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Fix the patent problem. Leave the r&d right off alone.

Is there more context to this question? I couldn't read the article because of the pay wall. But in isolation, this is a dumb question. All decent parents want their child to live …

I saw this movie as a kid when it came out on vhs. it blew me away! I loved the blind guy. He was amazing. That part where he listens to the sounds on the road to determine where t…

Fluoride is not "in fact toxic". A substance becomes toxic in high amounts. Vitamin D becomes toxic in high amounts. The level of fluoride in drinking water is well below the toxic…

The right wing of the US is not driven by white supremacy. It's driven by a belief in a variety of mostly false grievances, about immigration, the economy, the wealth gap, etc. Tho…

How can these happiness scores be meaningful? It's all just surveys, and self reporting. It's subjective and sensitive to cultural differences.

> Buying a second house... I hear this so the time from people who have never owned a home. It's partly true, but not as good if a deal as you think. True that you don't have to pa…

people have been saying the American dream is dead my entire life. I'm tired of hearing it. I'm also tired of people saying the American dream is about becoming a billionaire. It's…

No poem had ever made me feel the crunch of snow under my boots or see the flakes floating down like this poem. It's visceral.

Google will certainly try to prevent that!

The conclusion of this data presentation is that so of these people are our collective responsibility, and I just wasn't convinced. I wish they had shown percentages with the visua…

"...due to the climaxing rampant corruption in the US..." What? "...constraints of corrupt capitalism" caused websites to be boated?

Be careful because there are two many out of pocket amounts. One for in network and one for our of network. Most ACA plans that I can get in my state do not have an out of network …

That "tax cuts for the rich" line buds me so much. Republicans do not simply cut taxes for the rich. I've looked at income tax tables going back to the mid 70's. It's clear that Re…

Thank you! I was just watching Oppenheimer yesterday, and cringed at the part where he points out that Alfred Nobel invited dynamite as a reason he might get the award for the A bo…

Isn't this rejected by the study. If poor people have less to lose, then why doesn't the data show that increasing their wealth reduces their crime rate? If they are awarded more m…

I've been using swipe on Android for almost a decade and it still features me. Sometimes it works well. Other times it mangles almost every word in a sentence. I've sent thousands …

it was obviously marketing material, but if this tweet is right, then it was just blatant false advertising.

Now if someone were to make one of those pizza ordering LLM agents do the calling for them... I suppose that would be like spamming the carriers. Not sure that's better, but it mig…

I really like some aspects of this, but I don't understand the incentives. If I own a home, I want to know everything about it. However, if I'm selling a home, I don't want the buy…

My two cents: if you're using YouTube do much that this bothers you, then just buy premium. It's well worth it in my opinion. You also get the music service. I use it instead of Sp…

That sounds like something that's easily fixable with battery saving options. Basically, when in battery, don't do that. That would be a good default.

Yes, memory. 4$ droplets have only 512mb. that's barely enough to run bundle install for one application. 6$ droplets give you 1GB and that's plenty for one app,

I'm not sure when a company begins to not be a start up, but by the time they have a wave of news claiming their product kills teenagers, or they're engaging in antitrust, or they'…

This seems like a very hostile and unreasonable take. People in developing countries have far greater need for access to financial services, banking and loans. rich countries have …