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Ben Goldacre (of "Bad Science" fame) has been doing work in this area for a while: http://www.badscience.net/

As far as I can tell the first specific thing that the author calls out as something that should disturb all humans is that the Aladdin characters are joined by a character from a …

Just to be clear, you work for a company that presents itself as "The best way to charge for content." Are you already losing money due to AMP adoption?

Something very close to that did launch first: Amazon Hub. It's a shared unit for apartment buildings though. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/amazo...

This was flagged to death but I'm vouching it because it should be addressed. First, I'm not sure I believe your numbers to begin with. Is there a source? Second, a huge issue is r…

I think you might be... extrapolating a lot from this.

Those are some... pretty strange views. Where do you see them expressed?

Just like all those stubborn meat eaters ignoring the science that eating meat increases cancer risk.

Federal employees wouldn't implement a project like that - contractors would. Like Equifax. (Or my employer, for whom I am not speaking.)

Can you relate your comment to the article? What does obesity have to do with fake body shapes?

The techniques detailed on the page (reweighting lines, removing fine details) seem like a worthwhile reason to at least use a different file for the "tiny" image. Unless SVG rende…

Anything that can be prevented at a cost. Anything that seems like a less serious illness that wouldn't be worth missing a rent payment over. You can get emergency care and just no…

Or if you want more manual control, Play Music can also be set to download the contents of a playlist (or artist or etc.) Add your new album to that playlist and it'll be downloade…

It doesn't matter what it means to me, but your intended meaning is essential to interpreting your proposal that they should pay a "fair amount".

You keep using the word "fair". What do you think it means?

One of those was probably mine. I was banned within five minutes of signing up, I'm guessing because I was using semi-public wifi and didn't provide a phone number (although the si…

Why are you changing the subject from the reliability of the source to the correctness of a specific article?

The developer once noted that 96% of subscribers are male.

Is it possible to set Twitter (not a third party client) to show you all unread items- that is, to give you a gap-free view of your feed? Or is it still just "whatever was most rec…

Amusingly, the loading time for the "full experience" is long enough that it's cut off in the video. I think that says everything needed about the "full experience" on the web in 2…

There's a configuration option in the omnibus CE config file to add additional lines to the built-in nginx configuration, it seems pretty straightforward to me - although we use a …

In the US, the FTC. Or do you consider them toothless? It does seem like they're at least making the appearance of trying: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/03/lo…

"This product is known to the State of California to..."

If I play Russian Roulette and don't get shot, does that mean the people who told me it was dangerous were wrong?