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Fraudulent online front stores? Quick. We need a new government agency with 10 digit budget and 722 lawyers to complain to Congress that their funding was cut and that will fix it …

House sparrows (and purple finches) are actually being crowded out by the house finch across North America. The house finch competes aggressively for nesting sites. But it's a pret…

That's just normal bird stuff. Lots of different birds do that.

I have a feeder I put about two pounds of seed in a day. Doves, red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, house finches and house sparrows all get their share. The sparrows are…

This could be down to older fathers having more basements, garages and tools. There are fewer degrees of freedom when you live in a drywall and carpet apartment.

>> Why would there be any need for a contingency plan? That question is probably best put the person that wrote the statement and mentioned that it was under discussion: Christian …

>> the space moves incredibly fast What can you cite that demonstrates any change in the merge situation during the last 4 years?

The accepted answer from a Bitcoin researcher sums up the merge problem pretty well; "As for the merge, this is still being discussed and we do not have a good contingency plan." O…

Too bad so few want one.

You didn't have to. We all know the game. Back to NPR with you for another dose of beltway groupthink.

Read code written by others. In the case of C there is a large base of high quality open source code you can study. C is a simple language that is used for large scale, complex wor…

>> because someone may have contracted a case in North Korea? Yes. Exactly. The establishment and its media have concluded that N. Korea has no culpability in the destruction of th…

Externalization is highly desirable to _all_ interests. The interest of manufacturers is self evident. The interest of environmentalists has a level of indirection; without the fri…

>> Frequency response and total harmonic distortion aren't measured in these cases because they're useful or relevant. They're measured because they're easy to measure. We've evolv…

"It's a pretty common criticism of GDP." ...with no more veracity than your hypothetical. You don't understand what GDP measures. You've allowed yourself to believe that the econom…

That's true, but it doesn't salvage your argument. Your accounting fiction isn't a 'service' for the purposes of GDP.

The premise itself is fiction. The P in GDP doesn't stand for exchange or transaction. It stands for "Product." It measures the net amount of new wealth, not how many times existin…

>> I am not an economist but I suspect China's debt might not be such a big problem....until it is I'm not an economist either, but I have a working memory, and I can remember bein…

Mental gymnastics.

Good thing MAD worked.

"A kid that believes that he is inherently naughty" Occasional negative feedback doesn't create an inherent self-image. "It is not even actionable command" These are children, not …

Because your "5 minutes" is pure bullshit and your engineer knows it. Your engineer knows that if she writes your "5 minute" query without careful analysis, peer review and documen…

Broken home, broken kids. I know that antagonizes a lot of people, some of whom found their role as parents incompatible with their preferred lifestyle... The truth is a bitch.

The 5 commissioners of the FCC are appointed by the President of the United States. The commission may not have more than 3 members from the same political party. Effectively this …

>> “Engineers are like that,” Mr. Kim said. “We don’t lie.” Hmm. That's pretty general, but he may be right. The engineers willing to lie tend to get promoted to management to do t…