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> It seems more clear to me, but how do I know for sure? Oh! I'll put them up on a road and see if the accident rates change!". Meh. The American way would be "Build a street for f…

At one point in the past it was argued that hosting your site with a provider that injects ads was sufficient to consider the page "commercial". I don't know what came of it, or wh…

So basically: Thanks, Saddam?

Very misleading title. His points are roughly tl;dr: - Intrinsic vs. extrinsic is not sufficient to fully describe the range of motivation - intrinsic isn't well-defined - Extrinsi…

Well, I was exhausted already after reading the ToC.

I started to care about the stuff we read in school in my early thirties (Shakespeare would be an exception, for ... reasons). There's a special exception for Max Frisch which I di…

> did you think it may be worth some time? So how much would you pay for it, roughly? I'm sure if we find enough people to chip in, it will happen.

[Here might be a good start]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_Structures#Criticism... )

How old are you, if I may ask?

Well-informed consumer my ass.

My town has two successful DVD rental places. Their "hipster twist" is basically: quality movies, and an owner that can find something for you. They aim at students and established…

> Using just these two values, an attacker could completely manage any aspect of a flight reservation using United’s website. Don't most airline websites allow that when you get th…

No. The way our mind works, associations need to be strengthened for permanence (which is an extra-weird process because it can apparently modify memories). More importantly, he ne…

I've seen it in a few stages over the recent years. The step from open-roof construction site to a close place of worship was - and still is - captivating. (Though walking up and d…

Leap years are regular, leap seconds are not. Skipping leap day would be earlier and more obviously noticable than skipping leap seconds.

> too lazy to use TAI or GPS time for internal time calculations... it's a tiny little more complicated than that. The key element to grasp is that for all units above "second" are…

Wouldn't just counting total votes rather than winning regions be the simplest fix? (Honest question, not USAmerican)

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