Oh wow. Now I've got to go back and finish it, I haven't thought about dunnet in years. Thanks for making emacs a slightly more magical place for the rest of us.

Is there any evidence that nicotine is addictive? (This is different from cigarettes being addictive.)

You can volunteer for this now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

I have. My friends who grew up in the USSR agree that the USA is more oppressive in many respects.

When weren't comments here a cesspool? It's part of the charm.

Fuck /u/spez.

"Nuclear waste" is mostly unspent fuel that can be reprocessed and used again. The US just decided not to invest in the facilities to do so. The remainder of the reactor output is short-lived radiologicals useful for medicine and some other isotopes that can be used as fuel in a molten-salt reactor. Nuclear "waste" isn't a fundamentally difficult problem.

There's a lot of cute people around here. ;-)

Funny, I don't remember this kind of outcry when Bezos bought the Washington Post. Why is it any less worrying when billionaires own media outlets?

Talk to me about IOPS -- Input/Output operations Per Second -- or don't pretend you're talking to me about performance.

Not saying this isn't actually really exciting, but that's the metric in at least 90% of use cases.

Pity this can't be upvoted to 6. Came here to post this -- truly a classic in the genre.

Ask Israel how they did it, and how well it works.

It's time for women to build their own open source culture and projects away from the harmful influence of men.

You don't think Elon Musk needs a billion dollars to build affordable electric cars and go to Mars?

I agree and think more attention should be paid to judicial systems such as Singapore's that have gotten rid of jury trial for exactly this reason.