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There are large lenses for phonecams, if you are willing to use an eternal add-on. We've gotten rather demanding that all our technological magic fit in a 3x5x0.5inch box.

What's the purpose of taking pictures and fixating on the past? Anything can be meaningless if you axiomatically don't care about it.

Are you saying they called you out for your fuzzy thinking, and changed the topic of conversation to be more welcoming to your outsider perspective? You have sharp and kind coworke…

Better cameras make photography easier and more successful. You don't need $3K but a $1000 DSLR kit can do amazing things for you and make it fun to practice. > Poorly lit. Better …

Few independent observers claim that Russia or China are places with legitimate governments that serve their people well. China is rather well known for its ethics-laundering indus…

California has been stealing DNA from babies and guests of the criminal justice system for over 30 years. https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/05/14/california-newbor...

The alternative to soylent is solid foods that are a combined bunch of things loaded with synthetics. Anything you cook is "synthetic".

Sadly they need to cater to a audience that craves familiarity and fears change.

Right. If it comes from a cow or a goat, call it cow's milk, or goat's milk, not ambiguous "milk"

Your kids can enjoy soy milk so you finish a quart or half gallon together in a week.

which is not where nails come from. Calling breast a reproductive gland is weird. It's a secondary sexual feature, sure, but it's a feeding gland, whose specific purpose is to prov…

It's tacky to try to describe things in weird terms to make them sound bad instead of arguing their merirs. I'd rather "breasfeet at a random animal" than "eat genetically engineer…

You are describing a placebo. You tricked yourself into thinking it's fish (if anything it's algae/carageenan) and that you don't like fish (algae). You can train yourself back and…

Caveat: That feature only works if you pay with enhanced access to your (unrelated) data, by enabling Web and App Activity tracking/logging.

What part of that thread/video series are you calling attention to?

In the case you hypothesize, signaling early may be illegal (and so a Waymo care wouldn't do it), but backing off ato yield space to a signaling car is still not illegal, so a Waym…

Sounds rough, but it fair. You can package your item properly to be safe it the world (costs time and money, depending on fragility), or pay for gentle handling. Similar to how you…

You are still blaming the laborer for management's policies re (not) allocating sufficient time for correct work.

If they don't budget it, then is shows that they don't care about parking tickets at all, they just pay whatever. Budgeting it shows they are tracking tickets which is a necessary …

Surely that sewage pump operator obtained a permit to block the street that day?

There's also a correlation/causality question -- perhaps mortality causes retirement -- people work until they can't work, and they can live bit longer because living is a bit easi…

Great question. There's some debate, apparentl, but the basic result is that temperature variation has side-effects, but superfreezing (keeping temp below https://pubs.acs.org/doi/…

It's far less useful than a battery, though, because heat is only good for heating things, which means you also need to provide fuel to convert it into electrical or motive applica…

You are describing charging a battery: https://www.tesla.com/powerwall Also, see Gravity battery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17789456

So if you accidentally drop your keys while entering, or your passenger departs with your key, the car should lock itself 2 minutes later while you are driving?