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In terms of sustainability, coconut oil is not necessarily better than palm oil. It is probably worse since it has lower yield per hectare and more energy (drying + pressing) per liter output.

The Roman legions used saddled cavalry. Chariots were only really used for racing. But yes, Romans rode without stirrups.

You'd think neoliberals would welcome a little creative destruction.

I hope writers like Cohn, Beutler and Ioffe land on their feet, but I'm shedding no tears for TNR.

You're not going to have much political influence ("travel") if you don't have readership.

TNR has been floundering for an ideological voice since the end of the Cold War, and took quite a few hits to its credibility under Peretz. Readership was down for a reason.

A sympathetic view would be that Hughes wanted to go for a technical solution - invest in TNR's digital presence - rather than completely purge the staff as Peretz did in the 1970s. Too bad the effect was the same.

The Aldi in Englewood isn't really a supermarket - it's more like a dollar-store version of Trader Joe's. They also don't sell much produce (maybe 10 feet of shelf space), and it's usually been sitting on the shelf a while. I think this is more about customer demand than availability. Chicago gets plenty of great produce through its wholesalers (and role as a freight hub) - high quality produce is abundant and cheap at the Latino markets.

I've lived in Englewood. I can confirm a lack of quality produce - I'd have to travel to Hyde Park, Chinatown or the South Loop for that. However, I doubt Whole Foods will draw too many neighborhood customers away from the Food-4-Less or Aldi. Price matters.

The Englewood location is probably more about cheap land near the I-90/94, which links downtown Chicago to the South Side, and south suburbs. This location is also close to the Hyde Park (University of Chicago) and Woodlawn neighborhoods, which are more affluent.

So perhaps the question is whether we need legislation to protect us while the new internet social norms are in their infancy, or is it better to be unprotected, so that the norms change more quickly?

I was being a bit snarky, apologies. But at the end of the day, we are still talking about making knowledge inaccessible. It may be necessary to protect individual privacy, but it still worries me. Each case will be about weighing the harms to the individual against the harms to the public. Powerful interests will find ways to exploit such a subtle system for their own benefit.

The definition of public interest then becomes key. I also worry that information that does not seem to be in the public interest at present could become so in the future, but will be lost instead.

Mostly, I have a bias against book burning, which is what this kind of knowledge destruction resembles.

How do we determine whether it is 'your shit' and not someone else's? Do you have a right to erase my past if it intersects with yours? Would you have the right to erase memories from my brain if they referenced your past? Where is the line?

The title here is a canard. The article does not explore the question of Beethoven's impact on his successors, it is taken for granted. This piece reviews a bunch of recent books about Beethoven (mostly concerning his personal, political and artistic life, not his legacy).

Obviously The Pork Board would wish to claim credit for the shift in demand for bacon. Lobbyists and advertisers will tend to portray themselves as essential to the industries that support them. It is more likely that "the bacon boom" was a market phenomenon driven by lots of small cultural and technological shifts, not social engineering. The article is undermined by its title and reliance on Pork Board anecdotes.

Those were apparently written more than a hundred years after "the Viking Age" had ended.

Yes, most Russians support military intervention in Ukraine. This would probably be less surprising if ordinary Americans and Russians engaged in political dialogue.

To what extent is this driven by the rise of youth culture and and the rising market value of adolescent consumers?

Appending ?share=1 to a Quora URL should let you view it without logging in.

A response to a similar question on Quora (https://www.quora.com/Tom-Harrington/Posts/Why-Im-Losing-Pat...):

We require that people join because many of those who join like the service and end up contributing back to Quora, which makes it better for everyone. People spend a ton of time making Quora great by sharing their knowledge on here, so we think it is reasonable to ask that others who want to get to all the free knowledge here take the first very small step toward contributing back which is creating an account. That is the only reason we have the policy: to get more people to join who will share more knowledge and make Quora even better for everyone in the long run.

The community at Quora is pretty good, so they seem to know what they're doing.

The title led me to believe they were using some kind of rocket technology.

You could also say that we have evolved to fulfill the plant's needs (ie. genetic propagation).

You might be experiencing selection bias? I suspect that petty criminals tend to target perceived outsiders over locals - they are less canny and it is easier to avoid empathizing with your victim.

Communist leaders face political discipline - ie. dissatisfied people may strike/riot/rebel, and your competitors within the political establishment will take advantage of your failures.

Try 1/2 inch sheet steel instead of a baking stone. More thermal mass, better conduction and more wear-resistant (won't crack from thermal stress). Cast iron is a cheaper alternative.

More lost causes on Change.org

Most crackers are script kiddies, using exploits or code developed by someone else. So most crackers are not hackers in the Stallman sense.

I like a nice through mortise.

Customers should be able to choose between overage fees and throttling when they exceed their monthly limit.

If the elevator carries the magnets, the magnetic field relative to the phone is constant, thus no induced current and no fried components.

The latter often describes civil disobedience.

A policy decision most Americans normally have no say in. It would never have come to public debate before the revelations.