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"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." People who actually achieve something are just subject to more sc…

As we all know, English is the hardest language, except for all the others.

You know it will disrupt you so you never even start the deep work. Victory!

Nothing of what you said is incompatible with the HK government being the largest shareholder.

Does American law really fall for that sort of cheap scheme? In most other places that would be an additional law broken.

"He warned that the decision would go beyond Facebook and effect all social media plug ins, which are important for many firms to expand their reach on the web." Add an image on your own web…

Brazil's fertility rate is somewhere between France and Germany.

So is Europe, Russia, China, India, Brazil, etc. Moving is an option.

Great if you are in the 0.001%.

Still looting though.

It was indeed a chore. Your local shop might not have the game - it might not have been released in your country. Media could be damaged. DRM that wouldn't work on your system. You buy that huge …

Quick reminder that a browser with JavaScript is a way to run unprivileged code on your machine.

FWIW: sr.ht is pretty cool, has a nice no-nonsense UI, and the build system is really simple and powerful. It's not "done" but it works and is going in the right direction. It's a …

I feel that the general attitude in the US to people slightly outside the norm is "you have a disorder, go take pills". In Europe it's "you are less intelligent, go to an easier sc…

Meh. I watched the trailer, it seemed desperate for attention. When the first two or three MK games came out they were indeed a big part of a culture of its time, being both controversial and a kind o…

I have kids around the age of ten and moved countries. It's very, very hard for them.

I don't think it's desirable to let individual voters verify that their votes were counted. That means that the privacy of your vote can be compromised under duress a long time after the ele…

Being government for a year is a better deal than military service, and people don't complain too much about that.

Where does the Modern Fortran community congregate? Any websites or mailing lists?

This is very correct. English's status as an international language does wonders - you can speak in any terrible accent, get all the vowels wrong, invert word orders, ignore plurals and be wrong …

I live near a riding school. I asked my son whether he wanted to learn how to ride a horse. He said yes, enthusiastically, and spent days reading and watching movies about cowboys. Then we went to vis…