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There's an Austrian site with a massive variety of puzzles like these, all playable online for free: https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Uebersicht.htm It's mostly in German, but each gam…

Their money is mostly stored in regulated and insured banks and investments. Even if you get their bank password, you can't just move all their money at once to an untraceable acco…

> the ones making nests near urban areas were incorporating a lot of colorful man-made trinkets they scavenged from the big city to woo the ladies (which I think suggests some leve…

By these rules, you just committed an attack and violated the rights of others by saying "88". If you were banned to prevent this attack, nothing of value would be lost. Oh, "but I…

I think you have some XIs that should be IXs.

You think everyone else can't make conscious decisions, but you can? That sounds like solipsism, or just a lack of empathy.

Reminds me of "100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories" edited by Asimov. The format works really well for hard sci-fi, gets straight to the point. Some of them have stuck wi…

That's just a ternary operator. I use that in Java all the time. value = boolean ? this_value : other_value; If the branching logic gets too complicated, I usually move it into a f…

If it was "promise" in the sense of "showing promise", then it's a mass noun and they wouldn't have said "a promise". That's like saying "a money" or "a knowledge".

That was actually mentioned in Nintendo Power volume 50, it's one of the most well-known and easy-to-perform video game glitches. They also mentioned the Zelda 2 glitch where you c…

No, that's already covered by 0000, nobody drinks that one. Number the bottles 0 to 15 and it's clearer.

The ruling was in 2015, there was a year delay before it came into effect.

Some of these are poorly worded. Why does the answer to the May one keep talking about 30 seconds passing when the only time mentioned in the problem is 30 minutes? 30 seconds give…

JS gets even weirder when you include all the comparison operators. https://jsfiddle.net/5Yzs6/17/ Did you know undefined is equal to undefined, but not = undefined? Or that two in…

It wouldn't need to involve cognition and logic, it could be evolutionary coincidence: humpback whales with behavior that happens to result in fewer orcas nearby would have more su…

No, it would require them to add their cert on the intended machines under their control. The only reasons they would need the trust of all browsers and OS's are subterfuge and laz…

Tetris is actually an interesting example: http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Random_Generator Officially branded Tetris games are required to use a "random bag" algorithm where they gen…

> People may not always feel comfortable checking into a local bar or sharing an anecdote from their lives, knowing these updates may not be relevant to all their connections. Goog…

Don't forget Codex of Alchemical Engineering, one of their free browser games: http://www.zachtronics.com/the-codex-of-alchemical-engineeri...

What black hole are you sending JSON into where the only way they could know something is a date is if you use a date type? Why can't that be part of the data structure you agreed …

Would this be implemented as only showing pairs within a certain threshold of difference, or would it choose an application purely at random and then the application with the close…

I think most people are reading that example and imagining a one-off harsh interaction with someone who doesn't usually snap like that, while the way you describe it: > how unpleas…

Everyone forgets about Pac-Man, that was another huge contributor to the crash. The 2600 couldn't handle 5 sprites, so they used one sprite for all the ghosts and showed one per fr…

That doesn't explain what "declared a de jure court" means. Declared an according-to-law court? And that made the judge run away? It's gibberish.