Normal people have something like 100-120% debts/assets

And here comes my WTF again.
I consider myself a normal person, and I have 0% debt/asset ratio.
I want to sleep well at night, I might be out of job next year, and I really don't like having debts.
People having way too much debt was a big part of the 2008 crisis.

"I'm already at peace with the idea that I'm going to go bankrupt," said Larry Ionescu, who owns 98 Chicago taxi medallions.

WTF? Either he doesn't really own 100 medallions (and his bank does), or he considers having "only" 30 M$ the same as being bankrupt.

He reminds of a scene from "The Queen of Versailles" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125666/). Some 50 year old lady was complaining that last year "she owned 10 multi-million-dollar houses", and that now, she hasn't anything left.

I suppose prime sextuplets are mostly just cool, because they're primes, and close to each other.
Who knows, they might have applications in cryptography, image compression or whatever.
It is possible that there are an infinite number of twin primes, but only a finite number of triplets/quadruplet/sextuplet.
This currency could be a way to find the biggest sextuplet, ONCE AND FOR ALL!

It goes both way :
"07de".to_i(16) => 2014

GP is correct.
He wrote 10 as in 1*base+0*1, not as "how many fingers you have".
two is written 10 in binary, ten is written 10 in decimal, and sixteen is written 10 in hexadecimal.
If your pseudo is any indication, you might understand :
    (2..36).map{|base| base.to_s(base)}

And why don't *you* like austerity?

I feel like a dirty old man (that's probably because I am one), but all I can think of is how a blowjob would feel like with overtone singing.

Tits, mathematics, physics theory, measurements and vizualisation aren't bad, but come on, give us some real "news for nerds"!
I don't know, maybe some post by Bennett Haselton for example.

Telling someone to type a command in R doesn't explain *why* typing that command works, or what's going on in the background.

It's kinda hard to explain why this command should work, since it doesn't.
The command should be 1-pbinom(37,54,.50)

Talking about "getting the math right", the right command is 1-pbinom(37,54,.50), which is about 0.1919%

There are two hard things in computer science: race conditions, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

LxQt looks good, thanks for the tip!

Thanks a lot.
You just proved your argument is bullshit.

There is no downside to lower meth prices. lower prices on anything is always a positive.

we as a group are saving billions a day after a very long recession. The meth prices are still not low enough to help those who need it most, the poor and lower middle class.

They overtook the French, with their TGV.

No, they didn't.
There is less space per passenger in a TGV than in an ICE, but the TGV is faster ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi... ) and safer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... ).
There are many connections (e.g. Stuttgart München) where ICEs average about 100km/h.