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If only we knew exactly what in the culture we need to fix. There are a lot of theories. Something in our environment has broken the homeostasis which worked for the last million y…

Can and bottle deposits are older than the general recycling push, at least where I live. It was more about keeping trash off the road sides than re-use.

My understanding is the if the spike mutates, the virus can no longer get into your cells.

How long are you going to keep wearing the mask after everybody else stops, though?

Exercise increases heart rate. That’s why I stay away from it. I still drink coffee though.

I'm not sure there is a mainstream American right. There are several threads that appear to have incompatible ideas. Then the politicians try to give lip-service to all of them, wh…

A couple of points: 1. Most or all of the mummies studied were from neolithic societies, not paleolithic. The only one that might be considered paleolithic is the Unangan, but even…

I think there's a joke in there.

Not entirely market forces. City zoning often requires housing over there, shopping way the hell over that way, and your work miles away in a different direction. Which means that …

Well, for one thing, the school is an arm of government, not a private party. We allow private parties to do all sorts of things we don't allow governments to do.

I think some of that is generational. The women I work with who are my generation (I'm in my 50s) find that offensive, whereas the ones from the generation younger don't see anythi…

Just a short note of clarification about the GPL: The intent is to protect the freedom of the users, not the developers. Essentially so that every user can potentially be a develop…

> humans are excellent at reading cues from body language, facial expressions, etc. to understand how other humans feel. For most people, yes. For some of the geekiest among us, I'…

In the US, Everbank offers accounts in several currencies.

They appear to be carbo-loading. If I ate that lunch, I'd be asleep an hour later.

I think GWB really did think there were WMDs there. And protecting the oil supplies from who, exactly? They were going to go onto the market anyway.

This appears to be dependent on how you interpret the numbers. See http://uspirg.org/reports/usp/do-roads-pay-themselves for another view.

The non-driver issue is a big one. I believe I have read that typically on third of the population don't drive, either because they are too young, too old, or have some sort of dis…

You can't go back. 2007-era Google would be unusable with all the SEO-hacks that people have discovered since then. Google has to keep tuning their algorithms to stay ahead of the …

> The plain fact is that if you look at the richest countries in the world, with the best standards of living, they have huge governments that provide their citizens with a host of…

I've always been confused by this. Does "as a US company" mean that it's HQ is in the US? Or that it is incorporated in the US? Or just that it does business in the US?

Commodities and currencies fluctuate against each other. Over longer terms, the value of currencies tends towards zero. Everything depends on the time frame you are looking at.

How the heck would you hold the trade deficit constant, and why would you even if you could?

Right next to the Amazon store ;-)

I suspect that supply and demand have a lot to do with it. Capital and innovation is scarcer than labor, especially unskilled or lower skilled labor.