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This is really interesting and seems like a great example of how small businesses are better for their community than chains. When I lived in Fort Greene brooklyn I was surprised b…

wood expansion is a big factor for wide flat pieces. Non directional wood products like MDF are used in cabinetry because they do not expand to anywhere near the same degree as sol…

it would seem likely that if they discover a physical mechanism at work in select individuals brains (electric waves followed by rhythmic waves of fluid) that the mechanism exists …

while technology is very advanced it still has a lot of limits. Watching what is happening in someone's brain without damaging them is quite difficult. From the article "Currently,…

the poster mentioned it was for greeting cards, I remember their used to be a lot of greeting cards that would play a recording when you opened them. I bet they loaded low-quality …

so glad to see that place mentioned! it was my morning coffee stop when i lived in new york. the owner/operator is great to chat to, lots of interesting stories about the neighborh…

yeah when I saw that quote the first thing I thought is that this is probably one of those non-replicable studies that was cherry picked out of a small sample size.

cars cost "tens of thousands" yet personal automobile ownership has been feasible and has a huge positive impact on the economy. If that 10-90K ballpark cost estimate is accurate t…

re-reading your comment "This is talking about the cost-benefit from a societal perspective, not from the accounting perspective of the hospital." I think perhaps you do not unders…

I agree with this logic about "if residency programs predictably broke even" but I don't see any concrete support for that in the article. They don't have an accounting of revenue …

bkovacev out of curiosity what country do you live in? Because i have friends who have had much better experiences in Estonia.

I dealt with an RSI issue and had a similar experience where traditional hospitals and MDs did not help. I needed to go outside that system to get help. The hospital system is simp…

I was confused by that part too because the article goes on to say teaching colleges "have an incentive to offer residencies in specialties from which they can get the most revenue…

To contrast your single positive account with a single negative account, my brother has been unable to update his Estonian e-Resident card because the system only works reliably on…

This is a great point. Clothing styles go in and out of fashion on a cyclical basis that is multiple years long.

my company shared an office with the Jewelbots team and I was very impressed at the user testing they did. The bracelet is a great user-programmable product for 8-14 year olds, whi…

this is a great resource, a lot more stuff in here than a typical blog post

fortunately, this change should help diversify the number of certificate authorities for people to use. In the explanation of the wilcard support they link to another post that exp…

they said enterprise devs are failing more interviews because of cultural filtering by the hiring company, not that they are failing the technical assessments more than other devs.…

The idea that design is primarily done inside tech companies is wrong. Netflix has a series called "Abstract" that profiles notable designers and none of them work for web/tech com…

the philosophical questions raised by multiple, visually similar species being considered as one have come up before. Zebras were discovered to be 3 separate species. See "What, if…

> All of the information of our world is contained in text. This statement is false. There is a well known thought experiment called Mary’s Room the gist of which is that knowing a…

This is the correct path forward to move society into a digital era. It follows the well established principle that the state uses force in legally proscribed ways to maintain secu…