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    Air India Express's Air Hostess Arrested for Smuggling 1 kg of Gold Through Her Anus

    Ok, but the muscles need to hold that weight? I'm not sure I can hold even half a kg there while standing straight, walking about etc. I'm ignorant but curious about biomechanics of this.
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    In one para : what's wrong with our modern diet.

    And yet the misconceptions you have about carbohydrates, sucralose and diabetes are astronomical. The books you are "recommending" are getting a bad name by this. They are laughing at you.
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    In one para : what's wrong with our modern diet.

    The problems with that are : 1. I don't know any of them. They are much fewer, so a much larger portion of the world don't know any. By contrast, practicing doctors are much more numerous, so many people know one or more personally. 2. Researching doctors don't "consult", so when we don't know...
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    In one para : what's wrong with our modern diet.

    I understand, one cannot worry too much about phraseology on TE, I was reacting to "Excessive consumption of processed food" . I now see that you meant " consumption of excessively processed food". Yeah, I'm a big fan. Unfortunately he did his work so perfectly, people keep insisting there was...
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    In one para : what's wrong with our modern diet.

    The terms "unnatural" and "mutant grade abomination" are not specific, falsifiable or concrete enough to really prove / refute anything about them. But as much as is possible : 1. The wheat and rice we have are "unnatural" in the sense that if you go in a random forest and just come across a...
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    Airtel static IP is a scam?

    Yes, I got that message too that from 03 July, the charges are 299+gst.
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    Airtel static IP is a scam?

    I tell them this thing, they assign a technician to me, and then that technician calls me and says nothing needs to be done in my router because in my connection (not sure what is special in my connection, fibre is everywhere) the static IP is all handled on their side. Then that technician...
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    Airtel static IP is a scam?

    Is anyone using the static IP service from Airtel? I added the static IP feature in my long term Airtel broadband connection about 5 months ago for about Rs 200 / month, and my IP address keeps changing every 2-3 weeks. I never noticed earlier, but probably even before paying Rs 200/month, the...
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    Which app's process is this

    Yes, I agree with your assessment. Though some corporates don't control*, they just ask you to do work for which you need these special applications like those from Adobe etc. Many of these applications don't have manners. * E.g. Google, some orgs within Apple and IBM give their employees a lot...
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    Which app's process is this

    Since you are using this machine for work, could even be some badly behaved corporate application that is creating and running these files. E.g. one guy had Adobe Acrobat create hexadecimal named files right in their drive root ...
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    In one para : what's wrong with our modern diet.

    While I agree that lots of advice from the document seems questionable, these political documents are limited by their bosses and even if their authors know better, they cannot include some good stuff. Like the obsession with grains and carbohydrates. But we agreed on this thread earlier that no...
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    iCloud email on non Apple ecosystem - Make sense?

    Not sure about iCloud, but there are proper alternatives too Gmail that are mainly email and related services. E.g. proton mail, fastmail etc.
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    Health & Fitness COVID Vaccine Experience and your preference.

    Yes, ICMR's conflict of interest and political control are big red flags. Some of the criticism is also not powerful. The only serious concern to me seems to be this, somewhat badly phrased "Two, it does not mention how frequently these adverse events were reported by the sample population to...
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    Need a solution to communicate within a house

    There are elderly friendly Android interfaces too. If the caregivers can make sure the phone is charged, and accessible all the time, the hassle of Android phones is minimal. I've tried Big Launcher a few years ago, it was ok. Slightly buggy, but didn't matter for casual use. It can be...
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    Health & Fitness COVID Vaccine Experience and your preference.

    https://indianexpress.com/article/health-wellness/covaxin-side-effects-bhu-study-icmr-9340377/ If ICMR is right, it was shameful for BHU to conduct such a poor study. Though I can't be sure if ICMR is right.
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    How useful have you found ChatGPT and other similar websites to be for coding?

    It's good, definitely a step up over stackoverflow, going through documentation, and googling. Especially for languages/frameworks you are not familiar with. But even slightly more complicated stuff, and they make a simple mistake in spite of asking it to avoid that mistake. That mistake often...
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    Weird thing I noticed last week at my home

    Oh, I've seen 2 different clock repairmen advise against using duracell, and recommending regular cheap Eveready type of batteries. Both of the times, I was waiting to get my own watch/clock repaired, and another customer asked about batteries. Nobody asked the reason, and I'm miserly so I...
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    An academic exercise.

    Yeah, just academic .
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    An academic exercise.

    There is something called reverse mortgage. https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/reverse-mortgage-guide/ You give your property to an insurer. They pay you until you die. If you don't have property, but liquid assets, you buy an annuity, with an option to receive income until death. Burning...
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    In one para : what's wrong with our modern diet.

    Nope, first you decide whether measuring has to be done or not.