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Honestly, it's not a big problem. First of all, bloat has nothing to do with file size -- EPUB's are often around 2 MB, typeset PDF's are often 2-10 MB (depending on quantity of il…

This analysis doesn't demonstrate anything, unfortunately, except that ratings declined over time and that writers changed over time. Any factor could have caused the show's declin…

This is just silly. News flash: software UX isn't perfect, and it never will be. When you have a phone that can do 10,000 different things limited to a screen a few inches wide, of…

I dunno... I find that on most sites which implement infinite scroll, I like it. Reddit lets me browse stuff without interruption, and it's not like I'm ever going to "go back" to …

If you're treating that as their primary function, you're just throwing away money, tons of money. If you decide you want to work out and eat right, take responsibility for it and …

But does density have to do with anything Kepler measures? Since it only measures how much light decreases, I assumed it's only measuring planet size, and that we're totally ignora…

Sorryt that's what I meant, yes. The tip is in the price already. E.g. my coffee shop has $4 coffees when surrounding ones are $3. But no tip jar or tip buttons on the terminal.

Is this a cultural thing? I was always taught there are 12 notes, while any standard scale contains only 7 of them. (The chromatic scale obviously being the exception which contain…

I think a lot of the frustration isn't from tipping... it's from tip creep . To many people, tipping feels like an unfair relic of the past that can be associated with negatives li…

How would the composition of a planet affect how much light it blocked of its star when passing in front? And signal to noise ratios are presumably quite easy to simulate. So not r…

At the very end, about a current implementation: > The free piston is magnetically coupled to the passenger modules above; this arrangement allows the power tube to be closed, avoi…

Key paragraphs: > The food web appears to have been obliterated from the bottom. It’s credible that the authors link the cascade to arthropod loss, Schowalter said, because “you ha…

What do millenials have to do with it? You think baby boomers don't use emoji too? Relax and have some fun. ;)

Not sure I follow. If you're using 46.7/260 that's an 18% increase (not 10%), but that's all subscribers (including print), not just digital. So a yearly print subscription would g…

Good point. But since there's a paywall of 5 articles per month, while a subscriber presumably reads 100's per month (e.g. even just 5 articles a day = 150/month), it seems reasona…

Some numbers for perspective [1]: Digital-only subscription revenue in 2017: $340 million Digital advertising revenue in 2017: $238 million Obviously some digital advertising is sh…

That's exactly it. Nobody knows if it's impossible or not, but there's no way to find out unless experiments at least try, to whatever effort/cost we deem reasonable.

By definition it's not baryonic, because we aren't detecting it and we would be detecting it if it were. "Dark" in this context means, in and of itself, non-baryonic. And please do…

Very true. It's not identity theft, it's financial fraud. It's not stealing music, it's copying music. It's not buying ebooks, it's leasing them. It's crazy how easily we (and jour…

Agreed 100%. Indeed, this is one of the best articles I've come across which covers several of the reasons we believe dark matter exists, as opposed to us just needing to modify th…

> prohibits passengers from using mobile phones to make voice calls during flight; Interesting... on 9/11 the voice calls from passengers to their loved ones are part of the histor…

Sorry but I find this page extremely off-putting... All these colored boxes following my cursor around makes it hard to figure out what I'm even supposed to do. And scroll doesn't …

You don't need to resort to crude sexual language or imply parent commenter's opinion isn't in good faith, rather than out of some blind corporate allegiance. You're supposed to be…

> "If it doesn't hurt, it isn't a strategic decision." I can't help but feel that's a silly quote. There are plenty of strategic decisions that don't hurt (especially choosing betw…