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Oh my! That was harsh and cleverly concealed too! My observation was lost in translation. I have nothing against Africa. I read Achebe and consider Things Fall Apart to be one of t…

Yes, If I may: in countries like Africa, dogs are usually on their own (even if they are nominally someone's pet) and quite often get run over on the road. They are left there to r…

irishcoffee, you should listen to this http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/382451600/entangleme...

"This is, I recognise, a romantic view of dying, but it is achievable with love, morphine, and whisky." Oh, tell that to a 7 year old who has terminal cancer. What an amazingly bli…

They are talking about helping blind people and you are talking about terrible scrolling and closing the website?

What's bus factor?

I started https://filespin.io when employed. We are doing well in enterprise space. Getting ready to release for developers. One advice I could have used when I started: It is unne…

I assume it was unintentional. Your last paragraph appears rather opaque to my tired mind.

This is great. Years ago I used to help out at Honey Bee Network http://www.sristi.org/hbnew/ and saw hundreds and hundreds of innovative solutions by people from all over India. I…

This is very well said. Thank you for posting.

Of course, it's quite important that you are not made to spit on your keyboard. Shame on Bill Gates.

An oft-repeated well-meaning but rather ignorant objection. Read this http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

>Bacteria don't desire anything, and they don't seek out anything or plan anything. When you say this, aren't you are making precisely the same mistake you claim the expert was mak…

I understand you don't want to be Elon Musk. But, surely, you are not suggesting Elon Musk is a dumb worker, are you?

Life is built to maximise survival, I suppose. Note that Life is not the World (I refer to the physical non-biological things as world). I would say, as far as science can probe, w…

Graham Greene said: "Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance." This world isn't built for maximising h…

From my experience at a very large bank. No one can do anything significant (such as connect to a database) without leaving a audit trail at said bank. It is very much possible to …

Thanks for the link. Had this installed on iPad and 5 yr old daughter can't stop coloring the pages and watch them come alive! Well done.

Thank you!

>What was he indoctrinated into thinking? The parent did not say that. You did.

This sounds patronizing. As adults, you make your choice and face the consequences. That you may have dependents does not reduce your moral responsibility one bit.

Heinlein has used it. "By His Bootstraps" is quite enjoyable for it's recursive time paradoxes.