I've played Hanabi with three players, and one of them had played it with two players.

I wish the article said something about which parts of Spain, because with the exception of the Pyrenees it doesn't really make sense to talk about the "warmer parts" versus the "cooler parts". There are the parts which have much more seasonal variation - and so are warmer in summer and cooler in winter - and the parts which are more moderate all year round. This is influenced by altitude and proximity to the coast, so probably also has a good correlation with humidity. And I'm sure there are even more confounding factors which could be added to the list.

You're probably thinking of Samuel Johnson as quoted by Boswell:

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

It's not a closed market. Just a regulated one.

Like, I'd be making money on every transaction since it uses my app, and my app's purpose is solely to connect riders to drivers, but I wouldn't be the one supplying the vehicles or drivers.

They'd get you for conspiracy instead.

The report I read elsewhere suggested that it was, at least in part, a reaction to the new owner sacking the editor.

I think GPP was talking about the generic comments made on quantum computing rather than the particular analysis which is the main topic. Shor's algorithm does discrete log as well as factorisation.

If you have to explain the joke, it's not funny.

I rather hope that it requires that the bits which flip are next to each other, because otherwise they've overlooked 16843009 = 257 * 65537, the product of the two largest known Fermat primes.

The word "cursive" isn't used much outside North America. "(Hand)writing" (as contrasted with "printing") has much wider currency.

I don't know about you, but I can jot-down quick notes on scraps of paper a hell of a lot faster than I can get out an electronic device, open a note-taking program, and attempt to use an on-screen keyboard to type the same notes with any degree of accuracy.

That's not a fair comparison. If you're counting the time to open the memo app on your phone, you should also count the time to find a pen or pencil and a scrap of paper. For me the time which the former takes is fairly consistent, but the latter varies considerably because I don't usually carry a pen in my trouser pocket.

As an aside, you seem to be making more of an argument for teaching shorthand than for teaching writing.

By contrast Belgium's record of 18 months without a government as a result of PR should be a warning to us all.

A warning or an incentive?

The topic is undergraduate study, not research. The people who are inclined towards research will want to take a full CS degree rather than an apprenticeship.

Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve, so the idea that the USA could have a strategic cocoa reserve isn't completely ridiculous.

I think it's the gas chromatograph rather than the mass spectrometer (surely chirality doesn't measurably affect the mass of a molecule?), but they're built in to the same instrument, COSAC. This abstract sounds like a chromatograph to me.