Assuming you can rely on them to do it right, of course -- too much of the wrong kind of recycling in the wrong bin and you need to separate it post-collection, and might as well have saved everybody… (View Post)

I would say that it is the fault of a system which boils a complicated issue and set of tradeoffs down to a handful of yes or no questions. That's almost always going to produce results that are… (View Post)

If you're frying your sushi you're doing something wrong... (View Post)

Agreed entirely, but the government proposal as described in that article seems unlikely to help. They want laws that will address the highly unlikely case of causing death or injury by dangerous dri… (View Post)

Yes; in general people are terrible at assessing risk and don't approach it from a perspective of assessing risks impartially and statistically in each area of their life. We overestimate risks … (View Post)