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ftse here. I didn't know my account was dead to the world, but thanks jacquesm for letting me know. In hindsight my comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=765153 does appea…

In an ideal world it would force a benchmark that a government would be honoured to meet. In reality, a government will do whatever it decides is in its own best interest. Which co…

The problem with an 'apology' from a government is it is unlikely to be sincere. How about we track down the individuals who persecuted Turing and force them to apologise? We can't…

An alternative to a physical monument on Earth is a device based off-planet, probably on the moon, that beams a laser movie to the site every few weeks. It could project a short fi…

I find a good app helps... Papers for OS X is an excellent interface to repositories such as ArXiv, PubMed etc. There is also an iPhone version which will download articles direct …

ImageMagick seems to be totally broken. I've tried MacPorts & recompiling the source, but not really making any progress. I had a few hiccups with libxml2 but these were fixed afte…

Yes he is. He also speaks his mind like every fat-mouthed, intelligent American from Franklin to Vidal did. So shut your trap and get on with life. lol.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=765301

Is he propagating a business model that rolls a thin wafer of sensationalism over an important, under-reported, honest-to-god fact, right under our noses?

You kids! His persona is often troll... however, his operandi is journalism. Remember that? You know, telling the ugly truth (as you saw it), without fear or hinder?

'Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea' by Charles Seif

Cute. To illustrate the sum of limits, however, I prefer a graphic with sum -> 1. Take an empty circle then add a chunk of shaded semicircle, then add one quarter, then add one eig…

'Squirrel' returns a good search square, but no red or grey squirrels.

Seems to me there are more Reddit-type comments submitted lately. It is something I have been very conscious of, much stronger than a hunch or gut feeling. I'm curious as to why yo…

It looks incredible. I think Google are right to be concerned. Others should be too - take the mortgage example: it wouldn't be hard to integrate current deals on offer from mortga…

It looks great. Now let's compare it to the competition... Amazon's web page for the Kindle shows only one entry under 'Browse similar items in Electronics': 'Kindle DX'

Tax isn't about raising money... its purpose is to instill fear and drain your mental energy so you are not equipped to compete with the bureaucratic entity that imposes tax on you…