Just a piece of trivia - Aldi’s and Trader Joe’s went separate ways because one of the brothers objected to selling alcohol

In small markets, people keep paper diaries. In most U.S. markets, a group of people called “the panel” wear a device called the Portable People Meter(PPM). Radio signals contain an inaudible watermark that the PPM “hears” and sends to Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron). The device has a motion sensor so people have to…

Not true. With Apple Pay, your fingerprint (or face recognition) is used to authorize the charge, not just tapping the reader. GPS also knows if the phone is at the terminal. You are tapping your phone, not the underlying credit or debit card. Apples and oranges.

Why would anyone care if they are “judged” by a person with an art history degree and $100k in student loans who is working a just above minimum wage job?

The Sackler family is on the third generation, when empires invariably crumble. The only political reference in the story was one cherry picked contribution to the Center for the Defense of Democracy.

How would universal health care stop people from selling their oxycontin pills to others for profit?   

As a recently diagnosed diabetic who is skeptical about the uderlying science, I wish you would not hold back. My suspicion is as soon as you inject insulin, the pancreas goes on vacation, decreasing its ability to regulate blood sugar, starting a downward spiral.

And since it is a military payload where costs are not a constraint, why bother?

Back during the heyday of AOL when the only method to cancel was calling an 800 number that nobody answered, the effective way to close an account was to go into a public chat room and spout hate speech like “I feel uncomfortable around transvestites”. Problem solved.

Saturn?

In the recently concluded FCC auction to repack the digital TV spectrum and sell it to wireless companies, Comcast is believed to have spent around $5 billion to acquire 20 Mb of spectrum in the former UHF TV band

You can walk a long way in 3,000 years

The “Pacific Coast” would also have reflected the lower sea levels and been easier to walk along. The Asian immigrants would have eaten fish, seals, shellfish, etc from the ocean - not necessarily mammals

In fact, ocean water levels were 66 feet higher than today three million years ago. No amount of politicians speaking, new laws, UN Resolutions or Army Corps dikes are going to change what is going to happen. What we need to do is plan for sea level rise, not think we can stop it

Harvard Studies of DNA published in 2012 already have proven there were at least three different waves of migration from Asia - the immigrants in South America arrived earlier than those that settled in North America in the area where the glaciers receded. This research is just knocking down their own straw man

That’s a fact, along with the nearby terrain. Water Pokémon are more common around water, grass Pokémon around golf courses, etc

Pokemongomap dot info is exactly what you are looking for - 3.5 million pokestop/gyms and growing quickly

Experiment with turning wifi on and off. iOS looks at nearby wifi routers, the compass and accelerometer more than the GPS signal

Niantic already has one class action lawsuit concerning people trespassing on a guy’s yard. Expect they might have to find a way to cut down on that issue

You cannot delete eggs. When you get 9 eggs, you stop getting new eggs, so you need to hatch the 2km ones. The bulk of XP comes from evolving those low level Pokémon that only need 4 (12 candy) to get 500 XP, 1000 XP if a lucky egg is active