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monort··on Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked?
The strong evidences you are talking about are usually confounded by socioeconomic status. One recent longitudinal study in New Zealand have found only a very weak correlation:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5801257/

monort··on On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
From review you linked. Clearly this means research is conflicted on this topic.

Viewing Sexual Stimuli Associated with Greater Sexual Responsiveness, Not Erectile Dysfunction https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26185674

Is Pornography Use Associated with Sexual Difficulties and Dysfunctions among Younger Heterosexual Men https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25816904/

monort··on A practical guide to reducing loneliness
I want this too! How will this service match you with interesting people? Something like okcupid compatibility algorithm with less focus on relationship?
monort··on Laboratory Escapes and “Self-fulfilling prophecy” Epidemics (2014) [pdf]
List of escapes:

#1: British smallpox escapes, 1966, 1972, 1978

#2: The “re-emergence” of H1N1 human influenza in 1977

#3: Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis in 1995

#4: Six SARS laboratory escapes outbreaks after the SARS epidemic

#5: Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) from Pirbright 2007

monort··on Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from nearby star
Better link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-hunters-dis...
monort··on Should There Be Limits on Persuasive Technologies?
Research shows, that car can influence attraction.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c86a/142c0ae2d70d95f6292af6...

monort··on I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
What's wrong with kiwix snapshot of English wikipedia? It's only 93GB.

http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_max...

monort··on Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More
Offline shops already track you via bluetooth and wifi

https://falkvinge.net/2017/04/15/schiphol-airport-tracking-e...

monort··on No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
Just enable "Fanboy’s Annoyance" list in uBlock.
monort··on Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Impact on the Outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan [pdf]
Look at the Figure 4. It shows that they could decrease reproduction number to under 1 only after implementing "centralized quarantine and treatment of all confirmed and suspected cases, those with fever or respiratory symptoms, as well as close contacts of confirmed cases in designated hospitals or facilities."
monort··on A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax
Have you checked this spot? It looks like an arroyo:

https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=dd84f18f-fcc7-41a3-89b2-f49db...

monort··on Health Experts Want to Stop Daylight-Saving Time
Would (standard time - 1) be even better? Does the data exist? I think Chinese should have it.
monort··on “Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“
Telegram offers channel subscriptions, it's like a blog without comments. Apple will absolutely ban apps like that (think tumblr).
monort··on Off-Facebook activity
Try to opt out of Advertising ID (Settings -> Google -> ads) and see if apps continue to be associated with your facebook account. I suspect Swipe sent both your account ad advertising id during login.
monort··on Off-Facebook activity
I think they cross-reference Android Advertising ID in their SDK. Have you ever logged to Facebook from your phone?

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-ads/targeting/mobil...

monort··on New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market
Actually scientists are working on super viruses, it's called gain of function.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08837-7

monort··on WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10
If you don't believe, choose 2160p60 on this video and see the CPU utilization under Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXb3EKWsInQ

monort··on Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
I think this is the reason he is sure about backdoors in messengers (US agency supposedly asked about that several of his developers):

https://twitter.com/durov/status/873868773119451136

monort··on How is search so bad? A case study
Add inurl:forum to the query. Google used to have a filter "discussions", but they removed it for some reason. Nowadays I usually start with https://hn.algolia.com/ and site:reddit.com when I want to find a discussion.
monort··on How to Invest in Startups
Is that 100 startups with ideas, you would be willing to build yourself?
monort··on Cracking LUKS/dm-crypt passphrases
Yes, I misunderstood. I thought they append some string to a previous password to change the hash.
monort··on 4.2 Kiloyear Event
Chart in xkcd is for global and smoothed temperature (proxy measurements with 200 years resolution), so it downplays abrupt and regional temperature changes like in Greenland or Younger Dryas

https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/9103/how-do...

monort··on Cracking LUKS/dm-crypt passphrases
You are susceptible to a length extension attack if you use sha-512 this way. You should hash twice or use sha-3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack

monort··on Why the Boeing 737 will never take the place of the 757
And here is the kind of catastrophe, that was prevented by Walter's calculations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_8641

monort··on Self Sabotage: The Swiss History of Rigging Vital Infrastructure to Explode
Switzerland is more federalized, than US, but there is still a clear trend of centralization.

https://academic.oup.com/publius/article/49/1/138/4259427

monort··on Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years
We do know in many cases, here is an example of stable succession of forest systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession#Types

monort··on RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire
1. I just don't give my family name to a date.

2. I don't talk about work, it's rarely a deal breaker.

3. It's a normal thing to have a pied-a-terre.

4-5 Don't mix your friends-family and your date until you are sure in them. Actually, get an apartment on a different coast.

No, I don't think it's lying. And it's easy to do for someone with 8-9 figures in a bank.

monort··on RxBar co-founder Peter Rahal on life after becoming a millionaire
Do you ask all your dates for net worth? I never had this question asked, so I can imagine doing this without lying.
monort··on Money as a System of Control (2017)
Apart from contracting, you can try 2 years working, 1 year leisure. But this will impact your career, if you care about that kind of thing.
monort··on Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your account
I read old HN comments quite regularly. When I need insight about some topic, my first search is always through HN comments.
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