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"Sweden's gross domestic product, by comparison, amounted in 2011 to more than 3500 billion." The irony. Looks like a typo, it should be around 500bn$. 3500 would be Germany. Proof…

I am not sure custom curricula are a good idea. Education is more about how it's learnt and less about what is learnt. Beware of technology's cognitive biases too, see how TV is tr…

I was expecting some graph at least...

This is a bayesian problem, depending on the a priori probability given to a "special dice" pri, P = 2 * pri / (1+pri) (Which is > to the probability before tossing)

Toska: looks like Melancholy Saudade: how is that different from mourning?

One thing that can be both a quality and a problem, is that The Wire is very demanding. A lot of what happens is implicit or not directly seen on camera. Also, episodes are not as …

Thank you for the pointer on Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html

Judging by the stats (The Red Sox), we have strong US East Coast bias (due to user base).

Reminds me of the 2 schools in "Worse is better": http://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

A clear and distinctive title?

Let's take as a benchmark intentional homicide rates: North America 6.5, West Europe 1.5. Also, more murders per capita in US than Armenia or India.

Yes, but instead of manipulating them separately, they apply one same filter to all the film, even frames with now face in it. Which means some frames have no contrast in them (scr…

Digital literacy (how to use technology/computers) maybe, programming literacy I am more sceptical. The use of computers and basic tools is more vital than programming for the aver…

Well, there would be several schools in terms of time travel (mutable/immutable timelines).

Please link to the original website (abstruse goose): http://abstrusegoose.com/249

"I had reached the age of six hundred and fifty miles."

Summary: satirical article to say we don't like flame wars.