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www.nytimes.com 8mo ago

What's Missing from Your Favorite Chocolate Bar? It May Be Chocolate

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www.lastweekinaws.com 11mo ago

AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

The good, the bad, and the ugly behind the push for more smart displays

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence

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caseyhandmer.wordpress.com 1y ago

SLS is still a national disgrace

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www.honest-broker.com 2y ago

Corporate America Killed a Lifestyle That Threatened Its Dominance

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blog.ayjay.org 2y ago

On Technologies and Trust

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caseyhandmer.wordpress.com 3y ago

Grid Storage: Batteries Will Win

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www.thenewatlantis.com 3y ago

No Other Options: Newly revealed documents depict Canadian euthanasia regime

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tedgioia.substack.com 3y ago

How web platforms collapse: The Facebook case study

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www.businessinsider.com 3y ago

Tech Titans Like Elon Musk Want to Save Earth by Having Tons of Children

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undark.org 3y ago

Punishment, Puppies, and Science: Bringing Dog Training to Heel

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arstechnica.com 3y ago

Should we be trying to create a circular urine economy?

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arstechnica.com 3y ago

FDA’s top tobacco scientist takes job at Marlboro-maker Philip Morris

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www.wsj.com 4y ago

What Porn Does to Teen Brains–and How to Keep It Off Their Devices

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www.mdpi.com 4y ago

Is Reduced Visual Processing the Price of Language?

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newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com 4y ago

Shipping to Production

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www.caranddriver.com 4y ago

USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EPA's Desire for EVs

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www.wsj.com 4y ago

Russia’s Military Buildup Near Ukraine Is an Open Secret

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arstechnica.com 4y ago

Electric vehicles ask a lot of their tires–here’s why

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www.bloomberg.com 5y ago

Mexico’s Vast Tree-Planting Program Ended Up Encouraging Deforestation

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arstechnica.com 5y ago

Startup has an intriguing concept for EV battery swaps

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arstechnica.com 5y ago

Deep in the heart of Texas’ collapsing power grid

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forums.macrumors.com 5y ago

Built a $35 RPi-based AirPlay receiver (replacing a dead Airport Express)

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arstechnica.com 6y ago

City builds open-access broadband network with Google Fiber as its first ISP

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www.bbc.co.uk 6y ago

Thomas Becket: Alpine ice sheds light on medieval murder

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arstechnica.com 6y ago

Nissan’s bigger-battery BEV–the 2019 Leaf Plus review

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www.wsj.com 7y ago

The Future of Housing Rises in Phoenix

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arstechnica.com 7y ago

How running websites has changed in the last two decades

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www.popularmechanics.com 7y ago

How the Mazda3’s Skyactiv-X Engine Works

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It’s not just the developers, but the entire organizations they work within that prioritize shipping new features rather than reliability, because that’s generally what’s most profitable (at least in the short term). It’s hard to change those incentives for an entire organization.

The problem is agricultural practices that lead to increased runoff, not the amount of nitrogen naturally occurring in the soil or the amount applied.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/20...

"Nitrate levels in Iowa's major rivers have increased more than threefold since the 1950s, but have stabilized — and even slightly declined — in recent decades, according to an in-depth review of available research."

Meaningness 10 years ago

Seems like you did get something out of all that time you wasted on philosophy. :)

If we had all done that exercise in school, more people would be better at managing their money. This analogy only works if "success" or whatever is a random walk (like I believe picking stocks is).

I wonder to what extent domestic casts have replaced mustelids (weasels, badgers, etc.) and similar small predators in North America. If there were fewer cats, would there be more mustelids? Would they then have a similar effect on the bird and rodent populations?

Good points, but trees were a primary energy source before the industrial revolution. When fossil fuels like coal replaced trees for cooking and heating, trees began to return to the landscape. Some areas of the US are more forested now than they were in the 19th century, also due to more efficient agriculture.