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Comment Conductivity (Score 1) 222

I've never ever experienced a Hot Pocket that was anything less than flesh-searing hot on the inside.

That said, TLDR: Energy is supplied to the outside faster than it can be conducted to the inside of the food.

I'm too lazy to count, but I'm pretty sure that would fit in a tweet, and hopefully it was a "no shit" situation for 99% of people with brains. Essentially it's the same reason a steak can be burnt on the outside and raw on the inside.

Comment Wrong Answer (Score 2) 408

Security systems might be worthwhile for your own safety, but not for protecting against burglary. Unless you're very lucky, response times pretty much guarantee anyone will be in and out before the police have even dispatched a unit.

What you need isn't security; it's insurance. It's cheaper than monitored security systems, more dependable, and doesn't suffer from the risks of technical failures or circumvention (though ignoring it is more likely than circumvention). In the event of a burglary, your things will be replaced. (Make sure your policy covers replacement cost, not depreciated market value). And keep your important data backed up!.

(Disclaimer: YMMV, and selecting a policy requires due diligence.)

Comment Cruel Inversion (Score 2) 222

pushing a product on the public with the hope that it will be useful once we have it is a cruel inversion of how product adoption should be handled.

Nonsense. People buy a product like a game console speculating that they will get future use out of it. This doesn't always pan out, as many second and third-gen consoles can demonstrate quite well. You can certainly make the argument (and I believe the author has) that the XBone raises the risk too high, and that's a valid point, but the only inversion going on here is the one between reality and wishful thinking.

Comment Re:Everyone creates arbitrary lines (Score 1) 628

What's more cruel, caging chickens, or pricing food out of reach of the poor? While I acknowledge that it doesn't have to be a dichotomy, I would suggest that eliminating human starvation is a higher priority than deciding whether chickens are sad (but obviously not starving) and if so, how to remedy that.

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