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>except you can't build a gun from scratch in your basement Can't build a a very sophisticated gun, but it is certainly possible to fabricate something that shoots bullets after no…

"IF you have Grammerly plugin in your browser they capture EVERYTHING you type into a browser, and you've given them all of the rights to that data, for which they can sublicense a…

I would add, when mixing money and friends/family is unavoidable absolutely insist on a well worded contract. I know many people think that this is some sort of taboo among people …

The ever-relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/1570/

checks library Yup, that's how I have it in all my cyberpunk books. :)

>>If we are still emitting carbon in 2100, the planet will become uninhabitable. Do you have any sources for this claim? From what I understand, the science does not support this c…

Exaggerations like this remind me of the anti-drug adds of my childhood. So much harm is done by over reaching the bounds of reality when trying to convince someone that an action …

If it's still about punishment, it's still coming from the wrong place, imo. Furthermore, everyone will have different opinions on which crimes are more heinous than others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Check this out: https://wallethub.com/edu/most-diverse-cities/12690/ While it is true that some of the most diverse cities fall on the east and west coast, I think you'll find that…

Take heart, the world is larger than America and much of the good we've already done will continue to ripple forward. Adopting the attitude that we've already lost gives a sense of…

-What do they stand to gain from building?- I would assume dolphins still die from lack of food, disease, and predation. One(human) would assume they might want to build something …

This can't be true 100% of the time or the hiring/working condition would be roughly the same regardless of legal environment. This, at least to me, does not seem to be the case.

I would imagine the vetting process is rather extensive.

To my mind, it is not about funding or not funding security at airports/borders/etc. It's about if terrorism poses enough of a threat to be worth compromising our standards of gove…

Here's a potential example of unintentional, algorithmic racism: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...

I heard a bit about this on NPR the other day. They had a desalination expert on to discuss it. He seemed mildly optimistic about this technology for certain niche applications, bu…

You are right, free speech can be very dangerous. People use it to mobilize others to truly evil acts. But freedoms have always been dangerous. I think they are worth the risk.

I think we'll be asking this question over and over in the coming decades. I personally think it would be foolish to take a hard-line stance on our law enforcement agencies adoptin…

No video would convince the conspiracy theorists. There would just be a fresh round of claims it was Photoshopped or filmed on a set or something. Now that doesn't adequately expla…

Some still have that dream and are working towards making it a reality. https://openwireless.org/ I myself am in the planning phase of hosting an open wifi network at my place of r…

I agree. It seems to me that the biggest difference is the extent to which the average internet user gets his content from other internet users (reddit, facebook, twitter, etc) ins…

And he knows this because she is an absolute loon who went on to tell him all about it, I presume?

Well, that is one way to prevent unwanted pregnancy...