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I'll allow that ignoring or abandoning private property is generally the measuring stick that libertarians use to justify seizing it, but as others have said, if the real estate ma…

I've found that undeveloped land in low-demand, rural areas tends to go for about $2,000/acre. It jumped out at me in the headline that the donation was about the same rate.

Doh! That wasn't what I thought it would be.

When writing a work of fiction, the aim is to find truth not in the creative process, but in the un-dogged pursuit of verisimilitude - in the attempt to build reasonably causal eve…

Thanks for the detailed answer! The reason I asked about beans specifically was because, as I understand it, they're harder to digest. I'm guess the corn I see in the toilet doesn'…

One of the things I wonder about is how many calories your body can actually metabolize into fat and glycogen in a given day. For example, if you eat 15,000 calories, how many of t…

I wonder if the cost of this research is greater than the cost for lobbyists to legalize medical marijuana.

Yeah, the darkness is a big part of the point. You should feel sort of dirty when you're done reading it, but still be able to see that an entity driven by greed can provide a soci…

Author here. You pretty much nailed it. The exact intent is what you describe plus "make people that read HN laugh". If some of the meaning gets muddied for the sake of comedy, wel…