than
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Comment · 1 year ago
Missed opportunity to call the successor `whodat`
Comment · 7 years ago
We’ve been using https://MJML.io and Handlebars and owning the rendering on our end. It’s been a breeze.
Comment · 8 years ago
If you're interested in prions and some heavy science, I would highly recommend reading the research blogs of Eric and Sonia.
http://www.cureffi.org/ and http://www.prionalliance.org/blog/
> Wife-husband team Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel are on a very personal mission to find a cure to prion diseases. When Sonia was diagnosed as a genetic carrier of a rare disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), she and Eric quit their regular jobs and began studying molecular biology to learn as much as they could.
Theirs is an incredible story so far. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-prion-love-sto...
Comment · 8 years ago
Yes! And the results have been outstanding! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
Comment · 9 years ago
It's more like the Polish Acquisition.
Comment · 9 years ago
Radiolab had a fascinating segment on US blood banks and how cutthroat the blood economy can be. In many cases, your local blood bank might be arbitraging blood from different areas of the country.
Comment · 10 years ago
Nobody goes there anymore.
Comment · 10 years ago
Reading the post, it just seemed like an interesting and feasible challenge, as well as a learning opportunity — not an ideological purity test.
Comment · 10 years ago
Real bugs don't have fancy websites. http://heartbleed.com
Comment · 10 years ago
It's so amazing that it works! (Donor here as well.) I would love to see the support system expanded. Even with the recipient's insurance footing the bill for the surgery, there's still a significant burden on donors to be able to provide the time off to do the transplant in many cases.
I'm starting with my own state to help find ways to lower that threshold for potential donors here: https://www.change.org/p/minnesota-state-house-give-minnesot...
Comment · 11 years ago
My new favorite trap is the MOUNTWEAZEL, a lexicographical trap street embedded in dictionaries to catch infringers.
Good episode of the The Allusionist podcast: http://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/mountweazel
Comment · 11 years ago
No up-selling travel insurance? They're leaving money on the launchpad.
Comment · 11 years ago
How did he arm the darn thing without setting it off?
http://than.land
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/than; my proof: https://keybase.io/than/sigs/XO0ebpArhdX_lacmcoYfy0dpmdU7MNlAvZaVacmgKTI ]