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I must disagree with you about Wiktionary. It's great.

Nice name. I do something along these lines in my LaTeX source; never thought of it as a thing .

Generally agreed, although the huge number of bugs out there that are attributable to manual memory management suggests that other solutions are worth looking for. Perhaps Rust is …

Sure, popular election of senators is at least a little problematic. But maybe what we really want is a return to the original model, where members of the House are elected by the …

> ... I can't help but feel bitter towards the proponents of AA who insist on it being a monopoly... especially those in positions of power in the criminal justice or public health…

Here we go again: the latest in a long line of sites that I can't figure out, while lots of others comment "cool". I click "Sort it". Nothing happens. For all those silent folks wh…

"Do not stop to be thrifty" -- I imagine that should be "Do not stop being thrifty"? "Master wedding-feasts" -- what does that mean? "Grieve for no one" seems odd.

> I realize that it costs money to publish journals and papers, .... Does it? The authors are not paid. The referees (who do peer review) are not paid. The editors are not paid. Th…

> I have told the above story to different audiences. Programmers, as a rule, are delighted by it, and managers, invariably, get more and more annoyed as the story progresses; true…

I agree with the point of the article. Still, there is so much out there that is available only in one of the MS Office formats, and Gov.UK is apparently doing better than that. So…

The article compares Rodin's drawings of the Cambodian dancers with those by Noël Dorville, but includes no images of the latter. For the interested, I found this: https://www.ebay…

This is an interesting analysis, but I have a serious problem with the strong implication that high vividness = good. At the rock bottom of the vividness scale, we find Jane Austen…

The really tough barrier is getting enough people with the required expertise to do the annotation. Annotation sites like to say, "Hey, we have this paper and we have this paper." …

I don't think it's inappropriate either. But we should note that police do not have expertise regarding the administration of drugs. Someone with no expertise in a field can sugges…

> How do you infer that the article concentrates on the misbehavior of police more than misbehavior by EMS workers? Well, I guess it's not so much that the article concentrates on …

That's an interesting observation. The problem -- if it is one -- is certainly not limited to the Win 8 Start menu. There are plenty of interfaces where pressing a button, or some …

It seems to me that this article is concentrating on the wrong thing. The biggest problem in the incidents in question is not misbehavior by police; it is misbehavior by EMS worker…

I think it means that the writer doesn't really know what he is talking about. And, by the way, there are five regular solids. The other is the dodecahedron. I imagine the writer w…

> Bell knew there was a distinct possibility of a patent fight with Edison, so on three occasions he had papers and experimental products sealed in tin boxes and deposited at the S…

Cool. Found a pic of the one in Nicaragua: https://retirenicaragua.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/the-soul-of...

> People know what they need. There is another way to view this. We might think of these programs as encouraging people to do things that society needs, instead of what they need. …

> about 328 feet from the floating platform Someone doesn't understand precision. (That's 100 meters, so "about 300 feet".)

> Basically, the Army blew the levee to save a town, Cairo, IL, at the expense of (a few) homes and (lots of) farmland on the MO side. Are you sure about the "homes" part? 20 years…

Fantastic article -- and interesting comment. Thanks for posting.

Cool. Also, figlet sighting, "large" font. :-)