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"The bioavailability of orally administered acyclovir is limited to 15 to 30% (23), and the level of passage across the blood-brain barrier has been assumed to be low, probably due to the relatively low lipophilicity of acyclovir (8). It was previously found (14) that upon oral administration the acyclovir concentration in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is only 13 to 52% of that found in plasma. When sustained and high concentrations of acyclovir in plasma are desirable, improved bioavailability can be achieved with valacyclovir, the hydrochloride salt of the l-valyl ester of acyclovir." [1]
I went to a grocery store health clinic without insurance and asked how much it would cost to see the doctor.
They were surprised I asked how much it cost, since they just assumed my insurance would pay for it. After insisting, I finally was able to get them to look it up. They told me it would be $100, but during my exit (and payment) they increased the price to around $200 based on my diagnosis. I asked why it should cost me more money for the doctor to diagnose me with something else, when the doctor didn't do any other special tests (e.g. I wasn't paying for a medical test), and they said "That's just the way it works."
"An internal investigation by the C.I.A. has found that its officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program. "
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intellige...
Wouldn't these people need to be specifically from the search team, and not Google in general (which would have almost no control over search)
When I use curl|sh, I could execute hidden text, e.g. through a Javascript command, which automatically executes the code and then deletes it from my history. At a future date, there is no way for me to know whether something malicious was executed, since the website may remove the malicious code when they get called out.
The worst side effect of encephalitis is memory impairment:
> The most common and most disabling complication of herpes simplex encephalitis in our patients, and in other studies,9 10 20-24 was memory impairment, which especially affected short term memory. Occasionally remote memory is more severely affected than anterograde memory.
The true history of Pocket suggests otherwise -- in 2015 Mozilla integrated Pocket, which was at that time a private company separate from Mozilla, into Firefox.
Further, when Mozilla first integrated it into Firefox, there was no way to remove it, only hide the icon:
> "This page http://help.getpocket.com/customer/portal/articles/1999137-h.... purports to tell you how to disable Pocket for Firefox, yet all it does is remove the button from the toolbar. Searching "pocket" in about:config reveals numerous preferences that can be edited, including browser.pocket.enabled which remains set to true after following Pocket's instructions."
Only after severe backlash [0] did Mozilla decide the best way to handle it was to purchase Pocket.
However, version 60 added pocket, along with other "features" such as the optional Firefox experiments (where, if you opt in, they track your user behavior to improve the browser).
Guess I'll be looking for a new browser again.
Which contradicts the whole idea of an engagement ring:
> In the United States, until the Great Depression, a man who broke off a marriage engagement could be sued for breach of promise. Monetary damages included actual expenses incurred in preparing for the wedding, plus damages for emotional distress and loss of other marriage prospects. Damages were greatly increased if the woman had engaged in sexual intercourse with her fiancé.[32] Beginning in 1935, these laws were repealed or limited. However, the social and financial cost of a broken engagement was no less: marriage was the only financially sound option for most women, and if she was no longer a virgin, her prospects for a suitable future marriage were greatly decreased. The diamond engagement ring thus became a source of financial security for the woman.
See: Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Germany ~1920
Since the average tax burden for those making $500k+ is around 30% already, that would effectively mean taxing them at 90%.
I don't think it's politically feasible.
If you split that evenly among 300 million people, each would get $11,000, which is half of the poverty line of $22,000.
Even if you thought that little money was acceptable, to afford it you'd have to cut:
1. all military programs
2. all existing social security programs
3. all government infrastructure projects
4. all education programs
5. ...
Even without state intervention, utility companies tend to become local monopolies, duopolies, or non-competitive oligopolies because of the high barriers to entry. This makes it difficult for startups to compete with the incumbents.
In this case, legislation is much more effective at handling the second-tier consequences of utility companies (e.g. the natural tendency away from competition) than handling the problem itself (the high barriers to entry)
That is, as long as Facebook is able to identify and track an individual, they can make money even if the user never spends much time on Facebook.
So, stock price is not an indicator of Facebook usage.
In those with a high level of the enzyme, caffeine is metabolized quickly, so they can drink coffee in the afternoon and still fall asleep. They are less likely to get anxiety from caffeine, and do not suffer from a higher risk of heart attacks with coffee consumption.
In contrast, a small amount of CYPA12 prevents caffeine from being metabolized and prolongs its effects.
If you visit a news site and click on an ad that was shown through Facebook's ad network, then they receive money. Importantly, you don't need to use facebook.com that much, only enough for Facebook to start tracking you.
If a Facebook user logs into their account just once, then the Facebook tracking cookie will log their visits to other sites in the ad network, which is the second largest network next to Google's. If they click on an ad, then Facebook receives revenue -- it isn't necessary for the user to be using Facebook in order for Facebook to receive money.
Imagine if they offered a 75% discount for defending them or praising them on Hacker News! That would make any comment in support of GitLab suspect.
But it does.
I run a Pi-Hole [0] to redirect all advertising-related queries to a black hole. When tracking the most-blocked domains, Microsoft is at the very top [1].
For instance, when I enter "Office" into the start menu, Microsoft immediately sends a ping to bing.com and Microsoft's telemetry servers. That is, Microsoft is sending all of the data entered into the start menu to Microsoft's servers, even when using the 'Pro' version and with 'full' telemtry off.
When it was first detected that Microsoft was adding telemetry calls to all compiled programs in Windows [2], Microsoft said it was mostly for event debugging for programmers. Now I'm not so sure -- look at your Microsoft account privacy settings to see that Microsoft tracks when you open applications. (They say on the page that not all data is shown there).
Unforutnately, there is no way to opt out of this. You can "disable" full telemetry, but you still have to opt into "Basic" telemetry, which still sends your advertiser ID, the programs you run, and the queries you put into the start menu. I'm concerned that Microsoft is not going to stop here. They have a real incentive to capture as much data about you as they can -- they currently earn about $1 billion in advertising through Bing.com search queries. Unlike Google or especially Facebook, however, it's much more difficult to opt out of Microsoft's tracking -- so many people depend on Microsoft Office or other Windows programs that I can't fully switch to Linux.
I don't know how this is acceptable through GDPR. There are so many problems with what Microsoft is doing:
1. There is no way to opt out of telemetry
2. There is no way to see all of the data that Microsoft has collected
3. Microsoft has severe lock-in because so much software is written for Windows-only
4. Microsoft has an incentive to increase their telemetry, not decrease it.
[1] https://imgur.com/a/MbjtYJe
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4ibauu/visual_studio_a...
Once it was implemented, the NSA took him off the project and put other people on to remove the controls.
I run a Pi-Hole [0] to redirect all advertising-related queries to a black hole. When tracking the most-blocked domains, Microsoft is at the very top [1].
For instance, when I enter "Office" into the start menu, Microsoft immediately sends a ping to bing.com and Microsoft's telemetry servers. That is, Microsoft is sending all of the data entered into the start menu to Microsoft's servers, even when using the 'Pro' version and with 'full' telemtry off.
When it was first detected that Microsoft was adding telemetry calls to all compiled programs in Windows [2], Microsoft said it was mostly for event debugging for programmers. Now I'm not so sure -- look at your Microsoft account privacy settings to see that Microsoft tracks when you open applications. (They say on the page that not all data is shown there).
Unforutnately, there is no way to opt out of this. You can "disable" full telemetry, but you still have to opt into "Basic" telemetry, which still sends your advertiser ID, the programs you run, and the queries you put into the start menu. I'm concerned that Microsoft is not going to stop here. They have a real incentive to capture as much data about you as they can -- they currently earn about $1 billion in advertising through Bing.com search queries. Unlike Google or especially Facebook, however, it's much more difficult to opt out of Microsoft's tracking -- so many people depend on Microsoft Office or other Windows programs that I can't fully switch to Linux.
I don't know how this is acceptable through GDPR. There are so many problems with what Microsoft is doing:
1. There is no way to opt out of telemetry
2. There is no way to see all of the data that Microsoft has collected
3. Microsoft has severe lock-in because so much software is written for Windows-only
4. Microsoft has an incentive to increase their telemetry, not decrease it.
[1] https://imgur.com/a/MbjtYJe
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4ibauu/visual_studio_a...
If an embassy started blaring very loud music (or a siren), can the US do anything about it?
Likewise, if they started emitting strong microwaves at people, can the US do anything about it?
It seems like there must be some limitation to what you can do from the embassy to people outside of it.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/business/theranos-founder...