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The answer is clout. A 25 employee software company that is equally innovative on a per-head basis would get laughed out of the government offices if they requested a rate-equivale…

It's the presumption that traditional household structures are archaic. Plenty of modern households operate on the basis of traditional role separation, and it has nothing to do wi…

Many of us in the US still use exclusively cash for POS. For us, blasé attitude is to be expected.

The Boston Beer Company (maker of Samuel Adams) is still technically a craft/micro brewery, since they produce (intentionally) less than 6 million barrels annually. The entire craf…

Or you could, you know, use cash.

Excessive protein ingestion causes kidney failure, hypertension and heart attacks. Too bad for you that there is absolutely nothing in the current medical literature that supports …

Meta Prediction: As has occurred everywhere else on the web, two-sided discussion of this topic will be buried and censored rapidly here, as well.

Is it that the Russian propaganda so strong The opposite, actually. Many of us see through the transparent and obviously ham-fisted attempts of the U.S. propaganda machine to drive…

6% returns in a ZIRP environment are actually quite fantastic. Even junk bonds yield less than that.

This is only accurate within the perpetually-expanding conception of "human rights" that many seem to assume is static.

Not to sound like a AGW denier, but is this really how science is supposed to be done? 1. Posit hypothesis A, with predictions X 2. Gather data to falsify A for twenty years 3. Dat…

Where are you seeing 20-25% effi PV modules? The physics of silicon's bandgap prevents getting much above 18% without (expensive) multiple junction layers (of different material) o…

"all the time" in the mind of Shanley Kane, et. al. Disclaimers like these are mainly CYA statements such that the rabid hordes of social justice warriors don't throw Y Combinator …

Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study. Be careful reading it though, facts are racist.

Even the part about concluding an academic presentation by shooting a colleague in the face? Exactly what kind of ridiculous caricature of the US does your local media give you?

Ok, I've read the article twice and I am missing something here. I get how these can be used to help imaging, but I'm not clear on how exactly they target cancerous cells in partic…

No basis? The basis is that these people choose, of their own agency, to shoot up with used needles. This isn't some poor guy getting the cancerous genetic bit flipped by a cosmic …

An easy fix here is for the patient to be evaluated for fault. If you got Hep C via botched transfusion, you're covered; if, however, you are a degenerate who chose to scrounge up …

It's scientific fact that intelligence as measured by any manner of g-factor psychometry has heritability correlates of between 0.4 and 0.5. Furthermore, studies such as the Minnes…

Except that, as has been demonstrated, the position itself carries particular requirements for the candidate's personal political opinions.

In which upper-class HN tells someone who grew up poor how poor people think. And then downvotes the heretic, despite relevant, first-hand experience contribution to discussion. Ni…

Minor voltage drops can still be a problem for optimal tracking on MPPT charge controllers.

Likely peak and typical power output( order of magnitude difference ), as well as waveform( automotive inverters tend to output square-ish waveforms ).