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Hi Gwern, just wanted to say your post on melatonin helped me sort out my sleep in my twenties. I had hangups using it on a regular basis and your arguments helped me get over that…

You're right. It's reflective of the neighborhood itself.

It's in the name: stadtpark, city park. In defense of Berlin's Tiergarten, it was originally a hunting preserve for deer (and Hasenheide was for rabbits), so it's big and intimidat…

If you haven't watched Mike Judge's Silicon Valley , you should: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps It was about Web 2.0, then we had "big data", then right before the pan…

> The kids' guide to piracy > It is only my intent that the advice offered here be used to download media that is in the public domain. Then call it the guide to torrenting? And ye…

> What might make me switch? Google Maps will always have better POI data because they have a larger userbase and they've gamified adding POIs with the "Local Guides" badge. The ma…

I believe MapsWithMe (now Maps.me) was released about that time, but I personally didn't get an iOS device until 2013.

Asking you to name a book or two to continue the conversation is fine, but 10 is ridiculous. That interviewer literally pulled the "oh you like _____ band?! name 5 of their albums"…

Yup! Sonic.net `whois sf.ca.us` will give you the email of the registrar (thanks cogitosum).

Just saw your other comment here. That's a bummer. I've been lucky to have never dealt with GoDaddy.

For some reason, I was using ICANN's lookup (lookup.icann.org) which came up empty. But yes, a simple whois from the commandline gave me the right contact. Thanks!

That Neustar list is horribly outdated from 2009 and didn't list sf.ca.us and had scruz.net as the administrator for san-francisco.ca.us. I checked www.whois.us and oakland.ca.us i…

A few years back, I looked into registering a *.sf.ca.us locality domain and Sonic was the registrar back then. Now, I'm trying to recreate how I found that, and I can't. But if an…

That's actually the official slogan by LA Metro: https://shop.metro.net/collections/ride-the-d And someone even created a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_the_D I…

It's subjective, right? But a few artists I like have pieces there: - Margaret Kilgallen (RIP): https://www.sfomuseum.org/public-art/public-collection/untit... - Barry McGee: https…

> On one hand, speeding alone when done by a mature highly-attentive driver isn't really dangerous no matter the limit, because the driver has enough expertise to know what his per…

Do you think O'Reilly would still put an animal on the cover?

I've worked without a product manager before and it was not a pleasant experience. Without a PM: I conducted customer interviews, wrote up product requirement docs (PRD), and itera…

Those e-scooters are a red herring. Ring cameras on everyone's front door and automated license plate readers (ALPR) on police vehicles and Flock cameras throughout cities are bigg…

Thanks for the correction!

Wow, the props to the author for digging deep ! > Looking inside of the display, I found labels identifying the make and model. The signs were designed and manufactured by Trans-Li…

This author's other articles are also about the every mysterious millennials. Pandering to the clueless.

Clickbait title. Have you even bothered playing ping-pong casually? It has multiple benefits: 1) Physical activity. Sure standing desks are the rage right now, but actual movement …

Think you meant "publish or perish." I'm not on academia, but it seems like it'd lead to a lot of filler articles written. The problem with research is that it doesn't always move …