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Hey, remember what Larry said, there's more than one way to do things ;P

Perhaps she just had a good sense of humor? It's a great movie after all..

I'm confused that, speaking of origins, they don't mention at all Spanish "hola", having literally the same meaning as hello?

It'd be impossible to limit the use of drones to just recovery, some people would use them for tracking down the animals which is a horrible idea to allow.

In ex-Yugoslavia countries using gr (usually without a dot) for grams used to be a fairly common thing. Last few decades as EU standardization takes place it's a lot rarer to see. …

Also makes UNIQUE indices much harder to use. You can't just delete and later re-insert the same data, you need to "undelete" it instead, but that can actually mess up the chronolo…

> For example, you don't soft-delete a customer row, you "deactivate" a customer I'm all for naming things more precise, but functionally speaking at that point it's really just se…

Yes, but I believe it was Latin, not Greek (Constantinople was a capitol of Easter Roman Empire, and they used both Latin and Greek). Latin term Sclavi that meant Slavs started to …

Well, they were basically a highly-mobile light cavalry/archers combination, so while they progressed very fast they were not spending much time sieging heavily fortified cities or…

> these poor people served as a "buffer" against the Mongols, saving Europe from the slaughter ... You mean saving Western Europe :) Mongols ran over (and did a lot of slaughter in…

You reversed the timeline a bit. Varangians came primarily from todays Sweden, and were initially going inland into the today's Estonia, Belarus and Russia from north, from the Gul…

Thank you for this, had no idea :)

How do you remotely detect if car stinks or not?

I love this part: One of the other pilots on the mission was reported to have radioed Foust during his descent by parachute that "you'd better get back in it!"

Yeah, that one confused me too. Visiting Chernobyl was mostly a walk in a park, as no other people around and forrest slowly taking over everything. Honestly, it felt way safer tha…

It's definitely not "relatively safe" in what I as a European would consider a safe place - although I was told it got a lot better in the last decade. If you look like a rich tour…

Well no one ever organized a horse fights, but bull fights were quite popular through-out the Europe. And even goats are far from friendly, unless they're accustomed to having a lo…

There's generally a lot more large wild animals in Africa than anywhere else in the world.

Wolves are more aggressive than dogs, but can be successfully domesticated and kept as pets... can actually be quite friendly with humans, especially female wolfs as they're a lot …

It's the same as saying humans can't be trusted. Of course you can trust some humans, and of course you can trust some dogs. Just first make sure... my dog took so much "torture" f…

CRT image is an analog signal so it always has those little imperfections, especially as the screen ages and phosphor matrix gets burned, and there's dust settling so all dissipati…

> That's how it should be Why exactly? I'm not aware of any benefits of filenames being case-sensitive, it just opens a room for tons of very common mistakes that literally can't h…

> I think the internet has broken people’s brains. I agree, but what I see as a result is this paranoia that there's a conspiracy and something sinister in absolutely everything.

I really like this. How about enabling user to select any piece of text and use it the way the links work now? For instance, I've noticed it doesn't linkify peoples' names, and one…

You can do that or something similarly bad in pretty much any language if you have write access to where the files are. That's really a server misconfiguration problem, not php pro…