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  1. Those cookie consent popups existed before GDPR and they decrease privacy rather than increase it. They annoy people who delete cookies frequently, in order to convince them not to delete cookies. It seems to me that this is by design. The big tech companies must be happy with this arrangement, which they probably helped create, precisely because of this side effect.

  2. make it into a useful material on Scientists Turn CO2 'Back Into Coal' In Breakthrough Experiment (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How about turning CO2 to carbon fiber, or to a carbon-based material that can replace cement? Then this process would not only remove CO2 from the atmosphere, but also create a valuable material that could replace other environmentally costly materials (such as cement).

  3. Re:Also, web browsers train it. on Google Hired Microworkers To Train Its Controversial Project Maven AI (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe this is training or testing their self-driving car technology. That's why it uses images from streets: cars, buses, streetlights, storefronts, etc.

  4. universal connectivity on Zuckerberg Plans To Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What would it take make a universal "messenger" standard that would allow people to use the app of their choice to communicate with other users who also use the app of their choice? Like we already have with telephone and email.

  5. This is true. A working freezer or refrigerator heats the house, even though it keeps it cool inside it. Where do you think the electrical energy goes? Unless your freezer heat exchanger is outdoors so it pumps heat out of the house. I don't know if this has anything to do with the ice ages.

  6. So if water moves about 10,000 km in 1000 years, it has an average speed of about 1 m/hour.

  7. This seems to be an example of the thermohaline circulation, the circulation of ocean waters caused by temperature and salinity gradients, which has transit times of around 1000 years.