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I guess I get it - but how do you measure when the toxicity level falls low enough? What is the LD50 of a social network?

I'm surprised that State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) is being eliminated; it reimburses states for the money spent housing unauthorized immigrants pending deportation…

Page 2 (PDF pg 12) of this document includes detail on how much money would be saved by these changes: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/msar-f... For example, …

Tangential, but I thought HN might find it interesting... The article quotes the director of the Human Rights Campaign (who you may know from their bumper stickers, a blue square w…

This is what I use at work. :) It can make the code difficult to read and update later though.

...or, they'll be a momentary novelty that Generation Z will view as the 21st century equivalent of sticking your head through a cardboard cutout to pretend you're Dale Earnhardt o…

I'd support a constitutional amendment to guarantee 'no first use', regardless of who is in office. If verifiable global nuclear disarmament was possible, I'd support that as well.…

Here's another one: https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/12/microsoft-calibri-pakist...

The difference between 3.1B and 1300B dollars is significant and it is bizarre that you cite a source and then say "the number doesn't really matter". The number definitely does ma…

>US is planning to spend 1.3 trillion in Israel in FY18 That isn't what your source says... where'd you get that number? [0]: https://www.foreignassistance.gov/explore/country/Isra…

Someone will surely try your suggestion at some point, and I hope we don't get to find out what the Enron of water supply looks like. "Newly discovered tapes have revealed how the …

The argument I've heard to counter this is the idea that economic markets are efficient even when many participants are irrational because the irrational participants cancel each o…

@PeopleOfFinland, one of those Twitter accounts that is run by a different person every week, was ran by a Saami indigenous person native to Lapland last week and they had some cri…

The problem is that mixing business and law enforcement, so that quotidian commercial transactions become opportunities for criminal investigation, can and historically has lead to…

> Exactly same what facebook does also. My google-fu is weak - I can't find any source for Facebook providing information to ICE. Would you please help me out with some more inform…

"Apple's mound of cash and cash equivalents continued to scrape the cloudline..." Cloudline is being modest... a stack of a trillion dollars in singles will take you 25% of the way…