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Similarly, cigarettes also have a very strong correlation with schizophrenia. Completely non-causal, but it's hard to find a non-hospitalized schizophrenic who does not smoke.

There are playthroughs of single games that are more than 100 hours. Even if you're only playing "short" games, you're looking at 6-10 hours, which means you only give your audienc…

There's about two sentences in the article that say "it's suspicious, but nobody's going to look into it harder than they have." The rest of it goes over how he was justified in be…

The NIH has begun doing studies on the effects of nanoplastics, and it appears there is evidence for buildup in the liver [1]. If asprin had a long half-life in your body, you'd ha…

Would you really call adjusting a statistical window "playing around with numbers"? It doesn't look like they tried multiple parameters to get a result they liked, they just looked…

I noticed this as well. The site is small enough it's not likely to draw enough scrutiny to face repercussions, however there's zero chance this is enough to satisfy various data p…

Every union job I've had holiday pay, and every white collar job has paid time off for holidays. In my life the only jobs that skipped holiday pay were hypercapitalist organization…

Is your comment just anti-virtue signaling then? Sometimes people just want to share their opinions, and they actually feel those feelings. Sometimes those feelings are about ethic…

One of the things that companies rely on these days is engagement and playerbase. If you don't find that compelling, that's up to you, but Blizzard invests millions every year into…

I'll admit, I don't work in the startup space. However, it seems to me that Google doesn't really run their products like a startup generally does. It seems like adapting your prod…

Uhhh.. PediaLyte and Ensure are vastly different products. Ensure is a weight gain meal replacement drink and PediaLyte is fancy gatorade. Soylent is somewhere between Slimfast and…

The biggest thing I've learned from good lawyers, is that with the law - there's always an appeal, a different interpretation, and a challenge or request for exemption from a rule.…

I find it hard to believe that the "middle" 49% produce 73% of the emissions, while the top 1% only produce 15% While I think it's still best for us all to reduce where we can - I …

A short circuit is usually a wiring issue. A poorly manufactured USB cable can certainly cause a short circuit. Fire investigators are also well versed in the forensic investigatio…

I like typescript not because it prevents most errors in my code, but because it prevents some errors. Those errors, in my experience, tend to be ones that are time consuming to id…

I don't believe slippery slope applies in this situation. For the most part Youtube has been fairly lenient as to which accounts get heavily moderated and/or removed. I may revise …

You really could have said all this without being nearly so derisive and insulting.

Only because they capture a lot of data and keep the row level information. If you just grabbed clustered coordinates without any device information there wouldn't be enough data t…

Seattle itself has a reputation for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze

"Steve is our best salesman, but he keeps sexually harassing the interns and crashing the company car. Joe janitor just put in his resume..."

> TikTok, the fast-growing social network from China, has used unusual measures to protect supposedly vulnerable users. The platform instructed its moderators to mark videos of peo…

How common? It seems like it would be cheaper for most parts of the country to install electric baseboards than to ship in the coal you'd need for the winter.

The US has had a money hoarding problem for the last three to five decades. You're not going to get very many high cost infrastructure problems solved when the government doesn't f…

Just don't get an nvidia GPU for your eGPU solution.

Fracking isn't renewable and causes massive local environmental problems. Solar needs better batteries. One of these things is not like the other.