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The lesson of the story? Don't have kids.

What the hell is going on in that graph? The West Bank is "High-income"? Yemen is "High-income"?

I was under the assumption that uncooked beans contain enzyme inhibitors (which make digestion more difficult), and germinating the beans before cooking reduces the effectiveness o…

Static linking OpenSSL is probably not a good idea

I had mine removed about 4 years ago, haven't ever felt healthier than I do now.

Conditionals without braces? Have we learned nothing from heartbleed?

Exactly my feelings.

I think a little bit of wisdom from one of my favorite writers might be appreciated here: """We have created a lifestyle that makes injustice permanent and inescapable. We have cre…

I don't find this interesting or cool; it's pretty disgusting and immoral for someone to spend their time 'hacking' weapons and then publishing an article detailing their work.

If you don't want the IRS in your online business, I think there's an easier solution: Pay your taxes.

Good luck getting through the bay area when everyone is driving

Why not have the federal government have an actual organization of software developers (with possibly a standards committee) that do it themselves instead of contracting it out to …

When will we finally hold contractors that build shit products for the public accountable for wasting a huge amount of tax dollars?

The actual socialist/anarchist crowd are going ape shit over it. (For example, Democracy Now! and NSFWCorp, two superb news organizations, are incredibly critical of the Obama admi…

>The award’s real name is the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.” It was not established by Nobel, but supposedly in memory of Nobel. It’s a r…

Everything Adam Curtis does is amazing. The ending to this article sums up western perspectives on the middle east very well, in my opinion.

It is getting worse in my lifetime. I'd like to live in a time when it gets better.

>And, finally, don't be extreme in any way: politically, socially, culturally. I strongly disagree with this, not just on principle, but also practically. There is always an extrem…

Although this is off topic, I'd argue that there are indeed literal slave masters in the United States today, and they are the private prison owners that profit off convict laborer…