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(Sentenced to death if she cannot repay just over half the money)

This isn't reddit. "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Title is false. The plane has moving control surfaces.

The voting map for this bill was hilarious; all of the districts that voted "yes" were in cities, all of the rural areas voted "no". The city folk are voting to literally release w…

Google discworld reading order, pick a storyline that is similar to genres you like (the guard books are copper fiction, the Lipwig books are inverted heist novels, the Rincewind b…

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Heinlein's law: Arguing that a given scifi author's view of future society makes sense will always essentially reduce to arguing that the author's politics are correct.

It's the name, IMO/IME. Mutton as a name is unappetising. "Mutt" brings dogs to mind, and the "un" sound at the end makes it sound lumpy and gross. A lot of people don't even know …

Reminds me somewhat of roman concrete; archeologists were under the impression that roman concrete was poorly mixed due to various hydroreactive additives, that were thought to hav…

Is there anyone with view history turned off that doesn't have their youtube shortcut go directly to the flow=2 subscription videos page?

Glass houses etc. The site hosting the article is awful.

It is an unearned windfall, but people deserve to keep their homes. It bears noting that the issue is caused by property investors, not homeowners. How about we go for the individu…

Tldr: Churchill was a good wartime leader, but during his second term he screwed up the housing regulations so bad it broke up one of the longest conservative runs of all time with…

"Why is our population declining? Why aren't millennials reproducing?" Truly a mystery!

Japan is still a first world nation. The world hasn't ended for them. Can we stop pretending that having a population that isn't exponentially growing is a bad thing.

Not exactly a collapse, and a fall was always going to be the case; Brussels was always going to absolutely murder the first country to leave, as an example to the other states.

This isn't reddit.

In my opinion good maths education is important for everyone, regardless of predilections. It's often a child's first introduction to objective logic.

From my memory what mainly lost his backing from the general public was the horrendous antics of Dianne Abbot and her place at the front bench of the labour government. Everything …

Only a year? I thought they were going to deathgrip power until 2025

The only functional turing test will be either espousing hate speech or describing how to make a pipe bomb.

"human knowledge and perspectives not represented in this set could be systematically wiped from public discourse." That's a feature, not a bug. With this technology "Dangerous mis…

The basic prerogative of reproduction is predicated on the basic need for safe and secure territory. The wealthiest oligarchs of the boomer generation have done everything they can…