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It is not clear at all that this is a case of lowering the bar; IMO that verges on an inability to engage critically with the issue under discussion. It looks to me to be exploring…

You're displaying a serious lack of reading comprehension. End of life care provided by palliative specialists is completely different to "scammers who absorb so much cash that the…

From what I read, the things that actually caused the issue were selecting a safety margin of 15% of estimated range, and failure to consult a weather forecast despite being fully …

Disagree that it's cheaper to retrofit quality household ventilation compared to changing stove types. The cost of the heat exchanger alone is likely to exceed the cost of entry le…

You could replace "gas stove" above with literally any obsolete product with no impact on how your statement reads - which means it's not a very good argument in favour of gas stov…

This is clearly a case of market failure where the current users of gas are not paying the full costs associated with that use, and where full information on the impacts of using g…

OP posted a since-the-dawn-of-time complaint about automatic updates that ignores why they are necessary, and clearly states that he's just refusing to engage with the usual reason…

> The wonder composites that make electric cars possible are all oil. I'm sure composites make electric cars better , but I don't think electric cars are impossible without composi…

If you're willing to share, I'd be interested to see your custom notebook design. I've recently been laying out a few custom productivity "things" - like a continuous calendar - an…

A vehicle under direct sun will get hotter than if it's under a roof made of solar panels. Insulating the underside of the panels will reduce their lifespan.

A difficult proposal to defend. Even if we skip the enormous problems of proving the existence of a "[creator of] mankind", which deity did you have in mind?

Depends on how you define market rate construction costs. If the market rate is defined as median cost per unit area of new construction (within defined timeframe and geo), then by…

"Effortlessly"

If only there was a way to keep copies of web pages

Is there a right to compel businesses to provide a service to you?

FWIW, I've never heard of or seen a bus halt at an empty stop when no one on board wanted to get off. The only exception to this is if they are running ahead of schedule, in which …

It's already "out in the open" because tens of millions of college students around the world have access. You've shown zero domain knowledge here; just withdraw and apologise.

It's a nearly perfect comparison IMO. Risk is cumulative, and the number of risk-inducing events affects the outcome. Your response incorrectly assumes that the risk has already be…

I find it very hard to believe that you were told to do something that equates to eyeballing hundreds of millions of files. Would you mind posting the exact information you gave th…

I can't see this working well I'm afraid. It's bad for people who are very poor (can't afford time to navigate processes to issue ID), people who don't look like their ID due to ch…

> Many people on welfare are idle don’t do anything meaningful with their time. Do you have a citation for this claim? My understanding is that enormous numbers of welfare recipien…

That's not their job. Government departments with Public Health functions do that (e.g. https://vaers.hhs.gov/ )

This has not been true for some time. You can continue to use un-activated Win10 installs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Product_Activation#A... You just can't change the…

This isn't going to be a productive discussion - OP has not defined any of the key terms, and should at least do some work first. At least write a short essay to elaborate on the q…

> non-CS engineers and scientists can write their own code > I've never tried to maintain a code base written by non-CS people ...