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Hopefully this new process's product can help alleviate some of the issues faced by burn victims. When I was a small child I was run over by a car and severely burned (by the catalytic converter)…

I've never had a medical procedure work like this. The office was transparent and prompt about everything. Every other encounter with the U.S. medical system I've had has been a confusing me…

I got my eyes fixed with LASIK a while back. I noticed glare and halos for a while, but they subsided. Overall I've been very satisfied with the how it went. I wish that more medical procedures w…

One concern with this line of argumentation: reasonable people shouldn't have to change their behavior, but rational people might want to. That is, suppose you believe (as I do) that D.T. and…

I'll advocate for: see a marriage counselor regularly! Before getting married if possible, and at least every couple of years after. Many people take more seriously the maintenance of their car t…

Water damage could run to hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few hours.

The directory structure is beautiful.

See Mark Thoma's "Economist's View" for a broad sampling. I personally enjoy Marginal Revolution (Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen), Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal (Miles Kimbal…

This is why I said "Dubner's and Levitt's books are entertaining, but I wouldn't try to learn much about economics from them."

I read Dubner and Levitt's Freakonomics in 2005. It's lame to say that a pop-science book changed my life, but since then I've thought about economics every day. I would recommend som…

I offered to take over a library that provides a Pythonic interface for Redis a little while ago. The original author accepted, and I've really enjoyed bringing the project back to life. I'l…

This is an under-appreciated point... if 99 people leave money on the table, and the 100th person picks it up, we're back to efficiency in the aggregate.

Mozilla Planet! That site was a big part of how I immersed myself in open source and software generally. When I was in high school I would read every post on the web site, and eventually started readi…

I've tested a few times - if I floss the day before and day of I don't get the "floss more!" lecture.

Citation needed? I'm just describing the Montessori method, which was developed in the early 1900s. But maybe they were driving "sales revenue" then also?

My partner became involved in Montessori a few years ago, and I've been really impressed with how it works. If you don't know much about Montessori, here is my "in a nutshell" vers…

I read something once that had a real effect on me in these situations. It was "who says you have to feel like doing something to do it?" (Is it magic? Of course not. Will it work for everyo…

I have to fight the hipster in me too, but Serial is an example of something that is deservedly popular. It was very entertaining, yes, but very informative. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants …

You could definitely use Security Onion's tools for that. The full SO distribution is a little bit overkill for that. You could run YAF ([1]) on a box attached to a mirror port to log IP headers …

SANS has a slightly dated paper ([1]) about setting up this sort of thing that gives a flavor for how it can work. I think AWS's VPC Flow Logs are the foundation for better tools (disclaimer, my …

I've been a fan of Security Onion for a while. Richard Bejtlich's book "Practice of Network Security Monitoring" discusses setting it up and how to incorporate it into an operation…

I didn't really know anything about init systems until 2014 (so I all but missed the systemd wars) when I found myself in need of process synchronization and supervision on various platforms. My …

I agree that it's perfectly valid, but disagree that it's necessary. Deploying proxies has costs - it obscures the endpoints of communication from sensor software and makes anomaly detection…

This article is OK overall, but I could do without the "I am so brave for exposing this" trope at the beginning. The author presents some new insights, but complaining about the state univer…

I don't think it's that crazy. Switching to IPv6 is painful. It's a fine standard, and better than IPv4 in most every way, ignoring transaction costs. But IPv4 + NAT persists because it…

The need to exempt various types of traffic for business reasons is ultimately why I think monthly data caps will fade away for cable/telco-provided Internet service. An example would be some pro…

Quite so. Usually the same in mobile networks, but sometimes backhaul is a limitation there still.

Interesting! I did a search and found one example - Exede? It's encouraging to see some experiments with this.