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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc#Safety (Studies cited there don't quite prove that asbestos-free talc is carcinogenic...but the evidence is damning enough that no well-…

Talking about James Joyce, vs. really reading his works...it's kinda like the difference between talking about Einstein, vs. really reading (including understanding the math) his major works (i…

I often prepend my searches with strings such as "wikipedia " - typically there's a big improvement on the SRP end...but the borG will fix that if it catches on. Coming soon - "Ad …

I'd guess that desperate-to-stay-employed journalists feel far more need to suck up to Zuck than to suck up to Cook. And the "why Apple is in the right" case takes a whole lot more &am…

[Briefly verify that Chase Bank, General Motors, etc. all have iPhone apps] [Upvote tim33's comment about the author's lack of credibility and related shortcomings]

This +10 (if I could). And that ("Many people underestimate...") is before you factor in all the extremely talented people who are looking for ways to remotely steal crypto wallet data.…

Imagine that you were loudly proclaiming yourself to be an Irish Protestant, in a rather rough Catholic neighborhood in Northern Ireland. Or vice versa. No, it's not particularly rational. But …

"The moral is to the physical as three to one." - Napoleon I

This +10 (if I could). Very regular, very short (if there's not much to discuss) 1:1s can be quite valuable. Especially managing folks who are reluctant to speak up. Doesn't much matter…

Maybe my old memory is getting fuzzy...but my recollection is that "groups who feel despised, downtrodden, and grimly insecure are far more easily swayed to polarized, extreme, and violent politi…

Looks to me about the same as the huge "pro-gun" backlash against Smith & Wesson, back in 2000, over the Clinton Agreement. People got all worked up (rightly, sanely, or otherwise) abou…

Phone, for sure. These days - if they are too under-staffed to answer the phone, I don't want to order and then wait. And wait. And wait... And usually from a little regional pizza chain - whi…

Well...an electrical engineer friend of mine, who recently had such a device implanted, told me that he's giving away his welder - because he can no longer use or be near it. No mention of dumpi…

What is advertised as Meritocracy is too-often more of a Metric-gamingocracy. Or is a place where management doesn't much care about "the bottom 90%".

How far away are you planning to put the warning signs, for people with implanted medical devices (cardioverter-defibrillators and such), who might be endangered by your Tesla coil? If it turns out th…

IANAEG (...Not An Evil Genius), but it seems safe to assume that a lot of folks in that line of work do not share much of your worldview or value system, to need to do any "rationalizing" be…

With the number of books, articles, movies, videos, etc. available these days...quickly ruling out most of them can be pretty darn useful. :) (LOTR-style world building seems orthogonal to plausible …

Yes. And the (excellent, IMO) author said many more such things (about movie-making requiring that reality be carted off to the rubbish tip) in the rest of the series. Though there are also fair n…

Interesting...perhaps Walmart has gotten sick and tired of endless E. coli recalls of lettuce, due to conventional agriculture being utterly unable to get its sh*t together on food safety? Or - are t…

This is the sort of article (long, detailed, written by a high-level expert) which reassures me that NO , I really shouldn't bother to watch movies (or TV, etc.). Once you're past the visu…

What sorts of facts might you mean? "2 + 2 = 4"? "This universe is all that physically exists"? Conservation of energy? Moral or theological assertions?

Sounds like an excellent reason to set your cell phone to default to a less-crappy search engine. (Not to assert that that exists, but there's ample reason to try a few.)

"False positives are inevitable / better than the alternative / etc." talk is usually a sign that your justice system needs a brutal purge, to get rid of all the thuggish, politica…

Maybe . If you'd spent much time working for a large company, you'd know just how insulated from reality a manager's decision-making can be.

This. I certainly know a fair number of women (admittedly, the grandparent commenter would probably not call them "young") who regularly shop as a recreation and social activity. Mostly wit…

I'd figure they include both PTSD sufferers and power-trippers...but at this point most are just following the latest social trends. HOWEVER - that's a rabbit hole which there is no upsid…

Admitting that I've no sense of the article's accuracy, completeness, etc... My reaction is that the law school should be quietly shut down. If their students can't (or aren't ex…

Maybe I'm too old, but these stories amount to "in an old rural area, where everybody knew everybody, paying postage on the kid provided a decent excuse for Post Office managers to look the …

Why don't we use the [History|English Lit.|Chemistry|etc.] that we learn in school? As a generality, isn't the math taught to most teens in public schools aimed pretty squarely at preparing …

I've no idea how legit, or popular, this notion of longtermism is. But it sounds like a great excuse to ignore almost all of the world's current or "in our lifetimes" problems, foc…