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>Rural areas are supposed to be where you go to escape a pandemic. How do you turn rural areas into places that are hardest hit? Density doesn't matter much for a virus as infectious as SARS-C…

> Provo is full of overly polite Mormon families and BYU. They chose cartoonish examples of polite conservative locales to make their point. Are Fort Worth and Pensacola also filled with "over…

>Tomorrow, SpaceX is going to try to fly the prototype 12.5km up, then have it freefall, falling sideways. At the last moment, it will reorient itself and land on a landing pad. >Or, it will exp…

>See the line chart at about the middle of the page, with three lines in black, blue and red. The chart shows net migration Germany <> USA. The red line shows German citizens only, black show…

> Declassified FBI documents indicate otherwise. Flynn actually notified FBI of all meetings with Russians and debriefed with them afterwards. My "favorite" example of this is Carter Page…

>Compare that to the dirty looks I got walking around SF in a Buck-ees hat that happened to be red. It bordered upon comedy. For those who doubt you, I ask them to ponder the following: Put on a &q…

>I live in TX. I am very, very careful when I'm out in the sticks since the shitkickers are dangerous. Put on a "Make America Great Again" hat and walk through downtown Chicago, San …

>But that's rather my point: if you're living just in the larger metro areas, you're choosing to insulate yourself from the rampant discrimination and bigotry that, numerically, form…

>Net migration to the US from the richer EU countries is about 0, i.e. about the same number of US citizens are moving into the EU as are moving from those EU countries into the US. Not true. 10-17…

> Your headline salary in the Us is higher but disposable income is often lower. At $45,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD ( http://www.oecd…

$5100 in sales (about 30% profit) in three days via dropshipping a popular, hard-to-find videogame-related accessory over Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

>But why do you agree with the comment saying real GDP per capita in Africa hasn't increased in the same sentence that you say it has increased (by 1.1% annually)? Because: * 1.1% annual growt…

As barry-cotter said, no. From 1961 to 2015 ( http://www.worldeconomics.com/papers/Global%20Growth%20Monit... ), real GDP per capita in Africa grew by 1.1% annually (!), compared t…

No state pays a cent to another state or to the federal government. It is residents of each state that pay federal taxes, which the federal government in turn uses to provide funding and services to s…

>We (the US, probably other countries) have pretty good statistics for how many people die every year (and what killed them). Similarly, homicides are the only type of crime that statistics can be …

>Ultrabooks: A variety of unusable hideously expensive compact PC laptops going back to the 90s and mostly abandoned by the late noughties, then MacBook Air PowerBook 100 before the Air. 12" P…

An example of how the US argues over the death penalty in a way which doesn't happen elsewhere, but perhaps should: >In fact, opinion polls show that Europeans and Canadians crave executions a…

>The % of US population covered by health insurance is around 84% That was pre-Obamacare. 91-92% of Americans have medical insurance, whether through their employers, or government programs like Me…

>Compare wealth and life expectancy of any ethnicity living in USA with the population living in their previous habitat, and the US population comes out on top. >Japanese Americans for example h…

Thanks for pointing that out. Another is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect .…

If a real-life fatal basilisk image ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story) ) is possible, it will be created by something like this. The method is akin to how it is de…

>A significant minority of Canadians agree with me, so it's not like this is some radical position. Various Canadian politicians agree including Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who secretly trav…

>Our neighbors drive from California to Mexico for dental work. Often. They have Medicare, additional coverage from a union, and Kaiser. As mentioned, dental coverage in the US is typically decoupl…

>The fact that 27 million people (1) live in the US without health insurance alone is a big enough reason to know that that US system is not working. That's 91-92% coverage of a country of 330…

>Medical bankruptcies represent 62% of all personal bankruptcies. Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan&#x…

>> Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall. Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills ( https://…

>What M1 giveth, Electron taketh away. Sigh. Yes, but doesn't this also mean that an Apple Silicon-native Electron instantly makes all Electron apps that much faster on that architecture, as o…

>This is the future: custom hardware and custom software working together as a unit. Yes, the M1 is a product of a company with complete control over software and now hardware, including in this ca…

>I noticed the Steam client seems to be a bit laggy in UI responsiveness Disabling GPU acceleration may fix this issue.

>I now wonder, does that mean that MB Air has no moving parts inside it at all? In addition, does that mean that the Air has no air vents? Is it a completely sealed unit, like an iPhone?