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you laugh but i've always thought it would be great to carry a kilo of pure hydrogen in my backpack - just burn it to obtain like 5 litres of water ... I mean why are we carrying a…

Do you mean that if I had invented a "machine for airborne transportation", such as, say, a hot-air balloon, I could collect royalties on jet airplanes?

Another claim seems to be that a collection of unread books serves as a personal reminder of ignorance, that the un-known always exceeds the known, a kind of "memento ignorantiae" …

> Using data from government censors Should be "sensors" (used correctly a few sentences later). Is this a text-to-speech thing, or written by a non-native speaker, or just appalli…

Just curious, Australia being mostly desert, if the rest of the planet became similarly barren, would it still work out? I don't know how food-independent Australia is...

Covid cases are asymptomatically approaching zero. However, your duplicate entries will reach their target asymptotically :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote

> But how well would it fly if you were to plead the need to feast, to embalm your brother, or to make an offering to a god? Vacation, funerals, religious holy-days?

Theoretically at some point in the step-by-step process, the computers will be able to clear their own roadblocks by themselves, and faster than we can. And who knows what happens …

Consider how you would like others to treat your insecurities. Balding isn't the core issue here...

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While this is annoying to many of us, if it diminishes the general public expectation that that online services should be free and subsidised by advertising/marketing/related servi…

I can submit a patch to an open-source project and everybody benefits ; but if I raise my own animals, the industrial-scale torture continues anyway. How many people need to raise …

I suspect the "great" Britain distinguishes it from the other Britain which is a nearby French province, ie "Grande Bretagne" vs "Bretagne". Ireland is still not British! The "Brit…

If you don't have the skills to make the open-source changes you want yourself, but you have the money to make it happen, there is nothing stopping you hiring a developer to build …

lots more graphs on this page: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases

I have found the worldometer page easier to use than the others : https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The Place Charles de Gaulle Étoile (Arc de Triomphe) in Paris is a gigantic roundabout, with the peculiar feature that traffic entering the system has priority ; traffic already on…

It's a little bit more subtle. Assume that there is a finite number of primes, and P is the set of all primes p0, p1, p2... pn. If you multiply all these together and add 1, you ha…

"FOAF" is well-known, http://www.foaf-project.org/

HN strips out emoji... but this works in ruby (replace " " with a smiley for example) def puts "helloworld" end > helloworld

- Daddy, is Santa real? - What do you think, dear? Followed by discussion of the evidence... if all goes well they learn to use their own judgement and cope with coming independent…

Scotland and NI quit UK to form their own republic and rejoin EU together. Everyone happy. Maybe even republic of Scotland-Ireland.

Extra inefficient for two trains going in the same direction... gotta wait for the next train in the opposite direction