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>> 300,000 Canadians in the Bay Area... This represents nearly 10% of the entire population of Canada. Canada's population is ~33 million, so that would be about 1%, not 10%. Still…

Thats a good point. What if, instead of shutting down completely, wikipedia shuts down for just one day every week (say, each Monday). That way, people will continue using the site…

Hmm, I don't actually think chebyshev applies (in a meaningful way) in this context. 3.5 sigmas refers to the probability of the observation being significant, not the average mass…

Whenever I read these types of speculative predictions from the past, I always get the urge to chuckle at the things they inevitably missed, or the sillier predictions - but temper…

Do you think you could you link to that bug? I just upgraded to 11.10, I don't have a /run directory, and I did have some boot problems that I worked around. (A google search didn'…

And Google news, docs, calendar. Not the Google search pages though, since key presses are intercepted by the search bar.

Babbage is the name of the blog: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage From the description: "The blog takes its name from Charles Babbage" So I presume it refers to the author.

I second Diaspora; his vivid description of artificial intelligence is worth the read by itself. Egan's stuff divides evenly into near-future and distant future science fiction; th…

I don't think the claim was that the 'ripoff' icon was literally copied from the original, just that the concept for the site - right down to the concept for the favicon - were cop…

According to Wikipedia, he dropped out of graduate school at MIT.