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"Perhaps! But this problem only comes up if you're not the centre of the Universe." http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1394

wmf is right in saying this is early days and we're still experimenting. However there is a roughly up to date wire spec here: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1WJvy…

QUIC is in the Chromium source: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/n... and there's a demo server here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromi…

> And how will Chrome know whether to try to connect via QUIC or not? Chrome looks for the "alternate-protocol:443:quic" response header (in non-QUIC requests). Once it sees this i…

There's an interesting response to this, in which the author argues that "for the sake of the planet, please fly!": http://qz.com/131024/its-ok-to-have-a-big-carbon-footprint-a...

Americans wasting/not wasting some of their surplus food (in America!) is not going to affect starving people elsewhere The money used to buy (and then waste) surplus food could be…

Oh and this is similar to the approach that the Gates foundation is taking. As far as I can tell Gates approached this as an optimisation problem: given that he has X billion dolla…

This is great. Something people often disregard, but which is hugely important, is charity effectiveness. This boils down to measuring the impact that you can make with a given don…

My solution is to use Keepass. It stores passwords in an encrypted database file which I store in Dropbox - that solves the machine synchronization problem. The main database is pr…

You could spend all days coming up with possible reasons for not defrosting cryonics patients in the future. However you need to remember that no matter how low a probability you a…

Higher order life has this "defect" because, from an evolutionary perspective, there is little reason for us to stick around for very long after reproducing. After passing our gene…

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