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Fights about finances are known to be one of the top causes of divorce.

Immune mosquitoes would be good too, though certainly more challenging to engineer than "kill everything".

But really, when has that ever happened before?

Yes, here it is again, the nearly ten year old magazine article written by an intern. Nothing could be more definitive.

Trust us, pyrus calleryana - sorry, I mean anopheles gambiae - definitely won't crossbreed with anything.

The tiger mosquito your parent mentions, though, is invasive. Ecologists are usually more than happy to target invasive species.

Do they work offline?

And before you try to rationalize this with "per capita" arguments This is moronic. After all, the other 49 states combined produce more greenhouse gas than California. Don't try t…

Things get pretty weird when you start contemplating doing things at this scale. My father likes to tell of how, supposedly, McDonalds was considering introducing a new menu item, …

I have no problems with cutting second growth, especially timber that was planted by man. It's specifically timber companies interested in harvesting old growth that irks me, becau…

Environmentalists are not the driving force to mine this coal, but many campaign heavily against nuclear, and the effect of decommissioning nuclear in Germany has been increased co…

From what I recall, the Hadza (hunter gatherers of Tanzania) work ~6 hours a day. Sure, 8 hours a day is more, but same ballpark.

Well, we spend a third of our lives sleeping by design (which, you should rest reassured, improves the quality of your waking hours). As for the third spent working, for as long as…

Sure makes decommissioning nuclear (and bringing coal back online to replace it) look better and better. Good job, environmentalists.

RWE has undertaken measures to mitigate the mining’s impact Mitigate the impact of clearcutting an entire forest ? What a laugh.

Masks help with particulate, which I think is Asia's core problem (from all the coal). But most bad-air US cities struggle with ozone, and I don't think masks help with that.

Dang, would be nice if Android had more AQI built in. The 3rd party apps are not exactly rock solid.

I looked it up, and I guess I have to say I'm impressed it's not been reformulated into a mix of corn & soy product.

if I run a tech company and wanted to target "people you are into the Python programming language", that's a group that will likely skew male... "Yeah, um, we want programmers and …

Intent is nine tenths of the law.

If they aren't pay per view, there's much less incentive to show them to only certain users, and much less burden on the employer to be inclusive.

I'm not saying facebook shouldn't police their listings. But were old school newspapers legally required to do that? I'm asking, are we wanting facebook to do it because it's ethic…

Are you suggesting Facebook do that helpfully to aide their customers in avoiding mishaps? Or are you prescribing this be government ordained & required?

Yes, I was thinking about that as I wrote, one imperfect but possible fix would be "no pay per view for job listings". Which, for all I know, could already be the case.

I'm not an ad man, but you have imperfect data about your customers, and I gather it's all about trying to predict what they might buy based on very imperfect/incomplete informatio…