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This appears to be a poorly-sourced "research" page put together by a marketing agency. There's really nothing there about the methodology of this work, and there's plenty to sugge…

The prospect of the images getting "structurally" garbled in unpredictable ways would probably limit real-world applications: https://miro.medium.com/max/4800/1*RCG7lcPNGAUnpkeSsYG…

Yeah, it's usually a combination of these two factors. You live beyond your means for a decade or five, and then something else goes wrong : natural disaster, war, crop failure, sa…

The history of coinage spans thousands of years. Despite the popular tales, spot barter was almost certainly not the basis of any real economies. There is definitely some bias in t…

Many countries that suffer hyperinflation keep the historical name of their currency, but establish some exchange rate between the "old" and "new" money. Zimbabwe went through four…

"Allied" in the sense of having a USSR-installed puppet government propped up by the massive presence of Soviet troops. This was a part of the concessions made by the West to Stali…

Teflon is very non-reactive and any small pieces you ingest should pass through unchanged pretty quickly. You likely ingest a lot more plastic from other sources.

Recessed lighting fixtures are a common cause of problems with LEDs due to poor heat dissipation. But a lot of newer homes have recessed lighting, and in at least some parts of Cal…

Many LED lightbulbs make claims about their expected lifetime. Except these numbers are often a fantasy. The LED itself may last almost forever, but the capacitors commonly go bad …

A lot of these questions touch on important topics, but I think there are too many of them and they are far too specific - to the point where you might be inadvertently signaling s…

> Maybe we don't want them to be able to do any of that "We" who? Application owners want that, browser vendors want that (their greatest fear is that mobile will eat the web, so t…

There's a lot more to that. A bank doesn't want the "back" button to work forever; they want to control the lifetime of your session, ideally on the server. Google wants to let you…