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To a large degree, that post was a test to see if my comment would even appear. For now, I do not wish to contest the ban, because this is a good opportunity for me to spend less t…

Hmm, interesting. A shadow ban. I agree that my first comment was too without substance. However, I feel that the entire thread was rather without substance. I don't really see the…

"La Marseillaise" is the French national anthem. Here are the words in English: "Arise, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived! Against us tyranny's Bloody banner…

$200K? "On May 22, 2010, the yellow stamp was auctioned once again by David Feldman in Geneva, Switzerland. It sold "for at least the $2.3 million price [that] it set a record for …

I don't agree that this is a breakthrough. Type 2 diabetes has existed for a long time. What we're seeing here is a new type of diabetes, type "obese with bad diet and constant inf…

Nothing like some good old black and white, two sided European nationalism to bring tears to the eyes, is there?

Would it be so terrible to end sactions against North Korea? Trade should rise the middle class North Koreans up, and the last thing a wealthy middle class wants is war. A well fed…

why would they need money? Why would they need to trade with anyone? It is not like North Korea is infinitely small and the earth infinitely big. The earth is a small globe, and NK…

How do you determine which party an appointee belongs to? Why didn't Obama appoint someone from the green party?

How do you know which sites sell product placement? Are you %100 sure that NYTimes does not? What about theoutline.com? Do you KNOW that they don't? I happen to be familiar with th…

Oops. I was trying to dam it, not damn it.

As much as the obvious reflex is to think that "oh we should move BACK to a more austere, toy-less environment." It is important to remember, that children that grow up in nature a…

Why did you take the box away then?

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For those wondering, here is a link to underhanded c http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_2.html

"It's just going to encourage more launches" - no it won't. The current missile defense systems do not have a deterrent effect. They are expensive to launch and the 3rd world missi…

Only haskell that I use that I'm aware of is arbtt [1]. [1] https://arbtt.nomeata.de/#what

Code bubbles is hands down the most awsome thing I've seen in months! Where can I get it? I'll switch to JAVA for this? Thanks for sharing. Edit: to answer my question, yes this re…

Single-file coding is an entire subculture. See leo [1] and org-mode [2] programming. [1] http://leoeditor.com/ [2] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html#literat...

The Königsberg bridges graph is wrong. There should be seven edges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsbe...

> I'm lucky enough to know a lot of incredible software engineers who happen to be women (and were also CS grads or PhDs), much smarter than me, and I don't like this attempt to as…

When you read my comments you have a set of assumptions that you have made about me. You cannot escape that. For one thing, you assume that I know English (which I do). Another thi…

>> It is harder for me as a white man to talk to a woman or a minority because I am thinking about their gender or race > is not normal. Perhaps you don't do so. But how do you kno…

"Judges in the city are paid $100 per election they preside over" For a days work, that's not much for a one off job even by central European standards. It seems to me, that the pa…