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Mary Magdalene is called "Equal to the Apostles," one of the highest honorifics that can be bestowed on a saint: https://orthodoxwiki.org/Mary_Magdalene

If encryption is treated as a munition[0], does it mean that the Second Amendment could actually be used to protect the right to use it? If the intent of the Second Amendment is to…

This idea of combining NFT and GPG to demonstrate both ownership and authenticity is very intriguing. Would the artist's public GPG key have to be something similar to a verified T…

19:22:18 in which timezone?

If anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area is interested in learning botanical illustration, Filoli Gardens offers courses in it: https://filoli.org/classes/botanical-art-classes/

The article points out that MUNI has low ridership due to other issues besides cost, namely frequency, safety and predictability. MUNI scores poorly on all of those, so if making i…

Why is there an assumption that the tunnels have to be for cars? Create tunnels for bicycles instead: - Tunnels don´t need to be nearly as big, and would still have higher capacity…

So San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties are some of the most disconnected places in the United States?

Yet more evidence that there is an entire generation in the western world that is incapable of communicating, navigating, planning or discovering anything without a device telling …

>They're completely out of touch with reality and the consequences of their beliefs. That only applies to people in rural areas. It is not true of urbanites in any way. /s

And as one of the comments pointed out, many of the rural states are completely at the mercy of the Federal government. When the Federal government controls 48% of a state's land (…

This piece is exceptionally good.

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That's pretty much how all class-action lawsuits work. You (the victim) get a check for a single-digit dollar amount that isn't worth standing in line at the bank to deposit, and t…

This article about the same event has a correction that says NASA says the data was anomalous: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/29/1493107/--There-is-a...

MySQL is free and has been since its inception. Most developers will always choose (free + good enough) over $10K-per-installation licenses for functionally complete solutions. The…

This has huge privacy-rights implications...I don't have much to add, but this should be upvoted.

The article makes no mention of services like Uber, or the myriad new delivery services popping up. Surely those must increase traffic and thus an increased risk of accidents, fata…

Has anyone else noticed that safeway.com doesn't sell their in-store brand of sandwich bread, which usually costs $1.99? You can only buy loaves of bread that are $4.00 or more. Th…

Is it just me, or does there appear to be some correlation between people who follow "news" and a willingness to assume the worst about those who hold different opinions? Yes, foll…

Sweet, a link to a pay-walled academic publication. "Economic-Elite Domination" indeed.

I found a great ad-free social network called "Real Life". I don't need an account or even a device to access it. It has this great feature called "Eye Roll" that subtly lets my fr…

Yes yes yes yes yes yes YEEESSSSS! I hope this is the stake that goes through the heart of that undead thing known as MUNI.

I love this idea. And for anyone who doesn't like it, ask yourself why we are using it for juries...