rustcharm

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Ricky Jay: Secrets of the Magus (1993)(newyorker.com)
9 points by rustcharm 8y ago|1 comments
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by rustcharm 8y ago
How do antidepressants create matter from thin air?
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by rustcharm 8y ago
It isn't? https://assets.propublica.org/images/articles/_threeTwo400w/...
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by rustcharm 8y ago
About 80% of obese people with sleep apnea would be asymptomatic if they reduced to a non-obese weight. For this subset of people, shouldn't insurers (and often the Public) encourage the patient to use the free, safe, and natural solut
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by rustcharm 8y ago
That's what I believe, too. If Yahoo had acquired Netflix, or Facebook, they wouldn't have succeeded either.
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by rustcharm 8y ago
A very good point. It was hard to know what Yahoo was (or is). In the beginning, remember, they weren't a search engine. They were a curated directory of the Internet. In fact, it was hard for me to realize when they dumped that entire
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by rustcharm 8y ago
Wow! The Mohel and Rabbi who performed Honest Ed's bris was Al Jolson's father: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Mirvish
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by rustcharm 8y ago
Those "Honest Ed" signs are beautiful, and remind me of the hand-painted signs I'd still see in Brooklyn in the late 60s and early 70s (probably nearing the end of the era for hand-painted signs)
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by rustcharm 8y ago
I liked google wave and I think it was a good example of a product that was ahead of its time.
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by rustcharm 8y ago
Orkut’s story had a strange footnote. It was dominated by Brazilian Portuguese speakers, making other users feel less welcome. That was a tough problem.
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by rustcharm 8y ago
The best of intentions? To erase their culture and replace it with Chr-stianity? I don't see that as well intentioned.
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by rustcharm 8y ago
This is not xenophobia. It's self defense against idolatry and false gods.
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by rustcharm 8y ago
principal
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by rustcharm 8y ago
Well, of course. It’s only fair. You can’t change a rule then go back and hold prior behaviors accountable according to the new rule. It’s just common decency.
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by rustcharm 8y ago
Yes, but being open Saturday, he won't have Jewish customers, who are in the prime demographic group for bagels.
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by rustcharm 8y ago
He should close Saturday, and get a hechsher. He’d get more business and some rest.
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by rustcharm 8y ago
"Nerd-minstrelsy" is a better term
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by rustcharm 8y ago
Shouldn't all the True Believers be mortgaging and leveraging everything and going all in?
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by rustcharm 8y ago
Actually, you can! There was a presentation at DEFCON this year (DEFCON 26) showing exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLCE8spVX9Q > "See for yourself first-hand as we give a live demonstration of the fir
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The Fax Is Not Yet Obsolete(theatlantic.com)
67 points by rustcharm 8y ago|107 comments
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What Killed the Pay Phone? It was more than mobile phones(theatlantic.com)
5 points by rustcharm 8y ago|3 comments
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How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts(theatlantic.com)
2 points by rustcharm 8y ago|0 comments
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by rustcharm 8y ago
It looks nice, and it may be a replacement for ChromeOS or some other limited system, but it's not a replacement for Windows and MacOS.
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The Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI(wired.com)
10 points by rustcharm 8y ago|2 comments
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by rustcharm 8y ago
Go ahead and contest it then.
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by rustcharm 8y ago
Compare that to SF's roughly equivalent payment per homeless person https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-recor...
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USPTO employs 14 examiners f/t to examine applications filed by single inventor(twitter.com)
6 points by rustcharm 8y ago|1 comments
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How Podcasts Became a Seductive–and Sometimes Slippery–Mode of Storytelling(newyorker.com)
3 points by rustcharm 8y ago|0 comments
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by rustcharm 8y ago
And it was being used as "evidence" by the side with the much shakier stories.
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Douglas Rain, voice of HAL, has died(mystratfordnow.com)
119 points by rustcharm 8y ago|22 comments

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