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Just to add, the NFL is even more closed-market in that each team has a salary cap. So giving Mahomes more means someone else on the team gets less.

Just going to throw some knowledge in here before we get too many people lamenting that college should be about education and how money could be better spent elsewhere. Most univer…

The duct tape scene is not right, there is a youtube video [0] from a physicist and astronomer that explains pressure suits (which the duct tape would provide). He surmised that th…

The Expanse handles this stuff much better than other shows, as has been noted many times. As entertaining as it is, For All Mankind gets things very wrong in a lot of cases and fa…

It is 'magic' but a really interesting concept. It's essentially a self-replicating terraforming device. An ancient civilization sends out probes with the molecule - in this case a…

You have to love those moving goalposts.

> it doesn’t bend when drying Not just while the wood is drying, wood 'movement' is something woodworkers have to take into consideration in almost every project. Everyone lives in…

With my knowledge as a non-professional woodworker, there's not a lot to cabinets. Even professionally made cabinets use veneered plywood for the bases so what IKEA does isn't any …

The government doesn't want it's citizens to horde money. A ton of money sitting in the bank or in assets doesn't really do anyone any good. An inheritance tax pushes the rich into…

Isn't the main security feature of hashing that you hash against a salt and that no one but the server knows the salt? Once you send the salt to the client (and anything on the cli…

Why would used cars drop in price? Since no one is buying new cars there's no supply of used cars. Lower supply means increased prices but demand is probably down as well so almost…

As someone who went through the last downturn, this isn't looking good in the same ways. Back then I was on a contract that had just completed and as soon as the housing market col…

> 555-867-5309 Just FYI, the local area code and Jenny's number (867-5309) is a default that exists for most loyalty programs. So if you don't want to be tracked you can use that. …

Another example people use for the KISS principle is of the 'space pen', where the US spent thousands/millions developing a pen that works in space whereas the Soviets used a penci…

I'm not OP, but I'd guess its because there is a really limited market for mattresses. People of course need and want them, but the turnover is (or can be) a very long time. I have…

It's an interesting conundrum - where does skill end and technology pick up the slack? This has played out so many places from the speedsuits in competitive swimming, to space-age …

There's a CG video of the last 24 hours of Pompeii[0] which shows how the city was completely wiped off the map. It's probably one of the best ways to visualize the disaster and af…

Like I implied, yeah, it would be fine with a lot of people. But that's not the same as buying 100 coins for $100 and then those coins are worth $10k each and you're a millionaire.…

The problem with the Bitcoin game is there is no longer the 'millionaire overnight' scenario as a possibility. Sure, you could buy 1 coin and it could go up 10x, yet you'd still on…

It's the lackadaisical suburbs. Distracted drivers all over the place.

I live in Beaverton, OR. I'm not a fan of red light cameras but it's not that easy to get a red light ticket. We only have 4 intersections that have red light cameras[0], and they …

Yup. If a developer wants to have a FAANG company on their resume they're obviously going to have to jump through some hoops and do what's necessary. Non-FAANG companies are going …

Excellent point. Companies need to make money to keep the doors open. There is no money made in fixing something that isn't broke on the off chance you might end up needing to util…

This reminded me of 'Out of Context Joffrey Baratheon'[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUePZZDLPrE

You completely missed the point. Almost all of the NVIXM followers had no clue this stuff was going on at the very top of the organization. Yes, specific individuals were groomed t…