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Mexico city was built on top a dried lake. It is really fascinating stuff, I would highly recommend to look it up. Ancient farming technology, floating islands, any nerd is gonna l…

I get a sense of deja vu. There was another such project posted within the last 3 months, and another within last 6 months. I should have bookmarked them, because at least one of t…

This is part of the reason that people do not donate.

When the australia sub reddit was discussing the introduction of id on discord, the top comment was something along the lines of "look up openfeint". That was the day I uninstalled…

Even if it is only true in theory, it is still amazing to know.

> At first I thought that was pretty compelling, since it includes more edge cases and examples that you otherwise miss. So, is it good for writing requirements, and creating desig…

You are not wrong, and I am not trying to be pedantic. But I want to take this opportunity to bring up an interesting phenomenon. While the Moon is tidally locked with Earth, a sli…

Not forced. Encouraged. Everyone used it earlier without revealing it, now it is open. Knowing how and when to use your tools properly is a good idea.

Old lead pipes had hard untreated water flowing through them. The lead pipes would internally (normally) be coated with salts, and the lead did not (normally) leach into water. But…

I feel bad that wikipedia (I contribute and donated to it long ago), has forever been a text and photo based encyclopedia based on web. I do not think MS Encarta's budget was more …

Rain and Rainbow... the best music ever, even among all of Bluey episodes. That episodes takes me back to my childhood. Just listen to these: Rain - https://youtu.be/U7Pvxqe2JvM Ra…

> There's always a chance what you're reading is wrong - due to purposeful deception, negligence, or accident. I am quite certain my personal hallucinations level is more than 1.3%…

Can an insurance company deny claim based on your DNA? They deny claims for pre-existing condition that you hid from the, which would be the wrong thing to do on your part. They ca…

While Nintendo might not lose the trademark entirely if they don't sue, they could risk weakening its strength, therefore they have to sue in this case. Consistent inaction against…

I'd fathom to guess that it's not even worth Google's time to replace a ten people team. It's probably just a KPI sent from the top -"Replace a few people to earn your bonus this y…

Should I be worried that eating cabbage is exposing me to heavy metals? Edit: sorry that table is only for Nickel, but Brassica shows up against lead too https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

Humans have great capacity to learn from our mistakes. Our source code or DNA have no encoding related to running business in a certain way. We mourn old google the revolutionary p…

> US taxpayers should be directly paying for these studies to prove and disprove medicines I think you are right people should pay for it? I could pay for it, but who would run the…

LOL did not proof-read. I wrote Jeans originally, but I think edited it out while I was rephrasing for clarity :D

Exactly this... my time and money is more important than the cost to the planet. I earn enough to not care. Recycling is a scam. I do not even know what reduce and reuse mean! My c…

Spent about 2 hours going to three stores and trying 7-8 pairs, standing in front of trial rooms, talking to cashiers about sizes in the system... before I got the right size and f…

This sounds so amazing, why is Common Lisp not the most popular language out there? (asking as someone who almost never writes code)

I used to be hardcore Opera fan, and this reminds me of something they did back in the days when Jon von Tetzchner was over there. They released "Opera Bork" edition https://press.…