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Rarely have I seen someone shoot down their own argument with a link quite as effectively as this. You might want to google those cities, since every single one that I've checked i…

Very reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game) It would be helpful if the event result message remained on-screen until clicked. At least on Firefox, the e…

The Great Pulping is the name, or rather names, that modern historians have given to two legendary events which were supposed to have occured early in the Confusion Era. The first …

Hi Eric, I enjoyed The Lean Startup. You used the phrase "our industry". Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the 'tech industry' concept, simply because a lot of startups are not in …

Always an interesting artist. My favorite of his was 'Amazonia Gothique', used on the cover of White Dwarf 79. Interesting to see that someone made a minifig of it: https://distopu…

I rarely use Google for search, but I've actually gone back a few times just to use the AI search function. Occasionally it is useful, especially when I can't think of the correct …

I know it's not technically a fast factorial algorithm, but I'm kinda surprised that there is no mention on the site of the AKS primality test ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_p…

I used to work with a company in Somerset whose official address is "The Barn on Church Lane". Never had any problems with shipping or mailing, but had many discussions over the ye…

A bit old but still very relevant is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants . Rampant consumerism, a United States so dominated by corporations that there is a senator f…

This seems like a good post to mention my old friend Laszlo Baksay. He was part of the original krautrock scene, being a member of the band Dom (see https://dom1972.bandcamp.com/al…

This vaguely reminds me of an old SPAM bouncing experiment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38292161

I actually like the recirculation simulation. Although all kinds of cyclical engines have recirculation of power as part of their function, in fusion there is an important differen…

Nice to see a reference to Theft of Fire here. I really liked it and can't wait for the sequel.

I already canceled last year. It's too bad, because there is a lot of Netflix content that I like. It just seems that it takes much more time clicking around to find it, and I don'…

I used to be the top-level support escalation at a company, and I made sure to brief all the tier-1 support personnel to escalate directly to me any call using "shibboleet" Sadly n…

This is a really good idea. Somebody build this!

"The computer said so" has been a scapegoat since the 1960s.

Sounds like the plot of The Dabare Snake Launcher: https://www.amazon.com/Dabare-Snake-Launcher-Joelle-Presby/d...

This discussion reminded me of my best Diff Eq prof. He would start each lecture by putting a small clock on his podium, and starting at the precise time listed for the start of th…

I'm certain we need to start taxing ads.

My Dad lost my college fund in the 1980s investing in the gold mining penny-stocks on the VSE. Fun times.

Happy owner of an iPhone SE here. I feel like the large manufacturers have trouble selling small phones because they just don't understand the small phone market. It's a lot like t…

For modern types of "social media", I prefer to use the more accurate term: Gossip Engine. It tells you exactly what it does in a way that "social media" obscures. Nothing drives e…

This is the comment on here I most relate to myself. I'm also from a family with old roots, although our family heirlooms date back only to the Fourth Crusade at earliest. My mothe…