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Right and presumably the guy who actually freed him, vs just talk, is going to be more likely to pardon him?

Trump had 4 years to free Assange but did nothing. He will say anything to get elected. It's surprising how people don't see it. In Texas we call that 'All hat, no cattle.'

>When the cost of drilling oil and converting to gasoline outweighs the cost of manufacturing hydrogen, the current oil giants will pivot. It is actually cheaper and greener to bur…

Ground-based sensors historically undercount methane emissions in 3rd party trials. They have a limited FOV which makes it hard to accurately measure a plume of gas, particularly w…

Little Star Pizza is one, if not the best, pie in the Bay Area. It's very well known and loved. It is surprising that customers wouldn't be willing to order delivery directly from …

Please consider reading the linked article first. The longest continuously active incandescent bulb in the world was switched on in 1901.

Please consider reading the linked article. The longest continuously active incandescent bulb in the world was switched on in 1901.

>It is possible (and not very difficult) to design LED bulbs that will practically outlive their owners It is also possible (and not very difficult) to design incandescent bulbs th…

>a carbon tax high enough to make your flight cast 8% more, would totally destroy the fossil fuel industry, as everyone would suddenly have a financial incentive to burn less of it…

>When you’re trying to make the argument that privacy is fundamentally important, you can strengthen your argument by respecting other people’s privacy. Why is the converse not tru…

>$13k-20k is the anticipated low range during the next 'slump' year What is the basis for this assessment? At least with a stock you can point to the underlying performance of the …

Just because you produce a crop doesn't mean it's economical to harvest it. Farmers must produce sufficient yield to cover the cost of harvesting (fuel, manpower, equipment cost, e…

How does the recent decision by the ETH devs to delay a significant change to the difficulty algorithm factory in? This 'difficulty bomb' would have made mining significantly less …

The greenhouse gas emissions of blue hydrogen production exceed those of simply burning natural gas. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ese3.956

>Invalidating a box could result in up to a thousand votes being discarded indeed, which is quite small though for a national election. I don't know what are the typical margins of…

>Even if that was possible, after the vote closes the ballots are counted and the amount must match the number of people who voted, so the result would be invalidated. So an attack…

How is dropping an envelope in a box more secure? It would seem trivial for an attacker to create one or more fake ballots and slip them in the box along with their real ballot.

Kara Bell (the woman mentioned in the article who got the book banned) is infamous around Austin and Central Texas for creating inflammatory viral videos. She was recently cited by…

As far as we know, information cannot be transmitted faster than light, even between two entangled quantum particles. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2016/05/04/the-real-r..…

Actually the US is #12

The US is arguably the most developed country in the world and #18 in terms of per capita deaths. Nothing about COVID is that simple.

>Is it OP's position that an obesity rate of 3.9% is significantly lower than a rate of 4.3%? Yes, in my opinion a 10% difference is significant. The source in no way contradicts t…

India has a significantly lower obesity rate than Japan and a much higher death rate. It is human nature to try and rationalize a tragedy (eg ‘obese people should just lose weight’…

Hard to see how a black market for cigarettes will ever be as large as the current legal market, or as large as the prohibition-era market for booze. In most Western societies ciga…

I thought Sweden was the poster child for ignorance as an effective means of COVID mitigation?