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In the current situation it is necessary, since it prevents accidents. The main problem is that there is simply too much traffic on poorly planned and barely maintained infrastruct…

Have you ever visited a city like Mumbai? In the larger cities of most less developed countries it's not only very accepted but even necessary for the safety of everyone to honk at…

"Pulling a MySpace" means messing up your product so badly that your users abandon ship. "Jumping the Shark" means taking your story to such incredible heights that it becomes unbe…

Ever since raising the volume on ads was banned they simply switched to using using limiters, that basically boost all frequencies to achieve the same effect. They'll even use comm…

Don't forget the French guy that felt he had to cut up his dog to release his spirit. In that same year we also had a Brit mutilating himself and trashing his hotel (after consumin…

It's a nice addition for any Bond villains lair. Big bad man like big bad toys. This is actually a common problem in Mexico: "They [drug lords] like charismatic animals that symbol…

It does not. The amount of risk involved is not a factor. The term "selfie" refers to the inherent narcissism of the focus of the shot. In a traditional selfie, when you move, your…

It's also worth noting that Heksenkaas is a ridiculously overpriced product, which probably explains why they are trying so hard to keep the competition at bay.

Up to 36.000 euro per mill per year actually. Not a bad time to be owning farmland in the Netherlands.

Recording is not the problem. Cutting and splicing the best bits of all those recordings is very labor intensive.

Dutch version: http://wildplukwijzer.nl

1. Buy a flagship phone. My S7 hasn't crashed once since I got it over a year ago. 2. Buy a flagship phone (or get better laws? Pretty sure EU has laws against that sort of behavio…

I think I gifted that book to at least a dozen people by now, it's an absolute must read. I still paraphrase stories from it regularly.

Ever since reading "How music got free" by Stephen Witt I get a bit annoyed with the MPEG team getting credit for "creating" the mp3. They did more to kill it than to support it.

Yeah, but in this case that might also disable the notifications of Google Maps navigation. That's why I simply tolerated the occasional nag until today, when this panicky article …

Meh. Open Google Maps (the app responsible for all of these notifications). Go to settings > notifications > your contributions. Turn off everything. Done. It's just one app being …

I would, especially if I was on a waiting list. A punishment that does not remove him from his job would benefit everyone in this case.

Ah, I thought it was only 46 miles from Wales! [ 1 ] [ 1 ] https://youtu.be/mbyzgeee2mg

I always use 1/1/1911 to shave off a few more of those precious microseconds

I don't use Twitter, but I though it gave the story a stronger 'live' feeling, making it more engaging. It made it easier to share the feeling of joyful discovery the author experi…

You actually see (hear) this a lot on YouTube lately. It's usually not so bad when professionals do it, but often amateurs have tendency to go a little overboard and it can really …

Old, but gold: http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

It says "Model (pending)" on the project page and that's an empty link, so presumably they will release the code at some point in the future.