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Every Blender tutorial starts with "hit a, hit x to delete the default objects." I don't think this is a valid point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Michiko Kakutani didn't work for the Book Review. She was the chief book critic of the arts section. The Book Review is a separate organization within the NYT, with an entirely sep…

See page two of the document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36... Seems pretty clear that they could decrypt the traffic they were interested in, they a…

And that turned out really well. I’m unclear what your point is.

Sure my point here was it quickly? Or routine?

I live right by where these birds takeoff, we heard them, and I can tell you this is a normal day of the week. Not sure "scrambled" is correct here.

So as a married man, I use partner: it fits with my understanding of marriage, we’re partners, we both have a hand in managing a household. It feels good to say.

I’m almost finished with a RISCV core in verilog targeting FPGAs: https://github.com/thejefflarson/little-cpu I’m four instructions away from implementing the compressed extensions…

I wrote a small program do exactly this on OSX and Linux (Gnome): https://github.com/thejefflarson/getpasswd It accesses the OS keychain to get the right password. I don't use offl…

Thanks for posting this. I encourage this crowd to to take a look at the methodology too: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...

Information sharing greatly increased post 9/11. See my reply to the sibling comment.

I don't think it is in anyway limited: https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/facilitating-an-enhanced-... As to the point about selectors, if a selector has an even remotely domestic …

The FBI most definitely has access to intelligence databases and information: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/25/us/25stellarwi... A key part of the FBI's mission is "to…

That depends. At ProPublica we've done a bunch of visualizations with canvas and SVG in the past, and they are powerful tools. However, as part of our investigation into Hurricane …

I'd love to chat with you. jeff.larson@propublica.org, PGP Key: https://s3.amazonaws.com/thejefflarson/pubkey.asc

The Chicago Tribune has a good series about how Big Tobacco and chemical companies have pushed for more flame retardants in everything despite health concerns: http://media.apps.ch…

You can download the data behind the interface here: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/ My point being that the census data is independent of factfinder.

Are you serious? "Generate some copy?" Copy doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Someone wrote that, and meant to write that, you're kidding yourself if you think they didn't.

I went to UCSB as an undergrad for 2 years. I can guarantee if you ask -- and really listen! -- to women at UCSB, every single one would find this unwelcoming. Sexism isn't a 'cult…

Not really, though I'd say it's smaller than Mapnik. TileMill (backed by Mapnik) is an amazing GUI for styling maps, and TileStache is an awesome caching server. But, really at it'…