A fine theory, yes, but what of the great computer that is executing these transformations? Just how far down do the turtles go?

I only check the mail box maybe once a week. From my perspective they could readily halve the number of weekly deliveries. Let the mail person switch routes on alternate days. Provide an early retirement package for older workers.

My experience with over a decade of editing on Wikipedia is that obsessive pedantry over minor topic points is the exception rather than the rule. Most such conflicts occur with articles that are frequently subject to edit wars. If you run into something like this, the suggested course of action is to take it to the article talk page for a better explanation. Style Nazis, on the other hand, are rampant. They will battle endlessly over the smallest of variances.

Yeah, it seems over time the trend in software technology is to add more and more layers where computing systems can break. As a result they often do. Sure you get more efficiencies out of the tech, but troubleshooting is a lot more difficult. You get a break in a major production system and many dozens of people join in the call, when actually you only need the one or two knowledgeable about the particular layer that broke. Twenty year old technology is often far more reliable.

Do we get a table of hyperbolic cosines or a calculator? I'm not sure even Newton could pass that test.

Do we really want the current clown posse in the White House managing how the IT industry controls its data? Just how safe would we really be?

The nature of the impeachment vote is yet another argument in favor of both a non-pluralistic voting system (such as ranked voting or approval voting) and term limits. We can't honestly say that this decision was based on anything besides pure party loyalty.

The true quantity for measuring Wikipedia are their Featured Articles, because those are held to a much higher production standard. At present, the English Wikipedia has 5,710 featured articles, or about 0.1% of the total. That being said, independent studies have found Wikipedia articles to be generally reliable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The chief contribution of bitcoin to the economy is excess heat and GPU sales.

Such releases might be explained by sublimating ice deposits that hold trapped gas. Perhaps Mars was once more oxygen rich, but the excess was trapped by clathrates and oxidation.

I didn't see a power source specified, so presumably it's solar panels and rechargeable batteries. How long will it operate without sunlight in the cold of permanently shadowed crater? How will they get the signal back to Earth?

In Switzerland, giving somebody the V-for-victory symbol is the same as flipping someone the bird in the US. The Norwegians were shocked when they saw Bush waving the symbol for Satan to a crowd; what Texans call "hook 'em horns". Does that make them hate symbols now? No not really. It's not what you say, it's how you say it.

Top marks to these folks for all their work. Making these publications available online for no cost is a gift for future generations, especially artists who will find new uses for this material.

I've never heard of the Science Advances journal before, but at least it appears to be peer reviewed. Pretty low impact factor though. Think I'll wait to see if this is independently verified.

Not highly rated but still a fun popcorn sci-fi movie with hopelessly outclassed vikings battling a strange alien monster. Features a decent cast with Jim Caviezel, Sophia Miles, Ron Perlman, and John Hurt.