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Globalization generally crushes small languages. I consider it a blessing and a curse- the more people speak a common language, the more they can communicate and collaborate togeth…

Even if two different aircraft have the same space constraints for the hook (which is a pretty big if), they have different mass and deceleration characteristics (i.e. minimum and …

More mass inside the wheel increases unsprung weight and worsens some ride/suspension characteristics of a vehicle- that being said the tradeoff might not be too bad in this case.

As far as I can tell marijuana ticks all those marks but junkies still go for harder drugs anyway.

I would suggest the following explanation: You could break people up into political and wealth-based quadrants: 1. Conservative and rich 2. Conservative and poor 3. Liberal and ric…

Among the people that care about cultural appropriation, there are so many different interpretations of which acts are offensive that it is a minefield of uncertainty. A lot of it …

If you want it to last longer than 20 minutes it would weight about 250 pounds. Chainsaws are at the very corner of tools that have to be both portable, handheld, and very powerful…

If supply and demand don't set the number of surgeons, then who does? Currently, the American Medical Association limits the number of new doctors being trained in medical school. …

To give a visceral example- There's an episode of Clarkson's Farm where the customers that parked in the grass at his farm shop need to get their cars pulled out of the mud by a tr…

Hasn't the midwest host large herds of grazing buffalo for millenia? I think the last I read about this stuff, most cattle farmers want their grass to still be the old school deep-…

I think that the article is a countervailing idea against the idea of the "paradox of tolerance." If you accept the paradox of tolerance, then the truly intolerant are the ones you…

I disagree regarding how much overlap there is between low voltage skill sets and high voltage skill sets. Even though the consequences are different, understanding when the circui…

Another mechanism promoted by the same trend the article mentions- corn ethanol yields increasing.

I figure that there is no binary distinction between what is ancient and what is modern enough to matter. Would you agree that older wrongs are only different from newer wrongs as …

If you had really given them the benefit of the doubt, you would not have implicitly shamed them for using the language they chose to use. Or explicitly shamed me for defending the…

You are assuming the intent of the poster. Your "civil rights" example does not capture the same (ambiguous) spirit that the poster's use of "woke" captures. 1. Did they use scare …

There was a period of time where self-described woke people identified themselves as woke, and now there's a period of time where people that don't like woke people mock them as wo…

Demand for cheerios is elastic- people can substitute by buying oatmeal. Demand for salmon fillets is elastic- people can substitute by buying tuna, beef, beans, tofu, etc.... for …

You two are talking past eachother. You did not address his argument.

He might be able to use the defense of "they did the unlicensed securities operations against every piece of advice I gave them". If he tried to stop it but was unable that could b…

$100/MWh is pretty cheap. Around here the retail rate I pay on my power bill is something like 12 cents per kWh which is $120/MWh. But on your broad point I agree. I couldn't see i…

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

I think the simple answer is that there is a disconnect between what caramelizing onions means for serious applications (i.e. french onion soup) and not-so-serious applications (yo…

Is there really anything substantive in arguing over the terminology? I'm fairly certain you understand the intention behind his statement. Markets ebb and flow in accordance with …

They are referring to a cylindrical hole or any non-tapered hole (i.e. "square" in the sense that the walls are perpendicular to the bottom). I've also heard that a "keyed" hole wo…