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Unfortunately, the trend seems to be that as manufacturability of a product increases, repairability decreases. A simple example is the heavy use of fragile, easily broken clips to…

How do they attach those bond wires? Seems difficult and fiddly!

I don't understand this service. I feel it takes away from the experience. One of the few hobbies that gets you outside and under the stars and learning to navigate the sky and its…

I was taking taurine 1000 mg per day but stopped when I heard a plausible link to colon cancer. Having a strong family history, it wasn't worth the risk. Eagerly awaiting the resul…

Apologies for the double post. I got a "link expired" error when submitting so assumed the original post had not succeeded.

It appears that the trial is still ongoing: https://www.cancer.gov/research/participate/clinical-trials-... The theory is that the taurine added to the drinks is feeding gut bacter…

It appears that the trial is still ongoing: https://www.cancer.gov/research/participate/clinical-trials-... The theory is that the taurine added to the drinks is feeding gut bacter…

If Tesla Insurance is paying out for parts to fix damaged Teslas aren't Tesla effectively paying themselves and so recouping some of the paid out monies? Sure, it goes on a differe…

Two interesting things I took away from that were first that the uncertainty and constant changes of mind by the President on the actual rates and lack of reliable communications w…

Non lite version: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/the-shining-photo-ident...

In the realm of fiction, they released edited versions of Roald Dahl books that were more politically correct and designed to be less frightening to the fragile children of today.

I like it! I spent an enjoyable 10 minutes clicking around and checking out what battles took place at various places I have lived in the US and Europe. Is there any way of adding …

Prime customers tend to buy more stuff from Amazon, so they get you that way maybe.

I had mixed feelings about those that demonstrated their knowledge by answering the question extremely thoroughly with a lengthy treatise. On the one hand, their answer was a great…

Do you feel the H1B system denies jobs to Americans or suppresses wages for those with jobs?

Many cities have an organized theft problem and are doing very little about it. Even when the police catch the perpetrators, they get little to no punishment. There doesn't seem to…

Curious how navigation at night was not possible without expensive equipment, sounds like they were relying only on starts in the morning and evening? Are the measuring something l…

Those stories about people (the internet generation) not being able to read anymore are true!

It's better than using it on crypto mining which is a huge waste of resources for something so useless to humanity.

I think words like these are also used now as a means of signaling...well.. something about your views or beliefs or group identity. Reminds me of the politically-correct nonsense …

I thought at first this was discussing why early CD-ROM devices had a flimsy tray that came out and held the disk vs. just being able to push the CD into a slot and have it automat…

Unfortunately, a lot of those meal toppers for pets are made using freeze dried raw chicken parts. They often use the fact they're raw as a selling point.

I remember Lexmark just before things started to go bad for them, back when they still had a huge campus with multiple buildings, developers had their own office or shared with one…