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Tabs Outliner looked interesting. Four things I noticed in a cursory tryout: * I did not see a way to search tabs. * I like how the sidebar auto-updates based on the selected window, but it does not d…

I prefer The Great Discarder [1]; saves more memory, and Chrome starts very quickly even with thousands (really) of tabs open. To put another way, Chrome becomes usable almost immediately, with much l…

>Honestly I don't feel sorry for the USA any more. The rest of the world solved these problems 50 years ago. What utter nonsense. The doctor shortage in the US has nothing on that in Canada.…

>They currently have over $335 billion set aside for future pensions, though, so between this position and the forced conservative investment policy...I gotta say, suddenly the USPS is looking like…

>My solution has been to place an Apple bluetooth keyboard -on top- of my 15" MBP keyboard and that seems to work pretty well, but wow, it shouldn't have come to this... I did that with m…

>Eg Holland has a number of cheap shoe chains. Schoenenreus and Scapino both breathe an air of cheapness, and one went bust and the other is struggling bad. Their direct competitor Van Haren sells …

Is it true that the best deals are in February, after people realize they won't use the equipment they bought in January for New Year's resolutions?

@hourislate's point is that this is a "he said, she said" story in which only he has said anything. USCIS, as the article said, can't say anything.

>> Heinlein’s 1959 novel Stranger in a Strange Land, which owned a species of cult-status through the 1970s, can be read today only with vicarious embarrassment. >The reviewer dislikes this g…

>As for Jimmy Carter I agree and I have to wonder: why is it that intelligence seems to be strongly inversely coorelated with effectiveness as a president? Jimmy Carter was wildly intelligent and a…

>Some organizations could mount legal challenges to the Cherokee Nation's push for a delegate, Rosser added, potentially arguing that the move gives citizens of the tribe more representation i…

>For certain definitions of “marginally,” I suppose. The choice isn't just "manufacture in China" or "manufacture in the US". According to Peter Zeihan's The Accident…

>To be crystal clear, this relative safety on the world stage means the USD is in demand as a "flight to safety". Same can be said about Treasuries, which is why domestic economic analysi…

Both NM and CA could expect large numbers of English speakers to outnumber those who spoke other languages. In CA this happened almost immediately, because of the Gold Rush; in NM it took longer. In b…

Because English is vital to being part of a unified American culture. If the US annexed Canada, I would also not want Quebec as a state for the same reason. Either make it a territory or give it indep…

No more than we did to any other English-speaking US territory in the 19th or 20th century that didn't have enough people for statehood. (And before you bring up Puerto Rico, a) it's not Eng…

The Financial Times values Greenland at $1.1 trillion. While done in a humorous tone, the mock sellside research report uses an interesting sum-of-parts valuation model: * $300-400bn for possible oi…

>That's how the program is sold and it's incredibly easy to game. Require 10 years of Swift experience and suddenly the candidate pool is dry. Generally most, if not all, IT job postings …

By "To take a step back when the news makes us angry or sad, when we hear about someone far away violating principles we hold dear", justaguyonline is referring to Trump. Presumably, were Tr…

I've heard that, three blocks from Caltech, many people have never heard of the university.

>With the US, the treasury uses the fact that the US dollar is one of the reserve currencies (the euro is catching up) No, it is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_curr…

According to Peter Zeihan's The Accidental Superpower (2014), manufacturing in China has gone from being one quarter as expensive as in Mexico to 25% more expensive. He expects that the US shal…

I've read that from the early 1600s to World War I England had net zero inflation.

Nice. Which parent company did you get the plan from? I am among the few who bought Sprint's $15 Kickstart plan during the two weeks it was available last year. It's not as nice as yours—the…

In Arthur Hailey's novel Wheels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheels_(novel) , about the auto industry, an executive at a fictional US car company suggests building a very…

From the article: It was the culmination of weeks of increasing FCA exasperation over the behaviour of Renault’s largest shareholder. Several months earlier, when the private discussions between Mr Se…

>* First Unibody MB/MBP had glossy screen not suitable for indoor lighting This didn't affect me (and it didn't change until Retina, I think), but EM209 < https://randyz…

>Just today I was browsing for new wine glasses. I finally found the product that I wanted and checked out a couple of options on Amazon. The first two reviews for the pair[1] I liked were complain…