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A good proportion of the older generations still disdain or mock Germany as nazis-in-waiting. There may be an end to the damage done to their global reputation, but it's not here y…

A whole lot of Americans water their lawns consistently for months on end. Keep in mind that a lot of Americans outside of urban areas also get their water from their own private w…

I think this is going to depend strongly on population. Average age of the mother, width of the pelvic canal, and similar are going to vary widely with culture, race and country.

Computer UIs needed borders and outlines because there are no brain-intuitive visual cues: no depth parallax, no shading, nothing shifts as you move your head, and until relatively…

This one almost feels like the AI got stuck in a perseverating loop of "He the ." This is followed up by a sprinkling of every possible punctuative shakeup: bold, em-dash, semicolo…

I think the gigantic prevalence of huge or lifted trucks is a bigger influence, especially given the tendency to mod them out (poorly) with aftermarket lights. Truck headlights are…

Exactly like the old one!

Biomedical research in the US has taken an absolute nose-dive several times over the past decade or two. This was my field for the past 20 years, so I'm fairly familiar. It require…

Could you humor a coding noob--how do you deal with utterly insane inputs like that?

> Higher latitudes have colder climates. Not reliably, not continually, and much less often when you dump enough energy into the atmosphere to disrupt major wind patterns. British …

How many millions of police officers do you think there are? How many of those do you think have open and available records for their use of surveillance tech?

Complexity doesn't necessarily mean it's suboptimal. Lithography and nanofab are usually doing a whole range of disparate and wildly exotic processes with extreme vacuum, plasmas, …

It didn't, but the advent of spellcheck and autocorrect has made everyone completely give up on proper grammar or word selection as long as no squiggly line appears.

Well, no. Some common plastics like polycarbonate aren't biodegradable, and will basically never break down without application of significant heat/water/enzymatic activity/etc. Fo…

12" viewing distance?! It sounds like you should be spending more at the optometrist and less at Best Buy. I cannot even imagine sitting that close to a screen--don't you have to t…

TVs generally have more input lag, poorer color fidelity, and except at the high end like 8k the pixel size is often inappropriate for viewing close up. There's less of a gulf now …

Why in the name of all that is unholy would you ever think that? The people in charge of pay and hiring will never, ever, ever set things up such that they're considered less impor…

The link is completely incorrect, it points to the submission form for /r/technology.