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Relatively popular on the border of Nunavut and Manitoba though.

Towards the end of the article, he reaches a conclusion about the importance of regional self-sufficiency which I don't understand at all. Firstly, because it has seemingly no conn…

This reminds me somewhat of the tours they give around Belfast, showcasing the murals in the Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods.

This book is a little controversial among lispers. There was a discussion about it recently on c.l.l. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thr... I'm thinking a…

I suppose someone out there disagrees with you.

In this case, that would be "DH3" according to the article. Contradiction with no supporting evidence.

A bit of a nitpick, but no stealth bomber has ever been shot down. That was a stealth fighter.

Nice troll. Isn't Hacker News written in lisp? EDIT: HN is written in Arc. You're saying that there's "little you can usefully do with LISP" on a site which was written in lisp.

I didn't like the butnth. I get an allergic reaction to append. Blame Ken Tilton. (defun shuffle-in-place (l) (cond ((null l) nil) (t (rotatef (nth 0 l) (nth (random (length l)) l)…

You are right. The Sabermetrics used in baseball by teams like the A's gave them an advantage over their competitors in 2000, but it would be crazy to think Theo Epstein and Brian …

In the article, the most staggering bias was white women's preference for white men, but also the general preference of women towards white men. Given that these stats are coming f…

Too late. MLB.com, the only site I cared about using Silverlight, dropped it last year in favor of Flash.

I am particularly amused by this guy's ranting about hygiene and macros. I have written quite a bit of lisp, and debugged plenty of macros, and once you have some experience with g…

The OP was a followup to the article you cited. Is that what you meant to say?

I've noticed this with chess pieces. Play on a cheap unweighted plastic set, it feels a lot different than playing on a heavily weighted one.

That's the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage!

How about those AT-ATs the empire used on Hoth? All you need is some rope and they fall over?

That's a really good article.

That conclusion is a weakly implied by the research (at least the way it was explained), which was based on "a computer model of how a crowd of people move across a confined space"…

Maybe he is concerned about the relative popularity of HN in Kyrgyzstan?

While you are correct that the population of the USA is around 300 million, the population of the UK is roughly 60 million. Of course both numbers are presumably more than the "tar…

OK, so I'm wondering how fast would the quarter have to travel to actually shrink to the size of a dime, based on special relativity?

I think it's simpler to go this route: If S is the sum of f(i)10^(-(i+1)), then you could break up that sum into two other sums (using the fibonacci relationship), express them in …