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An Essential Guide to the Truths and Myths of Chemical Weapons(thedrive.com)
2 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
Plus they have a really really big stick they don’t hestitate to use. It’s not all carrot by any means, it’s more along the lines of “plomo o plata” with a demonstrable history of going massively overboard with the lead.
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by gotocake 8y ago
It can’t honestly be news to you that companies don’t exist in a vacuum, right? No decision by a company is going to be made in the absence of consideration for the broader reality in which they exist and seek to do business. To use a hyper
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Study Links Uber and Lyft to Increase in U.S. Traffic Deaths(thedrive.com)
71 points by gotocake 8y ago|90 comments
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The Death of the IPO(theatlantic.com)
52 points by gotocake 8y ago|52 comments
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When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains(theatlantic.com)
4 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
...Marry me.
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by gotocake 8y ago
I can’t stress enough just how nominal their commitment to science is these days. An elderly relative bought me many years subscription to SciAm and it’s mostly useful as toilet roll. You get the occasional scholarly article, but the majori
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VR Could Show Others What Autism Feel Like – And Lead to Potential Treatments(sciencemag.org)
1 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Groups as Therapy(theatlantic.com)
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The Humanification of Pet Food Is Nearly Complete(theatlantic.com)
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The Myth of ‘Dumbing Down’(theatlantic.com)
1 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
Those astronauts spend less than 216 days on that station, and require extensive physical therapy to recover (which they never fully do) when they get home. They’re also not a sustainable population, even with supplies and reinforcements fr
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by gotocake 8y ago
It would cost a lot more, that’s just the cost of lift raw tonnage of the carriers themselves. You also have to lift the machinery to assemble and maintain them, spares of pretty much everything, and the cost of developing and lifting all o
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by gotocake 8y ago
...100 years later it’s all nanoscale and we’re living in ‘The Diamond Age” and wondering where it all went wrong.
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by gotocake 8y ago
That premise only holds if we can live without Earth’s support, and frankly outside of science fiction and people without enough scientific education to know better, that’s not happening in the lifetimes of anyone having this conversation,
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by gotocake 8y ago
Humanity did all of that on a planet every generation of organism evolved to thrive on for billions of years, not a completely hostile environment. All of our ancestors, going back to protoplasmic goo evolved on one planet. All of our mamma
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by gotocake 8y ago
The Moon is a lot closer to the Sun than Mars, and you have to remember that EM radiation falls off with the square of the distance. Mars is unsuitable if you need to rely on solar power alone, especially for concentrating and piping light
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by gotocake 8y ago
Two reasons mainly. First and less charitably, managers and executives are a self-perpetuating phenomenon. They’d have to be the ones to slit their own throats, and they won’t. The second and more depressing reason is at the core of much hu
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by gotocake 8y ago
Well the efficacy of Tamiflu is very questionable, but I’ll admit the “elderberry syrup” thing threw me. Maybe a broken clock thing?
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by gotocake 8y ago
Who said anything about eliminating gendered pronouns? Is that a trick question?... because I didn’t mention that. So I guess the answer is, you, just now for reasons I’m not totally clear on.
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Welcome to Jurassic Art(99percentinvisible.org)
2 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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A Lesson of Hurricane Michael: Our Policymakers Are Failing Us(undark.org)
5 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
English needs to do the same. Why? Because less than half a percent of the population would prefer it? I don’t think so. That part of the population should be respected and referred to as they prefer, but I’m not interested in them dictat
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by gotocake 8y ago
But not a machine to affordably and accurately pick strawberries or citrus, or clean your house and office park. Let’s not pretend that the demand for relatively unskilled work isn’t very high, because the work is perceived to be beneath th
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The Great Seaweed Invasion(daily.jstor.org)
1 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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Who Chooses Not to Vaccinate Their Children?(daily.jstor.org)
1 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
Are you seriously proposing regulation of one specific private company just because you don't like the way they run their business? No, this could apply equally to all companies, FaceBook and Twitter for example, or Amazon and their
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Got a Fever? There’s an Ad for That(nytimes.com)
4 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
The author or the COC, come on, that was clear in the context of my post.

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