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Everyone who's downvoting me. Please explain why simply stating this is so controversial? Hasan Minhaj did a pretty informative episode on the lawsuit against Harvard affirmative a…

Its not about absolute numbers, it's about admitting people from historically underrepresented or oppressed groups. I think the name 'Race Conscious' is not a great description whe…

What does 'generate float' mean as a financial term?

Let's also not forget how many seasonal jobs in rural areas this will create.

Costco. Wait hear me out. I haven't tried jackets or outwear they sell, but they always stock up of decent quality underwear, t-shirts and jeans. Their Levi's last me about 4 years…

Reading comprehension.

Anecdotal evidence. I remember working for a company about a decade ago where we spent so much time engineering duplicate everything hardware or hot spares everywhere. Guess what, …

I don't understand this all-or-nothing mentality your prescribing to 'the mob'. No police brutality, racial profiling and horrendous record on institutionalized racism is not the s…

I think the quote mischaracterizes static and dynamic load. Yes, the roof can hold 5 teslas stack one on top of the other, but this doesn't tell you much. More practical knowledge …

The big advancement for micro 4/3 in the last two years has been image stabilization using lens and sensor working in tandem. A more recent sensor advancement is dual native ISO in…

Panasonic has really good image stabilization for MFT systems where lens stabilization and sensor stabilization system work in tandem allowing to take shots with up to 1 second exp…

I think this argument is more true for personal vehicles that sit idle for 99% of the time -- they don't consume gas when they don't move. For commercial vehicle that spend most of…

It doesn't matter where the rockets land, your job is only to launch them. /s

You answer your own question. Making any kind of public statement doesn't matter if an organization takes money from a monster. What kind of science is produced by this money? In t…

Bidet disrupts big toiled paper roll.

Even with diagnosis this is a cop out. Being autistic does not automatically make a person act shitty towards others and statements like that do a great disservice to autistic comm…

> Your inflammatory pseudo-counter-argument doesn't change the fact that abortion in cases of non-life-threatening births remains morally problematic. Says the person who has the n…

Maybe more appropriate topic of discussion should be how climate change affects the people of France and what can be done about it, instead of chastising them for not having Dallas…

Flooding, especially when building hydro in flat areas. Earthquakes -- there is some causality Destruction of fish habitat -- salmon in Columbia river In general, making water go s…

Firefox temporary containers are pretty good -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

This is such an asinine argument because it implies the following: * Let's not examine root causes of anything because freedom * Freedom by itself is good no matter of consequences…

Yes, but you will end up with a used BMW 3-series.

Yes, but I feel cheated that Canon put their name on such a terrible product. I would be fine with no-name Chinese camera for the same amount of money, which by the way would have …

I'm a bit interested in making DSLR videos. May I present some anecdotal evidence. I bought a Canon consumer camcorder (Vixia HF R800) for about $200 last year and it was dismal: -…

Hmmm, almost exactly half the specs of OnePlus 3, way more expensive than OnePlus 3 when it came out 3 years ago. How this is better than installing lineage Os on oneplus 3? -- htt…