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I like that one. Doing well in school is seen as a point of pride. If that attitude ever takes hold in the USA then you will know that the MAGA movement has succeeded, utterly. Wil…

If that happened I would get rid of all my Android devices and buy Apple ones to replace them. I would uninstall Chrome and use Firefox instead. Etc., etc., etc. Obama is a nincomp…

My 10y0 daughter wants to get this. She is busy dreaming up genetic experiments, mostly inserting features of one organism in another, and has a theory that there will be a future …

In British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada, the bonfire night celebration has been grafted onto Halloween instead, and the evening of October 31st is filled with the s…

A great real-world example is the Russian Federation's program of new and improved military aircraft produced by several suppliers. Westerners constantly vastly underestimate the c…

When you compare the speed and effectiveness of Russia's military renewal (including planes like the Su-35) with the chain of fiascos in the US defense sector, one really wonders w…

The problem is that this independence movement is not really an independence movement. In the modern world, no political entity can truly be independent. All are dependent on their…

This is why the post office model is superior. The local post office receives the parcel and keeps it safe until you come to pick it up. Nowadays (at least in Canada) these post of…

If this kind of technical creativity (way outside of the box) was possible in Russia under the Soviet yoke, then what kind of things are they capable of creating today? Perhaps a w…

That is thinking out of the box, something that military forces have great difficulty doing. Number 2, 4 and 5 quite publicly caused a collapse in the victory of the first Gulf War…

Most interviewers who use torture do that because the believe that the evil criminal deserves a punishment, and the interviewer derives great satisfaction from doing the torture. B…

It is possible to train people to provide misleading information under torture. What if that phone has two passwords, one which unlocks secrets and one which leads you on a wild go…

I have noticed a change in the interview techniques portrayed in some police shows. Gibb's team in NCIS is one of those but the British TV series Scott and Bailey really comes clos…

If the takeaway is that companies should seek out more older candidates to hire, then your comment reinforces that takeaway. The point is that software development companies are mi…

If they cannot justify statehood then annex it to Florida.

Sounds like a good reason to emigrate to Canada. Canadians would never tolerate sidewalks in such horrible condition. And governments in Canada (municipal, provincial, federal) are…

I think it is great that PostgreSQL is strong enough to allow people to build robust queuing systems, but I still think that you are better off in the long run to use a real messag…

I think that these changes mean the death knell for PHP in any version, for small companies. There is still a place for Hack or PHP7 in very large operations, but startups, and bus…

At one time the USA discovered that the Soviets were bombarding their Moscow embassy with radio waves. Decades later it was learned that a genius names Theremin had built a device …

Tinfoil hats for the whole planet? I love it!!!

Likely because they have monitored ever North Korean missile launch and they know these are ballistic missiles. That means they follow a parabolic trajectory, and that means that b…

You could take a look at a small project that I did a few years ago to create a portable CPython build for Linux. https://github.com/wavetossed/pybuild The basic idea was to make a…

This is a bad move. More than ever we need Linux standards and this goes in the opposite direction. It would be OK for SUSE to support btrfs as a first class choice of filesystem b…

Probably the asteroid Apophis, due to hit the Earth in 2029, will cause enough cooling to prevent most clathrate from melting. If that works we have a nearby supply of small astero…

Did you try looking them up at archive.org? I expect that many of them will work there. The web is ephemeral unless somebody archives it. Many companies offer an archive service fo…