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> the leaf can make hydrogen from any water—dirty water, even urine I wonder how they tackle the problem of monoculture. The issue with biofuel from algae is that once the containe…

Dear Denis, now lets do something, seriously.

From the money I saved from programming I have bought an old shop and turning it now into an art gallery and a party space. In the last few months I learned lot about plaster board…

maintenance nightmare

I'm using kiva.org and have deposited $9,000 over couple of years. With auto-relend option my account circulated currently $58,325 through 2,268 loans (individuals or groups) in 61…

"Prosecutor General's Office, the FSB and the Interior Ministry declared war on Bitcoins" http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=ASCII&prev=_t...

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I wonder if there are any public APIs for those "TSDB, TIDE, CLASS, KSTF, TECS, IBIS, TUSCAN, TACTICS" etc. databases. Would be interesting to look at the data. What are the acrony…

The April Jokes season is starting early this year.

I'm of an European descent and I'm not talking on behalf of Japanese nation. Just my personal thoughts. Japan (Tokyo) is my permanent home and I feel unease with all the economic d…

Could it be that Jay is hopelessly overqualified for this job? Whatever this position would be. I assume the sweet positions for algorithm tweaking and HTML/CSS development from sc…

Collateral damage?

Do not they having cushons, overprovisions, dummy weights, tolerance ranges to account for unexpected spec changes? I imagine the systems are very complex, so the components are ma…

There was a saying, which goes something like "If you want something to be accomplished, give it to the busiest colleague." Why is it so?

Thanks, you caught me in my incompetency. The standard gravity on Moon it supposed to be.

One explanation for the wrong answers is how people use the phrase 'pen floats', and how people are imprecise about using words. The gravitational constant is 1/6 of the Earth's. T…

Can the infinitesimally thin paper be folded more than 8 times?

doodle -> dude google -> guge (sorry that must have come)

5F5080F16845DC6523F5F6B2D38FCCCA4585CE89 Bill Bryson cancelled it seems.

"democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of l…