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I've got about 50 of his 71 novels. For sure they're entertaining, well constructed and the use of language is delightful. There's something you notice if you read a whole lot of W…

This is cool! Unfortunately it is case sensitive, one search term I tried applied to four different colours, differing only by case.

Good question. Maybe (just speculating here) because it would be dangerous to land with too much fuel on board? Planes dump fuel for that reason when aborting shortly after takeoff…

Unfortunately there's a scam for that,apparently. The scam caller tells the victim to call their bank, but doesn't hang up. The victim hangs up, calls the bank, the scammer is stil…

Global average temperatures 6000 years ago were 0.5 °C warmer than baseline (1961-1990 average), now it's 1.1 °C. Historical warm periods were local, and global average temps did n…

> We're at historically normal levels of warming. Misleading. You have to appeal to pre -history to find temperature levels similar to current. > Eventually we'll plunge into anoth…

A therapy from this research could be very useful for astronauts, on ISS or a Mars mission.

Another niche sport recommendation: unicycling! Good for core, a unique skill, insanely fun. Learning is a test of perseverance. If you're physically talented, advanced skills will…

Even if it were true that the climate has changed as much and as rapidly in the past, what difference does that make to our current situation? All but a few years in the next 3 cen…

The Brexit Party Ltd. care enough that they have threatened legal action.

I'm in the UK. I get about 2-3 a week on the landline, 1-2 a week on the mobile. 30% "This is Microsoft/your ISP, your computer is hacked", 30% "You were involved in an accident th…

You seem to be conflating the duration of a geologic event (i.e. rate of change, which is the subject of discussion) with the absolute age.

It seems that scala-meta is alive ( http://scalameta.org ), but is now about developer tools (e.g. code formatting plugin used by IntelliJ). The macro part of scala-meta was spun o…

This would be perfect for me, and I suspect there are a lot of people in my situation: I would far prefer to pay for news than have intrusive and possibly dangerous advertising, an…

I think you've identified the two most important topics. A nitpick, though: I disagree with your definition of forcing, it's the same as my definition of feedback. A forcing is any…

Great advice. I've had squeezeboxes since the SB1 in 2003, and recently got a Hifiberry amp running Squeezelite. It's as minimal as it gets -- power brick, RPi + amp in a custom ca…

> I haven't seen anyone on either side put forth detailed policy proposals other than voluntary carbon caps You missed a carbon tax, in my opinion the mechanism most likely to make…

You would expect closely related languages to have similar words for a common animal, i.e. to be at least somewhat conserved. I do find it mysterious. Another one: Dutch vlinder, A…

Opposite of the topic (ultra-nonconserved?), "butterfly" is a word that is strangely different in even closely related European languages (Romance, Teutonic, Slavic). Doing a curso…

You addressed the substance (or not) of aaron695's post far better than I did, but I'm prepared to believe that the post is sincere, absent any actual evidence of shilling. (See al…

Aaron695 described himself as a "climate denier", though, which is unusual. The Paris Accord, by itself, cannot do nearly enough to avert disaster, but it was the best that could b…

If you are "Happy to agree with AGW", you're not a climate denier, or even a climate skeptic as Scientific American would define it. (Unless, of course, your agreement with AGW is …

A big strength of Scala scripting is the availability of the whole JVM ecosystem, and the ivy integration in Ammonite makes this seamless. Check out the "Ammonite Cookbook" section…

This is your claim, right? > The conditions required for the amount of land-based ice to melt [in order for coastal cities to flood] will have meant that the extinction of most (if…

> The conditions required for the amount of land-based ice to melt will have meant that the extinction of most (if not all) life on this planet would have occurred long ago. I very…