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parent comment roughly paraphrased the advice... the core advice is to never speak to police WITHOUT YOUR LAWYER present. Certainly providing the menu that might exonerate you is p…

URL is blocked by my company VPN as being in the Russian federation

I don't even know if it's cargo culting as much as engineers using their day jobs as opportunities to learn marketable skills for job hopping. Nearly ever new technology introduced…

https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/coexisten... 70% of that is for livestock feed.

There's still lots of non Military / Fed stuff! And it's getting better. https://www.sparkpost.com/ https://www.cloudtamer.io/ https://www.contrastsecurity.com/ A few off the top o…

Two factors that I'm aware of: -- Early in the pandemic, travel was way down. Rental car companies unloaded a lot of their fleet that were sitting idle. Now that demand is back up,…

FYI you probably meant 'egregious'

What's your model?

In at least some cases ... the prices you see on grubhub may be higher than the actual prices the restaurant is charging. E.g $17.99 vs $14.99

Probably the ludicrous notion that somehow Hillary Clinton is to blame for electing Donald Trump rather than the millions of people who voted for him despite overwhelming evidence …

Seems like it ... my experience with Algolia was fairly lukewarm -- it seemed expensive for the capabilities offered.

John was a professor of mine, so I'll defend him a bit here :). To be clear, he's certainly a contrarian, and has a fairly pessimistic take on modern scientific progress. I pushed …

Employers have significant tax advantages when offering health insurance that individuals do not have access to.

I applied for the Baltimore City director of digital operations position. I interviewed with Frank Johnson and a variety of other city department heads. I got the impression they w…

This is one of the few things Baltimore does well! We have many food 'markets' that are essentially small stalls run by independent businesses with common seating areas, tray retur…

The email introducing the feature (May 2017) described it as follows: `Get an inside peek at the Amazon-sponsored university competition to advance AI. The Alexa Prize "socialbots"…

Is it not possible to breed insects to try and replace some portion of the natural base population? Obviously other changes causing the population loss would also have to occur (e.…

Making a chicken from scratch -- hilarious. Where do you source those 'recipes' ?

Only 13% of mothers are able to provide breast milk for 100% of their child's needs for the first 6 months, according to NPR. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/09/23/22…

Don't most households own multiple smartphones? What makes them fundamentally different?

Literally posting one of the first google results so I cannot guarantee accuracy. "The gasoline-powered generators produce at best 6.13 kilowatt-hours per gallon of fuel, at worst …

While it's clearly true that more privileged kids have opportunities to recover from mistakes, there is also a worrying trend where even those kids seem to think they can't possibl…

Parent was making a size comparison to the moon.

Between 1960 and 2007, the share of disposable personal income spent on total food by Americans, on average, fell from 17.5 to 9.6 percent http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/cha…