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No, not true. The strength of electromagnetic fields is governed by an inverse-square law. The reason the town bans WiFi is that even a low-power router can overpower the signals f…

Jonathan Ellis, chair of the Cassandra project, has a blog post analyzing the results: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/how-not-to-benchmark-cassan... And Thumbtack has responded t…

I agree that twin studies couldn't distinguish between genetic and prenatal environmental factors. There is evidence that prenatal environment affects sexual orientation: http://en…

One possibility is that the genetic component to homosexuality is like that for sickle cell trait, fitness-enhancing in the heterozygous case but detrimental in the homozygous.

More likely he'll wake up to find that Twitter has given away his handle.

I'll change my mind if the plaintiffs and the plaintiffs' lawyers donate the proceeds to charity.

Presumably the press release was issued after the write was pointed out to them. They warned Treasury in advance about the downgrade.

My reading of the Treasury release is that this all has to do with"baselines". Compared to current spending the deal didn't make cuts at all--spending will continue to increase ove…

The US did not come within one day of defaulting. It came within a day of hitting the debt ceiling, which is a very different thing. Despite the way it was portrayed, the governmen…