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Figure a space elevator might originate from a structure like this?

I mean, it doesn't look completely retarded. Just kind of absurd.

  In 2014 alone, Americans filled 76.9 million 
  prescriptions for metformin, and some of those 
  prescriptions went to Barzilai himself. (He’s 
  been taking the drug since he was diagnosed 
  with prediabetes around six years ago.)

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

  Metformin is in the biguanide class. It 
  works by decreasing glucose production by 
  the liver and increasing the insulin 
  sensitivity of body tissues.

  The most serious potential side effect of 
  metformin use is lactic acidosis; this 
  complication is very rare, and the vast 
  majority of these cases seem to be related to 
  comorbid conditions, such as impaired liver or
  kidney function, rather than to the metformin 
  itself.

The weirdest part about the flip was that it almost seemed like Cisco acquired it to kill it off. It had such a strong ad campaign, and then it just evaporated?

Looking back at that moment in time, it seemed a little too early to catch the wave of youtube fame and stardom, but had it been a little later, and a little more refined (and maybe with some endorsement deals or product/service alignment) it seems as though it could have been the kind of product that could land itself in the hands of most youtubers as the preferred video recorder for capture and uploading.

But I guess high-end cell phones and the nightmare of Windows 8 (and weak or absent linux support) probably also had a hand in sealing the flip's fate.

LFS feels like a dead project. The project presents itself as a "book."

Some of the provided tarballs are riddled with old vulnerabilities (and served over insecure channels (!!!) with no integrity checks), and thus it is relegated to educational purposes only, and should not be used for building a secure, general purpose system.

Does it support SATA and UEFI boot disks yet?

Indeed, I was thinking that it's probably one more detail a person could neglect, unwittingly nickel-and-diming their way to further liver damage. For a perfect storm, add them altogether on top of a case of undiagnosed hepatitis.

Probably also consider caution when taking some analgesics, like acetaminophen/paracetamol.

In North America, you would need to resolve responses down to state/province to see anything meaningful. Between the three countries, it would be difficult to understand how percentages translate to the overall population.

A lot of what affects the NYC subway is the principle of the "Sick System."

http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html

The system is too essential for a stop-the-world overhaul, but so far gone, that only a stop-the-world overhaul can part the clouds.

Without a hard flush of antiquated mission critical infrastructure, millions of turbulent eddies and vortices will ensure that the system is always afflicted by parasitic equipment and debris.

Yeah, it's a trade between experience and authenticity. If you value the experience for its own novelty and stimulation, the fakery isn't a problem. Those who seek authenticity derive pleasure from a completely different source and rationale.

Also, don't forget, regarding that thing about the "roar" of gasoline engines, that some car makers have opted to fake the sound of the engine's noise with audio systems. [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/americas-bes...

Oh, come on. Just because old technology is too complicated to repair or upgrade doesn't mean the entire industry has stalled.

This is pretty much the definition of "cruft." An accumulation of old defunct artifacts in the face of technological advances. [0]

  [0] http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/cruft.html

Just because it's A common motivation and strategy, doesn't mean it's THEIR motivation and strategy.

A more likely strategy/motivation is that the product is you. AKA: farming the users.

Create a desirable pasture, and the animals farm themselves.

Wow, finally.

This was such a disruptive feature. Completely distracting from the moment you interact with the page. This wasn't a productivity bonus in any way, regardless of purported reading recognition rates and eye tracking/movement measurements.

No, computer. You wait until I'm finished. You wait until I tell you I want you to do something. You don't jump at every flinch of my fingers. Not all interactions require reaction.

A strong component of what's perceived as traditional American subculture is broadly inflexible, even in the face of glaring evidence. You might be right, but then again, we've been surprised before by the persistence of this sort of cultural undertow, no?

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in American football has been getting lots of media attention over the past few years, and the counterpoints to whether or not this is a serious issue will rely mostly on emphasizing the survivorship bias of those who enjoyed a high quality of life despite possibly (or assuredly) suffering such injuries, but in many ways almost all athletic sports represent feats of corporeal risk to the player, and I don't think the face of the game, or its popularity will change very much.

In many sports, people face death itself, and pay the ultimate price for competing. CTE, while made plain by studies such as this, might only change youth and amateur level competition. Professional leagues will probably continue apace, even amid full disclosure of well-known hazards.

This particular hazard wasn't previously well understod, but now it is, so, like boxing, it's still an improvement to the sport, to have players enter competition properly informed of the risks they are undertaking, so that they understand the choice they are making when they decide to play this game.

tl;dr The point of any given sport is usually to step into harms way, on some level, in a controlled arena and to test your abilities against other people in a contest of skill and endurance. That's how this works.

Yeah, not sure if this is supposed to be a warrant canary or what.

Hmmm, let's see... Looking around... and... Nope, not an option for me. I am not permitted to check the feature on the particular channel I'm logged into at the moment. I am a lesser user, without admin privileges, accessing a paid channel.

Meanwhile, on another channel, under the Customize Slack menu:

  > Compliance Exports
  > Compliance Exports are not enabled for your team. Learn more and apply for Compliance Exports.

Looks like not everyone is allowed to access every feature or inspect all settings on every Slack channel they belong to.

...and so, if you know your company is paying any amount of money for their slack channel, you must assume it is the "Compliance Export" version, unless you have direct awareness of the version your company has paid for.

Furthermore, and this should go without saying, no matter what your company pays for, you also must assume that Slack themselves possess god mode across all channels, except maybe "on prem" implementations if that's what they mean by enterprise/discovery api.

When a feature like this is in the loop at all, how can any ordinary end user presume any other level of trust?

I guess this planetary naming convention is part of a tie in with the notable Pluto Switch:

https://www.wired.com/2013/03/big-switch-indigo-switch_light...

https://www.wired.com/2012/09/pluto-switch/

I can think of a couple of angles into rationalizing this sort of thing, but then again, they say that even simply giving in to the motivation to rationalize something in any way might be a bit selfish, and (maybe) part of a personality disorder.

What does it mean to be alive at all?

The correct form of possessive context for words ending in "s," is with a dangling, trailing apostrophe, and omission of the extra "s."

Weird. A base 9 counting system? At first, I counted it off as octal (thinking z for zero), which seemed pretty reasonable, but then I realized my mistake.

Now I read the wiki article, and it's not even nonary.

  V* RY Sex

How this particular red dwarf came to obtain such a name, gives me an inkling that whoever did it must have known the effect it would have on search engines.

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=V*+RY+Sex

...or it's missing an apostrophe.

  a. Windows' Subsystem for Linux

  b. Window's Subsystem for Linux

Each option has its own sort of context.

IP address is most definitely part of the voting ring algo. I'm almost positive about that much.

I don't think anyone can really gauge VR's day-to-day casual consumer value. It's genuine applications are rare, and it's primary value is in deflecting hazardous situations onto remote operated robotic vehicles with telepresence.

But humans prefer actual experiences above all, every single time, unless real dangers are presented, so VR always feels like an undesirable compromise.

I did, and "seems" is a subjective term, and a matter of opinion, no?

It's funny to me, because at this point, there's glaring scientific evidence to demonstrate not-trivially-reversible anthropogenic climate change, and we're sort of at that same point where we were with leaded gasoline, where it's not about whistle-blowers anymore, but there's still an intractable scientific payola to plant the seed of doubt in any conversation.

Action is required at this point, regardless of transnational economic inertia.

What does it take to root out scientific provocateurs, and shut them up?

Super Dachshund looks like a pretty solid game. I would probably play such a game. It'd probably hold up, even today, as a cool pixelated retro game.

  As I mentioned in #1107: we will not be 
  removing analytics support entirely. It 
  is extremely useful to us and we have 
  already weighed the cost/benefit of 
  using tracking.

https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/1107

Ew. Firefox, I am ashamed to know you.