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Based on 2020, about $45,000 profit per minute.

That's not even close to what happened. The administration left it alone for days saying they'll let private business sort it out. (Default investigation notwithstanding.) When a b…

Which is kind of silly, because apple varieties demonstrate that people are willing to pay a premium for strains with good taste/texture. With the exception of selling to industria…

For me, the effect is less (or possibly just less noticable) after a few weeks. But some coffee or tea gets me going pretty quickly and the effects wear off. I've always been a slo…

The key is to hunt for commercial-grade appliances. In some cases, they can be found and offer similar form factors to consumer devices, and in others you may be out of luck. Comme…

I can't reasonably assert that one should or shouldn't. I just answered parent's apparently rhetorical question, "Who gets hurt if I wear a mask?" Their assumption is, "Nobody," bu…

The CDC has no authority regarding the masking of either vaccinated or unvaccinated people. Its guidelines may influence state response, but they do not supercede or even augment t…

Nobody, directly. Who gets hurt if social structure is affected by the apparent identity of masking? There are plenty of instances of catastrophic social division due to physical d…

You're being downvoted, but it's abundantly clear that at least some view masking as a moral or intellectual signal, and this "othering" is certain to have some impact, either pers…

I can't judge your cynicism, but I can say it's quite suspect that media outlets—apparently—behaved as the mouthpiece of the state: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27145446

Thank you for noticing this. This is a media blitz, and one may wonder why there are prepared, published stories about CDC guidance that hadn't yet even been published. I'm sure th…

Perhaps, but what I've witnessed: (in the broadest strokes of unspecificity) Rural: "I don't like what the city folk are doing. They should change." Urban: "I don't like what the c…

Plaintext transport doesn't matter if at least one part of the payload chain is cryptographically protected/verified. If you have a machine that's air-gapped and its only IO is str…

I fear that you're being downvoted for pointing out the even bigger threat of our national media's exceedingly more dangerous acts of propaganda, presumably because readers either …

McDonald's used to fry their fries in a 93% tallow oil blend until they stopped in 1990 because of hysteria over cholesterol in beef fat. Guess nobody considered the patties were s…

I don't think this is a "gotcha". I asked for a threshold, accepting that there are varying costs and benefits. I think that your justification is lacking, however. As though there…

Sure: - suburban areas largely "subsidize" the cost of education, which far exceeds the cost of roads and utility infrastructure subsidized by the cities. The quality of schools in…

When you stop subsidizing suburbs, will you also stop subsidizing the flyover states? How about the impoverished? Medicare for unhealthy people? Education? Fire departments? Like, …

These here city folk don't much care for our kind. Nevermind the shirk for the value of diversity—both geographically and functionally—they've optimized the life out of life and go…

Thank you for clarifying the value of the study.

I responded to the correct comment: the one that effectively said, "if you don't like it you can leave," in response to their parent comment that suggested they're not enthused to …

It doesn't have to be incomprehensible. Just diggable. Click through to finer and finer granularity. Searchable. It's just ("just") a data vis problem. I'd work on it but too busy.…

Less than 15% goes to roads, schools, and (I assume you refer to when you sardonically say "killing people domestically) law enforcement. You appear to have a high view of governme…

I think they're being downvoted, in part, because a lot of people here either assume it is being spent well, or justify it as a necessary evil. What might be valuable would be for …