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New comment by eclecticfrank in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

eclecticfrank — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:58:15 +0000

New comment by eclecticfrank in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:00:49 +0000

Does anyone know what kind of apps Rapidata questions are integrated in? I suppose they are using ad-like integrations to ask users for feedback. Their website only states:

By integrating in a large range of mobile apps (3000+) we have access to a large crowd of over 10 million users responding to our micro tasks/surveys - which we call Rapids. They are spread all over the world, so we can get human input from over 160 countries. Due to the immense size, we can parallelize tasks and get near instant results.

New comment by eclecticfrank in "The United States withdraws from UNESCO"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:41:53 +0000

These quotes are displayed without context and hence have no or a very little value in a conversation.

New comment by eclecticfrank in "The United States withdraws from UNESCO"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:38:37 +0000

For context: The commentary those quotes are taken from was written by Eugene Kontorovich, a senior researcher at the Heritage Foundation which runs Project 2025.

New comment by eclecticfrank in "How to Firefox"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:52:54 +0000

Lots of Firefox hate here, but little discussion about the articles kicker, which is the exclusion of uBlock Origin from Chrome.

I hope this will mean that in the long run Firefox (and other secondary browsers) will gain more users again. For me, Firefox is a solid piece of software. Works well in strict privacy mode, with uBlock Origin and Multi-Account Containers.

New comment by eclecticfrank in "How to Firefox"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:10:42 +0000

Brave wants to replace "bad" ads from third parties with their own "good" ads.[1]

They have also in the past been caught adding their own referral codes to crypto transaction URLs pasted into their browser. [2]

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-earn-and-use-cryptocurre... [2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-...

New comment by eclecticfrank in "How to Firefox"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:01:39 +0000

Give us an example where Chrome is faster than Firefox, so we can see if it is more important than having uBlock Origin.

I use both Firefox and Chrome for work and haven't noticed any speed differences (without measuring).

New comment by eclecticfrank in "Workers at Snopes.com win voluntary recognition"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:29:14 +0000

It is always great to hear of another union being formed. Workers representing themselves is not only a benefit for the workers, but also a pathway to healthy and sustainable organisations.

New comment by eclecticfrank in "Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:18:07 +0000

This person refers to the German television and radio fee (Rundfunkgebühren).[1] It is a state-mandated system that ensures free (as in free speech) and (relatively) neutral public broadcasting institutions. There is a constant and engaged discussion, because every household in Germany has to pay this fee. Exceptions are made only for low-income households.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARD_ZDF_Deutschlandradio_Beitr...

New comment by eclecticfrank in "“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps"

eclecticfrank — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:58:13 +0000

> Man didn’t evolve in an environment where stories were told by people who’d won a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability. Stories were told by family.

The stories we grew up to were indeed those which won "a massive intertribe tournament of story telling ability". Only interesting stories got retold. Stories travelled further when made into songs. They became artworks when tranformed into plays. They became myths and legends in the luggage of those travelling the planet. And the art of telling stories also became a way of making a living much before our contemporary society produced the first pop star.

New comment by eclecticfrank in "Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality"

eclecticfrank — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:52:58 +0000

Germany technically has a wealth tax. However, it is supended since 1997, because the methods of how real estate wealth was calculated were outdated and thus considered unconsittutional.

Tax is not collected, but the supporting law has never been revoked.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verm%C3%B6gensteuer_(Deutschla... (Sorry, no translation available)

New comment by eclecticfrank in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:25:58 +0000

It might make sense to split the car analogy into different users:

1. For the majority of regular users the best way to understand the car is to read the manual and use the car.

2. For F1 drivers the best way to understand the car is to consult with engineers and use the car.

3. For a mechanic / engineer the best way to understand the car is to build and use the car.

New comment by eclecticfrank in "The "Frankfurt Kitchen""

eclecticfrank — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:50:40 +0000

Its design exhibits a very dense funtional pragmatism that makes it look like a laboratory or even bomb shelter to me.

New comment by eclecticfrank in "Airhull lets electric boats glide on a layer of air"

eclecticfrank — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:34:34 +0000

This concept also seems related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_cavity_system

New comment by eclecticfrank in "As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:47:59 +0000

Can you give a concise example of good prompt engineering in your case?

New comment by eclecticfrank in "Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence"

eclecticfrank — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:15:05 +0000

A lot of words to say "I do not agree with the judgement of a fair and independet court because I feel otherwise".

New comment by eclecticfrank in "Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence"

eclecticfrank — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:18:48 +0000

That is a great list. The principle behind this is the defensive democracy.

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

New comment by eclecticfrank in "Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence"

eclecticfrank — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:15:44 +0000

False, it's simply a requirement.

French law explicitly states that a candidate for an election must not be ineligible by reason of criminal conviction or judicial decision.

Should have thought about messing with EU funds before, I suppose.

New comment by eclecticfrank in "Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence"

eclecticfrank — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:09:53 +0000

Being convicted of a crime is an obscenely high bar.

New comment by eclecticfrank in "Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence"

eclecticfrank — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:06:17 +0000

The temporary loss of the right to stand for election is a common punishment in France when politicians are convicted of corruption and breach of trust.