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> The U.N.'s report highlighted what areas are expected to be the next megacities and surpass the 10 million mark, including: > [...] > - Hajipur, India. Estimated population of Ha…

USPS is awful from a privacy perspective. USPS will email photos of your incoming mail to anyone who files a change-of-address form with your address as the new address. They don't…

I played for a while and didn't get a single "I" piece.

Amazing work. How much did it end up costing?

A list of "pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other".

It's the BBC -- why don't they denote the title of a short story with quotations? It's written throughout without any quotes.

Correct. A later year is actually a weaker claim to the copyright.

I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing cool new things people build in Conway's Life.

Many years ago I had the privilege of witnessing open heart surgery on an infant, from within the operating room. (This was only possible because I had an indirect connection to th…

Looking at the document, it seems like they make pretty strong judgments about the numbers they found even though they don't compare those numbers to any alternatives. For example,…

Why does a 200-word article need a bullet-point summary at the top?

It will be interesting to see the financial world move toward blockchain. It's a better technology in many ways, but adoption is slow in big institutions. There will be an arms rac…