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Reductio ad absurdum.

That's a completely ridiculous answer and makes it clear you have no idea what you're talking about. 1) Gold has nothing to do with banking transactions, I've lived my whole life w…

[citation needed] But really, I'm interested in these arguments, please let me know where I can learn more. Especially regarding the idea that it uses less energy than the current …

On the one hand, we have the biggest crisis to ever face humanity, where all of our lives literally hang in the balance and daily we're seeing the effects from wildfires to cold bl…

There is not enough UV-B in sunlight for your body to manufacture vitamin D when the sun is less than fifty degrees above the horizon. This means that for the majority of the north…

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Interesting. Where can I learn more about this hypothesis?

Does this add any value beyond what PDTs in Looker provide?

[citation needed]

How many horse owners in America have iPhones?

I got a 404 when I put in my credit card info :(

Except that goats don't eat grass, they eat brush. You'd want sheep for that.

I live in Santa Cruz CA and and deal with terribly potholed roads. The air temperature here rarely gets below freezing, and I've never seen any ice on the roads to indicate that th…

Yeah I'd be interested to know how this would work with California law that requires employers to pay out unused vacation hours.

If you really want it to motivate, the funds should be sent to some group you detest if you fail. I.e. the DNC for a staunch republican, or the NRA for someone who believes in gun …

"Your password cannot be extracted from your head": obligatory xkcd https://www.xkcd.com/538/

As a counterpoint to the article, I used Fi for two years and never had a single technical problem. The service was flawless and affordable. Then I realized Google now had real tim…

For anyone that hasn't been following them over the last year or so, they've made amazing inroads into the banking industry.

They're the only altcoin out there with a real company doing real work to solve a real problem for other real companies.

You missed a few zeroes in that billion.

I absolutely could not agree less. Every time Google shows me some sort of "magic" that I know involves their massive compendium of personal data, I'm reminded of how much I been d…

You're getting interrupted either way, might as well just get it over with as soon as possible.

This mindset is extremely disturbing, that the only way to make a difference in the world is to reproduce. Really if you want to make the biggest impact on the most people, you won…

The wikipedia article is extensive and well cited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A