Yeah, if you’re good about avoiding contamination like that it wouldn’t be an issue. I’m not always very good at that, so I tend to avoid things that can become contaminated and can’t be easily cleaned.

I agree in principle, disagree in practice. The odds are probably low, but this is asking for contamination because the moment the tape touches something raw (say a steak or pastry dough with raw egg) and is retracted without being cleaned first, the entire thing could become contaminated.

1) The Las Vegas shooter had 100-round magazines. There’s a big difference between 10 100-round magazines and 100 10-round magazines.

I know you’re trying to troll, but there are some very easy things that could be done to lessen the casualty count on these kinds of incidents.

Since 1980 the high school dropout rate has been cut in half. The on-time graduation rate has risen from 72% to 84%. The percentage of people holding a bachelor’s degree has increased by one-third.

We had a lutefisk dinner during Christmas Fest when I was in college (St. Olaf). None of the students ate it, though, other than as a dare or to say they’d done it. I never touched the stuff. I think it was mostly for the alumni who remembered eating it as a dare when they went there.

It’s funny how quickly Bitcoin supporters have switched from “Bitcoin is the currency of the future,” to, “Blockchain is the encryption of the future.”

This change may have had some impact, but it’s worth pointing out that, over the last five weeks, Bitcoin has dropped $8,000 in price, only $3,000 of which came after this happened. And, in fact, Bitcoin had dropped $2,000 in value in the two days before this change happened and took a week to drop another $2,000…

I don’t think this is really a fair interpretation. He didn’t say critics were “out of touch,” what he said was,

You see, the crease is lava. And you can’t be in the lava with the ball or you catch on fire. You can be in the lava accidentally without the ball, but you have to leave immediately.

Really? I tuned in around minutes 14-18 and he just kept pausing the Super Nintendo version whenever the Nintendo version would load. That feels like cheating.

Noon is great for CST football fans because it lets you get the errands done in the morning and then hit sports all afternoon.

The one gripe I have about this tool is that it has a major, basically fatal flaw, which they admit: most school segregation is done between districts, not within districts. I looked up a couple of districts I know from suburban Birmingham and the tool said these districts were lessening segregation when it is a…

Except for when Alabama calls timeout with 1:40 left right before they punt.

No idea. I’ve never read the book. I chose American Gods because it is covered relentlessly by io9/Gizmodo/etc. and was named by io9 as the best show of 2017. It made sense, in reply to a comment asking why the Kinjaverse covers this game so much, to point out that it is pulling roughly the same live audience daily…

I mean, it’s an internet game show that’s drawing as many viewers daily (often twice a day) as most cable shows. I think last night’s game had almost 900,000 players, which is more than, say, American Gods gets live in any week.

Am I the only one who finds it odd that, in 2017 of all years, Kotaku decides to honor zero women but a man whose signature move is the “sexually charged” teabagging?

Bubbles tend to bring out naive investors looking to get rich quick. It’s not unreasonable to think that some people bought in without fully understanding how to cash out.

If you’re patient, and hold onto your coin, history shows there’s a decent chance you’ll make money.

But that’s exactly the point. Bitcoin is not a currency, it is a commodity. If you want to play Bitcoin like you play the stock market, that’s cool. But most Bitcoin supporters want it to be a currency, which it can never be so long as it’s susceptible to these booms and busts.