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He's not in prison, he's in jail, and there's a big difference. What?! Jail and prison are synonyms. There is no real difference. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engli…

I parsed it as follows: Like it or not, Bitcoin - like Tor - (and this will continue to increase over time) is associated closely by the public with drugs, money laundering, gun ru…

There's a long-winded description in the first blog post: http://www.urbit.org/2013/09/24/urbit-intro.html

Widowmaker was also the name used for the hammer drills used in the Australian goldfields. The dust from the drilled rock got into the miners lungs and killed them prematurely.

The homes of the people living (or the rock wall) there are probably the cause of the lack of beach. Beaches are dynamic things, they get eroded during storms and are built up at o…

The keyboard looks like the stock Android keyboard, but with black keys instead of the grey that Android has.

If the period of time that humans have been around was drawn to scale, it wouldn't really be visible. If we assume that the width of the bar for the life of the earth is 1500 pixel…

The estimated closest distance is 110,000 km. As a comparison, that's about a third of the distance from the earth to the moon. That's pretty close.

I usually play Sim City by finding the unlimited money cheat and getting a large amount of money before I start. I can then build whatever I want. I enjoy the city design part of t…

They have removed the article: "We have temporarily suspended this advertising campaign pending a review of our policies that govern sponsor content and subsequent comment threads.…

It is probably referring to the fact that income for the bottom 50% of US earners has remained largely stagnant since the 1970s (after accounting for inflation) http://www.washingt…

The US$199 would be with a two year contract with a mobile carrier. The A$799 is without a contract.

I repeatedly click and drag, click and drag. I have no idea why I do it.

I think of lens-shaped objects, particularly lenticular clouds. Until now I did not know what the name of those moving images were. (I'm not the original poster)

This works fine on my Galaxy Nexus. I'm using Chrome. The only suggestion that I have is to do some smoothing of the values you get from the accelerometer. The movement can be a bi…

My Galaxy Nexus fails the test at http://dylanreeve.com/phone.php Apparently the bug is fixed in 4.1 (I'm still on 4.0.4). I installed a temporary fix - TelStop. It just handles te…

It makes sense to compare US prices with western/northern Europe, as they are similarly rich/developed. But to compare prices in the USA with those in eastern Europe doesn't seem r…

Not quite, they went to Australia.

5 inches seems to be pushing it a bit. I think that the S3 is already at the upper limit for a phone. The 5.3 inches of the galaxy note is way too big for an ordinary phone in my o…

There is a size selector on the left. S M L XL The XL is the actual size (pixel-wise) that you would see on a phone such as the Galaxy Nexus.

But if you compare figures for both cities from the same site: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun... You'll see that prices for just about everything are …