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I believe that is the Great Loop: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/great-loop.html

Didn't Japan start that war?

> “the golden rule of conversation” was “to know nothing accurately.” I've witnessed so many fun conversations killed by someone looking up the facts on their phone.

The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton is a very approachable introduction to Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Shopenhauer, and Nietzsche and the practical takeawa…

Contactless cards did exist here in the US a number of years ago. I had one from Chase. Then around 2014 when it expired, the replacement card did not have contactless payment anym…

I'm a subscriber to the NY Times. Out of curiosity I disabled Ghostery and reloaded this article's page. It took 5.5s to load the page and then almost 30 seconds to load the _49_ t…

A.k.a A list of your exes.

You inspired me to look into this more and it turns out that George Orwell was inspired to invent Newspeak (from his book 1984) from his experience with Basic English. He was initi…

I'm sure I'd love to have a private office but just how feasible is that? My current company has 18 full-time "knowledge workers", where in the world is a startup going to find the…

.ie is Ireland's TLD.

Humor by committee. What could go wrong?

That explains a lot. I've always wondered why such an otherwise industrious and hard working people will head home or stay at home at the first sign of a snow flake, even amongst p…

Devolve is not the opposite of evolve. To devolve is to transfer ruling power to a lower level, e.g. from a central government to regional governments. A species evolves to adapt t…

99% is probably better than my success rate with reCAPTCHA...

The article really tries to make this about her gender when on the face of it it's about her role. "she had been paid a salary of $60,000, half what her male colleagues made" doesn…

The word beautiful is starting to lose all meaning.

I had the same thought. I'd also have too many grainy, out-of-focus pics of my younger brothers doing shots. And don't forget "meme" pictures. That would be lovely.

Humor by committee.

What's the current market price for the personal contact details of 11,000+ individuals? Keep in mind that these people are willing to sign up for something they know nothing about…

Looks like GCE has instances in the US only right now https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/available_resourc... EC2 is available in Ireland, Tokyo, Singapore and Sao Paulo as…

No, you can't play Tetris in it.

How would fluffing the salaries benefit a company? The result would be new employees expecting matching wages and existing employees feeling they are underpaid relative to their pe…