joelthelion

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No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a “mixed number,” while 5/2 is an “improper fraction.” They’re equal for crying out loud. They are the same exact numbers, and have the same exact more...

Very Insightful comment by Linus Torvalds.

what if you were only allowed to say sentences that had never been said before, ever? A bot with access to the full channel logs could kick you out when you repeated something that had already been said. There would more...

On one hand this is a huge improvement for yahoo (i might even switch from google). On the other hand, this might push spammers to hit delicious. I would hate to see delicious destroyed by a few SEOs...

By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells. The research more...