Comment Re:Japan, China, and the UK. (Score 1) 224
The credit rating downgrade wasn't due to the debt: it was due to the house playing silly-bugger gumes like forcing shutdowns with the debt ceiling and continuing resolutions.
Experiment Shows Not Washing Jeans for 15 Months is Disgusting But Safe 258
dbune writes "Young people who argue with their parents over wearing the same pair of smelly jeans can now cite the work of a 20-year old University of Alberta student who wore the same jeans for 15 months straight. From the article: 'Josh Le wore the same pair of jeans to break in the raw denim, so it would wrap the contours of his body, leaving distinct wear lines. He had his textile professor test the jeans for bacteria before washing them for the first time.
The results showed high counts of five different kinds of bacteria, but nothing in the range of being considered a health hazard."
Comment Re:sum instead of reduce (Score 1) 311
Actually, the sum and map is better replaced with len and filter
key=lambda c: len(filter(lambda j: InRangeAndEmpty(c[0]+j[0], c[1]+j[1]), jumps))
Comment sum instead of reduce (Score 1) 311
Can't you replace the call to reduce(lambda x,y: x+y,
