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I keep forgetting there's a front page to this website. What a cool story!

>What public good could possibly come from such a restriction/ban? Often it's to keep out the "wrong" sort -- don't want some uppity poor moving into your school district. …

Haha thanks, I'm guessing English is not your first language? Glad I could be of help ;-)

Many townships make line drying illegal, at least in PA.

Makes sense. I've seen folks justify being needlessly adversarial because their crotchspawn obviously deserve the best , so anyone who stands in the way of a promotion or publication is a threat…

Peter Higgs would agree: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-... >Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boso…

I'd rather get a bullet in the head than spend any substantial amount of time in an American prison.

>The rhetoric around Firefox is so exhausting. They change some wording while having made no actual technical changes to the browser and the internet is on fire for days calling them the devil inca…

1984

Reddit does a good job surfacing quality content, especially in the domain of art and design. There's several science and space subreddits as well. Very few ppl can blog consistently enough to wa…

Is it normal to go into a PhD not having at least a vague thesis topic? I had the opposite issue -- I had an idea that had support in my research area, but my advisor did not have funding to pursue. (…

You'd be surprised who you see.

A lot of affluent people buy houses in Bethesda then commute via the Red Line.

I am not in the EU. There's two accounts - FB and Insta. The same email was given to both.

I deleted my Facebook in 2016, and when I tried to create a new one they banned me as "inauthentic". I've seen people complain about the site demanding a government ID scan, but I'…

Student legal services usually can't help you with disputes with the uni -- I remember reading this when speaking to them about a (unfair IMO) traffic ticket when I was a student at a different i…

Google has issues with authentication. I lost my childhood account because it decided the recovery codes, written on paper + stored in a safe location (matching) were all marked as invalid. I'd h…

>To see our schedule, please either enable JavaScript or go here for our NoJS schedule. Great design. Too often sites force me to temporarily whitelist their JS to get basic info.

If so, they're silently voting, not engaged in the comments. On my old account, I noticed sometimes I'd get no replies to something, but enough downvotes to hide something... then it seems s…

Why are you in a community that tolerates them? I had to tell someone IRL today I won't be cursed at and walk out of their office... why wouldn't you do the cyber equivalent? I'm forced…

Have you not heard of Distributed Denial of Secrets? Large entities are hacked and leaked constantly, it's just not reported on much in the mainstream press: https://en.wikipedia.org&#…

>The article really assumes you know the acronym PNRG Why would you be reading this article if you do not? This is the type of critique given when writing for a general audience, not a scientific w…

I play cash games, sit and go. Tournaments are much harder and become shove fests towards the end.

Also, you get fatigued after ~5 hours, it's hard to play well for long stretches and if you make a bad all in it takes a while to make up for it.

>tell me where the fishes are young man! It's hard, because the bad players tend to play what is termed "loose aggressive" -- so you have to play less hands, and often they get lucky…

I play Texas Holdem. It's not enough $$$ to be a full time role, especially considering the costs of purchasing health insurance w/o a traditional W2 employer, but it's perfectly possib…

>I think it implies that it did way more than it did, so it was just a faux feeling of security. Flipping that bit increased your browser fingerprint a smidge, ironically :-)