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I think the connection between u/maxwellhill and Ghislaine Maxwell is dubious. The account is named after the town Maxwell Hill in Malaysia, and they had posted in Malaysian subred…

Could you expand on what you mean by "jewish adopted family" structure? Is there something special about the way Jewish families were organized that led to rapid conversions to Chr…

Yes, thats the piece I was referencing. There are some other relevant sections too: "a situation which Paul Valéry pointed up in this sentence: “Just as water, gas, and electricity…

Walter Benjamin wrote about this all the way back in the 1930s. He observed that early art like frescos painted on walls and sculptures in temples require the viewer to travel to t…

The PS2/DS game Flower Sun and Rain did this. There was an available book that was a guide for an in-game resort whose contents were used to solve puzzles. There was also a digital…

Is the name WASTE a reference to Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49?

The section about Berkeley having "no record of graduation or attendance" for Nima is interesting. What a mysterious figure.

Are there any good premade decks you could recommend? Or particular topics you found well suited to spaced repetition?

I found the Getting to Blinky series to be very easy to follow: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy2022BX6EspFAKBCgRuEuzap...

Do you need special connections to tour one? I would love to go, but I assume it would be difficult as a member of the public.

There is likely a selection bias at work here. Anyone who correctly identifies that they lack the domain knowledge to leave a well informed comment will not post. So most posts wil…

TechMoan has used a reel to reel player as a version of this for audio tape. A few obscure formats only fit in rare specialty players, so he's simply wound their internal tapes ont…

Could just as easily be a bias in reporting given the interest in other flight related issues lately. Previously unremarkable outages like this can suddenly become newsworthy if ot…

You must still have a picture of that right?

Would it be possible for you to link his talk?

Greenshot is available on the mac app store now (for $2).

You should be able to calculate the watt hours based on the voltage of the internal batteries. Its likely a 3.7v lithium, so this anker bank would be 3.7v x 24,000mAh = 88.8Wh

The book "Trust me I'm lying" goes into detail about this phenomenon. It is the interest of the media to be tricked, the authors get big stories and clicks and can then turn around…

I've seen weirdly different sorting options for a while now that vary channel by channel. I assumed it was set by the uploader, but I would believe that its a global change now.

Snappy Driver Installer has an offline driver package made just for that situation that I've found quite useful.

I believe the logic is that it makes taxation something explicit that you are forced to notice. The idea being that an included tax would be invisible and allow for hidden changes …

I agree with the point of your post, however I question whether streaming's utopian moment even actually happened. I was a very early adopter of Netflix streaming and their catalog…

Anyone know a good collection of faxlore? Id love to see more, but examples online seem a little sparse.

Try telling them you're going to prison instead. I can't imagine they'll have an inmate edition.

How usable is LinkedIn with a pseudonym? Is that a security industry only practice or could a regular dev get away with that too? I've always been shy about having a profile with m…