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I was happily surprised to see multiple actual studies and references linked in the article, unexpected from a site like NBC news.

The different lines are at the same AC voltage, but have different phases (almost always three phases), so there's an instantaneous potential difference between them. The lines nee…

The solution is actually quite elegant: a long tagged key required to open the door which remains in the lock until it's closed again. https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/preventing-fan…

One could argue that the most important criteria to optimize for is insuring that the mean expected value is exactly 0.5. That is a more practical criteria than trying to allow sup…

It's common to find this kind of asshole behavior in residential real estate agents. It can be understood when you realize they get a commision as a fraction of the sale price. Thi…

Technology is a dramatic counterexample. 1999's ASCI Red 1-2 teraflop supercomputer cost $46,000,000 1999 dollars. A 2 teraflop 2022 iPhone 14 costs $800. Even if you nitpick the c…

I see their offices in downtown Palo Alto every day. They have a HUGE, beautiful, almost art-gallery-like lounge for their employees at street level, which is entirely unused in pr…