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How do antidepressants create matter from thin air?

It isn't? https://assets.propublica.org/images/articles/_threeTwo400w/...

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 solution (eating less) before being dependent on an expensive machine?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3021364/

That's what I believe, too. If Yahoo had acquired Netflix, or Facebook, they wouldn't have succeeded either.

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 entirely and switched to a real search engine--despite the fact that I was in this business: I worked for Infoseek!

Wow! The Mohel and Rabbi who performed Honest Ed's bris was Al Jolson's father: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Mirvish

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)

I liked google wave and I think it was a good example of a product that was ahead of its time.

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.

The best of intentions? To erase their culture and replace it with Chr-stianity? I don't see that as well intentioned.

This is not xenophobia. It's self defense against idolatry and false gods.

principal

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.

Yes, but being open Saturday, he won't have Jewish customers, who are in the prime demographic group for bagels.

He should close Saturday, and get a hechsher. He’d get more business and some rest.

"Nerd-minstrelsy" is a better term

Shouldn't all the True Believers be mortgaging and leveraging everything and going all in?

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 first ever full fax exploitation, leading to complete control over the entire device as well as the network, using nothing but a standard telephone line. "

Maybe it's time for you to find another tax preparer. Mine accepts encrypted documents with her public key.

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.

Go ahead and contest it then.

Compare that to SF's roughly equivalent payment per homeless person

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-recor...

And it was being used as "evidence" by the side with the much shakier stories.

I have several Alexa devices in my house. I don't care. I'm just not that interesting.

We'll know if it works when he gets to be a trillionaire.

We have IPv4 and IPv6 public interfaces on our AWS services.

I'd rather companies like Amazon or Microsoft has them, in a way that people can cheaply rent them along with compute power at competitive rates, than companies like "Prudential" or some giant bank sit on them.

@dang can you remove this off-topic comment?

What does this mean? Israel also has very good relations with India and China.

Yes, the NY Times changed the headline (though evidence of it is still in the URL)

One of my first experiences with microcomputer hobbyists was in 1977 when I heard someone call in to WBAI late at night and playing music generated from his TRS-80 over the radio. He used the radio frequency interference from the computer to make signals that were picked up by an AM radio. Then he held the phone to his radio when he called in to WBAI to demonstrate.

After that the radio host was intrigued, and the caller said he could play the program over the radio, too, so people with TRS-80s could record the program and load it into their computer. So for the next few minutes over New York's WBAI, listeners heard the sounds of a TRS-80 cassette program being broadcast over the air.

I was so interested in these computers that I did some sleuthing and found the caller, Nat, who introduced me into an entire seedy underworld of phone phreaks, hams, pirate radio station operators, and electronics hackers. Back in these days, my parents didn't think it was odd for a 14 year old kid to hang out with people in their 20s and beyond. And that's how my 35+ year career in computers and electronics, in New York, Silicon Valley, and Israel, started.