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People develop drinking problems for two reasons, they have a genetic predisposition to getting more reward from drinking and/or they have untreated trauma that they are medicating…

I also think there is an education gap. People grow up eating processed food and don't learn to cook. People often try to cook, but online recipes are not really teaching you anyth…

Food quality and options vary significantly with location in the US. In my city I have a Gucci market that gets super fresh veggies and fruit, along with imported cheeses, fish, ve…

Teachers are funded by local taxes, usually property taxes.

In general, chefs, and anyone who works in the kitchen, are severally underpaid for the skill and amount of work the job takes. It's long hours in a hot, cramped, very high stress …

I used to work with deep sea ROVs. We also found geometric hole patterns in rocks. Much smaller than these. It's truly weird to find.

This is one of the reasons metal roofs a nice, they reflect heat and you don't need to paint them white, they make special paints for metal roofs that help reflect the heat and als…

One issue is that they don't keep writers and show runners around. Each season gets new writers so any magic there was in season one of lost in season two. The tone is the same but…

I was literally just talking to a SPAC CEO last weekend that was in a deal with Goldman that got dropped by them. Apparently, there are regulations coming down from the SEC and Gol…

My friend is a manager at a big insurance company. They have a bunch of legacy stuff in COBOL.

As far as I understand it R is not a rate because it does not include time. Diseases that take on average a few days for you to pass on verses a few months will have different grow…

One theory for the formation of cell membranes actually relies on hydrothermal vents.

It's how battles have been won for thousands of years. The two army's approach each other and take minor casualties until one sides moral collapses, they break, and route. 90% of t…

I look at biology as the results of a billion years of tinkering (evolution) as apposed to an engineer sitting down and designing something from the ground up. DNA is like a massiv…

I'm sorry that your mother had to go through that. My partner is a neurologist and she hates having to give an ALS diagnosis. It fills her with dread when symptoms align with a pos…

What about the population of the unvaccinated? What percentage should we expect of the unvaccinated to get omicron given how contagious it is?

I don't know how accurate this information is, but I'm hearing that the monitor can't be updated because the service is in the region that is down.

There are many perks to living outside of the city. You can have twice the house for 1/3 the cost. It's much quieter. There are hobbies and activities that are only available outsi…

> And its these chips that have the precision that bugs you so. I never said it bugs me. I own a Citizen solar powered watch. I also own a mechanical watch and a smart watch. I wou…

> Mechanical watches are an emotional rather than rational technology, and hey if that's what you're into: mechanical watches and horse-drawn-buggies and gas lanterns then that's t…

I'm a big fan of Hamilton watches. I like the simple design and the one I have is amazingly accurate, like within seconds of NTP over weeks when the weather and temperature are ide…

I don't see much need for the personal computing. I know with my work, we regularly produce >30TB of high def video that we then need to sneakernet to our on shore storage and give…

I think this is pretty true. I think almost all of the hard science researchers are part software developers. Pretty much every professor I had in mechanical engineering was doing …

Are the Quadro cards any good for it?

A lot of it comes down to the individual State incentives. My co-worker put in a system on his house and at the time the incentive was that you sold all of your power back to the g…