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This looks a lot like quackery. A miracle diet that will cure almost all ailments? Sounds too good to be true. The author encourages parents to disregard Physician advice in favor …

You are correct, I've edited my comment to be appropriately hedged

It really depends on vaccination rates and the transmission rates of vaccinated people. Vaccines aren't going to reach mass distribution until February or March at the earliest. It…

> Yelp, GrubHub, Seamless Interesting choice of examples! Grubhub owns Seamless and bought Yelp's delivery service (formerly Eat24). Grubhub also owns AllMenus and MenuPages. So an…

The op-ed pages have always been longform twitter, not journalism. The journalism and op-ed sides are different departments with no influence over the other.

The container was filed with Nitrogen, so no pesky Oxygen corroding everything.

I took a watch. Honestly, it's lazy and dumb. The siloing of modern social-media justifies the behavior of Cernovic and his ilk? There is genuine propaganda being actively promoted…

So what is reliable media? What can be trusted? Who do you trust? > We've never had a media that's more blatantly bias and unreliable than the one we have right now. Can you provid…

> I want the truth. That's something all US media is failing to give us right now. What truth is this you are so deprived of? I presume you have some "real" source of truth that's …

It sounds a lot like you are deliberately seeking bias-confirming right wing propaganda!

Right wing propagandists flooded twitter and reddit with deceptive edits, frame grabs, and narratives. I expect there are now multiple retaliatory take down campaigns by multiple g…

unmoderated forums tend to drive off anyone but those holding the most extreme and toxic views.

How is this product "Zoom for Developers"? What makes GitDuck like a video conferencing platform which supports 100+ concurrent users? To me "Zoom for x" implies video calling as a…

The TVA is government owned, but self funded. Apparently it's turned a healthy profit since the 70s.

This is off the AP Newswire, here's the AP original with a bit more detail: https://apnews.com/0336437987fec77627c17ca9a4c781bc

This is also common for most credit card processors. But keeping 3% is very different from 30%

The full text of the paper is available on ResearchGate[1] or paywalled from the publisher [2] [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342022024_Conservat... [2] https://www.n…

> In many ways, it's even worse for the environment than just burning the oil directly. This seems like a testable claim. Is there research about this subject that could confirm or…

It depends on the region, the age of the school, the wealth and demographics of the community. The poorer the area, its more likely the schools are overcrowded concrete boxes built…

> There's no measure that will be realistically implemented in the next month that would cut R in half Universal masking can cut R substantially, but it requires high levels of com…

Do various sorts of batteries (gravity, fly-wheels, LiON) provide reasonable alternatives for some base load and peak generation?

With those assumptions, it seems fair to state that, given enough time, any sufficiently large group of humans will commit an atrocity against an internal or external minority. Sho…

> > One of the challenges of doing that nowadays is we have a president who thinks cultural genocide of Uighur muslims is 'absolutely the right thing to do' and that Tienanmen squa…

> The rumors are the spark that I mentioned. The long-existing anti-semitism is the wood pile that is ready to be set ablaze. Which arrives at the question, how does anti-semitism …