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I can't speak to your specific scenario, but in general a "balance" that is missing in many communities is a clear line between pedagogy and research (or debate). Often this is bec…

> If we can be accused of anything in this context, it's not kicking bad people out aggressively enough, which seems very different from fostering bad ideas. It's not very differen…

A lot of these designs are an artifact of a time when the panels themselves would have been far and away the most expensive component in the system. The place I'm in originally had…

In practice, this complexity means you at least have a chance. Most phones and almost all low-power devices will accept power from most chargers and cables. Probably not at a maxim…

Link to that research, please. It would add meaningfully to this discussion.

The folks I know who've been prescribed fentanyl weren't particularly upset about it. It is very potent, and thus measuring the dose properly is very important, but it's not partic…

Funny, you left out "curing" from that list. All three preservation techniques are practiced today as they have been since antiquity. It is not clear to me where food so preserved …

Sustenance is a health benefit. Shelf life is a health benefit. Convenience is a health benefit. If you have options when choosing food, a framework that helps you choose the bette…

If you have a clear definition, one that an informed reader could apply to some random product on their grocery store shelf to distinguish between "processed" (almost everything) a…

Uh... The history of railroads is littered with folks losing their investments for exactly this reason. Was your point that owning the steel companies is the path to riches even wh…

You're still missing the point; the strategy only works if no one is sure it's a strategy. It also doesn't work very well then either. FWIW, I'm not arguing for either. I think it'…

You seem to have missed the reference to Madman Theory above, interpreting it as a literal commentary on someone's / some group's sanity. Whether or not actual mental deficiency is…

California is probably the best example going of how not to "legalize" weed. However, this also highlights the primary difference between weed and meth, opiates: ease of manufactur…

One of, if not THE biggest challenge in getting treatment is getting past insurance rules designed to deny treatment. This is much, much easier when you're able to convince a docto…

I'm well aware; I previously worked "adjacent" to this sphere, and a non-trivial part of my work life was spent trying to forestall precisely this outcome. The difference between T…

So, I suspect the key to your experience is buried in this sentence: "I do follow politics pretty closely, and it seems relatively balanced overall." Balance doesn't mean much by i…

The defense - including Jones himself - also did a very poor job, so it's debatable whether anyone at all wanted a different outcome.

This is the second time in two days I've seen a subthread here with folks seemingly debating whether or not defining and communicating requirements counts as work if the target of …

The issue here is that even if the original goal is the first thing, once you have the data you can do that second thing. From where we stand, nothing changes - same information is…

Y'all are letting "most people" carry an awful lot of water for this scummy behavior here. In my experience, most people - even most tech people - are unaware of just how much info…

I mean... Yeah. Alcohol is very well documented and even more widely used for exactly this purpose BECAUSE it works. The side-effects are often terrible. This is also true for many…

Crucially, SO's election system needs to be bootstrapped: users aren't eligible to vote until they have a history of participation. The level of participation is fairly trivial, bu…

It has been ... Borderline creepy... Watching how folks - including some professional writers - have adapted their workflows to the capabilities of LLMs, treating them as a copywri…

There was some of that for sure; sites that were all but designed to be attractive nuisances and took near-heroic efforts to moderate at all, with little chance of not causing a lo…

Yes indeed! Glad to see you over on Codidact; I suspect small, bespoke q&a will be the future of the form, at least after Facebook implodes.