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In the UK, they used to use the volume of Wembley Stadium (a well-known sports ground), but then it was demolished and rebuilt.

River of fire comes out of the ground. Hmm. Where did it come from?

> they estimated that Kuwae’s eruption had released vast quantities of magma, enough to fill the Empire State Building 37 million times over This is a unit of journalistic measurem…

Regardless of what the law says, in practice, breaking TSA equipment, interfering with TSA duties and, above all else, pissing off a TSA officer are all arrestable offences. If the…

Way to make friends with the TSA. ;-)

No, he’s doing both.

Wow, you killed Tails! I tried visiting the payload site with Tails OS (a Linux distro for privacy minded) and the whole OS is frozen.

There’s a way: it’s pointless and nobody will use it. It’s very much a solution looking for a problem. If there was some advantage to using cryptocurrency for sex services, they’d …

THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO MEET! So why do thy need cryptocoin? Cryptocoin just makes life harder, because you have to convert that coin into cash you can spend, which is troublesome and…

Just curious: If I was an Australian citizen and I wanted access to my full medical records, would it be cheaper / easier to go through legal or illegal channels?

So a disruptive technology is one that disrupts the marketplace, but markets are impossible to predict, so disruptive technologies can only be identified in hindsight. Have I got t…

TL;DR Business theory based on cherry-picked case studies, post hoc rationalization and survivorship bias fails to make a compelling case, but nobody cares, because it tells an app…

Is there an easy way to do represent something like this in Cell: I will say this emphatically As far as I can tell, Cell doesn’t permit this. If you have multiple child nodes ($co…

I don’t know why they call it “stateless” either. It clearly isn’t. Are they confused about what the word means?

Simple and useful. What a shame there’s no easy way to integrate Cell into pre-existing code. Well ... actually ... there IS a way, but this feature is only mentioned one-third of …

My apologies to all you tab lovers, but I suspect that preferring spaces is a proxy for experience.

What a great idea for an analysis, but I can’t see ANY patterns in the data. I thought the expressiveness of the language might be a factor. A line of Haskell does more than a line…

After SICP and a little study of functional programming, I started learning about design patterns, and my immediate reaction was, “What’s all the fuss about? I mean ... c’mon ... h…

Have you tried using LyX? Or does LyX not really support the kind of things you want to do?

Take a class C. Alice extends class C with class A, which implements function a. Bob extends class C with class B, which implements function b. I have both Alice’s and Bob’s code, …

I don’t wholly disagree with the article, but I think it overstates its case. In particular: > Is there really so much difference between f(o), o.f(), and (f o)? Yes, there is! In …

Because it’s much easier for the court to reach a judgement about a contract if both parties are clear about what they were expecting to gain from it. Also, you have to ask why som…

I was talking about ignorance among the consumers, not the producers. The farmers certainly know which side their bread is buttered on!

Not for lettuce, no. It has a short shelf life and doesn’t travel well.

> Nobody that I know of complains about about the agricultural system here (granted, I live in a farming community :-) ). I did (granted, I have a background in Economics). Tell a …