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xkcd explored this question. too fuel-inefficient to be practical. much better to use that same fuel to run a giant snowblower (and move the snow rather than melt it). https://what…

An enormous amount - see, for example, this study: https://www.voteriders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CDCE_V... About 10% of eligible voters don't have the ID they would need. T…

Total nonsense, there are no studies that link colic to formula feeding. Some newborns have digestive problems with formula; some newborns have digestive problems with breast milk.…

It would be safe and effective if we had a mechanism of distributing nuclear waste evenly throughout the entire volume of the Earth's oceans. But we don't have that and that's impo…

As a doctor, why bother spending your time learning about exotic foreign cancer treatments that aren't available in your country, and your patients couldn't afford if they were? It…

I shared this with my spouse, who worked for an ag startup in Boston (still exists, different leadership, who knows what they're up to now). They had this to say on the matter: One…

Paying a fee per job done, rather than a wage per hour of labor, is literally the entire point of the gig economy. Uber/DoorDash/etc. claim this is a perk, since you can set your o…

From STYLE.TXT: - True=7 - Having lots of very low-level code and hardware experience, I developed a bit of tendancy to "minimize what can go wrong at low levels" - C treats 0==FAL…

You can use Transit App in many cities around the world other than New York! It's a great piece of software, I rely on it heavily when navigating unfamiliar transit systems while t…

The mugger is a deontologist, right? We're already assuming that he'll keep his promises.

they do! https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/veterans-and-gold-star-fam...

Your high school debates were judged by a jury of your peers? We had a bored teacher on their day off. (Or sometimes a parent, or an alumni.)

New-in-box Pebbles can still be found on eBay, and a clone of Pebble's web services is actively maintained and supported by the Rebble community: https://rebble.io/

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" - John Maynard Keynes

If you tell a Czech that they live in Eastern Europe, they will get very upset! They consider themselves to be in Central Europe. I learned this the hard way!

I don't know if they have explicit partnerships, but it's certainly a program that case workers in the foster care system are aware of. My foster daughter's case worker explored it…

Some doctors are like you're describing. I posit that the best doctors are ones who realize that the domain of "health" is broad and encompasses things that aren't germs. Geiger be…

Dr. H. Jack Geiger famously wrote prescriptions for groceries out of his clinic in Mississippi - when challenged on the practice, he replied, "Yeah, well, the last time I looked in…

Wilson discusses her choices in the translation of that first line in great detail in this interview for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-w…

18 USC 1702 only applies if you are opening someone else's mail because you want to "obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another". Presumably the…

Your state certainly has a law permitting letters sent to prisoners to be opened and inspected. Mine does: Incoming mail may be opened, inspected for contraband and read by authori…

The customers who deposited $150 million expect some rate of return on their deposits - in fact, you promised it to them. In a year that $150 million needs to turn into $155 millio…

Isn't a rooftop water-cooling radiator just a swamp cooler? Common in dry climates.

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I currently work in the laser engraving industry, and I can confirm everything you've said to be true. However, I wanted to let you know about some extremely cool technology that I…