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"French prosecutors say Telegram CEO freed from custody, will appear in court" No, he won't.

And that explains the not-in-the-EU affected computers how?

I don't think that anyone before, in or after Roman times would run gold wire like that through the holes. Why scratch up the work? Why abrade away gold flakes? Is there gold resid…

Wow. The companies I've worked at only kept old emails if there was a litigation hold. Otherwise, the email retention policy was enforced. It seems to me a double edged sword that …

Most Fortune 500 companies have (I am extrapolating wildly here since I haven't worked at all of them) email retention policies that specify that emails will not be kept past a cer…

What if this is the basis of "magic"? The secret power of curses that were burnt or cast into a lake or cave that "worked" by diminishing the anger in the caster rather than cursin…

This has been going on for a while: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_hemispheres

"The Library at Mount Char" by Scott Hawkins. His first novel. Very original, not quite sci-fi, not quite fantasy. Some rough edges. Excellent.

Concise Co. of Japan still makes slide rulers albeit only circular ones ( https://www.sliderule.tokyo/products/list.php ). One prominent industry that still uses slide rulers is av…

OK. Assume that the evidence is strong and true. That still doesn't mean that there's been continuous habitation. It could be evidence of a failed colonization followed by crickets…

Seems like someone may have the pleasure of becoming interested in the matter and going further. Perhaps they may resurrect Maledicta, the journal of verbal aggression. See https:/…

Everyone has known that the instant Russia felt threatened that the dam would (probably) be destroyed. The consequences are horrible for Ukraine but not so much for Russia. They ha…

Same situation for antibiotics. Fleming, in the actual Nobel prize acceptance speech, warned: "It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exp…

There is a nice reproduction of Byrne's colorful take on the first six books of the Elements.See https://www.c82.net/euclid/ .

Just get a "display". See https://youtu.be/-epPf7D8oMk where Jeff Geerling talks about how great a TV his non-TV is. He has an NEC UHD Professional Display M551. He gets to control…

I meant that China would take back those parts of Manchuria and nearby lands it lost to Russia in 1860 the second Russia commits to total war on its western front. Taiwan is too di…

Taiwan? Looking at the board, seeing what's happening in the west, I would keep an eye on the level of loss the Russians are willing to endure before probable tactical nuke usage. …

Shouldn't the EU physically destroy the Nord Stream 1 and 2 terminals and sever the pipelines at sea so that they become useless? Isn't Putin betting that the gas will flow again w…

Out of curiosity, given a degree/calendar/time system could one localize the culture that created it?

Don Quixote de la Mancha - M. de Cervantes Saavedra A hundred years of Solitude - G. G. Márquez Foucault's Pendulum - U. Eco Cryptonomicon - N. Stephenson The Dispossessed - U. K. …

Why can't this be repurposed as a lung cleanse? I imagine that heavy smokers' lungs (or coal miners') could benefit from a wash and rinse, perhaps with some vibration assistance. W…

Well, this is exactly what it is for. Neither LaTeX nor Texmacs help out in the research phase. They are document preparation systems (although Texmacs could be used as a front end…

TeXmacs has nothing to do with either Emacs or TeX. It's a standalone wysiwyg editor, like MS Word or OO Writer.