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The long-term neurological effects are scary too. https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-and-the-brain-diagno...

The current US population is 7 billion, US population is 300 million. How many of the 6.5 billion non-Americans do you think could be rapidly absorbed, both terms of infrastructure…

The actual ratio of rent to income really does matter. If we were comparing two cities where the ratio was 18% and 22%, then people would "want to spend less" or "pay a little more…

As much as I love Boston, SF is not the only other city in the world, and both cities are extremely atypical. The graduates are likely leaving for a place where they can get a $49,…

dollar-store version of Trader Joe's The family resemblance is to be expected since the two brands are the result of feuding brothers splitting their family business: http://www.sl…

Several companies on this list are household names; Avis was run as a typical corporation, W. L. Gore has no managers, and Springfield ReManufacturing is discussed in Jack Stack's …

Common cinder blocks / gray blocks measure 16" x 8" x 8" and cost about $1.30. I stack two in order to get 16" of lift and place a stack under each corner of a traditional flat des…

It's very typical to more strictly regulate commercial use of the sky than non-commercial. For human aviators, the progression in licenses is Private Pilot (cannot even charge pass…

Or even how it scales to individuals over 6 feet tall.

Automattic, the creator of WordPress, the blog and website tool. Still, every hire, without exception, goes through a two- to six-week contract period, and is paid the standard rat…

The worst part is that we're failing even on simple things that could reduce light pollution, such as using outdoor fixtures that direct the light only downward. The International …

I see your point. But I love that it's one feature at a time , rather than being placed between two columns of links to other stories, other photos, automatically-playing videos, a…

Please tell us about your stack. Which implementation of Common Lisp do you use?

"personal loan" does not mean "peer-to-peer loan"

One source of conflict is that many "business type" tasks/projects can be fairly easily time-scoped: "a report about opportunities for our product in Poland" can be a 5 minute comp…

bad code forever because your technical team get annoyed and leave And the effects of technical debt and bad code will eventually result in slow iteration and poor product quality …

pass object references by value (is their a better name for this?) Barbara Liskov used "call by sharing", aka "call by object-sharing" or "call by object". http://stackoverflow.com…

Thanks. How do current Lisps (CL, Racket) compare to *Lisp on parallelism?

who had drugs shipped to him...(he was uninvolved) "had drugs shipped" is a little ambiguous: someone shipped drugs using the mayor's house as the destination; Mayor Calvo had no k…

I found their finances interesting. They seem to have made a very good living (including covering expensive medical conditions such as a pacemaker and travel from California to May…

An important corollary is that "the happiness of current residents" may negatively correlated to "the happiness of new migrants" (who won't have the deep family roots). Therefore, …

trend toward more CISC-like hardware, because designers have figured that operations that would've been done in software can be done faster with dedicated hardware. And since clock…

Aside from cancer, one needs to be concerned about aging: just look at the difference between the sides of truck driver William McElligott's face: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012…

How do you guarantee that this DNA will not get released into the wild, and what is your responsibility for the consequences if it does?