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I wrote up a transcription of the New York Times article on this event, which exists as a fairly degraded PDF. http://bæta.net/resources/documents/ocr_nyt_hw.txt Some interesting s…

Similarly, the single Bronze-Iron age result they find is from the Isle of Thanet, which was a major trading post (see: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-pho…

This reminds me of a short story about Earth being flung from the solar system by a rogue star. People survive, and one family in particular survives by boiling frozen oxygen 'snow…

Oh yes, we must protect people from being exposed to certain ideas. Else they might be convinced those ideas are true. This is for everyone's protection.

Interesting idea. One thing that this would be good for is almost by default members get experience working with the technologies the site is running -- they learn to use Github, d…

Talk about a daring public outreach initiative.

"one of our agents will be coming around to swipe you" <- I honestly don't know what this means.

Non-violent resistance doesn't always mean simply protesting occupations. If a population is motivated enough, a non-violent resistance movement could look very much like a country…

1) I've browsed the internet happily for many a year without having pornography 'shoved in my face'. If they find it, they were almost certainly looking for it. 2) If they're looki…

I don't understand. Who upvotes content without reading it?

Does Bulbapedia not work very well on a mobile or something? http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Charmander#Type_effec...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gfv/notes_on_autonomous_cars/

"Unfortunately , we were not able to find any good way to discover a new hidden service or to find where a known hidden service is hosted. For more discussion, see sections 7.2.2, …

As mohawk says, the content of the summary article fairly clearly reflects the gist of the publication. It was exploratory work, they think that that's the key factor but aren't su…

It was largely his employer's fault. Ludovico Sforza, Leonardo's employer, was actually a regent ruling in the stead of the rightful Duke of Milan. When the young Duke came of age,…

I hadn't heard of this. This page: http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/navigli/ seems to sum up the matter. He didn't build the canals, but he did make several observation…

People interested in this might also like his self-promoting letter to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, a little later in life: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/22/…

He didn't actually complete very much while he was there, though (this was a recurring problem for him which only got worse in later life) -- his contribution over sixteen years wa…

A nice idea, but probably not a good one. The problems Tor would bring users in terms of slow connection, risk from malicious exit nodes etc. would outweigh any benefit for most pe…

http://clientconfig.immunicity.org/pacs/all.pac This is essentially just a list of (presumably unblocked) proxies for the sites on their (quite short) list. They don't provide anyt…

I am a customer of this ISP, and I can recommend them. They are much better set up for dealing with the technically-inclined customer than mainstream providers.

Source Article (for those the readability link breaks for): http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinesharrock/what-is-that-box-whe...

There are a number of misrepresentations in this article. He talks of the impossibility of the 550 (where has this number come from?) GHCQ and NSA analysts reading all this data. A…