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This week in 1945, an off-by-one error disrupts the surrender ceremony ending World War II: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-a-canadians-m...

Interesting to see where the zeros show up on the distance matrix (aside from the diagonal). The similarity between manti and shumai ( siomay in the article) was quite a surprise: …

And then there is "zwei vierzig" or €2,40

Norway and Singapore tax the crap out of cars and are still doing fine.

Taiwan had a similar problem just a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y1C_Problem

Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore would very much like to disagree with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio Even the London tube does pretty well by thi…

Japan, India, HK, UK, Australia, USA, Canada, Singapore Tiny city-states are not known for being particularly recognizable unless you've been there.

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-...

Can't we turn the tables on them if we know what's going on? 1) Take out life insurance policy. 2) Pay with credit card at McDonald's and the bar. 3) Get a bunch of speeding ticket…

A lot of MUDs still use telnet. Even with MCCP (which has to be negotiated over telnet anyway), it's not uncommon for legacy clients to connect over raw telnet.

True story: I moved from southern California to Holland in no small part because of how amenable the country is to cycling. People like to think that cycling is popular here natura…

Probably needs some adjustment or moderator intervention in the near term. I just tried a moment ago; you can still submit a pages.github.com URL and HN will mark the domain as git…

A friend of mine who is now a VC told me about dogs which were put into a box where anything they did caused the floor to shock them. Eventually they just lay on the floor quiverin…

Maybe not for multi-family condos, but the Dutch seem to have a great time with their shipping containers. This student housing complex is quite popular: http://www.tempohousing.co…

In Chinese the fraction 355/113 has been known as the 密率 ("detailed ratio") and 22/7 as the 约率 ("approximate ratio"). It is documented in the Book of Sui, volume 16: 宋末，南徐州從事史祖沖之，更…

... and which is now building the goggle interface device (Project Glass) that Hiro Protagonist used to great effect. Perhaps the Metaverse will be upon us soon. Will Google take o…

I wrote a utility a while ago to manipulate human/AI control of civs in Civ III (conquests expansion pack), as a bit of a reverse engineering exercise: https://github.com/CoreDumpl…

I welcome this move, despite the possibility of some fallout from the change. It'll be painful, but even as someone who once made a living writing ActionScript, I have to say that …

Story of my life, Ed. I am your poster boy who lives "cheap" and not "frugal" by choice. I clip coupons and browse slickdeals before committing to a purchase. I never buy anything …

Programmers beware! You need to be especially careful with converting geodetic lat/lon/alt coordinates to and from other systems, particularly with the Earth-centered, Earth-fixed …