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tl;dr; - Scientists did DNA testing on the remains of the Grand Duke and his wife, and found malaria. The rival theory is poisoning by the relative who was next in line for the Ducal throne. HOWEVER, this test result solves nothing:

But is there any guarantee that Francesco was not also poisoned?

“Perhaps not,” Ochoa said, “but the genetic evidence presented in our study decreases the margin for speculation.”

Gisella Caccone, a senior research scientist also at Yale and a study coauthor, agrees. “We can say that they had malaria, we cannot say that they were not poisoned as well,” Caccone said in an email.

... the Y-Zipper, a 3D-printed, three-sided fastener that can snap a floppy, flexible structure into a rigid, load-bearing beam with one smooth pull.

Not a mechanical engineer, but I'd figure both the "rigid" and "load-bearing" aspects will be far poorer than conventional beams of the same size and weight.

Delegating more of their less-challenging tasks to junior developers.

(But wrapped in appropriate buzzwords & boss-speak.)

There's a little perl script on the CEO's front end, which alerts HR and Security.

Does this remind anyone else of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars ?

I see ample coverage of the "obsessively clicking refresh" aspects. But zero coverage of the "who's buying that fitness tracker data?" issues.

Yes. Unfortunately, the Minneapolis Fed would get a whole lotta push-back if they suggested any such metric. That risk bearing & interest-rent is a near-perfect way for the 0.01% to milk the "could afford a house" demographic.

His point appears...

No, Levit said that in 1948, when Americans were vastly better-connected (socially) than today, "Godless Communism" was their #1 fear, and everybody was aware of communism's easy appeal to those who felt dispossessed.

I'd read the quote as a clever way to say "let me sell millions of cheap houses to Americans, and you'll never have to worry about the commies".

No mention of vacation homes, homeless people, or some other situations - but their new metric appears to treat those properly.

(Yes, I saw the reference to dorms, nursing homes, & prisons.)

But any underwater kite faces the same fundamental challenge, says Chris Vermillion, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Michigan. “It must be continuously flying. That periodic motion requires substantial control.”

I'd ask a marine engineer about fouling (both senses), storm currents, broken tethers, and the challenges of underwater maintenance in remote locations.

I'd assume that site selection managers understand how recommending "only useful for training" locations might impact their careers.

Ask an old English teacher whether "poetry" implies anything favorable about quality.

The article is from last Thursday, it's now Sunday, and last I heard -

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-announces-new-starship-13-t...

- SpaceX announced last Friday that they'll retry tomorrow.

Feels like an "outdated news" flag is needed here.

I'd do my best impression of a dog for you...

A better comparison - you're a member of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actors%27_Equity_Association, the part which you auditioned for says "dog", and the script & stage directions are within general AEA guidelines for animal parts.

I've only volunteered in museum work - but there are obvious social rules about interacting with wealthy benefactors, and I'd assume that any competent employer in this space is carefully screening for comfort and skill with those rules.

(BTW, "wealthy benefactor" is very much a pay-to-win system, with tier after tier of "just how many $thousands did you graciously gift us with this year?" reward levels.)

Meh. The Gestapo reference is needlessly inflammatory, and not particularly germane. Few of the comments are useful or enlightening. Google is handling the situation poorly, but "Google Handling X Poorly" ain't news on HN.

HN prefers a certain tone of discussion, and this item was reasonable flagged for being off-key.

Daydream: Sites display 5.0 star ratings for everything in Germany - doesn't matter if it a junk yard, morgue, or sewage treatment plant. With no further details at all, except "Due to current German law, our attorneys have instructed us to say that everything in Germany is absolutely perfect."

Maybe apply the same policy to North Korea, in the spirit of PDR Solidarity.

But not short-term gratification for the too-competitive parents of the imagined-potential-elite kids.

(No comparison intended to quarterly-results-obsessed American business exec's:)

I could agree with his title, but not with any of his chosen cows.

The traditional conflict between enjoying short-term gratification and reaching long-term goals.

I've worked in some rather dense undergrowth and forest debris, but not done this particular sort of forest works. Still...

Shovel and/or rake.

...multiplied by how many man-hours it takes per tree, by how many such trees per acre, by 640 acres per square mile, by (Google AI estimate) 100,000 square miles of such forest in Canada alone.

To completing the too-long Title - Subtitle:

... build a missile shield with Europe—and without America.

It sounds like he's still really shady. But so long as Ukraine is in a tight spot, and Denys Shtilerman's missiles are essential and charismatic megaweapons in the fight...

The ability may take time to develop. If you have a couple under-5 children handy, who'd love the ritual of having the same ultra-simplistic and repetitive books read to them every night, night after night after night, when your head is probably full of grownup stuff that you gotta get done...

even if a vendor is doing the right thing today,

... they could fail to realize that they were hacked last year.

Sadly, the same issues apply to the copies of your private health data in your doctor's computer, your insurance company's computer, your hospital's computer, your pharmacy's computer, etc.

Avoiding the app reduces the attack surface. With the minor moral victory of not having gone out of your way to make it easy for the enemies of your privacy.

In several opinion polls, Ardern's domestic popularity had reached all-time lows by 19 January 2023...[when] Ardern announced she would resign as Labour leader and prime minister by 7 February. -Wikipedia

Other political leaders might hesitate to follow such footsteps.

Only one (of the six reviewed) that I'd call acceptable -

Euki is the only app Mozilla recommends without reservations. "Euki is special," Wodinsky* says.

Unlike the other apps on this list, Mozilla says Euki keeps all your health information stored on your device, without even sending it to the company's servers.

You don't even need to make an account, so you can stay completely anonymous. Euki also offers a "decoy" feature that shows fake, harmless information if someone gets your phone and tries to snoop.

*Shoshana Wodinsky, a privacy research analyst who tested 6 period tracker on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation

I'm thinking that very few folks, these days, have the mindset & skill set & finances & timeframe to build their own houses.

And it wouldn't be just the currently-active NIMBY's who fought tooth and nail against any "simple changes" that might halve the average cost of a house overnight.

Not an expert - but the legal/diplomatic/regulatory "attacks" would be slow and uncertain, and the US would obviously push back hard. Jamming is localized by definition. Direct physical destruction obviously invites counter-destruction - which could escalate fast, possibly to nukes.

Vs. cyberattacks? I really would not want to be Starlink's head of cybersecurity.

Perhaps the US should "leak" a study on how fast a few Falcons launching ball bearings into LEO could DDOS space?

Seems like you could put the same area of solar cells on short poles along suitable bits of RR right-of-way, slanted at the optimal angle for the sun, and get considerably more watts.

At a much lower cost. Those between-the-rails cells have to be far tougher - think about the dynamic mechanical loads they could face in winter, when the RR ran a snowplow down the tracks.

need to refund in full the purchase cost.

In practical terms, the logistics of many-years-later refunds would be unwieldy at best. Do the purchase records still exist? What if I no longer have that credit card or email address? How can you prove you're the heir of the deceased? What if I now live in a country where the "deletion" status is different? And how could you stop all the scammers who smelled free money?

Alternative: The gov't randomly picks 24 citizens from a pool of applicants who reasonably prove that they were harmed by the deletion. Those 24 are given legal authority to fiat-revoke all copyright protection on a "reasonable and proportional" number of the deleting corporation's currently copyrighted works. Or upstream of them, as "appropriate".

On the one hand - you're correct that "an apprentice with a grinder and a file" could not possibly produce a modern-era artillery shell. They're just too complex.

But OTOH - nobody forges, molds, machines, etc. an artillery shell body with the HE filler already in place. Same as nobody molds plastic or glass milk bottles with the milk already inside.