I wouldn't call Khan an environmentalist.

It has been done before, mate.

A utopia by that name was founded in the South American nation of Paraguay way back in 1893.

Well 0 is still cold but our summers get as high as 45, which is hotter :-)

At least in the wool industry here, fabric is measured in microns.

Australia made the transition back in 1974.

You'll survive.

Water freezes at zero and boils at one hundred.

What could be simpler?

That's the economic miracle of privatisation. Sell off voter-owned infrastructure to foreign owned cartels who then bribe politicians with donations.

Thanks, Jeff Kennett. :(

Not for a couple of years at the federal level.

But scaring the proles coincides with bombing Islamic State to smithareens.

When it comes it airport security, pretty much.

There's $AU630M in extra funding to security agencies, some of which will be spent on the latest high-tech toys at airports. Australia doesn't currently do finger-printing or eye scanning but expect that to be standard for any flights bound for the USA.

Obama, or rather his 3-letter agencies, will be keen to insure "terrorists" never get on a flight to US airspace, which involves sympathetic nations rolling out new protocols and technologies in each departure terminal.

A minute or two, actually.

Tap previous grounds into a knock-box, rinse portafilter, grind beans, tamp them down, draw espresso shots, steam milk, style a love heart in the froth.

That's just for a caffe latte. The slow pour-over filter coffee nerds rave about is an art form that takes a while...

If they'd stuck with the original formula that contained traces of cocaine, of course...

In South American regions coca is available over the counter in dry leaf form (for mastication during highland walks) and in tea bags, obviously at lower concentrations than the white powder rich folks snort.

Since it wasn't mentioned in the article, the neighbourhood in question is Nuevo Quilmes.

Google's satellite imagery indeed shows some very low density housing. I guess we're talking the mega-rich who moved out of Recoleta.

The Salish Sea straddles Washington State and British Columbia if Microsoft want to move HQ from Redmond to Vancouver!

Type inferred languages often allow you to sidestep type inference by explicitly declaring the types using a semicolon following the declaration.

Microsoft's TypeScript follows that convention when augmenting ecmascript, e.g.

function add(left: number, right: number): number {
        return left + right;
}

(I believe he was referring to Haskell.)

Java's boilerplate isn't a great advertisement for static typing. For a more modern perspective running on a virtual machine, F# and Scala provide OO semantics atop a Hindley-Milner-Damas inspired type inference but with perhaps too much esoteric functionalness for the average mortal!

One wonders if RoR would have existed if someone had managed to craft a killer web framework on, say, Ocaml a decade ago.