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A missing piece of information is that trehalose is a rather new additive. It was very expensive to manufacture until about 20 years ago when a new cheaper process to make it was f…

Yes.

Grade level schools, adopted in the USA in the middle of the 19th century, essentially dumb down those who are a bit more advanced at an early age. It takes a few grades to destroy…

The Swift support on Linux is the bare minimum required to say "Swift supports Linux". I seriously doubt that Swift will ever be any more "portable" than Objective-C. That is, Swif…

No you are not the only programmer who thinks that languages are going in the wrong direction. For example, the lambda operator of Java 8. All it does is hide the (very useful) nam…

So the word socialism is mentioned twice in the 57 comments that currently exist here, and both of those comments are greyed out having been downvoted. Not a surprise given the soc…

Another take on the Tesla financial story: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-26/tesla-earnings-smas...

Another false headline. "serverless"? Nope. A redis server must be running.

The headline is false. Far down in the article, find this nuggest: "The profit landscape is less sunny. Operating income for Walmart’s United States stores was down 6 percent in th…