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Planet money had a story where a similar superficially good idea ended up with Etrade selling a man's Amazon stock and deactivating his account after he didn't log in for a certain…

"If you put Amazon in the headline, they will come." Interesting call that the story isn't compelling enough if it "just" involves Whole Foods.

Allulose is an interesting sweetener that has the same molecular formula as fructose, and IMO tastes much more similar to table sugar than other sweeteners. It has been shown to lo…

Sometimes I google home maintenance videos for information on a project, and I need to spend a lot of time looking for a certain level of quality of the source since I'm a complete…

In the source they cite ( https://gcemetery.co/ ), do they consider only products that have died? Or do they track all products that have started? (hopefully they have right censor…

Here's an interactive tool they put up as well that doesn't look paywalled. https://graphics.wsj.com/dynamic-inset-iframer/?url=https://... Hard to find the data backing it, though…

It's a bit odd seeing Zucman as a contributor here, considering his recent economic advice has been criticized for assuming that tax avoidance isn't a thing.

Thanks for the response! FWIW, I find nothing lacking in the application, but I'm working on an ipad and it seems a native app would be less constrained by the browser quality.

It sounds cliche, but I've found the yEd graph editor crucial in reading a Dostoevsky novel and keeping up with all the characters and their relations. Is yworks pretty much the on…

I like propublica's reporting on this but geez, this needs an award for one of the top HN obsessions. Within the past 7 months: TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Fili…

I'm not sure about how much causation is being captured here, but I don't doubt the effect directionally. Here's a paper that came to similar conclusions, which I think captures ca…

Never heard about Circa before, but just read a little about them and their feature that has the goal > "to break down a story into its core elements: facts, stats, quotes and medi…

In the cited study, a significant difference between highest pushup group and lowest pushup group is a mean age of 35 and 48 years, respectively. It is well known that age is the s…

Do they have a better channel for deploying hot-fixes? Maybe I'm a bit of a squish but I'm pretty agnostic of how they deploy fixes to me so long as my addons start working again.

> Searching within Multiple Tabs – Did you know that if you enter a ‘%’ in your Awesome Bar, you can search the tabs on your computer? This will be a big help for me. Makes me wond…

I'd be curious how individual US states stack up here--it seems like there would be quite a bit of variance (and I'm sure the US isn't the only country whose stats become much less…

I've read that bringing male mortality rates down to that of females would have about the same impact on mortality rates as curing cancer would.

Professor Bond and this finding are discussed as a case study of 'polarization cycles,' where innocuous claims somehow give rise to controversy in the book "Coddling of the America…

Does this claim apply equally to the relationship of LDL-P measurements to CVD as well?

Drivers are people, my friend