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Isn't 8 digits closer to 100 million unique numbers than to 10?

So the bureaucrats are winning (as they always do). Demanding that your name is written down in a specific way is just stupid. I always found it elitist when people insist on a spe…

Given that this performance has taken place in a large, western city with a random audience, what makes anyone think that the outcome would be significantly different if you would …

Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania (ongoing experiment, I guess), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia , Soviet Union

I got curious about the fact that the cited table from the paper only contains five laws, but the blog author describes seven such laws. So I read the paper. I have to say that the…

It seems this technique is getting more pervasive. With such interviews, I always got the feeling these people are talking to a machine. Now that I learned about the Interrotron, I…

I recommend "What is this thing called Science?" by A. F. Chalmers. It describes how science came about and how scientific principles were established. I found it highly accessible…

TL;DR: Work comes with a cost, whether you do the work or not.

The idea is, as in the original, that for guessing you have to enter valid words. In this case, it's 6-letter words. However, it's not easy to obtain a complete list of valid 6-let…

My attempt to create a German one (slightly different rules from the original): https://www.waswort.de

Talking about obscurity of code, in Forth you would write: 5 9 7 min max . This prints 7, as it's between 5 (lower bound) and 9 (upper bound). Defining a clamp "function" looks lik…