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It's already on there. Only 2.4 stars though :)

That's not a sign of bad bread. If you bake your own bread, you may find it also molds in 4 days, depending on your climate and how you store it. I'm more leery of manufactured bre…

That's what I thought of when I read this in George Orwell's "1984": "Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific …

You can literally learn most of Esperanto grammar in the time it takes to learn the difference between "soy/estar" and "por/para" in Spanish. Those are just two Spanish concepts th…

I think it is. -phonetic spelling -no exceptions, no irregular word forms -simple grammar, few conjugations -much faster vocab acquisitions due to correlatives These are all huge a…

Does it have to be? Planet Money had an episode about "revenue-neutral carbon tax", where all the money collected is returned back to the tax payers, to spend however they want. Th…

There is another example of this occuring, linked from that Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria

"it can be hard to tell if they studied it or they actually know." What is the difference? If they studied it, they now know? Is it because as an interviewer, you are looking for k…

They are very active in progressive causes. Perhaps when they sold the company to Unilever they negotiated some deal that allows them to continue to use Ben and Jerry website for t…

Another fun one is the Lexicon by Max Barry, except it exploits the auditory language processing. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158596-lexicon

You play it casually just like you read a fiction paperback casually. In the annual interactive fiction contest, the judges get 2 hours to evaluate ba game. So many new games aim f…

Thank you for posting this - I took this quiz a few years ago in a team exercise and all of my answers were off. Since then I wanted to find a copy of this test, but didn't know wh…

I thought "slowly" was a reference to the reduced typing speed on the phone.

I wonder if that's how they developed Cornerstone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_%28software%29 Just rip some code out here, change some there, until it looks like a …

By what power vested in the senator can they slap NOAA's wrist? Is it just the importance and influence by being a senator? Or is there some direct control? Or via a threat to cut …