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Their library has increasingly sucked. They've changed their UI to be correspondingly undifferentiating, making this change less apparent without actually viewing the content. Ther…

I barely watch anything any more on Netflix streaming. When I do try something new -- especially one of their "Netflix originals" -- I increasingly feel I am being fed the same set…

Even decades ago, I recall from memory a gorgeous nighttime view of parliament, lit up in gold-ish tones, with an emerald green lighting the bridge underside in the intermediate fo…

A comment on another thread, made about a day after my GP comment, mentioned an influential paper published in, IIRC, 1944 speculating on crystalline storage of complete human gene…

My (big metropolitan) supermarket chain got rid of their loyalty card program. One explanation I've heard, is that so many people are purchasing with credit/debit cards, that most …

It's there. Here's a copy that's in the Wayback Machine (aka archive.org). https://web.archive.org/web/20190113223131/https://cacm.acm....

Clarke's "The City and the Stars" Technologically enabled immortality (in an interesting manner). Massive, crystalline data storage. Immersive gaming, including the negative, subsu…

One question, is whether the designation is objective or projective. There are a lot of "lazy" people "doing the wrong thing", whom closer analysis -- or just actually listening to…

Pre-Google-Fi and into Google Fi, I considered the various "un-appeal-able" account scenarios with Google products, including how they sometimes tied back to loss of access to othe…

Don't mistake political opportunism for ethics or moral fiber. Speaking generally -- not just of this instance.

I missed that reference elsewhere in this thread. Thank you -- at a first glance, this looks promising! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18876042 https://online-go.com/docs/abo…

I was resisting posting my OT question on this thread, but I will, briefly: Is there something like Lichess for Go (the board game)? Similar quality and openness. A couple of years…

Yep. Like the "pick out a toaster for your 5 years of service" awards. Seriously -- if you haven't encountered this -- there are businesses that specialize in... "administering" se…

This is Derek Lowe, of the excellent column "Things I Won't Work With." https://www.google.com/search?q=things+i+won%27t+work+with

2013 -- for others who also thought they'd heard about this in the past.

Well, this should be defined as practicing medicine. (Ultimately, you are controlling whether and what treatment occurs.) Correspondingly, their licenses should be on the line, as …

I thought it was started by some Xooglers. Obviously, the products are coming from China, and I imagine a lot of the design work is done there, now. After its launch, the emphasis …

I've held a number of "exempt" positions (salary, no overtime pay) where the workload is typically high but there are the occasional slow periods or an abnormal personal schedule d…

It seems law and regulation are going to have to clearly define and constrain what these organizations are allowed to collect and what they are not allowed to collect -- or, rather…

When companies lobby for this, and come to "own" the respective governing bodies, people not only have the right but are being eminently practical in taking their concerns directly…

One very bright guy maybe still in his 30's. Otherwise, 40's and 50's. Not just experience. Problem solving, including creative thought. Practicality. Reduction in B.S. -- although…

Yep. Midwest metropolis (out in the suburbs, but still fairly dense). It's the rust. Well, and in a few Chrystlers and a Ford I've been familiar with, the trannie. Kind of a race b…

I subsequently lost my copy in a flood, but I quite enjoyed reading it.

I don't know why this has been downvoted. It is exactly the case. Maybe not for you and your neighbors, if you live in a well-to-do area (although, you might be surprised at what i…

Perhaps no longer surprising, but of note especially to people in other countries, with regard to health care in the U.S. People are frankly -- and justifiably -- scared of going t…