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You have to get the European version of Sensodyne Repair and Protect to get NovaMin. It's not in the US formulation.


Looks like you can get the versions with NovaMin in the US on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Sensodyne-Protect-Toothpaste-powered-...

Note the recent spate of 1 star reviews angry that what they received is not the Novamin version.

The German version also seems to have stannous fluoride instead of NovaMin, like in the US.

Mine says "NovaMin" right on the front. There are multiple types of Sensodyne.

Btw, what really drives me crazy is that Elmex sells multiple different sorts of tooth paste with the colors green and violett, each. How can a company confuse their customers so much that they buy a tooth whitener paste instead of a remineralizing one? Did the mistake twice...


The nova min version is called Clinical Repair in Germany

Thanks!

Stannous fluoride works well for me, how does it compare to NovaMin?

Please share your experience if you've tried both.


Can anyone explain why people in the USA aren’t allowed to buy this easily?

TLDR: regulations

The toothpaste maker wants to claim something like "Novamin is useful". In the EU this is treated as for cosmetics, so relatively low bar to clear. In the US this is treated as pharmaceutical, so a high bar to clear. The manufacturer has decided that passing that bar is not financially sensible for them.


The Canadian version I just bought also seems to have 5% NovaMin.

Would you know where to get NovaMin mouthwash?

I concur with every word.

Pretty sure it'd be a lot better deal for them to have no sales than to pay out 50% of sales on stuff with single digit margins.

I think a lot of payment terminals have an option to record transactions offline and upload them later, but apparently it's not enabled by default - probably because it increases your risk that someone pays with a bad card.

After having my credit card locked by stupid fraud prevention algorithms on my honeymoon, I had a long chat with them before going overseas a second time.

And that was the day Visa had a full on outage. We would walk into one shop, try to buy stuff, get declined, then go into the next and get accepted because they were running in offline mode.

Got a nice big bill from my cellphone carrier for making the call to visa to ask them wtf as well.


A 1st gen Verizon Moto X bootloader unlock would be nice as well.

Why are yours changing every day? If they always did that, then yes it would be a stupid idea. But they don't change on their own, or for no reason, so it isn't a stupid idea.

Mine change maybe once every couple of years, if I do a full reinstall without copying over the old host key. And then I know exactly why it changed.


> Why are yours changing every day?

Nobody knows how the hell the host keys are generated in the first place. Don't worry about it.

> And then I know exactly why it changed.

Really? What is a "full" reinstall as opposed to a "non-full" reinstall, and how much exactly reinstall do I need for my host keys to change?


the only time the host keys should change is if you a) delete them (either by wiping the whole machine or just deleting the files), or b) explicitly regenerate them. If they're changing for any other reason you're doing something weird.

I don't think anybody actually generates host keys by hand. It's always some sort of "automation" script in your OS or SSH implementation.

Or they're getting MITM'd repeatedly by multiple different attackers...

Probably not. MITM pretty much never happens in the real world.

A system upgrade reinstalls every package, but does not regenerate host keys (Fedora). A full reinstall is wiping the drive completely, and running the installer from a LiveCD/LiveUSB. Nothing is retained, and new host keys are generated.

If my host keys were changing regularly, I would worry about it. There's no legitimate reason for that to be happening, since I'm not regularly wiping the drive and reinstalling, nor am I regularly manually deleting the host keys (the other way they get regenerated).


I'm able to subtract 8, but if I'm scanning logs it's one more thing to process.

If it's local time I know instantly when something happened, without having to do mental math.

Is there anything wrong with ISO8601 (including timezone offset) for storing times? They're in my local time, but they can be accurately converted to any other timezone.


No problem as long as it's all local, but it's a big annoyance to the other teams if I'm trying to coordinate with the West US team who're on PT, the East coast on ET, Europe on CET, India on IST, Australia on BBQ...

It's just easier for everyone if we agree on UTC and everyone knows their own offset.


Aren't those that want to work, already working? And those that don't want to work but are doing the bare minimum to keep their job are still accomplishing something.

So only keeping the motivated people would make net production go down, I'd think.


Not at all. Many people who want to work cannot find work and many (maybe most) people haven't found work they enjoy but do want to work.

Those who are working the bare minimum in many cases are holding back efficiency where somebody more enthusiastic would be working in their place.


Yes they exaggerated, it takes several pinky nail sized cards to store several TB. Only 1TB per microSD.


They have them at 2 TB [1] now for just 300$. And SanDisk announced 4 TB last year, but I do not see them for sale just yet.

[1] https://shop.sandisk.com/products/memory-cards/microsd-cards...


I'd rather my services and products be in the half of the Internet that works than the half that doesn't.


I feel like I don't really like AWS and prefer self hosted vps or even google cloud / cloudflare more but and so I agree with what you are trying to say but Let me be the devil's argument.

I mean I agree but what you are saying is that where else are you gonna host it? If you host it yourself and then it turns out to be an issue and you go down then that's entirely on you and 99% of the internet still works.

But if Aws goes down, lets say 50% of the internet goes down.

So, in essence, nobody blames a particular team/person just as the parent comment said that nobody gets fired for picking IBM.

Although, I still think that the idea which is worrying is such massive centralization of servers that we have a single switch which can turn half the internet off. So I am a bit worried from the centralization side of thing's.


It was pretty frustrating to me when multiple services weren't working during the outage. I'm an end user; I don't use AWS, nor do I work on anything using AWS.

From my perspective, multiple unrelated websites quit working at the same time. I would rather have had one website down, and the rest working, than for me to be completely hamstrung because so many services are down simultaneously.


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