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> Maybe have something in there that is colder Such as?

> anyone who still answers phone calls from strangers Isolation leads to paranoia.

You realize these companies will quiet-fire all employees residing in Utah and never hire there again? That this will place massive negative pressure on all software salaries in Ut…

Lehman employees were also angry with their final CEO, Dick Fuld. At one point there was a now-debunked rumor that he got punched in the face at the company gym a few days after th…

Banks use some of those deposits to make loans to private parties. This is, on the whole, beneficial to society so we want it to continue. You do not want the government, which is …

Why stop there? - "Draft a class action complaint in {venue} against {bank} for using AI to robo*-approve loans. Repeat 10 times." - "Pretend you are a {group} journalist. Write {x…

Is there a site where one can add more data points like BMI, smoking, booze & other drugs, family history of horrible diseases, current medical conditions, etc?

I'll go further: there are no poor innocent carnivores or omnivores. All are brutal killers without regard for the suffering of others. Nature is struggle, awful, awful struggle. B…

Besides adult content, what else is considered "high risk"? What are the commissions in this space? Also, major media outlets* are now doing bait and switch subscriptions. Does tha…

What is your plan for transaction costs?

And what’s epic’s margin from getting kids addicted to wasting their time (and money) on Skinner box games? Both companies are socially destructive, but epic is pure-play evil.

Schools should be teaching kids to be confident speakers and readers from an early age.

Cumulative seasonal rainfall data has been collected for much longer than 8 years. This year looks very, very dry. https://ggweather.com/seasonal_rain.htm https://www.cnrfc.noaa.go…

Here’s a field guide on measuring fuel moisture content written by people at a California branch of the Forest Service: https://www.bia.gov/sites/bia.gov/files/assets/public/pdf/id…

This isn't a problem of "big money", but a failure of government. They reduced taxes and, shocking(!), that led to lower tax revenues. > Oregon lowered taxes and maintained weaker …

One of these days the pharmaceutical industry will create a blockbuster pill that's methadone for information withdrawal.

You can’t do safety without regulation.

...and zip code, which is very correlated with parental income, occupation, and education level

The emergency exit plan for junior Republican congresspeople is to join a think tank. But(!), only if they tow the party line. It is so common that there is a name for it: wingnut …

You jest, but the percentage of humans have never seen the Milky Way with their naked eyes, since they live in or around some sort of city. Light pollution is so widespread that mo…

The existence of open source software suggests there are other factors.

These dietary guidelines are not published by the FDA, whose goal is to protect public health, but by the USDA, whose goal is to protect farmers. Compare their "about us" pages: FD…