thomnottom

Ugh, I'm so tired of this argument.

Lego has more sets today that are just bricks or bricks with multiple models than they've had for like 35+ years. Not to mention dozens of books they put out with other ideas.

And I'm not talking about instructions for how to build a different set, I mean "Here's a way you can combine these pieces that you might not have though of - figure out what to do with that" or "You like animals? Here's how to make a tail. Go make some animals."

My daughter gets plenty of small sets, and then typically just wants to dive into all of the extra pieces and build something completely different. Sometimes these are inspired by Lego suggestions. Sometimes they are crazy things she comes up with on her own.

There is nothing that Lego sells that legitimately limits people in what they can build.

I really wish those sets had been around when I was a kid.

I was curious about the NSAID number. Doing some quick research I came across this quote:

"Mortality reported with NSAID use is generally linked to NSAID-associated GI bleeding, and the reported incidence is quite variable. Much of the literature reports 16,500 deaths annually as a result of NSAID-induced GI bleeding. However, it is important to put this number into perspective. This estimate was published in a 1999 observational study evaluating data from the Arthritis, Rheumatism, and Aging Medical Information System (ARAMIS).5 The database captured 19 NSAID-related GI bleeding deaths; the authors then extrapolated this number to the overall US population with arthritis. The 16,500 deaths has been considered overestimated or inaccurate because it was based on a small number of actual deaths and extrapolated inappropriately.6,7 A much smaller number was reported by Tarone and colleagues.7 They reported 3,200 deaths annually as a result of NSAID-induced GI bleeding based on US mortality data reported in the 1990s."

Unfortunately I can't access the sources right now.

https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/treatments/pharmacol...

I remember watching the 2006 Super Bowl at a friend's apartment. One room had the SD broadcast going and the other had an HD brodcast. We'd be watching them line-up in HD and hear cheers from the other room because they already saw the play.

There are lots of delays today between different broadcasts. Just try to follow a sporting event on twitter or a forum and you will see.

I like that the first comment points out that they would be useless once the chip and pin switch takes place "in a year or so".

>> Most of the people who complain hate speech and abuse are conflating it with dissenting opinions, sometimes stated aggressively or insultingly and in large numbers.

I can only speak to my own observations, which do not support this assertion.

Portability was such a huge factor for me losing interest in diaspora, and I hope that can be addressed.

As for the multiple instances, can't you just pick one and follow things on the others? That was my understanding.

Please do no conflate hate speech and abuse with dissenting opinions. There may, very well, be people who want to hide in an echo chamber. But that is all over twitter and Facebook today. Being able to isolate yourself from abusive speech should not be considered the same thing.

Correct, but it is a start.

I debated about the recommendation, but went with the simplest one to start.

Start with not using their DNS servers (OpenDNS https://www.opendns.com)

Install HTTPS Everywhere (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere)

Install uBlock Origin (Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/.../ublock-origin / Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/ublock-origin/)

Somewhat humorous in light of this comment on Schneier's post about the laptop ban:

"Get the 15" laptop, throw all the electronics away, leave just screen and keyboard. Put Raspberry Pi and three AA batteries inside. Voila - you are able to show TSA staff that this is really laptop, which executes some code, and have a lot of space inside to put in explosives.

Moreover, you have powerful processor and lots of program-controled pins to implement timer initiator."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/03/the_tsas_sele...

>If someone isn't sure how they feel about a movie, why is it a benefit to have them spew their half-formed thoughts into a like/dislike rating?

That's pretty harsh.

I've watched plenty of movies that I enjoyed and would give a thumbs up but aren't sure whether it should be a 3 or 4 star movie. There's movies I love but consider too flawed to give 5 stars. And I find little difference between 1 and 2 stars other than the level of regret for wasting my time.

Overall I rarely bother rating things on Netflix because it just doesn't feel worth it. So they get nothing out of me, whereas with a thumbs up or down I am more likely to chime in.

Have you made a decision on the card yet? I really wanted to do this on my primary desktop and ended up using a secondary machine which I stream non-Linux games via Steam. But I hate running that second machine all the time.

I spent 2 years trying to get them to understand that alerts from my credit card company were not spam before finally giving up and moving off Gmail. I am very happy to be done with their spam-filtering.

I don't know why it never occurred to me to try putting the bangs at the end of the result, but you definitely just saved me a lot of future time I would have spent jumping to the beginning of searches to edit them.

Seriously, thanks.

Not sure the point of this. The implication of the parent was that HOAs severely restrict freedoms in the suburbs. My point was that HOAs are not a requirement for living in the suburbs.

I grew up deep inside a suburban development in Pennsylvania. We could ride our bikes for miles and still avoid major roads. Street hockey games very rarely had to move nets for cars. A number of friends lived easily within walking/biking distance. Even leaving my development usually meant dealing with one "major" road before getting into the quiet streets of the next one.

I would love to let my 8 year old daughter roam our current neighborhood like that, but we get more speeding cars in an afternoon cutting through our street than I would see in a weeks at my parents'.

I've lived in suburbs most of my life and have never had a HOA.

From my understanding, stem cells are like cells that have not picked a specialty yet. So they can become the cells necessary to repair a damaged area once they are introduced.

It almost sounds like this is something that should have been dealt with as soon as he won the nomination instead of waiting until after the election.

So if you don't even understand that The Avalanches are an electronic music group... nevermind...

What an odd opinion. Especially considering how much current top 40 music borrows from electronic music.

For decades now I've enjoyed plenty of electronic music with my friends and none of us ever bothered to get high to do so.

After having drastically reduced my sugar intake, I can't even stomach most sodas. It's startling how big of a difference it can make.

How would it "stop working"? I've done re-installations here and there, but I can't think of a single time that it just "stopped working". And yes, after a couple months I usually do an in place upgrade for my laptops, desktop, and servers that have all been running Ubuntu for a few years.

I believe that Unity 8 currently does not work with VirtualBox but is functioning in VMware Workstation.

My guess would be that the American government has less reason to test what would take down some of these services. And not for benevolent reasons, but because they could more easily send in armed agents and simply unplug those services.

I'll give you 3 of those points, but definitely not durable. Some of them lasted a long time, and some of them stopped working before I could finish writing to them. And since writing to them was painfully slow, something frequently went wrong.

Of course with flash drives we can wait the short time it typically takes someone to copy the contents off to get it back. And since they can hold significantly more data, they are also far more reusable.

That's BMW for you. They manage to keep a lot of it out of the news. Many years ago the M class engines had a problem with cooling and would occasionally melt the car. Sometimes in the driveway. In the case of my boss at the time, as he was heading down the highway. Thankfully some other drivers noticed the flames shooting out and let him know so he was able to pull over to the side of the road and get out safely.

There were a few small articles at the time, but for the most part BMW just paid off the customers and went on their merry way.

I have multiple friends who balanced full time remote work with raising their children and would disagree with that statement.