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Juul doesn't really create enough vapor to have a distinct flavor. If you do sub-ohm or use better quality devices that create more vapor you get amazing flavor as well. This can very well approximate the flavors of most candy and dessert products, along with satisfying that hand to mouth urge (Freud would say I have an oral fixation). I switched from traditional fags to e-cigs a decade ago and there are quite a few diabetics on the ecig forums who use ecigs, instead of for nic replacement as a sugary dessert replacement with success.

I know Mythbusters isn't the most scientific, but when they tested this, although with a small sample size so it could be off, if you choose Tails every time you should hit well over 55% based on the weight distribution of the coin.

This may vary based on how functional your family is, or especially was growing up. I can relate to the dog = family thing.

This seems like it should be labeled paid content? Especially after the huge issue with the X unlocking for almost anyone.

There is the chance Apple put that much money into R&D to fix it, but there is a greater chance they just paid a small percentage of what that would cost to an ad agency to fix public perception instead.

I am also a collector of information. From this I attempt to create a deeper understanding. To identify and spread important information within this time and to future times is i believe the most valuable. To this end I personally am writing books. Sometimes I slack off and just enjoy learning for its own sake, just remember the worst enemy is entropy.

I think what I miss the most was there was this idea at first that the internet could be a kind of digital Library of Alexandria, where all of the world's knowledge could be readily available to benefit society as a whole and especially those who are economically or geographically challenged. What we increasingly have on the WWW instead: Paywalls, misinformation, obfuscation and lowest common denominator drivel.

Absolutely yes. I live in the Bay Area and we need regulations to overwrite NIMBY's here, like this. Hopefully if this passes in other states it will make it here eventually. There was one up in legislation last year that would allow apartment development in proximity to public transit that managed to get killed politically. Meanwhile my rent is raised $300 in one year by my malevolent corporate landlord. I can't afford to not live with a roomate and I really wish I could.

Prosecuting geriatrics for what they may have done a lifetime ago seems to me to be a severe disservice to society.

As an American I dislike the vast majority of regional accents and would like them to go the way of the Dodo Bird. Even the one I have some fondness for, a Brooklyn accent, would be incredibly jarring in a Fantasy work. Being a resident of Northern California though it's rare to hear 'American' accents, most of the English is either unaccented or foreign-accented.

Wealth begats more wealth, and this trend accelerates when unchecked. Many of the themes of this article reminded me of data from Capitol in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty.

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I use the 'bypass paywalls' extension for Firefox. You can download from Github.

As Pete_D linked below there is now some evidence questioning the addictiveness of pure nicotine, however for ethical purposes these studies are generally done using animal models, most commonly rats so YMMV. Animal studies don't always correlate 1:1 to human studies. The majority of studies I have read still find nicotine more addictive than placebo. Definitely traditional cigarette products, many of the manipulations done in treating most brands of cigarettes (the exception being brands marketed as natural i.e. American Sprits) made them more addictive by adding additional constituents and potentiators. In the combustion of tobacco products as well you have the active constituents bound to the smoke molecules, which are larger and therefore more absorbed in the lungs. So yes you would be getting more effect from lung-inhaling a combusted product. Vapor products have a much smaller particulate size so are mostly absorbed by the mouth and upper airway and much less lung-dependent. The other issue that may help to influence addiction is that there is some evidence that exposure to nicotine while the brain is still developing, leads to a tendency to use higher doses as an adult. This may translate to developing brains get used to this powerful nootropic and are more addicted as adults, as speculation, it would be hard to design a study to test this. In terms of vapor, freebase nicotine has traditionally been used in vapor products, these tend to show slower absorption and more even blood levels over time. What Juul innovated, and why their product is so much more effective that previous electronic cig-alikes (like Blu) that use freebase nicotine is the development of nicotine salts that allow for increased peak absorption more mirroring the absorption curve of a traditional cigarette. The relative addictive potential of nicotine salts vs. freebase nicotine has not yet been scientifically investigated. The World Health Organization and other health organizations that tend to prefer harm-reduction and scientific objectivity estimate vaping is at least 95% less harmful than tobacco as a nicotine delivery system. (Source: can cite links, RN who reads journal articles for fun. Smoker since 14 y/o switched to vape full-time almost a decade ago.)