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Great, now they just have to wait for the next bank crash and following economic depression and then they could try that tactic.

Bamboo rots and emits methane.

Weird title, if a dust storm really hits Mars, as opposed to a dust storm merely brewing on Mars, the whole solar system would likely be affected. Regardless of how big the molecul…

Amazing text!

Yeah, that tumbling didn't look like it was intended.

Too late now!

Allende won with 37% and a 83% turnout, Nixon won with 43% and a 62% turnout, giving Allende 30% of the popular vote and Nixon 27 %. I'm not sure what this tells us about Nixons ri…

Sounds like Jimenez found the latest trick google uses to get people to submit to tracking.

This study will learn things about how a biased sample of the population answer choices in a simple game depending on the context given; extrapolation from that basis to anything w…

If the "Swedish official" you refereed to is Peter Fallenius, he was sentenced to three years in jail in a lower court and this was upheld by the supreme court (basically his appea…

Historically China has fought wars over its borders, there is no obvious reason why they should switch to a US style expeditionary military with world wide ambitions. That the cont…

Well, there isn't much use for a navy in a land war with Russia anyway.

I'm also confused by that statement, especially as I was using msn over xmpp up until that died two years ago or however much it was. I think maybe the grandparent was saying that …

How can you afford to rent a van if you can't afford to buy a beer in a bar twice a year?

What, people started using msn instead of gchat because those chats weren't on xmpp? Why would gchat have as many users as facebook anyway? It's not like gmail was a community like…

Yeah, it'd be nice if IM just settled on some interoperable basis. I think there is an eternal need for a new chat app (as each new generation of school children create their first…

What? For irc you can connect without an account, how is that harder than forcing people to register on github first? Oh, you mean its easier for people who already have github acc…

Yeah, you needed aim if you wanted to chat with some americans when I played utopia. Meanwhile the big IM breakthrough among my less technical friends was msn. I quite quickly foun…

Well, certainly its easier to become poor if you live in an expensive city. But once you are poor, how can you afford moving?

What? Do you have to go to a judge if you want to change your name in general, or is there a special law that say that if you change your name to something differently gendered you…

So anyone know if the WSJ has accepted climate change and apologised for denying it for decades? Or are they still to be considered unreliable handlers of science findings?

Yeah, I found the lack of discussion about possible causes by modifying atomic physics rather than go directly to new particles disappointing. Maybe there is a good reason to trust…

I usually don't congratulate people on their birthday on Facebook, because there are so many birthdays and it feels more fair to neglect uniformly. But then Facebook introduced a s…