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Om shared with me some very personal thoughts and I think I’m not alone in considering his loss immeasurable.

That doesn’t seem right - off the top of my head I think it’s more like 4 years? maybe it should be “103*4/2/52” (not “/12”) ? … hopefully the effective wait time is considerably s…

That definition hinges on their definition for “economical” - adding a qualifier like “excessively economical” would’ve been good I think.

Herodotus wouldn’t have written it quite the same — no Jupyter notebook for example, Jupiter being a Roman term; the nearest equivalent for the Ancient Greeks was Zeus.

Finally C# will have a more idiomatic way to represent this classic code example from “The Daily WTF” in 2005 — enum Bool { True, False, FileNotFound }; See https://thedailywtf.com…

…months after it began.

You must be referring to the abridged Strnk n Wyt

In Superman III, the eponymous man straightens the leaning tower of Pisa, and in Superman II he spins the earth backwards to reverse time. A better idea would be to un-tilt the ear…

> Yurchick was one of 21 people that had been indicted for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute kilogram quantities of methamphetamine in Texas and elsewhere from August…

Interesting point. It’s a kind of reframing (or consequence of) the bullshit asymmetry principle.

Yes, absolutely. The survey could say, “given that the existence of corporate monopolies demonstrates weak and non functional governments, should governments a) cede more power to …

Absolutely. They hand-wave tremendously complex questions, in such a way that the respondent is free to interpret them any way you wish. A similar survey question might be: > I am …

A “ministry of truth” would (I assume) be a part of the executive branch of government. Whereas the creation of laws and the interpretation of laws are powers that the executive br…

> These days, American meat is absolutely overflowing with antibiotics. I don’t know if there’s any kind of serious effort to address that There’s several clearly wrong claims in t…

Recently I had the screen replaced on my child’s iPad. The tech asked for passcode, and I refused to provide it. The tech complained and said when I came to pick it up he’d need to…

There’s never a train when you want one, but when you don’t they’re everywhere!

He’s not that popular, but Billy Pilgrim keeps wandering back and forth in time, buying up all the Vonnegut books, juicing the figures. What Billy really wants is a good Kilgore Tr…

Take a slow and steady look through every second-hand book store within travelling distance. You might find it or you might not. But the search will be far more interesting than br…

Chance of Iran launching a nuclear strike on the US has gone from 0% to 0%. Chance of terrorist activity on US soil in the next 10 years has increased. I don’t think it’s improved …

A community where every household does not have guns is safer than one that does: but not for a simple reason like “because we have the police which is meant to give security to pe…

Washing machines created a revolution where we could now expend 1/10th of the human labour to wash the same amount of clothes as before. We now have more than 10 times as much clot…

If the King — without the support of the general populace or of the parliament, but acting in his own interests, like a king of old — dissolved the Parliament, he could and very sw…

The parliament can (and has previously) kick out the king and put in another king. The king has very limited power.

My Google skills are failing me here — can you provide a link, and/or some more search terms, regarding these citizen councils? Is it specific to Melbourne municipal council or oth…

I spent a little time writing software for a plastic injection moulding company who supplied parts for a range of different automotive suppliers. You could say that they were all m…