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The slow ethnic cleansing and land theft being perpetrated by a close American ally, supported by many of the biggest American corporations and capitalists, seems a comparable situ…

The whole LGBTXYZ discussion is somewhat weird to me. How about letting people's sexual preferences be their own business? I would rather be free from knowing what goes on in peopl…

One thing I haven't seen mentioned: 'Friends' in your teens and twenties are often really about having someone to hang around with while looking for a mate. So you won't look like …

The actual map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Hereford...

To paraphrase Steve Jobs, self-driving is a feature, not a product. I'm pretty sure once LIDARs become cheap commodity hardware then every line will have self-driving, just like it…

> The idea of labeling "fake news" often emboldens believers of fake news to think of some grand conspiracy to hide the truth. Well that's what it is - an attempt to bully media in…

It's good to know both sides of the story.

I don't know that the editors and writers profit directly, beyond their salaries. More like the companies are run at a loss in order to control the conversation. Of course seats ar…

I think the big papers (New York Times, Washington Post) have always been the voice of the establishment. I remember reading their editorials broadly condemning the labor movement …

Since this is a very politicized topic, as a Muslim I feel it is worth pointing out that there is nothing in Islam that promotes having many children per se (this topic is even omi…

I found the information about haplogroups interesting. It shows the migration paths out of Africa for both your mother's and father's ancestors (only men show the father's haplogro…

Another tidbit: Questions have also been asked as to whether Danske received special treatment from its regulator, which was until May headed by the bank's former chief financial o…

Toward the end of 2013, an internal email changed everything. Entitled "Whistleblowing disclosure — knowingly dealing with criminals in Estonia branch", it was written by Howard Wi…

> I don't doubt he's capable of doing that with his background Which background is that? He has an undergraduate degree in economics and a bachelor's degree in physics. I respect t…

> "Hackathons are technological Woodstock" This sentence embodies what repulses me about current Silicon Valley culture: The self-satisfied claim to San Francisco 60's heritage, on…

Steve Jobs was not deeply technical, nor was he ever a programmer. And in a way, that makes his accomplishments even more impressive. I think one of his key strengths was the abili…

That is incredibly cool. Genius way to preserve, and even honor, the old, even though it is replaced by something newer. Wish we did this kind of thing more.

The self-conciousness, the fawning... This was a toe-curling read. And then it turns out ultimately Steve Jobs did not give a flying fuck about watches but happily wore a cheapo Se…

> hen I get a text message, it gets archived to Gmail with a label so it's searchable. And every incoming/outgoing/missed call puts an entry with the details and timestamp in my ca…

Saab designs have always been timeless (mostly pre-GM of course) and still look great today. The easiest fix for the balance chain issue on 9000s is to simply remove it. It's a who…

I'm not a big car guy, but I am nostalgic for my 9000. Like a true Saab it was in many ways a strangely put together car, but it had a hard to describe feel of being well engineere…