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Hugged to death?

Here in Canada, when it gets below -15c or so, my iPhone will give me an error that it's out of it's operating temperature, and needs to "cool down". Californian developers, I gues…

On the 'repeated failures' piece, that's somewhat new for aerospace. Traditionally, things would be over-engineered, and losing a test vessel would be considered a bad thing. Space…

Yes, but they only replaced the lowest-end 13 inch pro at this point, and are still selling the higher-end Intels. The performance versions will follow next year.

Watching this unfold as a resident of the next-neighbourhood-over was fascinating. At first everyone was excited that a big, American company would choose Toronto for this sort of …

My knee-jerk reaction to this was to a find a confounding variable. Maybe people get more violent when the weather is hot, which is also when we use the most energy? I know cops al…

I've had this thing happen twice now while visiting SF, where I'm following google maps, end up walking through the Tenderloin, and have a bunch of people try to sell me drugs. The…

Prices rise.

There have been a lot of news stories about microplastics being basically everywhere recently. Is there any good research on if it's a problem? What are the effects on humans of co…

There are probably also some age-cohort demographics at play. As millennials start to have families, the suburban (or small-urban) lifestyle becomes more appealing. It's a big gene…

This can work for travellers, but seems impractical for crew going back and forth many times each day.

By helping to diversify petro-state economies in the gulf, you can sort of make the case that they're helping?

One issue with this method is that the Fortune 500 has companies in it that are hundreds of years old. Only 26 of them were founded this century[1]. Alexander Hamilton founded one …

I've hear the Hoover Dam proposed, and theoretically any existing dam could be converted? Just need to pump some water back upstream when there's excess load in the system. Here in…

The author seems to, at several points, conflate political bias with truth. While there may be some correlation there, to me it would seem more valuable to point people towards fac…

This debate is happening in a lot of jurisdictions. Here in Ontario we're refurbishing our older reactors, at a massive expense, in order to get off of coal, and reduce dependance …