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Not an aerospace engineer - but that sounds like a lot of extra cost/complexity/weight, for pretty minimal benefit.

> ... my vote ... is for universal healthcare. The only real downside to it is that a bunch of companies that have entrenched their positions taking advantage of ordinary people will be denied a li…

> "Solves" is a silly thing to ask for... Maybe? If testing of their remains had revealed (say) LD95 of arsenic, or some other poison well-known at the time, it'd be pretty reasonab…

The pedantic answer is "yes". The pragmatic answer is "if only it was that easy" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria#Immune_system_evasion https:/&#…

tl;dr; - Scientists did DNA testing on the remains of the Grand Duke and his wife, and found malaria. The rival theory is poisoning by the relative who was next in line for the Ducal throne. HOWEVER…

> ... the Y-Zipper, a 3D-printed, three-sided fastener that can snap a floppy, flexible structure into a rigid, load-bearing beam with one smooth pull. Not a mechanical engineer, but I'd figur…

Delegating more of their less-challenging tasks to junior developers. (But wrapped in appropriate buzzwords & boss-speak.)

There's a little perl script on the CEO's front end, which alerts HR and Security.

Does this remind anyone else of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars ?

I see ample coverage of the "obsessively clicking refresh" aspects. But zero coverage of the "who's buying that fitness tracker data?" issues.

Yes. Unfortunately, the Minneapolis Fed would get a whole lotta push-back if they suggested any such metric. That risk bearing & interest-rent is a near-perfect way for the 0.01% to milk the &qu…

> His point appears... No, Levit said that in 1948, when Americans were vastly better-connected (socially) than today, "Godless Communism" was their #1 fear, and everybody was aware of co…

No mention of vacation homes, homeless people, or some other situations - but their new metric appears to treat those properly. (Yes, I saw the reference to dorms, nursing homes, & prisons.)

> But any underwater kite faces the same fundamental challenge, says Chris Vermillion, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Michigan. “It must be continuously flying. That period…

I'd assume that site selection managers understand how recommending "only useful for training" locations might impact their careers.

Ask an old English teacher whether "poetry" implies anything favorable about quality.

The article is from last Thursday, it's now Sunday, and last I heard - https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-announces-new-starship-13-t... - SpaceX announced last Friday that they&#x…

> I'd do my best impression of a dog for you... A better comparison - you're a member of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actors%27_Equity_Association , the part whi…

Meh. The Gestapo reference is needlessly inflammatory, and not particularly germane. Few of the comments are useful or enlightening. Google is handling the situation poorly, but "Google Handli…

Daydream: Sites display 5.0 star ratings for everything in Germany - doesn't matter if it a junk yard, morgue, or sewage treatment plant. With no further details at all, except "Due to cur…

But not short-term gratification for the too-competitive parents of the imagined-potential-elite kids. (No comparison intended to quarterly-results-obsessed American business exec's:)

I could agree with his title, but not with any of his chosen cows.

The traditional conflict between enjoying short-term gratification and reaching long-term goals.

I've worked in some rather dense undergrowth and forest debris, but not done this particular sort of forest works. Still... > Shovel and/or rake. ...multiplied by how many man-hours it t…

To completing the too-long Title - Subtitle: > ... build a missile shield with Europe—and without America. It sounds like he's still really shady. But so long as Ukraine is in a tight spot, a…

The ability may take time to develop. If you have a couple under-5 children handy, who'd love the ritual of having the same ultra-simplistic and repetitive books read to them every night, nigh…

> even if a vendor is doing the right thing today, ... they could fail to realize that they were hacked last year. Sadly, the same issues apply to the copies of your private health data in your doc…

> In several opinion polls, Ardern's domestic popularity had reached all-time lows by 19 January 2023...[when] Ardern announced she would resign as Labour leader and prime minister by 7 Februa…

Only one (of the six reviewed) that I'd call acceptable - > Euki is the only app Mozilla recommends without reservations. "Euki is special," Wodinsky* says. > Unlike the other app…