality (although you can get better sound quality if you don’t need noise cancelling) and very comfortable. I can’t speak for the Apple AirPod Pros, as I’ve never used them.

[1] https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tools/compare/bose-quietco...

makruiten··on In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’
This seems to be the case for longer fasts and for starvation. I wonder if it also applies to time restricted feeding without calorie restrictions.
makruiten··on Chrome/macOS users in The Netherlands cannot visit google.com or google.nl
The Dutch internet market is not really comparable to the US market. We do not have data limits for cable/dsl/fiber and I've never had issues downloading torrents at full speed, even before the net neutrality law.
makruiten··on Chrome/macOS users in The Netherlands cannot visit google.com or google.nl
This is probably not the case, as traffic shaping is illegal in The Netherlands.
makruiten··on Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (2014)
This is a very bad idea. Some healthy bacteria cannot be replaced once they're gone. You should only use antibiotics when the pros outweigh the cons, which is if you suffer from an infection.