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In "classic" Unix, isn't ".." really just another file name, created by default as a hard link to the parent directory?

And how do we know the "repressed trauma" wasn't invented between the therapist and the patient?

And also, if and when medications are very effective, why not use them?

This is why Government backed mortgages and mortgage interest deductions don't really save any homebuyers money, and just end up costing the taxpaying public.

But isn't that still _supply_?

It's getting very complicated to understand everything that happens when you click on a link in a browser. And I wonder if these UDP protocols are better than fixing the issues wit…

How do antidepressants create matter from thin air?

It isn't? https://assets.propublica.org/images/articles/_threeTwo400w/...

About 80% of obese people with sleep apnea would be asymptomatic if they reduced to a non-obese weight. For this subset of people, shouldn't insurers (and often the Public) encoura…

That's what I believe, too. If Yahoo had acquired Netflix, or Facebook, they wouldn't have succeeded either.

A very good point. It was hard to know what Yahoo was (or is). In the beginning, remember, they weren't a search engine. They were a curated directory of the Internet. In fact, it …

Wow! The Mohel and Rabbi who performed Honest Ed's bris was Al Jolson's father: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Mirvish

Those "Honest Ed" signs are beautiful, and remind me of the hand-painted signs I'd still see in Brooklyn in the late 60s and early 70s (probably nearing the end of the era for hand…

I liked google wave and I think it was a good example of a product that was ahead of its time.

Orkut’s story had a strange footnote. It was dominated by Brazilian Portuguese speakers, making other users feel less welcome. That was a tough problem.

The best of intentions? To erase their culture and replace it with Chr-stianity? I don't see that as well intentioned.

This is not xenophobia. It's self defense against idolatry and false gods.

principal

Well, of course. It’s only fair. You can’t change a rule then go back and hold prior behaviors accountable according to the new rule. It’s just common decency.

Yes, but being open Saturday, he won't have Jewish customers, who are in the prime demographic group for bagels.

He should close Saturday, and get a hechsher. He’d get more business and some rest.

"Nerd-minstrelsy" is a better term

Shouldn't all the True Believers be mortgaging and leveraging everything and going all in?

Actually, you can! There was a presentation at DEFCON this year (DEFCON 26) showing exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLCE8spVX9Q > "See for yourself first-hand as we g…