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> Habitat destruction is the leading cause of biodiversity loss. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_destruction

Investors? LEGO Group A/S remains privately held by the family that started it in Denmark.

There are multiple indicators that the currently available vaccines probably are three dose vaccines. But time and trials will tell.

You speak as if you've never read about the US opioid epidemic and how we got here. Do realize, this makes you sound like a religious prohibitionist extremist.. Your proposal is bu…

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That sound you hear from aircraft overhead -- yeah, that's wasted energy. Do you want waste? Because that's how you get waste!

Vote parent up. Accurately describes the public costs of private for-profit businesses' whipsawing the labor force, and foisting all the consequential costs of periodic waves of un…

Re: shorter benefits Every corporate downsizing is an example of a "private decision" with clearly visible public costs, unemployment insurance payouts among them. Social and emoti…

Yes on the current facts, but good luck to any district that thinks it'll be attracting new qualified teachers in that scenario. Current Los Angeles teachers' wage penalty is 25% v…

ISOs may have a 10 year limit, but that's only for their ISO tax treatment status... they don't (necessarily) need to expire. They can convert to NSO by way of an extension. https:…

Yes. They are the largest source of extraterrestrial mass. https://www.sciencealert.com/5-200-tons-of-micrometeorites-a...

Why do you love it? It looks like you've described a tool with 1) a terrible UI, and 2) trains users to use commands that will eventually cause them to lose unsaved work.

When it comes to tools you use every day, everyone should be critical. Does this tool decrease my workload? or do I need to expend extra work just to operate it? I'm a user of merc…

> Drug consumption is at least as much a demand side problem as a supply side one. Perhaps you meant "drug importation is at least..." The importation of fentanyl is not due to dem…

The US government and drug cartels can't even agree on what constitutes harm reduction. https://www.businessinsider.com/mexican-cartel-operatives-di...

Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States [1] It would really help all of us if all media used the phrase " accidental overdose" because that's wh…

Being prepared, at the capitalist-society level, for a future possible pandemic wasn't profitable, so it wasn't done. It will continue to be like this until laws change.

Counterfeits, fraud, and theft: Why Silca changed its return policy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32362363 Good insight into the merchant side of customer return fraud.

Thumbs up. Very fun to solve.

My solution: use mercurial. Works with git repos (w/hg-git extension). Designed for humans. Sanity provoking. Gets out of your way, as a good SCM tool should.

> we have a lower class subsisting on a low barely livable wage >> because that's how they prefer to exist Citation required. Show evidence a population exists, anything close to a…

Add the required enzymes at the point of manufacture... https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/19/intropic-plastic-decomposi...

Close. It's not about pay equity, it's about a small minority (employers/directors/shareholders) currently deciding what happens with the profits made from the labor of all the WOR…

Society is a heat engine. Full stop.