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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Government Cheese

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www.bizjournals.com 8y ago

Apple staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan at new HQ (2017)

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Oprah, Is That You? On Social Media, the Answer Is Often No

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www56.homepage.villanova.edu 8y ago

The History of Induvidually Wrapped Cheese Slices [pdf]

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www.citylab.com 8y ago

The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context

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www.adatitleiii.com 8y ago

Congress Urges DOJ to Declare Private Website ADA Lawsuits Violate Due Process

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blog.ericgoldman.org 8y ago

A Privacy Bomb Is About to Be Dropped on the California Economy and the Internet

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Can Crows Make Mental Pictures of Tools?

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nmap.org 8y ago

Rihanna uses unix “nmap” to hack computer in new movie Ocean's 8

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www.forbes.com 8y ago

Bitcoin Declines Below $5,800 as Downward Trend Continues

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www.washingtonpost.com 8y ago

More People Die Taking Selfies in India Than Anywhere Else in the World

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

A Clarinetist’s Girlfriend Didn’t Want Him to Leave. So She Crushed His Dreams

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Social Media in 1979? Yes

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amp.businessinsider.com 8y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Forced to Apologize for Eating Chick-Fil-A

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www.thisisinsider.com 8y ago

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes reportedly seeking investors for new company

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gizmodo.com 8y ago

Apple Isn't Your Friend

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

You’d Need 6.3B Years to Do What This Supercomputer Can Do in a Second

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

How Checkers was Solved

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blog.calm.com 8y ago

New GDPR law becomes bedtime story for grown-ups

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www.curbed.com 8y ago

The High Cost of Abandoned Property

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 8y ago

CSS Is So Overpowered It Can Deanonymize Facebook Users

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variety.com 8y ago

Two French Teens Arrested in Connection with Vevo Hack That Defaced ‘Despacito'

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www.mercurynews.com 8y ago

Mountain View proposes “Google Tax” – per worker tax for employers

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Wow! This is really bad if it's not going to get any better. I've already switched from Apple several years ago (when there was no more viable desktop "Pro" option for me), and I suspect more true "pro" users will do the same.

Maybe Apple simple doesn't care about (or need) pro users. That's fine, I guess. They want to go in other directions. It could be that 'pros' are too expensive to have as customers.

He only seemed slightly overweight. I think this is only to be considered when a patient is significantly overweight or obese. Dementia rates are certainly higher in the Obese population.

In any event--this man had a confirmed genetic condition that was the definite cause of his dementia. He was going to get it, no matter what actions he took.

While it may be true that some dementia in obese people may not have manifested if that person did not overeat, that is not the case here.

I recommend you read the article.

My piano has 92 keys. (Bosendorfer 225). 85 keys was pretty common until the 1920s. And the third pedal is relatively new. Some pianos (Fazioli) have 4 pedals.

This may be an acceptable format for some electronic versions of scanned books, but it's not a "PDF Alternative".

Also PDF is an open format.

I wonder if most Apple users, and the ones they tested the keyboard with, simply don't use the machines very much. Their core demographic update their social media profiles, and sit in coffeeshops, but how many of them write software? The people here are certainly important for their business, but were missed when Apple was designing a machine for appearance and not functionality.

"Quartering Troops" sounds archaic, but every now and then lawmakers propose it, like forcing private airlines to provide discounted or free arrangements for servicemen traveling. (As opposed to negotiating rates with them, or soliciting competitive bids). These proposals usually don't get very far, but it shows you that the Government still thinks it's OK to _force_ a citizen or private business to give free services or accommodations to soldiers.

(For example, see https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/congressman-bruce-... and https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/delta-troops-afgha... The Government should reimburse him, and try to negotiate the best rates from the Airlines. I'd be all for the Airlines offering a discount, but they shouldn't be forced to.)

Maybe so, but did you read the article? This is a person who the Government decided to do a forfeiture after a conviction. I'm glad the SCOTUS is looking at this because it seems to be adding additional penalties after a conviction. However, in the past additional penalties implemented after a conviction (like sex offender registries) have been upheld.