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Can someone please explain the innards?

As a layperson interested in effects of compounds on the human body, this is not super surprising. It’s a vasodilator, which lowers blood pressure. That takes away one of the main …

At this point, it’s the same as RF spectrum. Yet clearly there is no regulatory body to manage it.

Nuclear is the only technology that sufficiently solves the heat problem. Lots of our energy is spent on heat, whether residential or industrial. Nuclear produces heat. If only we …

First, a nitpick - your numbers should be per million people, not per person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ... Second - the output itself depends on …

The media might not be intentionally manipulating the stock so much as publishing information which short sellers find, package, and hand over for free. The incentive is there to c…

Others are suggesting practical reasons for having watch history enabled, but I would think that the vast majority have it enabled simply because that is the default.

I was also under that impression until the Cloudflare event happened. I do not actually know what their dependency was, but all shops were taken offline.

The Google, Cloudflare, and Stripe outages all affected Shopify. So Shopify has had several meaningful outages over the past few weeks.

It's worth noting that there are a few open source email marketing platforms out there too. Sendy is $60 and obfuscates some of the source code. Mautic and Mailtrain are two that I…

I've wondered if, in this context that we are in, it actually starts to make sense to both raise interest rates and simultaneously monetize government debt. We want some inflation,…

John currently works for Facebook as CTO of Oculus.

I've been using Node Red for a few automation things too, basically as a self-hosted ifttt/zapier, and it's been working well. I would recommend it beyond home automation for the k…

This is not totally true. It’s not 100% syntax. Elixir has one additional and widely used feature: macros. In Elixir, as in Lisp, you can transform your code as a data structure in…

Mine were down and just went back up. What really made me panic was when seeing no issues on the status page: https://status.firebase.google.com/ For a moment, I thought it was an …

They get you to sign up, give your credit card, use their nameservers, and then if you get any serious traffic, they will conveniently be there to offer extra features with a paid …

That is because both are the same thing: sodium hypochlorite

Additionally, this was the first time that the fairings were recovered and are expected to be reused for a future launch: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1069679948103847939 Th…

The objections to DragenFly are not about what is best for the Chinese citizen. This is not the concern in the signed letter. It is also not related to any of the core concerns fro…

Just wait until you hear about science.

I've wondered what would happen if Apple acquired DuckDuckGo. In theory, Apple could overpay a lot and still make a ridiculous return by using it as their default search engine. Th…