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When I was at the Stanford cardiac unit last, they let me sleep. That wasn't the problem but they had a problem giving me privacy: door wide open, curtain wide open.

Nurses cluck in packs like chickens, completely without concern for patients interrupting their social hour. You have to order them around because they're not smart or conscientiou…

Cults and other extreme forms of magical thinking take root whenever survival seems difficult. Chris Hedges' latest book delves into paths to anomie, self-destruction and insanity …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip Also note that Telegram and WhatsApp are insecure and horrible. I would use Signal, OTR and maybe iMessage if you trust the Apple bean-co…

Get your Clipper chips! Steaming hot Clipper chips! Chocked full of vitamins, backdoors and laughably lazy intelligence agency bungling!

The word "literally" is misused, unnecessary and annoying.

It sounds like a recipe for anticholinergic, Parkinsonian-like tremors, nausea, vertigo, sweating and other dysfunctions.

The 1% don't care how money is made (who it kills or destroys the planet) so long that it flows. An existential threat from externalities is just another new inelastic market to ex…

0. Take all concepts, modifiers and verbs 1. Make a histogram of their usage 2. Huffman encode them based on what sounds/inflections/etc. are easiest to make and most distinct 3. A…

We played the beta and first release of CS in college (UCD). Ah the memories of AWP and skywalking (jumping up on crates with aid of a buddy and walking on top of the map's boundin…

Yes. What's missing from modern life is somewhat intended by corporations and the political elite: the atomizing of people from each other via glowing screens and burning down of c…

Many organizations are in dire need of departmental NAT firewalls and VPN solutions. I had to beg, bitch and moan before a Pac10 uni would offer such a service to protect our users…

Yup. I have a horrible GPA due to a bunch of personal and disability stuff but they never look at it due to experience. If they did, I wouldn't want to work somewhere that favors G…

It's important to both suspend disbelief to enjoy fiction from reality and take fiction with a big grain of salt that it's often missing considerations of reality. It's when people…

Where to eat, University Ave PA: - Cafe 220 $ - Oren's Hummus $$ - Crepevine $$ - Il Fornaio $$$ - Coupa Cafe $$ - Local 271 $$ - Sprout $$ - Madera $$$$ (Sand Hill Rd) Man-bod app…

Hello? It's 1993 calling. Will you buy these discontinued NSA Clipper chips? No. phreak'n. way. Sunshine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

Glorified Tweet.

Satellite imagery from a BBC investigation https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_cam...

Estimated mass: 1.51e10 kg - heavier than the Great Pyramid of Giza but lighter than the Three Gorges Dam (4/3) * pi * (213/2 [m])^3 * 3 [g/cm^3] Mean diameter: 213m Kinetic energy…

Long period waves and their decay signature makes me suspect "water hammering" of a large volume of magma came to an abrupt stop inside a magma chamber or tube.

Balance the competing tyrannies - individual / majority - class - age - ability - and many more The messy reality of balancing interests tends not to fit to any impossibly idealist…

On average, Dutch farmers tend to use the least water per mass of product sold.