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Feedstock for plastics and other industrial products. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=34&t=6 A similar process used in: https://availabletechnologies.pnnl.gov/technology.…

> red state prisons sit full of petty dime bag dealers Does anyone know where to get at the raw statistics for this kind of information? So that we can figure out how many prisoner…

Another fun twist would be to see what effect there would be if you mentioned that no one from Puerto Rico voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

Anyone have a good estimate the total amount of money spent in the name of education in the U.S. in the last 50 years? I'd be interested to see the total pre-k through university g…

That sounds awfully static. The interesting thing will be to see if people with unconditional money end up becoming addicts at higher rates. Are the study researchers planning on m…

Does GHC still come with a copy of GCC and Perl? Hugs is pretty small: https://www.haskell.org/hugs/

Just to make sure that we aren't all talking past each other... 1. I assume the FBI is investigating the hack itself (who did it, etc.). Citation? 2. I assume the SEC is investigat…

You are right. The sheriff that covers Ryegate, MT commutes in every day from New York City, and the school bus drivers commute from Seattle, likewise the mailman commutes in from …

Interesting. I'd like to learn more about this. Any pointers to how other languages and cultures don't distinguish between math and science? Does it apply to other things like the …

Here's an utterly trivial question. Do most people working on computational problems like this consider themselves mathematicians or scientists?

The Strang book: "Introduction to Linear Algebra" does seem to have quite a few "high quality" 1-star reviews. They mostly seem to cluster around this book not being good for a lin…

Just some clarification for those readers not in the U.S.. You as the defendant do not have to select have your case tried by a jury. You can select to have a bench trial instead. …

Is there a way to find out how much Foxconn pays in U.S. taxes right now? Or how much revenue they earn in the U.S.? If Apple has Foxconn make phones in Taiwan, and Apple then ship…

Might as well put a Wikipedia link here about the fission product isotopes and their half lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission_product#Radioa...

>If you were to tell a non-HNer that Kayak, Booking, Priceline, CheapFlights, OpenTable, and other large websites are worth 100B combined, I don't think they would even blink an ey…

>Here's something I'd love to know about undefined behavior in C: is this something specific to C, or is it something that any similar language would have to contend with? How simi…

>what if I'm on duolingo learning Spanish? What if I'm checking my investments or making a trade? ...ah, the Paul Erdos defense: http://amphetamines.com/paul-erdos.html > I spend t…

>...I wish I had found a way to stay clean. Anyone have success stories to share? I've tried adding various sites to my hosts file. But I seem to lapse after a while, since I can r…

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>1. First America stops being world police. Yes, how do we do this? I'd like to see us declare victory, and remove our troops from South Korea, Japan, Germany, the rest of Europe, …

Anyone have stats on rates of alcohol use over time, compared to other medications? For example, maybe people are using anti-depressants instead of medicating themselves with alcoh…

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Dasher might be something worth looking into: http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/

>There are very few projects without Py3 support, and most you'll find without Py3 support is because the project has been dead for quite some time. One notable exception is FreeCA…