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Atomic hydrogen definitely exists

I love Xiaomi phones, I've owned a couple. But I wouldn't dream of using them without first replacing MIUI with Lineage OS.

What makes you think cocaine is an MAOI?

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't stop it from sticking Lego up its bum." Probably my favourite quote from the Inbetweeners.

Another article says "Alice Eriksen, the granddaughter of the Little Mermaid’s original sculptor, Edvard Eriksen, revealed the installation to the public today. The mermaid “canstr…

The "web" link at the top bypasses the paywall. Accessing the article from Google also bypasses the paywall.

I didn't realise it's actually illegal for media to report suicides in NZ. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/80143183/New-Zealand-suicide...

The Philippines even gets a mention in the Wikipedia entry on summary execution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_execution

You forgot the Philippines. President Duterte has summarily executed nearly 2,000 suspected drug dealers and users since July 1st and vowed to execute 98,000 more. http://time.com/…

If you can put yourself in hospital with 48V then you deserve a Darwin award

Google was deemed to have broken wiretapping laws when it scooped up unsecured wifi data while collecting images for Streetview. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24047235

Actually it means "out of one's mind"

> IMHO no other US company has been as bad at price gouging EU customers as Adobe. They gouged Australians even worse! http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/it-is-cheaper-to-fly.…

In the UK, most scampi (a crustacean) is actually monkfish tail.

Not such a clever headline; the only people who say 'purposely' are toddlers and Americans.

A hybrid plant isn't possible. Apart from both producing electricity from sunlight, a PV plant has nothing in common with concentrated solar thermal.

Those sound like great reasons to use something sensible like a hydraulic ram to apply 1,000,000 lbf. Force = pressure x area, and neither pressure nor area is difficult to measure…

We like to flatter ourselves that human flesh is super tasty and drives predators into a feeding frenzy. Why should it be?

Sounds like an urban legend. DEF is 325 g/L urea. Urine is roughly 9.3 g/L urea. Not a great substitute.

This is a great book. I found the section about the Crusades especially interesting.

Not in the UK. December 2015 was the wettest month in recorded history.

Most of the UK already can't think of anything worse than living in London, and you want to make it 5 times more crowded?!

I don't follow. You're suggesting a good DAC can make crappy MP3 sound good over crappy earphones?