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If only he had deliberately hidden top secret documents with national security implications, he could be eligible to be president...

What does "best" mean?

These both feature large central vacuoles, lending support the thesis of the article that the cubic growth in volume outstrips the quadratic increase in surface area for transferri…

> So when Clinton’s BP raided Elian Gonzalez That followed a court order. And many people were very upset about it. >We’ve enforce immigration laws, policed our populace, and had t…

> Here's why Bari Weiss delayed the story: That is not accurate. It's her excuse for spiking the story.

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I have nothing intelligent to add to this (other than wanting a phone that lays flat), but it's interesting that this thread has almost 1800 comments, far more than the iPhone thre…

Also worth noting that it took hundreds of millions (~1Bish) years to go from prokaryotes to single cell eukaryotes, and then another similar interval to get to multicellular creat…

reading them would be hard enough, but editing them seems pretty darn hard.

How exactly would you suggest standing up for Yarvin?

There are ~100,000 mitochondria in a human egg cell-- I think that's a pretty tall order.

There are plenty of real issues with higher education, but the attacks on research are using protests and other things as a fig leaf. We've seen this movie before, when Germany des…

I'm thinking perhaps the best place for a fusion reactor is 93 million miles away. It's already up and running, and we're making huge strides in energy collection and storage...

And is Seattle, “Jeff Bezos” says the crosswalk is sponsored by Amazon Prime and exhorts you not to tax the rich.

Unfortunately, the German example is quite relevant these days. We seem intent on destroying the leading system of research universities in the world... ;-(

The Fed intervention was under Bush. The vast majority of the "COVID response" was under Trump. If you look at deficit spending by administration, you will also see that you have t…

> just another nitpicking attack on DOGE I'm not sure that pointing out that DOGE is unconstitutional, a massive security threat, and not designed to save money but to consolidate …

The "strong" man and his allies are the ones that crippled the legislative branch, except for tax cuts for the rich and appointing unqualified SC justices. There was bipartisan (Re…

Making your own salad dressing is really easy and let's you have a salad you really like in a couple of minutes. My recipe is basically what you have here, although I usually mix s…

yes, and you don't have to keep in touch with everyone-- find the people you enjoy talking to, and just make a point to do it.

It took me a long time to realize that conversations are the building blocks of relationships. Want a relationship? You need to have conversations.

This may work in some situations, but unfortunately commercial building are typically very expensive to convert to residential. Think of an office tower with centralized plumbing a…

I didn't realize how rare (and precious) a commodity giving a shit is. I expected it to be the default state, but it's not. I remember calling a customer to apologize for a bug and…

Great book. I remember reading it on the flight out to a job interview with an OS team. Thanks to the book, I sounded much more knowledgable than I really was, and I was more excit…