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I'm not sure the government failing, for whatever reason, to hold private organizations and individuals to account for their wrongdoing is quite a clear, blanket argument against g…

> So what's the United State's excuse? Massive, continual, and ongoing failure to capture any significant part of the outgoing and diminishing value of the ground under our feet fo…

A lot of the time I'll see recipes call for heating non-stick on a medium- or medium-high flame with so little fat in ("one teaspoon of oil" or some similarly-way-under-enough quan…

- Most of the most-valuable parts aren't supported by 3rd party ads. - We've seen what a Web with few/no ads or uselessly-low-paying ads looks like and it was totally fine.

If you try reading poetry and get something out of so reading, does it matter whether they "have meaning"? It's the practice, and its effect on you, that matters. Like Zen. You've …

Heh, I run into a lot of recipes where they have you cook in a tiny amount of oil and dump the pan out a couple times but you're still supposed to be "sautéing" whatever's in the l…

I find it pretty hard to get cooking down to 30 minutes of actual clock time spent working, not counting cleanup (I do a decent job of cleaning as I go anyway). Most recipes with s…

I stopped using it about two years ago and started... oh, four or so years before that. If it's even slower now than it was then, whoa . It was already probably the generally worst…

Same, intuitive way I think of it since learning the school and pop-culture explanations are basically wrong—and for reasons that are unclear to me, because why make up some unintu…

The feature I most wanted out of Asana, back when I had to use it, was a way to open links to individual issues as some kind of basic, plain HTML page so I'd rarely have to load As…

Same. It was incredibly slow and loved to eat most of a GB of memory if I left its tab open. I once had it pop up a "would you recommend this product to others?" form that managed …

English includes a lot more words than most people use regularly. I imagine that's the same in any language. Just expanding one's working vocabulary in one's native language would …

I’m pretty sure CSS, JavaScript, and the way both interact with each other and with HTML are the main reasons writing a useful browser engine is rapidly becoming impossible—and we’…

HTML clients & standards have stagnated badly because we know javascript and heavy-handed CSS can work around any problems—even if those solutions are almost always bad (usually: h…

Earth after most disasters short of getting hit by a full-on planetoid that liquefies the entire crust is still much easier to live on than Mars, and hardened Earth-based bunkers a…

There’s something to be said for the pedagogical value of furniture. A sense of literary chronology, at least, can be absorbed by way of a shelving order, just living life in a hou…

Supposedly Propeller Arena on the Dreamcast was cancelled over the 9/11 attacks, though I suspect the game was already struggling or being killed for other reasons. There's a leak …

I think the harm done by long, painful, dangerous releases and complex onboarding or different experiences and expectations for how to effectively test and get a good dev feedback …

Looks like grasshoppers generally live 50ish days as an adult. That's gonna put some serious limits on your max per-grasshopper-leg-rubber total accumulated grasshoppers.

A production rate of 32 locusts per person per 16-hour workday isn't enough to matter unless you have a small army of people rubbing grasshopper legs together all day, I'd think. T…

I didn't until some time in my childhood when one suddenly developed (I remember feeling puzzled when it happened, though I don't remember exactly when it happened). I still don't …

I think cloud's way harder than managing actual hardware (and/or your own VMs and such on actual hardware, or even traditional VMs on someone else's hardware) since once you're bey…

Cross-reference with school quality and you’ve got a map I’ve wanted for some time. Difficulty: it’ll be less useful the more people have access to it :-/

Yes. Literally every other healthcare system in a state with an advanced economy. (I'd love to see a counter-example, I've gone looking and failed to find one) [EDIT] to the downvo…

You're aware that (AFAIK) every single other OECD state uses implicit (monopsony) or explicit price controls as a key part of controlling healthcare costs and maintaining access to…