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not to be glib but the fact that its Capitalized and one word rather than 'cold fusion', should be enough no?

While you are right to ward off this person's paranoia and we really shouldn't be completely freaking out about light exposure from our phones and such. I think you are minimizing …

its not so much 'sussing out tricks' as a blanket ban on anything that can be abused. My parents made roughly 100k when I was going to school but they were terrible with money and …

I actually looked into this recently and found some articles(which I have since lost) that explained that it would appear that the delta between blue light in the morning and at ni…

Other religions that have kept their popularity and adherents over the centuries(and much in the past century) have, part, reformed and toned down the significance of these violent…

if you pay them better they won't leave. But you've basically said that even after training they are worth less than someone you hire in at first. This distinction is why people le…

Do you not see how there is value in having someone who is trained to your specifications? You're still getting labor out of someone but when they move to being a proper dev you do…

no but the fact that something is not deterministic would preclude the idea that 'basic physics says there is no free will'

how does basic physics tells us there is no free will? That is generally an argument about hard determinism which could be argued is invalidated by The Heisenberg Uncertainty Princ…

https://www.whitehouse.gov/opioids/ ?

From another comment: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/restaurant-chains-hit-w... https://www.phillyemploymentlawyer.com/wage-theft-epidemic-r... https://www.epi.org/publicatio…

worked BOH for years, had friends in FOH of many small restaurants and bars for years. Saw all sorts of shady stuff.

data not being the plural of anecodte and all and Not the exact issue but: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/restaurant-chains-hit-w... https://www.phillyemploymentlawyer.com/wa…

This post makes the assumption that happiness should be a permanent state rather than a transient state like any other emotion. Shouldn't we seek to just 'be', and react accordingl…

Not the parent but: I would imply exactly such a thing. Just like how, in some/most states you are supposed to pay a tipped employee minimum wage if they don't make the equivalent …

"In patients with schizophrenia, 1054 (13.2%) had at least 1 violent offense compared with 4276 (5.3%)" thats a 2.5 difference in patients with schizophrenia compared to the genera…

Doesn't your own link say that there is a ~2.6 times higher likelihood of violent offenses in schizophrenia compared to the General Population? Of course, it does say that the effe…

C in m/s does fit into max int with room to spare. What I'm more concerned with is that our Universe might be running on SQL and that dark matter is actually table whitespace.

and passenger doesn't equal all car accidents.

you left out: "Motor Vehicle Crash 1 in 102" http://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-ov...

Can you elaborate on this? This sounds like a Naturalistic Fallacy.

1) don't abuse your dogs 2) don't abuse your dogs 3) don't abuse your dogs

Pit bulls are not weapons. Especially, no more so than a Doberman, the old standby scary dog: German Shepherd, or a Rottweiler. Some points: 1) Pit Bull is not a breed but an umbre…

Since it appears that everyone is talking about this in the present tense even though the article is talking about the Civil Rights Movement and there are no referenced sources pos…