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Those dummies. They had perfectly good time machines in 1999 and they didn't even use them to visit our enlightened era. I bet they did all their calculations on some old Windows 9…

Congratulations, and welcome back!

I disagree with his argument of the end of cheap energy. Even if oil were to become very expensive, we could use nuclear power. It is more expensive than natural gas, but it can po…

I think if you truly obtain a MSc in statistics, you would no longer be a data scientist but a statistician.

Northern Quebec: say Rouyn-Noranda. Cold, remote and inexpensive and not a long bus ride to Montreal for adventures.

Toronto actually recently passed Chicago in population.

"He essentially defines an act as "good" if it's a net increase in human happiness and well-being." John Rawls, one of the foremost liberal philosophers of our time spends the bulk…

I hope you don't mind my taking this post as an open invitation for anyone to reply to, but I thought I should reply as well. 1. I love talking to people with different beliefs. If…

I vaguely remember that. I also remember one of the characters recoding his camera on the fly to take pictures of people ogling his computer at a meeting. Not too realistic, but co…

Surely, there are more than these. I have to confess that Dan Brown would not be my "go to guy" on anything factual.

It's summer and time to put together a reading list. My suggestion is Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. And thanks to dragonwriter for the assist in wording the question correctly.

Looking for a some summer reading? How about leaving a comment below with the author and title of a book in which Linux plays a significant role.

Looking for some open source summer reading? How about leaving a comment below with the author and title of a book in which Linux plays a role. My suggestion is Neal Stephenson's C…

I know that Blackberry is getting a lot of grief in the press as first hipsters and now their parents are embracing iPhones and Android phones, but I am surprized that HN users are…

Blackberry just can't seem to catch a break in the media these days. I love that articles are coming out in Britain now about how the BB is yesterdays technology about a year and a…