bdowling

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Comment · 1 month ago
According to the article, Starbucks chose not to sue in that case.
Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you for telling your story. It is encouraging. I’m a candidate for the same surgery because of a high PVC burden, but I’ve been resisting doing it because of the risk of death and other life-altering complications.
Comment · 4 months ago
Might as well post the full version, which adds context:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time.

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace.

Taking, as he did, the sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.

Trusting that he will make all things right if I surrender to His will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever.

—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892-1971

Comment · 7 months ago
Powerful interests want it to be true.
Comment · 1 year ago
Arson is also an inherently dangerous felony, which is why when someone dies because of arson, the arsonist can be charged with murder.
Comment · 1 year ago
More trivia: OpenFirmware is descended from Sun Microsystems' firmware, OpenBoot. Add-on cards could contain Forth code that would initialize their own hardware and provide a device driver that could be used at boot time (e.g., a network card could initialize itself and provide commands to download and boot an OS off the network).
Comment · 1 year ago
The article is about college-level education, which is primarily about ranking students in order of who should get the best entry-level jobs. If technology is disrupting the effectiveness of that ordering function, then something needs to change.
Comment · 1 year ago
Design patents expire, unlike trademarks.
Comment · 1 year ago

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