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Buy based on quality, but you have to be willing to pay for it.

From what I understand only about 2 billion of the 70 billion tons are economically extractable.

The worst aspect of this game is the tedious inventory management and awful UI. You only get 10 storage crates which each only hold 5 different items and they all look identical so…

For Berkshire in particular most of this cash is part of the float for their insurance business which they need to have on hand and available to pay out for potential claims and th…

Because it has low solubility it will be less toxic compared to a more soluble form of lead, but it is still highly toxic and there is no safe dose. It has been implicated in numer…

We need to abolish the TSA already

What about these seat belts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysvyXDebsM

Another system similar to this but with more information is STAR voting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_voting They all have different strengths and weaknesses. We should be tr…

There's more than two parties. Nobody is forcing you to vote for one of them. Parties are also an anti-pattern. Again we need a better system than first past the post that naturall…

Why does everyone keep reelecting them? Vote for someone else. We also need a better voting system than first past the post.

I keep JS disabled by default and only enable it in certain situations. If your site doesn't work without JS and I try to view it I am probably just going to leave.

Sub Saharan Africa is still mostly in this situation and much less productive in farming than most other parts of the world. They are slowly improving but they lack the capital to …

Also nonce misuse is a common failure mode among novices who might not understand what a nonce is supposed to be. People do all kinds of mistakes including using hardcoded static n…

If only there was a way to do direct air carbon capture for the home and office with high CO2 concentrations to lower them economically https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/star…

I got a 4A recently (2 yrs ago now?) since it is supported by grapheneOS. My previous phone lasted 13 years, I intend to use this almost as long, or until there is a major hardware…

After a few decades of inflation from now that will be a much more common occurrence and the laws will probably never be updated to reflect that.

The limiting factors for superconductors in fusion power generation efficiency is the strength of the magnetic field they can generate which is limited by how much force the superc…

It is open access though, and linked at the bottom of the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02318-3

It is highly dependent on make/model but most of the time the data is transmitted through the telematic control unit (TCU) which often has a cellular modem that can connect to cell…

This is what I think about most when buying a car. This is why I plan on keeping my current car for as long as possible since it was one of the last Toyotas to not be connected to …

Yes that too. It also has some of the best quality companies which accounts for a lot of it, but even then it is still pretty extreme.

What was also interesting and caused some issues was when Naspers owned ~1/3 of Tencent when at its peak was valued over $800 billion and their stake was worth more than the entire…

That helps illustrate that a lot of US equities are relatively overvalued. Very high valuations and relatively low risk premiums for US equities.

If your doctor prescribed you that then that is fine you should follow your doctor's advice. They might have specific reasons for the high dose. I was once prescribed a 50k dose by…

20,000 is way too high even though you are doing only once/week. 2000 or less daily is more appropriate. Doses that are too high can also cause blood calcium to spike and can pull …