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Disappointing. The shopping experience is mediocre and prices/quality are no better than other local supermarkets.

However, I love my local Amazon Fresh store because it's a super convenient Amazon return location...

I have an ancient minecraft account (so old I paypal'ed 9 euro to Mojang) that doesn't have an email associated with it. Does anybody have experience with MS helping recover an older MC account?

Here is a much longer writeup of the situation.

https://www.science.org/content/article/this-scientist-accus...

If anyone is interested in more in depth examinations of parts of the Odyssey I would recommend 'Watch What You Hear: Penelope's Dream Of Twenty Geese' by Edward Teach(The Last Psychiarist). https://www.amazon.com/Watch-What-You-Hear-Penelopes/dp/1734... It is a a "rigorous psychoanalytic interpretation of the Homeric dream of twenty geese" and although can be tough to get into I dound it a very rewarding mental journey.

Did a bird write this study?

“For aging research, the Bay Area is one of the best places in the world to be,”

I've been laughing about this fact for years. Give a guy a billion dollars and all of a sudden he wants to live forever.

I read the same "fact"* in Graham Robb's 'The Discovery of France".

*scare quotes because I've only seen one reference

This is an interesting hypothesis, even though on first blush it seems obviously wrong. I'm glad the article was more nuanced than the headline.

This reminded me of an interesting tidbit from Graham Robb's book 'The Discovery of France'. He mentions the pre-industrial peasantry (in some extremely rural areas) living in a similar manner. During the winter when there were stretches of time where it was too harsh to do any productive work, the peasants just stayed inside. Food/calories were scarce enough even in the best of times so activity was limited to wake up, eat a bit, sleep, repeat.

Yes it is, but launching it from the system tray icon forces you to use their interface and it is a pain. Like I said, this specific issue is not a deal breaker, but if their other features take a turn for the worse the way this has then it would be time for a change.

I have been a long-time Dropbox+ (and now Dropbox Family) user. I don't mind so much that it is more expensive than the paid personal G/M offerings. It (usually) just works for me, however over the last year annoyances have crept in. Specifically the new File Explorer interface. It is incredibly slow and inefficient and I curse myself every time I open it instead of through the native Windows File Explorer. Hope that gets fixed soon. That annoyance alone is probably not enough to drive me to another service, assuming other features don't get degraded. Paying 200$ for a product that fights you is not something i plan on doing for a long time...

Out of the peels? Perhaps. It depends on the kinds of chemicals that are in there. The question is, why bother? This quora thread goes over some of the reasons why synthesizing THC is a fairly pointless exercise (barring cetain highly specific conditions such as unavailability of hemp etc). https://www.quora.com/Can-THC-be-synthesized-Can-you-make-TH...

Ah, yet another company that has a process to create CBD from the terpenes found in orange peels. This isn't the isolation of CBD, as you would from hemp, but the creation of CBD from precursors using chemistry. I don't know if this is usually the labroots style, but this is a press release disguised as an article.

This service was a big help to anyone who spent long portions of the day in reception-less areas.

One of the interesting effects of Prop 65 is that it allows private citizens to bring suit alleging violations. This has wrought a similar effect to the ADA violations lawsuit racket.

I don't think there is enough public pressure to get this changed now, but I'm glad more people are becoming aware of how these "well meaning" regulations can be abused.

Lol at anybody who is surprised by this event.

Bitrot, Byzantine style.

If you are in QC and want to see a P-Horse, the Granby Zoo has a small herd. They are neat to see in person, your brain says "horse" and then "wait a minute, something is slightly off here".

I'm cautiously optimistic about these findings. As long as she doesn't name them something like 'Penelope Deserves Tenure-01'* we should be good...

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFAJ-1

" In the past month alone, people have casted more than 38 million times from Chrome, watching and listening to more than 50 million hours of content."

Apologies for the stupid question, but how exactly does Google know this? Is there some "send statistics home" function in the browser?

Drew Magary beat you to it.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10673576-the-postmortal

(It's a good read)

It's a game-changer.

"He eventually convinced the owner to leave the braces in place by using an engineer’s most powerful rhetorical device: purposefully indecipherable technical jargon intended to confuse the other party into submission. Khan got his way, and the top tier diagonals were built."

I love it.

Articles like these always remind me of this fantastic essay by James Mickens and his "Mossad/Not Mossad" concept.

http://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/mickens-usenix/thiswor...

"“But James,” you protest, “there are many best practices for choosing passwords!” Yes, I am aware of the “use a vivid image” technique, and if I lived in a sensory deprivation tank and I had never used the Internet, I could easily remember a password phrase like “Gigantic Martian Insect Party.” Unfortunately, I have used the Internet, and this means that I have seen, heard, and occasionally paid money for every thing that could ever be imagined. I have seen a video called “Gigantic Martian Insect Party,” and I have seen another video called “Gigantic Martian Insect Party 2: Don’t Tell Mom,” and I hated both videos, but this did not stop me from directing the sequel “Gigantic Martian Insect Party Into Darkness.” Thus, it is extremely difficult for me to generate a memorable image that can distinguish itself from the seething ocean of absurdities that I store as a result of consuming 31 hours of media in each 24-hour period."

Someone has been reading too much Neal Stephenson...

I don't want to detract from the incredible skill of the pilot, but the success of this event is also partly due to John Boyd, Pierre Sprey, and the rest of the "Fighter Mafia" who shaped the AF policy that produced the F-15 and F-16.

Rope.

I find Ardbeg (at least the Uigeadail) to be far smokier than Laphroig. The Lagavulin as well. To me the Talisker is quite bland, the sherry flavor really drowned out any peatiness.

At a certain point I suppose taste is subjective, but Laphroig is definitely not the smokiest or peatiest of the Islay malts.

The viral reservoir of the Berlin patient has been examined and it is competent for X4 tropism. The fact that the virus has not re-infected cells (via the CXCR4 receptor) is some combination of factors/luck that we do not understand fully. The leading hypothesis is that the number of X4 tropic infectious particles are simply too low to reseed the replaced immune system.

For background I recommend the original studies of this patient (Hutter 2009, NEJM and Allers 2011, Blood), they contain a wealth of interesting information.

The purfuit of happineff?