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That's a bummer. I literally started my latest rewatch because of this news.

Exactly what the author meant to say.

True, but the word "blowout" in this case is just a crazy side-effect of our weird electoral college system. Everyone knows that in all the swing states (except Arizona), the final…

Depending on which post you look at somewhere between 1% - 6%. But, the more important question is which users use Apollo (or other 3rd party tools). The answer overwhelmingly is m…

That man is a genius: let's do wide scale testing & contact tracing! Exactly what everyone has been saying for a while now.

The blended 2017 US average is 1.54 people per car, source: https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1040-july...

While there are clearly communities where this is a problem, I've lived in Chicago, now I live in the suburbs and still work downtown, and honestly outside of OTB and the Casinos, …

There are literally dozens, just google or search Amazon, here's an example: https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Charger-Charging-Breaksafe-N...

Only partially. Often at the time of consumption cost isn't something one can use to make decisions. But for those other times, sure it would help. Speaking of lack of info about p…

Yea, that's nice, but under a Republican administration that's not going to happen.

That is not quite correct. Neither MasterCard nor Visa charge merchants any extra to use ApplePay. In fact, some merchant banks even lower merchant fees if they adopt secure paymen…

What is Alternative medicine that works is called? Medicine.

In addition to Tor, I didn't see in the article, did she use Ghostery or any other browser privacy plug-ins?

sigh Get a copy of the MMM and read it. TL;DR: adding more people to a project won't necessarily help make it go any faster and often will slow it down.

this. good edit. was just going to post to say this.

Agree 100%. I travel a lot and need more power. I currently have a 13" MBA, and am waiting to see what the next refresh offers, but am seriously looking at a 15" rMBP for my next m…

Are you aware of zipline ports (or similar libraries) in Ruby or ObjectiveC (or plain C)?

we also have a rule that when possible (like you've opened up an old file with whitespace issues), that you should clean it and do a whitespace changes only commit before getting t…

I love the names of the Culture ships! sigh this is sad news.

I've never gotten any of these complaints about shows running "overtime". Personally, the longer the better IMHO. They're podcasts. I listen as much as I can, and then pause them t…

Don't forget that Groklaw is quite slanted in Google's favor just like FOSS Patents is slanted against Google. To get a balance you need to read both (well actually even more sourc…

Hmmmm ... I just read a blog post (Ars??) that upto 1% of Macs could be infected. What percentage of Window machines did Conficker infect? 30% 50%? I seem to remember it was a huge…

This, a thousand times this.