pecanpie's comments

Yes, it's Venice, Los Angeles. When he says "SM-Venice", he means Santa Monica / Venice.

Incidentally, I was in Venice Beach a few weeks ago, and I too witnessed that the scooters are very popular down there, and becoming enough of a fixture that you hear things shouted on the street like "hey, that's my Lime" when someone breaches etiquette and takes a scooter that someone else has just parked and intends to use again right away.

It saddens me to see how the pine beetles are killing off the pines, but won't they ultimately improve the pine populations by thinning out the weakest trees? And over the course of the next hundred years, give some more climate-resilient strains room to spread, or migrate?

Here's the paper, complete with a cutaway diagram of the engine: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/155610/7/155610.pdf

I hope she's well too, and for whatever it's worth as evidence of wellness, she's actively tweeting these days: https://twitter.com/jcheiffetz

The article doesn't link to the paper as far as I can tell. So here's a link:

https://glyphosatestudy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MICRO...

And even when Woz isn't responsive himself, it seems he makes sure his emails get answered. I emailed him once a few years ago -- I forget about what -- and his wife replied with a kind, detailed note.

Yes, https://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-from-africas-richest-sta... , and yes http://time.com/5042560/libya-slave-trade/

Long time reader, tentative poster, upvote or downvote as necessary…

Back in the days of orkut.com, I do remember Jurvetson making what seemed to me like a huge effort to interact with pretty young women, especially from Estonia. I remember him having a few hundred friends on that service — more than most people there had — a list which included a very large population of pretty, young, single Estonian women.

Keep in mind that I never saw any behavior of his on orkut.com that I would deem harassment, but his social activity there did seem curious to me, considering his married, busy professional status. It was kind of similar to what I saw Marc Canter (of Macromedia fame I guess?) doing there, but again, for neither guy did I witness, or hear, of any harassment going on. it just seemed that what they were doing was merely using their professional status to flirt.

At the time, I figured that their flirting, and their collecting of young female friends, was harmless, and didn't indicate anything untoward going on. Especially since none of my female friends and acquaintances in these guys’ sights intimated to me that anything weird or unwelcome was happening. But now, I'm not so sure, considering how allegations, like the one in the featured article, are bubbling up.

Yep, they're not very diverse at all, which, as you've suspected, is probably what makes them more susceptible to the transmissable cancer: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/02/science/la-sci-tazma...

Currently, the link in the article that leads to irs.gov personal account creation, http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Get-Transcript , doesn't work for the stated purpose. And while a more direct link I found, https://sa.www4.irs.gov/eauth/pub/login.jsp , doesn't work either at the moment, perhaps at least one of the two will work sometime soon.

The robot's reminiscent of sculptures by Kenneth Snelson http://www.kennethsnelson.net/sculpture/outdoor/ , one of which, called "Mozart I", is on the Stanford Campus, where one of the creators of the robot in the article did his undergraduate studies in Symbolic Systems. I wouldn't be surprised if the sculpture was an inspiration for the robot.

They're protesting for "fair wages and better working conditions" says the event's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Adjunct-Walkout-Day/...

A list of Bay Area rebate programs:

http://www.bayfriendlycoalition.org/LYL-rebates.shtml

And the program most relevant to your current question:

http://www.valleywater.org/Programs/LandscapeRebateProgram.a...

Nice idea for a site, somewhat misleading premise. "Lifetime" typically means the normal, expected lifetime of the product, at least on any product whose warranty I've looked at closely. For example, the osprey pack in there? The warranty doesn't cover normal wear and tear. So in a few years, zipper busts? You got some good use out of it, and they'll refer to businesses who'll repair the zipper for a reasonable fee, that you'll be expected to cover.

OP, I've been in your shoes, or at least similar ones. At Stanford, and out of it, years ago. I wish I'd had someone like my current self to talk to back then. PM me if you'd like to talk. There are no saviors, but you're not alone, and it gets better. Anonyfish: satnightfever.