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X isn't pronounceable. U is, though it sounds a bit funky.

The "U" would be readable and pronounceable in Italian. Stringing a few "U" ending words together does sound a bit wierd though... like your making a hooting sound or something.

Also Italian here. The other issue with using "Lei" is everyone would sound like some overly formal grand parent or maybe a government official... it would be like people suddenly …

Iceland seems to do pretty well on almost exclusively renewables. And this includes Aluminium smelters which are amongst the most power-intensive heavy industries.

I used to think its roots lay in some kind of biblical fetish for armageddon. I have no qualifications in this area though so this is just my armchair-psychologist theory. Oh that …

> Until humanity has figured viable massively scalable long term power storage solutions we will always be at the mercy of natural phenomena (time of day, wind speed and direction …

Neo-Malthusians generally only get as far as intro biology and avoid demography classes.

I don't begrudge money being spent on researching fusion. It is definitely a promising technology, but it's not coming to a power grid near you any time soon. Even if we can figure…

Security breaches used to be so much more aesthetically pleasing.

I second this. I think it was my first encounter with a genre book that totally "subverted" everything I had learned fantasy narratives should be.

This law was passed with support from the opposition labor party. The stupidy here crosses the isle.

I know plenty of people who say "Legos". But then I am from Australia.

Hasn't passed the Senate yet. There is an arm-wrestle over a nasty piece of refugee legislation that might see both acts not get voted on today. That means it won't be back in parl…

Delusions of grandeur.

"In Great Britain, courts generally endorsed NCAs so long as they remained “reasonable” -- a quality that was very much in the eye of the beholder." Legally speaking, reasonable re…

If I had a dollar for every time bluetooth failed between two devices...

Maybe part of the issue is an over-emphasis on "fidelity". People have always played around - or to be frank, many women have been assaulted and had to keep it quiet - maybe the be…

In political theory and International Relations studies, there is a reasonably well established set of theories regarding the difference between "A nation", "A state" and a "Nation…

To be fair, the issue here is also that for most of the last 70 or so years the Taiwanese government actually claimed to be the rightful government for ALL of mainland China and ev…

Never Trust Syfy...

Well, Orwell fought with the POUM, who were Socialists but twith Anarchist leanings so I don't think you can really say he was "impartial". Having said that I fully concur with you…

This paper does some interesting work to try and unpack why that is the case: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.01952.pdf