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For the NYC crowd, there's a spot very much like this in Williamsburg: www.nitehawkcinema.com Food is quite good, service is impeccable. It's a more intimate affair, only two peopl…

Cafe Ghia, Jefferson stop of the L train. 24 Irving Avenue. And their food is a lot better than Table 12 ;)

It's trivial to use a proxy to modify the referral headers.

Re: "Coffee Klatch." Sure, we need more of these around. I'm just happy there's a place like this that fits the bill right in my neighborhood. It's more of a cafe than a coffee sho…

In The Sprawl trilogy, cash is almost never used for legitimate purchases. It's almost exclusively used for black/grey-market transactions.

It's kind of crazy. I know that my battle.net account is more secure than a lot of people's online banking credentials: not only do I need a user name and password to access my bne…

"Blemish free" .... guy obviously has never used iTunes.

This happens when you listen to and then improperly handle keyboard events. Somebody probably just copied a script from w3schools and smashed their face into it for a few hours unt…

Indeed. Spending more per prisoner than per student (even when you divide by three, considering students spend ~8 hours a day at school) strikes me as pretty backward. When you spe…

Because then you could bypass them for each subsequent The Oatmeal comic by just going to The Oatmeal. I'm wondering why someone hasn't done a tineye-dmca-sending mashup to help co…

Which isn't that big of a deal. Take a look at Chrome's upgrade curves, compared to the other browsers: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/08/the-modern-browser-wars-...

But the problems being chunked up in bitcoins are the actual bitcoin transactions, thus churning them is not pointless. It strengthens the system.

Until you realize that your bones were 'out of alignment' because you have weak core muscles that you should build up instead. In fact, 'pushing spinal column bones into alignment'…

"We also have far fewer snake-oil salesmen ripping people off for cures" Yet we still have chiropractors and homeopathy.

Am I completely missing a key part of bitcoin, then? My understanding was the 'pointless tasks' were actually the verifications of previous transactions. And to make such a system …

The author is fundamentally flawed in his approach. He thinks bitcoin mining is just mindless churning on your GPU. But in reality, it's cryptographically checking the validity of …

Another problem with stopping and restarting with every mistake, is you learn to stop and restart when you make a mistake. This makes it really, really awful if you're playing a re…

Lift does do a lot of persistence, it just seems that this intro didn't touch on it much: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/wiki/Mapper http://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/…

The shakiness has always confused me a little. Can they not dampen the momentum vectors somewhat - so little back-and-forths in the actual calculations don't propagate up to the re…

Very true - I've been following the Wilson situation fairly closely. I've urged the people I know down there to contact their elected officials about it, but got mainly apathy in r…

Welp, this kinda screws over a couple family members. I know someone living in Cary (not even 20 minutes drive from Research Triangle Park) that pays something like $60/mo for a me…

It's right on their page. Under 'Find a new alternative:' "However, BankSimple is not a "bank." We partner with chartered banks who provide FDIC-insured products, leaving us free t…

They themselves aren't a bank. They partner up with banks that provide FDIC insured products. They just provide the customer service and the user interface.

Not really. The breakup of the Bell monopoly helped, but Hush-a-Phone vs. US helped set the stage for competing long distance carriers like MCI. It set the stage for devices like t…