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> All ads are poisonous This is a silly and short-sighted blanket statement. People used to love getting catalogs, which are just big books full of ads. In the right context, peopl…

3. You are strong enough to provide a serious and credible threat to the king if he implements a policy that threatens you. Example: Valve in the early 2000s before or as they were…

>* However the both act in the brain the same way and both lead to bad ends to the vast majority.* This is a poor justification for making something illegal. Chocolate and cocaine …

> I don't think there is such a thing as truth This is a self-defeating statement. It's false on its face. If there is no such thing as truth, then this statement can't be true bec…

last.fm found me some of my favorite bands of the last 15 years.

This isn't the world we've built, it's the world we live in. We didn't create this world, and we aren't yet powerful enough to change the nature of reality, so to blame humanity fo…

I was diagnosed 15ish years ago when I was 26. I tried medication and absolutely hated it. It changed who I was. Medication is a crutch. If you're completely crippled and you need …

A Brief History of Time deals with this subject very well. It's a very easy and quick read, meant for a wide audience, not a technical one. It's readable in an afternoon. The conce…

Also, it's worth noting that Apollo astronauts are not average-health men. They were selected for their extreme outlier health attributes, which is why so many of them live so long…

Space is generally defined to be 100km above earth's surface, an arbitrary point called the Karman Line [1]. Orbit is when an object is traveling so fast that it reaches the horizo…

If you've ever seen fruit on sale, you've seen a coarse version of this.

Capable with current technology if intercepted early enough. I think most people visualize an asteroid hitting earth like a ball hitting the ground when dropped at arm's length. In…

It's not like this is limited to "bad players." It's standard procedure for almost every website. Whether that's good or bad is a separate topic - the point it's not just nefarious…

> I have been diagnosed with ADHD this year. How do I best tell prospective employers I might need some accommodation in this process? As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD a deca…

> Warhammer Online, Guild Wars 2, etc. were all great games from the business perspective. OP said: > all these mmos were popping up saying they were the "WoW killer" Guild Wars an…

I don't think this is good news, it's at best not-bad news. We're already inundated with content , most of it copycatting other content, and it's replacing meaningful things, like …

A hypothetical guy works at a hypothetical startup that publishes a lot of blog posts, and he's not the greatest writer, so he uses a hypothetical service that does AI-based editin…

Tangential but related: "Toxic Propellant Hazards"[1] a video made in the mid/late 60s and published by the US National Archives Youtube channel. In addition to having some great i…

Nobody cares that you and your crew are using a WhatsApp alternative, which is why there's no option for you to signal that you're using an alternative. This is for people who want…