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Still, do you want to give money to these wankers?

Is lowering ever as dramatic as flooding?

> Thanks to these diets, North Korean soldiers are said to be several inches shorter than their South Korean counterparts

If people join after high-school, how does that work?

If somebody put something online fifteen years ago, they might not care about it anymore, but I might. With the current web, I can mirror that content by downloading it and putting it on a new server. With this system, that process would be part of the basic workings of the system.

(OK, I said billions. Thousands will do.)

Digital electronics means thinking of a transistor as a switch. It's got three terminals, if there's a positive voltage on the control terminal then the other two are connected and power can flow through it. That's basically it.

If you connect billions of switches in the right pattern you get a computer. Billions of little switches clicking on and off, no more, no less. No pixies or magic dust involved.

> R3000 sold extremely well (over 1 million units were produced).

Although I know it's not directly comparable, I was at an ST event recently, and the representative said they were making one million STM32 ARM microcontrollers per day.

Hey, hang in there, it's only two more years till you hit your hexadecimal twenties, which is where the real party is!

In MUMPS, only the first two characters of function names are significant.

The Danish ministry for Finance has an official macroeconomic model that is used to evaluate policies.

To the best of my knowledge, it includes a small (I think fixed) amount of structural unemployment but anything else is assumed to be transient. We might have some unemployment now, but it's always assumed to right itself after a few years.

We recently had a parliamentary election here in Denmark, and economic models featured rather prominently as arguments on both sides. One particular party would consistently refer to the economic model they used as a "calculator", which obviously in most people's mind is something that cannot be wrong. This went unquestioned and even seems to have caught on.

I think invoking Monsanto falls under Godwin's.

I've got half an hour's walk to work every morning. It's a great way to start the day, especially because the route is through a couple of parks. It clears the mind and wakes me up. I really can't imagine living in a place where that wasn't possible.

I suppose the main difference is the presence of algebraic data types. But does that even make sense without static typing?