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That damn food pyramid

Traffic accidents and deaths are rising because of phones. I think we actually "won" the war on drunk driving, only to have a new more vicious war set upon us. Collision energy and…

If you are going to play the founders game (get rich slow, then all of a sudden), then you should not be surprised by the slow and painful part.

It looks like we are at risk of losing another valuable brick-and-mortar resource. We already lost Radio Shack.

Go outside and touch grass every day. Go for a walk if you can. It will improve your mental and physical health, and can even help you solve problems. If it also keeps your eyes he…

Why is it called "doomsday"? Neither the wiki article nor MW dictionary definition explain this etnymology/usage. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doomsday

Yes, they would tolerate it. Both because of the Government's monopoly on violence, and because citizens always rally to support a war when under direct attack. The latter effect w…

> I don't understand why people have such a big privacy issue with this. It all happens on your device. It's not hard to imagine situations where this complete and total informatio…

Wait until you see what goes on at the county landfill.

This article largely ignores the fact that there are common data center designs that use closed-loop cooling, and consume no more water on a daily basis than a barber shop. It's no…

You could always bring your parents into this if you really wanted to. For some reason that rarely ever happened...

In the 80's I had a walki-talkie confiscated till the end of the year also. It "just happened" to be crystaled for the same freq the school narcs/maintenance used.

This happened when I was in HS in the 1980's I think it was around 86-87 that they outright banned beepers/pagers, no exceptions.

Paying the plumber or janitor to spy is as old as dirt.

It's amazing to me that regulators have not required a minimum latency, or random latency dispersion in orders/trades to level the playing field.

How bad do you have to be before the Gov files an antitrust suit these days? IE/Netscape bad or this apparently.

It's a routine random inspection of commercial freight. Gold is extremely dense. It's about the same density as Uranium and Plutonium (which is a big reason why they and/or softwar…

Since our entire perception of reality is a carefully controlled hallucination based on our fairly crude sensory inputs, this is not surprising at all.

> Sometimes it’s music, like a full orchestral score For me it's usually something like a full orchestra. I assume that is because our brains are already trained on the erratic arr…

I get a weird feeling reading these technical manuals from the 1940's. It feels like we used to know how to do things correctly, and can describe them with precise language, but so…

Don't worry about the Internet, it will survive this just fine. It was designed to reroute around damage like the "Reddit IPO".