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well, of course recent research has linked the highly modified strains of marijuana (ie, very high THC, reduced companion and modifying compounds) with schizophrenia and other diso…

At a guess, it doesn't need to create a full-on plasma, just needs a lot Hydrogen ions hitting the membrane. A small amount of ionization will suffice - sort of like 'micropayments…

I agree, in Canada it seems trivial. Perhaps the study presumes some lower level of capacity, literacy or computer ability. The numbers for 'enforceability of contracts' and 'payin…

You wouldn't be the first to twig to the idea that democracy is not the way to achieve the best of something - but that's not its intent - its intent is to provide some degree of f…

And his particular domain is exquisitely narrow ... as further evidenced by the breadth and depth of his ignorance. Sorry to rant, but there's a guy that gets on my nerves.

Yup. Partially finished code - the main use cases covered, the fun and satisfaction drained out of the project. Now that I hire, I wouldn't ask for a rock star since it doesn't act…

It's a silly thesis. For one thing it confuses cause and effect. For another, compare the per capita GDP of Norway, which is higher than the US's and Norwegian health outcomes, whi…

The Sun has a long history of establishment suck-holing and sucking-in-general that continues into the foreseeable future. There's not a chance that Thompson worked there.

It would have been more interesting if the first thing I did wasn't to change em's to px's. Apparently I can't read 2px text.

Why should users feel so upset about a free app they downloaded that they would take the time to write a negative review, a review they probably didn't read before downloading them…

I'm sure there's great uses for these things, but currently they're a solution in search of a problem. This is wishful thinking: "The last data point, annotated with text and a dot…

That it's being viewed through a polarized filter is key. If you were to view this unaided, you wouldn't perceive the colours. My guess is that this caused by internal reflections …

sounds like democracy