Flutterby™! From 2016-09-01 to 2016-09-30

Already have a cat who drives me nuts, but @catfeinatedcafe is starting a Petaluma cat + coffee fix https://t.co/NXEk0rPESN

First meeting of the Petaluma Emacs users group. Yeah, there were two of us (@ae6rt and me), but we could grow. Other Emacs users here?

So: To disable AMBER alerts in Android6/Marshmallow, make the Messages app the default, turn off there, then re-enable Signal.

The Journal of Sex Research: Participating in a Culture of Consent May Be Associated With Lower Rape-Supportive Beliefs

With the recent national focus on rates of sexual violence, many interventions have been proposed, including those that focus on affirmative consent (e.g., “Yes Means Yes” campaign). The goal of the present study was to test whether individuals within a subculture with long-standing norms of affirmative consent—the bondage and discipline/dominance and submission/sadism and masochism (BDSM) community—report lower rape-supportive attitudes compared to individuals not from within this subculture. BDSM practitioner participants, adult participants from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), and college student participants completed measures of hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, rape myth acceptance, victim blaming, expectation of sexual aggression, and acceptance of sexual aggression. BDSM practitioners reported significantly lower levels of benevolent sexism, rape myth acceptance, and victim blaming than did college undergraduates and adult MTurk workers. BDSM practitioners did not differ significantly from college undergraduates or adult MTurk workers on measures of hostile sexism, expectations of sexual aggression, or acceptance of sexual aggression. Limitations and implications are discussed.

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The Journal of Sex Research: Participating in a Culture of Consent May Be Associated With Lower Rape-Supportive Beliefs

With the recent national focus on rates of sexual violence, many interventions have been proposed, including those that focus on affirmative consent (e.g., “Yes Means Yes” campaign). The goal of the present study was to test whether individuals within a subculture with long-standing norms of affirmative consent—the bondage and discipline/dominance and submission/sadism and masochism (BDSM) community—report lower rape-supportive attitudes compared to individuals not from within this subculture. BDSM practitioner participants, adult participants from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk), and college student participants completed measures of hostile sexism, benevolent sexism, rape myth acceptance, victim blaming, expectation of sexual aggression, and acceptance of sexual aggression. BDSM practitioners reported significantly lower levels of benevolent sexism, rape myth acceptance, and victim blaming than did college undergraduates and adult MTurk workers. BDSM practitioners did not differ significantly from college undergraduates or adult MTurk workers on measures of hostile sexism, expectations of sexual aggression, or acceptance of sexual aggression. Limitations and implications are discussed.

[ related topics: Books Erotic Sexual Culture Sociology California Culture Community Education Model Building ]

Copy and paste query into PostGIS gives different results than Java's stmt=db.prepareStatement(sql); stmt.executeQuery();. WTF?

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The Real-Life Superhero Who Beats the Cops to Bike Thieves:

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So we're gonna bend over and take the pittance that the Germans (VW) are offering in recompense for duping us into gassing our neighbors with the TDI, but this leaves us looking around for a car. We're intrigued by electric cars. But so far as I can tell, nobody really wants to sell them.

A friend with a Leaf describes the range anxiety of an 80 mile car (that'll fall off 10-15% after a few years). That seems to be about what most of the current non-Tesla electrics offer. 60 miles covers Charlene to work and home, with zero margin. Admittedly that's the slightly longer back way, but turn on the heater, and...?

It'd be *super* nice if we could get something that'd take us to the South Bay and back, or, barring that, let Charlene drive her commute and then me take it to Vallejo for calling or take us both to Sebastopol for dancing. The new crop of ~180 mile vehicles sounds attractive for that, but...

BMW has the i3 extended range option, which essentially bolts on a generator making it a plug-in hybrid with a 1.7 gallon fuel tank. Why the tiny fuel tank? Apparently because if it had a real tank it'd be classified as a plug-in hybrid, and not be eligible for all sorts of tax credits and other regulatory benefits. And it looks like it has frankly lousy gas mileage as a hybrid.

The shortly forthcoming Chevy Bolt has the range, allegedly, but a 9 hour(!) charge time. So we could do those things one day, but the car wouldn't have time to fully charge before the next trip. And no ACC option. WhoTF builds a modern car, especially an electric, without ACC?

And so we're back to Tesla, which is pricey. But is apparently designed to actually be an electric car, and not some sort of dodge to game CAFE standards.

I suppose we have to see what plug-in hybrids offer.

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Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post: Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature:

It would be a mistake, of course, to attribute salary differences solely, or even primarily, to the choice of major. One study by economists at Yale found that half of the premium earned by STEM majors can be explained not by what they learned in college but by the greater intelligence, diligence and other characteristics that they brought to those majors in the first place. Or to put it another way, they would have earned more no matter what they majored in.

Summary: RT @AliceMazzy:

tfw you try to make a case for liberal arts but accidentally make one for skipping college https://www.washingtonpost.com...erything/wp/2016/09/02/meet-the- parents-who-wont-let-their-children-study-literature/

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The ranger says these are the tree's reaction to wasp eggs

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Ton of people on this hike, so I didn't want to get all up in his face

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Note the webbing around the entrance

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This dude was tapping around the entrance to that lair but didn't get a response

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One more

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Working on Yamuna Matata as a singing call, but can't figure out where I could do this version http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20051017.html

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I'm trying to figure out: Is there a still a small niche market for small (<= 20 handset) office phone systems (VoIP) bundled with local and long distance and various services? Everyone I know is using their mobile for everything, even in office. But I hang with geeks.

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Working on Hakuna Matata as a singing call, but can't figure out where I could do this version http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20051017.html

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From the outside, the Oakland Greyhound station looks like a dump...

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Vanity Fair looks at Elizabeth Holmes and the demise of Theranos, which was (as many guessed) apparently a big old scam all along. But what stuck out was this paragraph:

Balwani’s lack of medical experience might have seemed unusual at such a company. But few at Theranos were in a position to point fingers. As Holmes started to assemble her board of directors, she chose a dozen older white men, almost none of whom had a background in anything related to health care. This included former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state George Shultz, former Georgia senator and chairman of the Armed Services Committee Sam Nunn, and William J. Perry, the former defense secretary. (Bill Frist, the former Senate majority leader, and former cardiovascular doctor, was an exception.) “This was a board that was better suited to decide if America should invade Iraq than vet a blood-testing company,” one person said to me. Gibbons told his wife that Holmes commanded their attention masterfully.

Emphasis mine. I'm not gonna pile on to Theranos, instead I want to point out that the people Holmes got to pitch her scam to investors, are, yes, exactly the sort of people who have been guiding American foreign policy.

That's the real story.

(Via MeFi)

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Realization: if you publish on Twitter or Facebook, those are the discovery mechanisms. Google is the sole discovery method for web content

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Aaargh! I have a query which works fine in PostGIS, but pgsql2shp complains of a syntax error. Grrrr."

Wait, there's a "National Youth Cyber Education Program"? "Wanna Cyber?" "A/S/L?" #eyeroll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberPatriot

"Fap for Freedom!"

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The "welcome home" message has... evolved.

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New York Times' Aleppo story: Inception, but for corrections

[ related topics: Invention and Design New York ]

People who use Emacs and Screen: What do you use as your Screen hot key? C-a is getting in the way of "beginning of line".

Wiggly Open Source Dildo Inspired By Robot Dinosaur.

Direct video link

Looks like there's a lot of work to do here...

[ related topics: Free Software Erotic Sexual Culture Robotics Work, productivity and environment ]

How Seattle killed micro-housing. Great read by an architect on how planning code changes in Seattle have made apartments more expensive.

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Holy crap: Dropbox on Mac OS/X presents a fake OS/X privileges dialog to steal your username and password, and then caches that info.

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Usenet had been overrun by spammers and used primarily as a piracy transfer tool. Sonic has shut off their feed: https://corp.sonic.net/status/2016/09/09/usenet-service-ended/

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Does anyone make irrigation components that don't totally suck? Automation should mean not having to check often to see if parts have failed

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Anyone know of a Michio Shimodarra(?) near Nagano, just post WWII? This was in Charlene's Dad's collection

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Stop the world, i want to get off

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Be one of 5,300 front-line tellers who bilks a customer out of a few tens of dollars to meet sales quotas, lose your job and maybe face criminal charges. Be the exec who creates the environment such that this happens on an institutional level to thousands of customers, be praised as “a standard-bearer of our culture” and “a champion for our customers”, and walk away with $125M while the company has to pay $185M in fines and penalties, and...

Wells Fargo Exec Carrie Tolsted, Who Headed Phony Accounts Unit, Collected $125 Million

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US teens often forced to trade sex work for food, says Urban Institute report:

Many prefer to rationalise what they are doing as dating of sorts. A boy in rural North Carolina said: “When you’re selling your body, it’s more in disguise. Like if I had sex with you, you have to buy me dinner tonight … that’s how girls deal with the struggle … That’s better than taking money because if they take money, they will be labeled a prostitute.”

Yep. When I tell people that they know at least one sex worker, I'm generally not including this scenario, but it's a place that that conversation has gone. Often.

Looks like this is a press release promoting Urban Institute: Impossible Choices.

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First night teaching my first brand new square dance class. I think it went okay! Hopefully they'll bring friends...

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

Chicago woman sues smart-phone connected vibrator maker We-Vibe for invasion of privacy:

The woman, identified only by the initials N.P., purchased a We-Vibe Rave from a local retailer for $130 in May, according to the lawsuit. Soon after the purchase, she downloaded the companion We-Connect app.

She used the device "on several occasions" since the purchase, but was never informed that each time she turned on the app, the company was monitoring her activities as well, collecting "personally identifiable" information, according to the lawsuit.

The problem with the Internet of Things is...

[ related topics: Erotic Privacy Sexual Culture Consumerism and advertising Net Culture ]

• Mother Jones: The sugar industry hid shocking documents for 40 years
• NPR: 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat
• New York Times: How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat

The annoying part is the quote from Stanton Glantz, one of the the people behind this current report, saying “By today’s standards, they behaved very badly”. Bullshit. As Nelson points out over in The MeFi thread, by any standards they behaved badly. If we pretend that this was acceptable by standards then, we let a whole lot of people off, and the various Harvard departments today (and any other institution with prestige) should be looking at the behavior of their researchers and chairs and saying "What might constitute 'behaved very badly' today or 50 years from now?"

Because you know this shit is going on.

JAMA Internal Medicine: Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease ResearchA Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents

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How The University Of New Hampshire Chose To Waste An Alum's $4m Gift. Librarian gives four million bucks, university spends a million of it on a scoreboard for their stadium:

... The university tried to justify the purchase of the new scoreboard by claiming that Morin became a football fanatic while he was in an assisted living home during the last year and a half of his life. ...

I've long thought that a love of football and dementia were related.

Via Sensible Endowment.

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Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.

I'm an Emacs user, but there's some good stuff here.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Heinlein ]

Oh, shit, git! A guide to undoing your most common git fuckups.

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Apparently I can't Freecycle away a new-in-the-box HP 564XL Magenta ink cartridge. Anyone near me want it?

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

Usually see these types down near Ellis Creek, not up where Deer Creek flows into the river

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Because we're collecting pictures for his memorial, a side table Charlene's dad made

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Day 4 of 100 pushups a day, completed an hour earlier than yesterday. Wanna get my 20s fitness level back.

Catching up here. Shadow forwarded along Trump’s Tactics and Hillary’s Persuasion Game (Scott Adams Interview) on The Rubin Report (YouTube), and I've been thinking about it a lot.

I'm listening to it again, and I'm in the discussion about "low energy" about 5 minutes in and thinking about Trump's attempting to make Hillary's health an issue, and... yeah, this is an interesting tactic.

I know a few people who are Trump supporters, and I've been thinking about how to make the "not Trump" case, and I realized a couple of things: With Hillary Clinton being painted as an establishment candidate, if you're a "non-establishment" voter, like Trump or Sanders supporters, then news like Harvard researchers being paid off by the sugar industry reinforce the anti-establishment feel.

It's also fascinating since both Clinton and Trump have staked out the authoritarian axis, that they're having to explore other axes of voter division.

I'm also now more conscious of a few more of the places where I'm susceptible to some of the techniques they're talking about.

The discussion about "pacing and leading" is fascinating in terms of why I don't like many candidates, and is causing some introspection about the ones I do like.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics Games Health Movies Law Current Events Pop Culture Community Archival ]

To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of a sick black man in their custody…:

“I hope you learned something today”

“Yes sir, I learned that everything I read and hear about the corrupt and criminal police departments in this country is fact. I have seen it for myself.”

[ related topics: Health Law Enforcement Race ]

Shadow also sent along this picture of an impossibike in the wild. That's a bike with the handlebar action reversed. I'd love to try to ride one of those...

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Presumably because the shift manager comes out and thrashes you?

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Is this the coolest volt meter ever, or what?

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Went up to Dinkey Creek today

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More hanging out at Dinkey Creek

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Hanging out on granite

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Charlene took me for granite

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Up at altitude

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RT Ari Scott‏ @ariscott:

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene / you are not responsible for the choices my husband makes

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Greetings from the wine country

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Challenging night square dance calling but I modeled my way through. Have a list of things I need to learn before next Monday.

Mur Lafferty: The Hot Doctor subgenre of movie love triangles

A further exploration of the schlubby guy and the hot chick trope.

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ACLU: Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester

Really hope there'll be some criminal charges out of this.

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4 Edison cops plead guilty in retaliation plot over DUI

The charges against the four Edison officers was among a series of embarrassments for the department, which has included lawsuits and criminal probes.

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I support people's right to self-identify, but I doubt that the mother of that Microsoft support tech who just wished me a "good evening" named him Carlos. Just sayin'. (He did give me the right answers, though.)

[ related topics: Humor Microsoft moron ]

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: What has happened down here is the winds have changed. A great short history of the reproducibility crisis in modern social science.

Speaking of which, the Lancet/PACE trial claiming exercise and psychotherapy worked for chronic fatigue syndrome appears to have been outright fraud. No ‘Recovery’ in PACE Trial, New Analysis Finds.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Gambling ]

RT Shit Academics Say ‏@AcademicsSay:

1. "What did one academic say to the other"
2. "I don't know"
3. "Unlikely"

Holy crap, these IRS scammer calls are out of control. Land line and cell phone, even with Sonic's nomorobo on the land line.

[ related topics: Politics Wireless Real Estate ]

The Mushroom Song (YouTube video). A little ditty on the mushroom theory of management.

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Great interview with James Duane following up on his "why you should never talk to the police" video http://www.vice.com/read/law-p...gation-law-constitution-survival

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Lunchtime meeting at Aqus. I actually saw a driver come to a full stop at 2nd and F Streets. Could o' knocked me over with a feather.

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High school. Sportsball (in this case basketball). "Attached you will find a report of the Hamilton County District Attorney’s Office joint investigation with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office into allegations of ongoing assaults, hazing and bullying among members of Ooltewah High School’s varsity boys basketball team."

"Hazing" and "bullying" doesn't begin to describe the evil.

This came to my attention because, for a brief time (like, a week) back in the '80s I went to a Hamilton County Tennessee high school...

[ related topics: Children and growing up Law Chattanooga Sports ]

What's going on with Ed Snowden and the Washington Post? quotes Barton Gellman:

... In this case I have on good authority that neither the publisher, Fred Ryan, nor the owner, Jeff Bezos, had any idea that this editorial was coming. I would be very surprised to learn that either of them agrees with the proposition that our principal stories on the NSA should not have been published. For sure I can tell you that this is not the position of the newsroom’s leadership or any reporter I know. Marty Baron, the executive editor, has said again and again how proud he is of the paper’s coverage of Ed Snowden and the NSA.

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Local sheriff's department is pushing CodeRedWeb.com for emergency alerts. They share data with advertising networks. Sigh.

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That "3 fictional characters that I think best represent me" meme, except that I don't skate much these days.

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Man says state ignoring wife's wishes in advance directive:

“From her point of view when it became mechanically not possible to engineer eating by herself then she would want basically to let nature take its course,” explained Harris.

But she stopped eating by herself and now she's being spoonfed at a nursing home. The judge ruled she must continue to be spoonfed because her advance directive wasn't specific enough.

[ related topics: Nature and environment Law Current Events Marriage ]

Here's the real step forward in transportation technology: The self-driving bicycle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZPNwZex9s

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In light of this latest FBI attempt to swing the Presidential election: remember that I was hating on Director Comey before it was cool.

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This machine may bruise you and you may faint while using it.

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Committed enough to an EV that we're ordering a 40A charging station. The question is: Clipper Creek or JuiceBox?

[ related topics: Privacy Nature and environment ]

May you never have to use Family Leave in California: Never have I seen worse designed forms, or more deliberate misinterpretation of them.

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"The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough" Yeah, they say "13 year old girl", but they're always 45 year old pudgy guys...

Reminder: Joe Minicozzi speaking in Petaluma this evening. You should RSVP & come. Currently at 85 out of 100 spaces http://www.urbancommunitypartnership.org/petaluma

Ordered electric car charging station. Didn't get the grid operator manageable one b/c IoT is scary enough without involving transportation

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Deep breath. Just booked for my first "one night stand" square dances, with live band, April & August next year.

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Bloomberg: Your First Home Might Be Your Last: There were 1.8 million repeat homebuyers in 2001. Last year, that was slashed in half. What’s going on?

Some charts and numbers about how the housing crash has impacted mobility, seems like there are a lot of people feeling tied to their geographic location, and this has to have a negative impact on economic freedom.

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Awesome: Outdoor Research gender flips a sexist GQ climbing article/photoshoot http://blog.thedyrt.com/camp/w...search-stepped-perfect-response/

GQ: We Took Fall's Crunchiest Designer Clothes Rock Climbing in Joshua Tree National Park

Outdoor Research: We Took Fall’s Crunchiest Designer Clothes To Watch Ladies Rock Climbing In Vantage, WA

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Whoah: FBI is actually going to start tracking police use of deadly force! A little late, but good start: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/n...se-coming-on-use-of-deadly-force

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Holy crap, that's 4 messages from Microsoft, 3 after I completed their customer satisfaction survey, asking how they did. #bigdata

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Must read! U.S. Special Operations Command whitepaper: "The Grey Zone". On being continually at "war" since 1980 https://info.publicintelligence.net/USSOCOM-GrayZones.pdf

Via MeFi, which linked to War is Boring: Face It — America Doesn’t ‘Win’ a Lot of Wars.

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Periodic Motion Table is cooler than it has any right to be

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Elf Sternberg: Greybeard Geeks Are Your Company's Firewall Against Technical Debt:

Every startup that says greybeard geeks aren’t a “cultural fit” is buying into the idea that it can outrun technical debt.

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Why your router must be open source, #194781 in a series:

Hacker News: Multiple Backdoors found in D-Link DWR-932 B LTE Router. SeguridadInformática: Multiple Backdoors found in D-Link DWR-932 B LTE Router.

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Why we should abandon the V2V component and implement the safety bits of PTC immediately: http://www.reuters.com/article...-jersey-traincrash-idUSKCN11Z1RA

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Yep:auto trips are largely induced demand https://www.fastcoexist.com/30...alf-its-traffic-just-disappeared

I have a hankering for Red Wombat Tea, and it's fictional. In case you were wondering whether advertising on podcasts works...

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Hey, my lunch date is sick. Anyone in Petaluma wanna grab a nosh in the next hour or three?

Getting back in shape: Did my 100 push-ups today in under an hour. Booya!