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If we find organisms on Mars, we need to first prove they belong to a separate tree of life. It's known that asteroids like the one that killed the dinosaurs could have seeded planets and moons across the solar system.

I believe the fatality rate in Iran is ~16% which is consistent with what you’re saying here.

Edit: Downvotes? Really?

Second group of friends needs to take a class in network theory.

Michael Crichton is rolling in his grave.

Even a 1% failure rate is extremely high. This is incredibly bad.

The point a lot of people miss is that advertising doesn't just convince you buy new things. Many advertisements are designed to make you feel good about the products you already buy so you won't consider trying the alternatives.

When you grab a bottle of dish soap off the shelf, do you select the same one each time because you prefer it for reasons you can't quite articulate or do you grab whatever's cheapest because they're basically all the same?

> You've reached your monthly free article limit.

Ironic.

The bill is for the product. The tip is for the service.

I look forward to reading the "What an adventure" blog post when Fitbit shuts down in like two years.

If you install fish, you should also install ohmyfish so you can install a good theme. I like bobthefish:

https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish/blob/master/docs/Th...

The lied detector was invented by the creator of the Wonder Woman comic after he noticed his wife's blood pressure rose when she was angry. It gained widespread adoption after he made commercials for Gillette to "prove" that their razors were superior to the competition. It's wacky comic book technology that doesn't work. It only appears to work because it tricks people into confessing to crimes.

Why stop at the lie detector? Why not have a block of kryptonite at every airport to protect them from attacks by Zod? Why not give every cop a batarang? It's insane that we still allow our governments to spend our tax dollars on this.

In academia it's even worse. There's a glass floor that's also a glass ceiling. There's one group of people making tons of money publishing worthless material. There's a second group doing all the work in the false hope that they'll someday get to join the first group. I was lucky enough to learn this lesson as an undergrad and didn't get tricked into going for a PhD.

By the way, the "research" about texting while driving you might have read about or heard discussed on NPR is just highly plausible bullshit.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Trilium Notes in here so I will:

https://github.com/zadam/trilium

6 years later and nobody has been harmed. What's your problem?

Musk’s attorney had the same opinion and expressed it with the exact same words. What a coincidence!

Yes it is. That’s what the word news means.

I really appreciate this joke. Good job.

SEO keywords.

They other one is flagged. I guess some Facebook employee got their feelings hurt.

They are involuntary. They’ve parasites that often keep more for themselves than the employees they claim to help.

I was one of those people. But sadly I only invested a few dollars. Sold it when it hit $800.

Most people haven’t changed their mental image to include feathers yet. Dinosaurs are prehistoric birds.

This article is a perfect example of why free speech is important for everyone. There’s a lot of talk about censoring people who have the wrong opinions, that communicating an wrong idea is harmful.

Communicating incorrect opinions about China allowed the author’s friends to correct him. And now he can share a unique perspective that they cannot because they were never on the wrong side of the issue.

Isn't it more likely that volcanic activity on the moon was caused by meteor impacts? Maybe there used to be a lot of asteroids in Earth's orbit. The moon took a lot of the hits until the big one slipped by killing the dinosaurs.

Which countries still allow children to grow up free?

Clinton visited the island. New documents were unsealed yesterday:

> Bill Clinton: The former president visited Epstein’s private island while Giuffre was there, she claims in one of her depositions. Giuffre stated that Epstein held a dinner for Clinton on the island. (In a statement previously made to Forbes, Clinton denied ever visiting Epstein’s private island.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/08/09/unseal...

If they visited Epstein's island, they knew. You might assume “Pedophile Island” is some cheeky name that the press came up with. But, no, that’s actually it’s name. The people who lived there called it that. If someone went to the island, they had to know.

Google hates delivery. Just look at how they treat their pregnant employees.

I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip.

Does anyone know a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to show and hide a specific app? I love this feature in iTerm2 and would like to have it for my browser and text editor as well.