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The more fingers in the pie, the higher the cost. At least that's my guess. I imagine more expensive labour and tighter regulations also greatly increase costs.

Funny thing is, most waste water treatment plants I've seen - the water coming out of the waste treatment plant is cleaner than the water removed from the river for drinking (which…

It's almost too bad there isn't some way of manufacturing all 18 varieties of hemagglutinin, and wrapping them all into a single vaccine.

I dunno... North Korea might say differently.

As someone who currently has a Samsung stove, I can wholeheartedly say I hate the thing. The interface is one of the worst I've seen - touch "buttons" on a stove. It does't work ha…

Agreed. I've got an MSc, and the only contact I've ever had was a practically spam message for an Amazon recruiter (who contacted half the province I live in, as near as I can figu…

For Android (and for Windows Phone) it requires permissions to pretty much everything. It's pretty evil in that regard.

I'm curious - I still haven't seen any details on how these are installed. How are things wired - does the wiring run under the shingles themselves? Also, how does it work with odd…

I'm always baffled by this as well. "Let's make something cool, get money from investors, then figure out how to make money off it!" In other words, cash in and leave before people…

Do we know why they removed the MagSafe power cord? I always thought it was a smart design. It seems kind of silly to remove it.

By chance was your friend non-Caucasian?

Oh man, so true.

That's what I wonder about as well. I suppose with some smarts, it might be possible to ignore touches along the edge when it is held a certain way, but why unnecessarily complicat…

There'd be something ironic about a manufacturer's website being made unavailable because of a DDoS caused by their own poorly secured devices.

It getting hot just sitting there would be more a sign of some background process that is running the CPU at full tilt. I've had the same thing happen to a Blackberry and a Nokia W…

It seems like they've been having financial difficulties for the last 10-20 years. It's almost like they are the Radio Shack of trains/plains/snowmobiles.

I was curious to know how it worked for Python. I might have to give it a serious go...

How does OpenBSD save us from poorly written software?

This seems almost the exact opposite of what I've heard of Facebook (i.e.: they have a massive repository).

In that regard, I've been kind of curious to know how Hacker News deals with comments. It seems like there's only a single upvote button (no downvoting), and you can't see how much…

Worse yet - go to Calgary where they've named all the roads in a given neighborhood with the same name. E.g.: Eversyde Blvd, Eversyde Cir, Eversyde Manor, Eversyde St. It's insanit…

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Pretty easy to sum this up: people don't take sick days because: - They aren't given that many - Medical expenses are HUGE - There's societal pressure to not take them - It's easie…

A special deal with LG, because they are the one making the packs? I suspect LG gave them a discount because they contracted LG to take care of a bunch of other stuff in the car. A…

That makes me wonder if there's potential there for the medical industry: print a temporary barcode on a person, rather than tracking them with charts. I suppose an RFID bracelet c…