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Seems like just sitting with one's feelings for 5 minutes a night would amortize the cost of those "blues" over the full length of the hike. End of trip for non-amortized blues: OM…

Still not sure about the "who" question, but here's the scale of money changing hands: > Residential proxies are everywhere, so why did proxy DDoS attacks mostly come from the U.S.…

Did you read the paragraph before that about paying ninety-five dollars just for two weeks of proxying through a single U.S. IP? There's nothing in the last 10 years even remotely …

I just read this from Nokia's blog of all places[1]: > A fresh U.S. residential IP address (especially one behind carrier-grade NAT and harder to block individually) is “gold.” Cus…

> if I get sent to male holding facility I'm just chum in the water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_people_in_prison

> It's worth noting that Taylor Farms consumer bagged salads are consistently marked, in the form of an alphanumeric code printed on the bag near the sell-by date. This reads like …

I take this comment as a cautionary tale about just how big a problem the p-hacking issue can be in the social sciences.

What's the difference between a regulatory barrier and a Chesterton's fence?

> The unknown request will be buried in spam - a problem we have already, but worse. I feel like every one of these suggested changes to email comes with a functionally equivalent …

> What’s missing from this strange conversation is discussion about how many data center proposals are near residential areas. What's strange is that you didn't once mention the la…

> (potentially) lower transaction fees Citation needed. I'm looking at the transaction fees for lightning network and they are in the range of FedNow or RTP. For Bitcoin it's not e…

> Like, OK, that's their problem, but what's that got to do with you? If a social creature plays chess in a club where everyone else cosplays, the first thing that creature will do…

Back in 1984 George Lewis apparently did a stint at IRCAM, culminating in an electro-acoustic performance with three Apple IIe's connected by MIDI to three DX7s. I'd bet his conver…

> While I won't deny there are some problems currently, I think people comparing where they start to where others end is a huge mistake and leads to a lot of unnecessary anguish. T…

> In every prize I’ve ever judged or heard firsthand reports of, everything else is up to the judges and their idiosyncrasies. Sure. But even seemingly broad guidelines deeply infl…

> This is going to be tough to enact, anywhere in the USA, even New York. You followed the link to the poll in the article, right? I haven't seen poll numbers that high on any poll…

The author is confusing literalism with superficiality, and I don't understand why. For example, Hans Haacke had a piece which was literally documenting the provenance of a museum'…

Where are you finding the lien on that property? I don't see it listed at all. Edit: I'm asking how you came up with the $200k+ figure

I wonder if the Catch Me if You Can guy counts. He apparently lied about a lot of his adventures as a scam artist, making him more of a fabulist. However, if anyone taken in by his…

> An evil Debian maintainer would have to make a change that was well enough disguised as something else to evade scrutiny. The xz utils hack got slurped up into sid before it was …

I don't get the drama here. Either Odin is mentioned in at least a handful of what Wikipedia considers secondary sources, or it isn't. Just skimming Rust's entry I immediately see …

> The oldschool forum format requires a lot more scrolling and superfluous content that is unrelated to the discussion On the other hand, the flatness and default chronology of tho…

> I do not know how this trust can be rebuilt but definitely not by publishing more reviews. Dear Previous Paragraph, Couldn't many small published reviews which don't show a notic…

OP is saying Trump has demanded loyalty as a condition of serving in his administration. As HHS Secretary, RFK caved on Roundup, something he famously won a case against as a lawye…

Curious that you include REI. It's a retail coop model, not a worker-owned coop. Apropos: the way they ended the REI Adventures program is behavior consistent with a normal big-box…