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by adambmedia 8y ago
In particular, shrink-wrap sealed records from the 70s, when exposed to heat from storage or from direct sunlight, can warp the hell out of the record and sleeve as the shrink contracts and expands. I would even say this is a common proble
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by adambmedia 9y ago
I find the layout of poster downloads on the detail pages of the individual laws, with the text of the law and lawofux.com tag on the right side, unfortunate. The layout of the posters on the top-level page are 100x more evocative and eleg
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by adambmedia 9y ago
Reminds me of when my wife conveyed enthusiasm about her tech job to some family and friends of family back in France, how interesting the work was, creative, etc, only to have them snicker and declare, "look at you, so American now, y
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by adambmedia 9y ago
"It’s just that grinning without cause is not a skill Russians possess or feel compelled to cultivate." Unlike depression, and mathematics.
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by adambmedia 9y ago
I often think about Arthur Rubenstein, the phenom mid-century pianist, for whom a lot has been written about his mission in early life to "practice as little as possible." There's a lot of hyped up romanticism in these quotes
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by adambmedia 9y ago
All of the employees suddenly stay.
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by adambmedia 9y ago
In addition to differences in recommended calorie intake, is there a good, scientific, international comparison that puts dietary guidelines side-by-side, nutrient guidelines, balanced meal? It's amazingly difficult to find clear infor
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by adambmedia 9y ago
Nobel prize winner Czesław Miłosz writes brilliantly in The Captive Mind how intellectuals, elites and creatives alike, essentially the intelligentsia of Krakow, Poland, were easily conscripted into the communist propeganda machine by vari
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by adambmedia 9y ago
There is at least one other distinction of French books, especially in the anthropology domain: They are almost ALWAYS WHITE! Spines schmines. A friend of mine is a French anthropology buff and his library is white, shelf on shelf of whiten
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by adambmedia 10y ago
In defense of Roger Ebert, the dude wrote the screenplay to Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
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by adambmedia 10y ago
Didn't Warren Buffet say that Benjamin Graham's margin-annotated Intelligent Investor, or was it, Security Analysis, was his most prized possession. Otherwise, what funny coincidence in the examples of this article: C.S. Lewis &qu
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by adambmedia 10y ago
Lol. I once worked with a guy who, when asked for his input on critical emails, would meticulously comb through and delete second spaces after periods. "What did you think? Did you make any changes?" "I removed all of the do
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by adambmedia 10y ago
More productive is to try and understand why Minority Report has successfully captured the imagination of so many, persisted over a decade, spawned an entire genre of syfy interface trope that we see in virtually every film having anything
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by adambmedia 10y ago
The irony of Hacker News articles on productivity and focus is not lost on me.
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by adambmedia 10y ago
And what is an SRE at Google? https://www.atlassian.com/it-unplugged/devops/site-reliabili...
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by adambmedia 10y ago
Totally agree. The article was de-railed by the time it used Musk's personality as part of some tweet-fishing closing one-liner. If this is really about evolving competitive landscape, Musk as a cult of personality is really far from
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by adambmedia 10y ago
You are truly seeing the future, my friend.
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by adambmedia 10y ago
You're talking about neurogenesis via progenitor cells and neural stem cells. Evidence was there for several decades but anyone that touched the subject was essentially blacklisted from the neuroscience community. At MIT, they would
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by adambmedia 10y ago
Disclaimer: this is not medical advice and I am not a medical professional. If the long-term protective benefit of the otc drug specifically as it relates to AD has not been studied, don't start taking it under 30. What has been studie