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"American" is a poor demonym because "America" is both North and South America. USian would be a better fit and "Native USian" would naturally include all indigenous and non-indige…

Yeah, I remember. I still have Usenet postings about the genetic algorims conference back in the '90s and some magazine clippings about researcher from the University of Sussex whe…

Yeah, I remember it being a fourth option alongside the others but I quit just before Google lost its serifs and its soul

Methamphetamine was invented in Germany in 1937 and the German military at the time was very quick to adopt its use.

How does that matter? It's doing a thing already done nearly 70 years ago but at its own pace. I bet it will get to the moon cheaper, too, and the Muskonauts will use less expensiv…

Reality has an anti-Elon bias

You forgot to add "yet" unless you can predict the future will 100% accuracy. Only once it's sold to someone else can you really say he didn't do it. The data's longevity was proba…

Is it fair game to just return fire and sink the crawlers? A few thousand connections via a few dozen residential proxies might do it.

It doesn't take a lot of juice to send signals straight up. Iridium has been using transceivers to do similar IoT things for decades and my old Inmarsat satphone used a fraction of…

Film worked for a long time (and still works) despite the availabilty of film printers.

Amazing! Literally the premise of the HBO show _True Blood_ from the 2000s. Japanese scientists invent artificial blood which allows vampires to "come out of the coffin". OK, I gue…

In Soviet Union, university education free but came at cost of living in Soviet Union - Yakov Smirnoff, probably

My-not-much-better-than-placebo sertraline sure has been working its placebo-like magic for 30 years next year. How long are these double-blind studies? Surely they're not years lo…

I've owned a Leica Q2 and Q3 and the former was what finally got me to ditch my phone's camera and get back into photography. Leica's color science is some of the best out there, e…

I don't get them either since the hosts are typically "regular people" talking about often complicated subjects that they are by no means domain experts in. I find the format of "D…

Right? How can a non-profit decide it's suddenly a for-profit. Aren't there rules about having to give assets to other non-profits in the event the non-profit is dissolved? Or can …

I just had to sign a new version of my doctor's office consent form an hour ago letting me know that generative AI would be making notes. God help us all.

Yes, it's much more rare and completely curable simply by cutting the bad part off. But Jobs chose a diet of fruit juice and hubris (mostly hubris) to try and fix it and he died be…

Both the communicable and noncommunicable prion diseases still require a particular protein (and typically protein isoform since some folks are resistant to vCJD) to be present so …

This reads a lot like my childhood of the '80s and early '90s in the US with zero supervision due to having a single mom. Total survivorship bias, however, as plenty of bad things …

No, because you're not _in charge of_ the executive branch.

An imagination that seems very reasonable to commenter but wildly off-base to everyone else. I'd personally bet more on a resurgence of typewriters and film in the next decade or t…

For anyone else, OP is not referring to the original FFI that leads to madness (and worse): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia

While this wasn't available in 1985, if it's a pile of parts that add up to, say, Addams Family Pinball, then that's the going rate for at least 1.5 grams of weapons-grade plutoniu…

Wait I thought blockchain was going to save us?