My experience is that "wife" is used by women to denote ownership of their husband.

Shit! You've got a point there.

Fuck you!

Surely everyone alive today has already had their lucky genes selected for multiple times over all their previous ancestors.

It's the people that don't get born that are the unlucky ones.

I thought the Flat-Earthers didn't believe in gravity? Instead, they think it's just a buoyancy thing that keeps us on the ground.

I'm in the UK too and yes, gas is more economical for heating and cooking. However, not everywhere has a gas connection and some people do use electricity to heat their homes (e.g. storage heaters using cheap night-time electricity).

I found a Ukranian company selling some heaters (their website looks a bit old, so I don't know if they're still in business): http://en.hotmine.io/

However, as the waste product is heat, it can be viable to use mining to warm buildings in cold countries.

Individual's bodies can easily cause a public problem e.g. communicable diseases and vaccinations. As a society it makes complete sense to provide some level of healthcare to everyone to prevent the spread of diseases.

Is it really true that USians have absolutely no idea about other countries? Do you really think that New Zealand is some kind of province of Australia?

Whether it's provable or not is the question. Here's some more info on it: http://www.latimes.com/busines...

What about all the insider trading? The Execs dumped loads of their stock before worrying about contacting anyone that might be affected by this.

Your comments about the "CS light" programmers are exactly why I wouldn't trust a typical programmer to write a top quality algorithm.

What to call these "CS light" people - I prefer the term "code monkey".

Although knowing how to write algorithms is a very fundamental part of programming (and they SHOULD cover that in a CS degree), I'd agree with the young developers in not writing their own implementations in the real world. Writing good algorithms is hard and I'd prefer the expert developers to put the most useful algorithms into libraries rather than the less experienced developers who are straight out of college.

I reckon most coding jobs only really involve manipulating/displaying data from databases and having a nice GUI and you don't really need to be expert with algorithms for that.

I see. I assumed you were talking about typical websites with random visitors.

Okay. BGP hijacking would be valid. Compromising the server would mean that you do have effective control over the domain and you don't even need to do a man-in-the-middle as you'd have access to the un-encrypted data anyway. I'm not sure what you mean by poorly secured DNS services - the challenge/response is performed by LetsEncrypt so DNS poisoning the client wouldn't work very well. You'd have to DNS poison the LetsEncrypt servers which would pretty much be a BGP hijack.