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Strategically, quite a bit. Wired recently had a piece on this: https://www.wired.com/story/4-internal-apple-emails-helped-d...

Matt Stoller also had a really great writeup: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-the-apple-antitrust-s...

Am I misunderstanding the graph in the article? My understanding is that the graph is showing that home prices are still rising, but only at an 8.4% increase between Sep 2017 and Sep 2018 (the rate of increase has just decreased.) If so, this seems incredibly misleading.

Especially since "driver-error" is the cause of 94% of motor vehicle crashes in the U.S.[1], with 32,675 people killed and 2.3 million injured in 2014.[2] Worldwide, motor-vehicle crashes cause over 1.2 million deaths each year and are the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 15-29 years old.[3]

It's estimated that self-driving cars could reduce vehicle crashes by approximately 90%! [4]

[1] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/812115.pdf [2] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812219.pdf [3] http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_st... [4] http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/automotive-and-assembly/o...

I mostly agree, except; depression might be Facebook's problem if it is exacerbated by one of their "experiments."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-s...

Possibly, but most of the Saturniid moths aren't aerial acrobats to begin with. None of them can fly with enough precision to really evade predators. One of the best behavioural defenses for flying insects (found so far) seems to be the Mantis' ability to take an immediate dive toward the ground upon detection of a bat.

edit: I should add that there actually are other well adapted behavioural defenses, such as this: Hawkmoths produce anti-sonar http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/9/4/20130161

An update on the various fundraisers set up for James:

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/...

Perhaps I generalized a bit too much (I suppose I should not have commented when I was dead tired...) However, the USDA does in fact allow non-prohibited chemicals to be used on USDA certified organic produce.

USDA National Organic Program: http://goo.gl/OUCAXM USDA National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances: http://goo.gl/YXLUJ5

I think they are referring to the loophole that allows farms to use organic chemicals on produce that is labeled "Organic".

In chemistry, an organic chemical is a compound that contains lots of carbon, or carbon chains. The loophole allows the use of these organic compounds as pesticides. The downside is that these are typically much more of a broad spectrum than the cutting edge pesticides. This means that unlike the new narrow-spectrum pesticides (which are often designed so they only affect the physiology of a specific order of invertebrate) the old-school organic chemical pesticides are harmful to pretty much everything it comes in contact with.

Here is some more info on the issue: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lhom/organictext.html

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2011/07/18...

And one last one that explains a bit more on organic chemicals: http://www.chemheritage.org/percy-julian/activities/2b.html