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I think it might be embleer rah, but it's been a while since I've read the book.

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I'm glad you didn't announce this last week. Then it would have been AWS articles only!

Varg got out of jail, moved to France, changed his name, got married, makes weird videos.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ThuleanPerspective/videos

Before the rise of the Internet, traditional media like magazines and newspapers got the majority of their revenue from advertising. It's nice when people pay money to subscribe but it wasn't enough then. It's probably not enough now.

So I suppose this means storing data in Postgres RDS is HIPAA compliant now by default? I am not an expert in this, but I do have to sit through a day of training every year for this.

You should probably be doing a bunch of other things to be HIPAA compliant in AWS, it's not just a box you check off.

In the past you could be HIPAA compliant and use Postgresql RDS by signing a business associate agreement and doing things like using dedicated instances in their own VPC.

I believe it was already HIPAA compliant (or else I need to go into hiding).

The path to HIPAA compliance in AWS is just arrange to get a business agreement with Amazon.

One of the issues of Murder Can Be Fun was on the great flood

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-disasters-Boston-molasses-floo...

I have read that unreinforced concrete structures can stand for thousands of years, which you confirm just by noting some Roman structures still standing.

You can build much higher and bigger with reinforced concrete, but they will only be up for at most many decades, because steel always rusts.

A Albanian speaker tells me "Ysolo doesnt sound like a Albanian word, that's probably made up"

I recently listened to a podcast where Jeremy Scahill (the author of the book Dirty Wars) claims Saudi Arabia has been belligerently bombing Yemen to show unruly groups inside of Saudi Arabia that they have the ability to bomb people too.

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-52-dirty-war...

i have been reading lately how the direction of Saudi Arabia changed dramatically after the seizing of the Grand Mosque.

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

Go through the comment histories of frequent posters to /r/The_Donald .

It would be extremely hard to make any of them look 'bad'. They relish being as... deplorable as possible.

Snopes claims Nov 25 is not the biggest shopping day of the year.

When I first moved away to college, I found a copy of Adbusters in a bookstore and I thought it was one of the most amazing things ever. Eventually I decided it was too smug even for me.

This author has a lot of the same thoughts I did:

http://streetcarnage.com/blog/adbusters-landfill-of-the-ment...

I think the magazines Vice and Colors were targeted at the same market as Adbusters, but had a much greater impact.

I hope Trump works effectively on the issue of fading working class employment in America. He's been busily appointing billionaires(not 1 billion, plural billion!) to his cabinet. I think this shows what his policy focuses will be. Let's hope in 4 years I am proved totally wrong!

Have you read Ted Rall's 2006 book Silk Road To Ruin? I'm interested enough in the opinion of a Central Asia local that I would mail you a copy.

> Ask who was behind it ? and you will get name , who funded cold-war, .. just the same b.s again ..

I am pretty sure Ted Rall will agree with you that meddling from foreign empires, like the US, causes violence in Central Asia.

This is the oddest consequence of the pizzagate thing I could have dreamed of.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this...

The Karakoram Highway, between Pakistan and China, is an amazing engineering achievement.

The cartoonist and author Ted Rall has visited Central Asia many times.

http://rall.com/2009/06/04/the-karakoram-highway

I would be pretty annoyed if a good chunk of the paranoid pizzagate believing Internet spent all day calling me a pedophile.

I recommend listening to all 200+ episodes od the Russian History Retold podcast, by Mark Schauss.

Here's a link to the Rasputin episode

http://podbay.fm/show/370995272/e/1387515600?autostart=1

Unrelated: Stalin's granddaughter runs an antique shop in Portland Oregon.

In SF I keep seeing flyers titled "Can The Bolivarian Revolution be saved?", and I think to myself probably not.

Here's a recent, long New Yorker article on Venezuela, Maduro, Chavez, Polar industries, crime, China, oil, inflation, Cuba, America, Colombia, taxi drivers, Halliburton, and a bunch of other things I don't remember.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/14/venezuela-a-fa...