In case you're still looking, pipe dot seems to be doing a good job, although the amount of community involvement isn't that high yet.

Wishing the banking industry on the world reveals your ignorance or malice.

The last time I was in Shenzhen, it was perfectly sunny and in fact too hot outside. Neither did I notice any haze when I was in Hong Kong last month. Maybe you picked a bad time to go.

When I looked at Soylent News this morning, there were 5 or so stories with less than 5 comments, and the quality of some of the last few submissions has actually been worse than what we typically see here. I'd like SN to succeed and viable competition should force Slashdot to improve, but it's going to take some real effort.

Sorry, but it sounds like you don't know how pervasive monocultures are in modern agriculture. Thanks to globalization, even peasants living largely without the benefit of industrialization grow whichever crop will earn them the most money. Just as an example, in Laos, one of the least developed countries in the world, state-owned Chinese corporations are creating huge rubber plantations at the expense of huge swaths of native ecosystems. The chicken exists because of its commoditization, and it will take just one commodity that's more profitable to wipe it out entirely. Don't underestimate the degree to which economics has already shaped most--if not all--of the modern world.

The actual solution to unfair property taxes is to adjust property taxes.

Let's not pretend that the USPTO is doing anything acceptable or would be doing anything acceptable in any hypothetical universe.

Well, the cost of cameras will continue to decrease, and the ease of processing video and integrating it with other data in useful ways will continue to increase, so the number of cameras being used in public is going to increase. That's not going to change, so you're probably going to have to deal with it.

I'm personally against the current policy of drug control. That said, you know you have a rotten argument when you stop talking about policies and start talking about the people who don't agree with you.

They're not endangered and they don't have throats. Also, before you ask, they're not crabs and they're not horseshoes.

That'll teach me to preview.

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I'm glad there are a few people here who recognize this. Mathematics requires computation, but since its inception in Greek geometry that has never been the focus of the subject. Writing proofs is almost exactly like writing code, and it's not a coincidence.

That should be prefix, obviously.

The modern usage of the suffix originates with Wiener's book, nearly a decade before CDC was founded.