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Software Engineers need to get involved politically and demand regulations that systems that are critical for national security be developed by residents of the US on US soil by ac…

Evolution has selected animals that, when they have access to foods with high caloric density, will gorge on them. This has been advantageous to their survival, because the history…

Honestly, that wouldn’t be a bad way to fund education: education is free, but the university gets taxation power over you so they can tax you at x% of your income. It aligns incen…

What is your modest proposal for convincing people to move away from California when the hole in their pocket is not a big enough incentive?

Even if they are only used by family members of cops, this is still nepotism and should be punished. There is no valid reason for these cards to exist. Maybe I am naïve, but I stil…

Reforestation is mostly done by tree farms to regenerate the trees they will harvest in the future. They want good sized trees that are optimally packed and easily accessible. I do…

Agreed. Only land should be taxed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism .

This works for Steam because the Steam Deck is a low margin device they sell to ensure they can’t be shut out of their profitable business of selling games by microsoft and apple. …

Combining refrigerator, water heater and heat pump implies the need for transferring the fluid used as refrigerant between these components. This is usually a gas that is not trivi…

Last I checked, the XPS 13 inch was still a serious risk of burning your lap if used as an actual laptop.

I've had phishing served to me through google ads a few times, so this hardly surprises.

Agreed, they should be made an example of. Everyone involved in the fraud of getting this medication approved and then marketed to millions of people should face a fair trial and s…

I don't feel any sympathy for the developer either: I feel bad for the trees that had to be cut down, the materials that had to be mined and processed, the heavy machinery that had…

Reasonable parties would have found a way to come to an amicable agreement that wouldn’t have destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars of value, like exchanging lands and offerin…

That's why much of the world is gradually shifting over to renewable energy usage. In a world where energy is renewable, does not generate greenhouse gas and (hopefully) does not p…

Don’t forget the A pilar in cars that keep getting bigger for heavier cars (like say, electric cars or SUVs). A lot can be obscured to a driver by a particularly thick A pilar.

This is an economics problem: if the cost of energy is lower or equal to the benefit of consuming it, the energy will be consumed. As more and more energy is consumed to run these …

You're talking in the order of hundreds of thousands of those things to replace the current electricity production of the world. A conservative number for their cost is in the orde…

You know what they say: a healthy mind in a healthy body. Focus on eating well and doing regular high intensity exercise and your stamina will increase.

We are still deciding between an SUV and a minivan. What might make us choose the SUV is the ground clearance. Where we live there is a lot of snowfall in the winter, and the extra…

Agreed, instead of addressing any of the problems that push people to buy big gas guzzlers, they leverage those problems to divide the population. If you look, you will see these w…

I feel that all those people who talk about reducing car size and use probably don’t have a family. I have twin 6 month olds and the only cars we currently use is the Toyota Coroll…

In a world that has gone so far in the direction of hedonism, the opposite message is a centring force that helps people find balance in their lives. As one of my coworkers used to…