An account of the horrific ramifications that government and business entities can put onto individual civilians by simply not thinking about what they're doing.

It sounds impractical and rather annoying, especially to anyone who is doing any astronomy. Not to mention, they say the material is supposed to be non-toxic and it's supposed to burn up in atmosphere (as opposed to hitting the earth), but how do we know it really will? I think we have enough near-misses from asteroids that we don't need to actually shoot pellets at our planet. Also, even if pellets don't hit the ground, what about international airplanes? What if some of these pellets hit the aircraft as they are burning up?

The whole thing sounds like a bad idea.

While I don't like to keep unneeded items and I do regularly donate clothing I no longer need, I have to say I don't really agree with the sentiment of only keeping things "that spark joy" - it's not very practical. As much as I hate past years' tax paperwork, I won't be throwing it out!

The title is a little misleading. This is because maybe some of the increase in donations could be due to the Netflix show, but it's quite possible that this January weather is a little better than last year's and people are following through on their New Year's resolutions to actually donate unwanted items (instead of being put off because of snow etc). They do point out this possibility in the article, but I feel they could therefore have picked a more accurate headline.

I've never been a fan of RSS. I don't know why, but I just never got the point of it.

Yeah. At the time, when I looked at data usage by apps on my phone and saw it chewing through my data allocation, I naively put it down to extremely inefficient programming by app developers. (And that alone would be enough for me to delete the app) - but later when I read about apps like The Weather Channel tracking users, then I realized that this was what was going on instead.

Now, I periodically review the breakdown of data usage by app on my phone. Anything that uses more data than it should, I delete. Basically anything that uses more than my browser (the app I use most often) I will delete. This is not a complete guard against privacy-violating apps, but I figure that it at least will help me identify any big red flags.

I'm not a big fan of Apple's restrictive practices. This sort of thing is exactly why I don't own (and would never buy) an Apple device.

An interesting and well-researched article. Definitely I agree that Instagram is something that takes a lot more time than it "should". I stopped using it awhile back and have never missed it. I was never really all that much into it, but even posting a simple photo was annoying with all the hashtags and stuff. Plus, it takes so much effort to get any traction on Instagram that it's not at all worth it - I have better uses for my time.

This does not surprise me. I had the Weather Channel app sometime last year, and it was using up huge amounts of data, much more than it should have, so I deleted it and chose another app. I had location turned off, but even so it was sending lots of data back and forth. A weather app should not need to do that.

Very well-prepared. I hope other countries are also having some sort of plan to prepare for floods and/or rising sea levels. It's either that, or businesses are going to move inland and away from coastal areas, taking jobs with them.

This is too little, too late for me. I suspect they're probably finally taking action because lots of users left. I left for exactly the reason that I was getting adult content in my feed.

And no, that is not my problem, that is Tumblr's problem. It is EXACTLY the same problem as if I hated cars and loved cats, but my feed was full of cars but no cats in sight. Tumblr was not giving me things that match my interests, so I left. Doesn't matter if the unwanted content is adult content, cats, cars or something else.

Wow! A fascinating and well-researched article.

Reading this article, this reminds me of the same issue as global warming. "Humans must, but fail to, take action against global warming."

I was amazed that there was, in fact, a new low for Facebook to sink to.

A great article with wonderful photos about a topic that isn't really covered much. This definitely kept my interest.

I'm surprised the writer ever saw Zuckerberg as an underdog in the movie. The movie portrays Zuckerberg (rightly or wrongly; I don't know) as an arrogant jerk, and paints the Winkelvoss twins in a much better light. When I watched it, I was really glad I wasn't on Facebook, and I was glad I never worked for Facebook. If anything in there was true, I didn't want anything to do with Facebook.

I'm not saying the movie was portraying people accurately or not, I have no way of knowing, but I was surprised that the writer saw Zuckerberg in even a mildly positive light in that movie when watching it the first time.

Very insightful! I agree. I'd never thought of it for that, but yes, it's ideal for that sector of the population too.

WOW. This article is incredible. What a wonderful concept.

I completely agree.

A very interesting topic. I would have liked to see the journalism cover a little more detail, such as whether heating or plumbing is modified in any special ways compared to standard sized homes.

This is encouraging, storing potential energy in the form of lifting up a brick. Later when needed, it can be released as kinetic energy.