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In particular, shrink-wrap sealed records from the 70s, when exposed to heat from storage or from direct sunlight, can warp the hell out of the record and sleeve as the shrink cont…

I find the layout of poster downloads on the detail pages of the individual laws, with the text of the law and lawofux.com tag on the right side, unfortunate. The layout of the pos…

Reminds me of when my wife conveyed enthusiasm about her tech job to some family and friends of family back in France, how interesting the work was, creative, etc, only to have the…

"It’s just that grinning without cause is not a skill Russians possess or feel compelled to cultivate." Unlike depression, and mathematics.

I often think about Arthur Rubenstein, the phenom mid-century pianist, for whom a lot has been written about his mission in early life to "practice as little as possible." There's …

All of the employees suddenly stay.

In addition to differences in recommended calorie intake, is there a good, scientific, international comparison that puts dietary guidelines side-by-side, nutrient guidelines, bala…

Nobel prize winner Czesław Miłosz writes brilliantly in The Captive Mind how intellectuals, elites and creatives alike, essentially the intelligentsia of Krakow, Poland, were easil…

There is at least one other distinction of French books, especially in the anthropology domain: They are almost ALWAYS WHITE! Spines schmines. A friend of mine is a French anthropo…

In defense of Roger Ebert, the dude wrote the screenplay to Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

Didn't Warren Buffet say that Benjamin Graham's margin-annotated Intelligent Investor, or was it, Security Analysis, was his most prized possession. Otherwise, what funny coinciden…

Lol. I once worked with a guy who, when asked for his input on critical emails, would meticulously comb through and delete second spaces after periods. "What did you think? Did you…

More productive is to try and understand why Minority Report has successfully captured the imagination of so many, persisted over a decade, spawned an entire genre of syfy interfac…

The irony of Hacker News articles on productivity and focus is not lost on me.

And what is an SRE at Google? https://www.atlassian.com/it-unplugged/devops/site-reliabili...

Totally agree. The article was de-railed by the time it used Musk's personality as part of some tweet-fishing closing one-liner. If this is really about evolving competitive landsc…

You are truly seeing the future, my friend.

You're talking about neurogenesis via progenitor cells and neural stem cells. Evidence was there for several decades but anyone that touched the subject was essentially blacklisted…

Disclaimer: this is not medical advice and I am not a medical professional. If the long-term protective benefit of the otc drug specifically as it relates to AD has not been studie…