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modeling the heat transfer modes in Enceladus' icy shell that rests above its liquid water ocean. previous modeling has assumed that all heat transfer is conductive, but using dyna…

Trotting this out again because somehow it hasn't completely saturated the internet yet: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not…

The U.S. before antitrust laws existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Steel_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Pacif…

i procrastinated on my bachelor's thesis for ~5 years. the school ended up changing the graduation requirements before i finished it. never underestimate the power of stubbornness.…

maybe, just maybe, having friction in logging into web services is a good thing. i, for one, am not a fan of the tendency for every web service to require an account in the first p…

On public roads with other people who haven't consented to testing anything, no less.

So I guess this means Volvos will be... crashing... less?

sounds like the devs over at SAP need to unionize if they want to stop pushing user-unfriendly software

enforcement would probably happen at the level of the power utility. large mining operations have agreements with utilities to buy power at wholesale prices, the utilities know wha…

coincidentally, i'm sure the rent freeze has had a positive effect on your ability to pay your bills without stress

a proper marxist critique of Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" hypothesis: Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs https://journals.sagepub.com/d…

pretty sure it's just HN being HN

right, it's the fault of regulators that every major industry has come do be dominated by a small handful of conglomerates that survive by mimicking each other and consuming every …

it would be run by a publicly-funded consortium of doctors, social scientists, and public health experts with no mandate to earn a profit, for one.

Good. The only way we're going to get these selfish Americans to sacrifice anything is if we force them.

agriculture provides me with food to eat. lawns do not. i would rather have food to eat than useless patches of grass.

twitter is interested in making money. there's far more money to be made pandering to governments than in pandering to dissidents. the content moderation policies are just extra st…

Interesting that I haven't seen any discussion of the housing monopolies that were castigated in that study, given how vigorous discussion was on that topic when that study was pos…

Pay teachers more and more people will teach. On a website so dedicated to discussion of free market principles, the amount of rationalization people put themselves through to avoi…

i can only sleep on my side. you get used to tucking your chin in as is described in the article pretty quickly

been sleeping without a pillow since college. my neck problems disappeared immediately when i made the switch. there are so many unexamined habits in our culture. a lot of defaulti…