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I recently learned about using mussels for buttons when I visited the Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, Iowa and have been wondering since: can Zebra Mussels be used for buttons…

Full title: Reese’s didn’t change its chocolate because of corporate greed. It was climate change.

I mean, I think the reason I would say the night sky is “beautiful” is because the meaning of the word for me is constructed from the experiences I’ve had in which I’ve heard other…

It's absolutely true that we should consider the source for this and any other reviews / studies / news articles etc., and be aware of their likely position. We should also recogni…

Omega Tau Podcast did a really great episode [0] on container shipping, including the optimization of container placement and route planning, highly recommended. [0]: https://omega…

(I can't read the full article due to the paywall, but) another framing of this is: farmers can supplement their income by renting out their sheep to help solar farms manage the ve…

> it's substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing, it will increase the surface for nitpicking and criticism (e.g. coding style, etc). Matt Might has a s…

See also Kiryas Joel, New York: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York

Propublica, because they do really amazing journalistic work, both in partnership with large for-profit news organizations as well as independently. The American Cancer Society, wh…

This is great! Definitely therapeutic to be able to name-and-shame frustrating password experiences. Is the goal to actually get these sites to change their dumb rules? If so, I wo…

Oscillates between 0.1 and 0.7 for me, and I'm changing nothing on my end (just hitting "Try again"). Does it have to do with refresh speed, I wonder? Privacy Badger and ABP on my …

Particularly interesting is the tidbit in the middle of the article that there is no freight rail crossing of the Hudson River south of Selkirk[0], near Albany. So any freight trai…

Queens Boulevard[0] is like that, with through-traffic lanes and local lanes divided by a barrier, and it's very much not a pleasant experience to walk or bike near it. It's just s…

Not tipping the doctor, but the hospital: "Many hospitals conduct nightly wealth screenings — using software that culls public data such as property records, contributions to polit…

Going to college isn't all about "quality of education"; it's also about networking and building connections. Plenty of State Universities provide a high-quality education, but don…

> If you do everything right, you'll get this malfunction under control. But it's easy to see how pilots whose plane is acting up unexpectedly can miss it, and it's reasonable to a…

But the difference is not only do the pilots of a commercial airliner have vastly more training and experience than your average driver, but they literally have a list of things to…

That's fair, but what does the checklist say? I mean, say there are a thousand different malfunctions that could cause an uncommanded nose-down. This one happens to be #359, but th…

Based only on what I read in this article, I can kind of see Boeing's point? From what I understand, the procedure/checklist for an uncommanded nose down didn't change from the old…

> *High tax isn't a problem by itself. The problem it that high tax states in the US don't turn around and deliver a proportionate amount of public good. I certainly agree that the…

> Their whole business is to encourage folks that should not be day trading to day trade See also E-Trade's "Don't get mad, get E-Trade" commercials[0], which are clearly intended …

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OK, question from a fellow Emacs user: If a student asked you which text editor / IDE they should learn _ab initio_, would you recommend Emacs without reservation? I'm not sure I w…