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Have a butchers at my China who thinks the seppos are less precise.

That would be Volvo cars. tfa is about Volvo group, which is Swedish and makes among other things Volvo trucks. (Or HGVs as they might be called in Europe)

It's a chinese flag, the old republic of china flag. Also known as the five races flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Races_Under_One_Union

There is a really great documentary about Kevin Carter and the bang bang club called "when under fire, shoot back" [0] It's much better than the fictionalized version that TFA refe…

Why is family farming worth protecting? What extra value do family farms provide to me, the person actually buying food? People lose their jobs because superior companies out-compe…

This is an example of a problem called the Coupon Collector problem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector%27s_problem ). Short version is that the expected value of numb…

Yes, but the original article is spreading misinformation. Anesthesia is always used during organ harvests.

Anesthesia is always used during organ harvests. Anesthesiologists treat the donor just as they would any other patient undergoing surgery. This account by a Georgia anesthesiologi…

Non-technical. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html

Cocktail sort twoWayBubbleSort = -> VA.locals.swapped = true while VA.locals.swapped VA.locals.swapped = false for x in [0...VA.length - 1] VA.locals.x = x if VA.gt(x, x + 1) VA.sw…

According to the inflation calculator: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi $100,000 1962 dollars is $712000 2010 dollars. A lot of money, for sure, but not 10 million.