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Wow, do nutrition labels in USA generally not show figures per 100g?

Literally the first sentence: Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments…

Consider Dubai. Built by immigrants, used by natives.

Your argument is that it's OK to hurt someone if there's a chance that they might be hurt regardless. If I were Chinese I'd be feeling pretty damn patronized if someone told me the…

This would harm Chinese people. If you lived in China, would you consider an iPhone or a Chinese phone to be more secure against intrusion?

Stupid question: can the glue code not be licensed under both GPL and CCDL? Clearly ZFS is not a derivative work of Linux and Linux is not a derivative work of ZFS. Only the glue c…

That some people are too vain to adopt is not a good enough justification. It is a foundational point of ethics that medical experimentation must be voluntary.

Tell that to WeChat, Alipay et al.

If I buy a grain of sand from you for $10, have I just massively expanded the number of dollars in existence? Market capitalisations != money.

> As I understand it, bitcoin doesn't track coins so much as it tracks the funds associated with account numbers. It's actually the opposite. The blockchain does track coins, but n…

Decaying in more than one way. The JS files on milliondollarhomepage.com start with: /* FILE ARCHIVED ON 5:47:20 Aug 6, 2015 AND RETRIEVED FROM THE INTERNET ARCHIVE ON 20:45:17 Aug…

> Is it possible that we're fat only because we're eating the wrong kind of sugars? Nope, we are fat because there are many cheap sources of calories, particularly deep fried foods…

I think by "better" you mean "more properly" ;) I'm sure IELTS doesn't cover important life skills such as "use of the word innit".

Imagine you go to Ancient Greece and tell them: "in the future there will be a library of over 1 million books and papers containing the knowledge of the world, that any person ric…

Although descriptive of the legal situation, I object to the term "pirate library". There is no practical difference between a pirate library and a brick and mortar library, except…

It seems to me that large blockchains^ are some of the most stable social structures in existence. The rules of Bitcoin have been in place for 8 years with only minor modifications…

In a blockchain, the participants in the network have unlimited authority to modify the "law" of the blockchain, even retroactively. If there is sufficient consensus among Ethereum…

Hydroelectric power, like geothermal, is only applicable if the geography permits it. It is also a potential WMD, so you'd better hope the area where you are building your dam is e…

ITER is an almost pointless project, because its design is already outdated even before it has completed. DEMO, if it ever exists, will almost certainly have more in common with AR…

At least in the UK, merchants pay very low fees to process debit card payments, to the extent that some merchants (e.g. budget airlines) do not accept or charge a penalty for using…

Centralized payment networks will always be cheaper to administer than blockchains. The only reason that Visa and Mastercard have such high fees is because it's a duopoly.

Anybody who cares about the privacy of their communication can still use an open source stack. So yes it works as a tool for oppression and for catching extremely inept criminals, …

Wait so the name of the website is stored in plain text? So if I want to store my login for gaymidgetporn.com, there will be a file on my computer with that name? And anything or a…