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A sentence in some language that sounds much like "word word word word... word" but means something of district words in another language (without much sense) like "My cat has eaten a hyperbolic eucalyptus in the bath tub". Is there a word for this concept, like "palindrome" or "limerick"? I...

My 82 years old father passed away from Parkinson's last week. He was an agricultural engineer on a communist collective farm working with pesticides and herbicides in the days when you'd have a teaspoon of DDT as breakfast nutritional supplement. Appears like Parkinson's is some 600% more...

I could say the obscene energy requirement and environmental impact, ridiculous transaction costs that only make it valid currency for money laundering and crime as legitimate use apart from speculation but truth is I don't give a **ck. Honestly, I missed the bus when it was in station (buy a...

I personally can't stand it so I'm not totally unbiased on the issue but it's an interesting view. Also have several friends who are very loud fanboys which contributes to the annoyance. Overall I stay clear of it and I'm pretty indifferent on those who get involved with crypto as long as they...

A technology whose core defining insight was "You can improve on a Ponzi scam by making it self-organizing and distributed so it gets vastly more propagation, reduces the single point of failure, and makes it censorship-resistant."

She wants to get back to Japan. She's Hispanic, allright. [facepalm] In fact stranger things happen. A former manager of mine, ethnic Hungarian born in Romania moved to Japan and married a Brazilian woman. Turns out she was Japanese-Brazilian so yes, part Hispanic. Divorced now, btw :p

There's a saying in Romanian: "God gives but doesn't fill your purse". Having a high IQ is a blessing in the sense that it doesn't hold you back but that's it. On your death bed, along with countless "blessed" underachievers, you can't even invoke the excuse that you couldn't do it. Because...

I was born in a Transylvanian village where for the first 10 years of my life the most advanced piece of high-tech I had access to was this WW2 thing: a manually operated crank phone: Linking us through a 15 km wire to the nearest manually operated telephone switch. Having grown amongst...

We all know this forum is not typical, thanks to @Baron moderation. I'm launching a $10 bucks contest on the design of the "AMM" (Abstract Mathematical Masturbation) ISO sign that won't get me banned on Wilmott and might even be approved by the European Commission. Here's version #2:

Here's my Easter Egg selections for you: #3: SOFI TUKKER. Florida-based, a popular alternative to Teletubbies when you're high on weed: #2: Empire Of The Sun, Australian band. Proves the extent males of Earth-bond specied will go lusciously decorating themselves to signal getting laid...

Top 10 weirdest Easter traditions from around the world: https://fusedbills.co.uk/post/10-weirdest-easter-traditions-around-world #3: Water splashing in Hungary (and Romanian Transylvania). A.K.A "Sprinkling of the girls". I gotta write a Wikipedia entry on this thing. It's the epitome of...

Update #1: I propose the introduction of a new ISO 7010 warning sign: WARNING! Abstract mathematical masturbation following next. Associated risks: severe overinflation of self-worth combined with extreme dissociation from reality.

Thanks, Easter only arrives this midnight for Orthodox Christians. There's no Easter Bunny here but there's "sprinkling the girls" on Easter Monday: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/europe/easter-monday-transylvania.html

Abstract mathematical masturbation

Typical farmer:

Australia freaks me out. Fortunately Crete has enough of a proper winter to kill the worst offenders: "The crocodile of Crete. There are no free crocodiles in Greece and this is the only one found and filmed in a natural environment. Several attempts have been made to catch it and take it to a...

Something like that already happened and it might happen again. "Winter is coming" would be an understatement. Like how long did winter last in Game Of Thrones? 2-3-10 years? How bout 100 million years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth

Have you guys heard of this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer That's something to be worried about. We're living in a much more connected world with much higher crop yield, but still... One year with no crops would be tough. Probably not starvation stuff but tough. And...

The amount he stuffs in is surreal (assuming it's true). Reminded me of this folk story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare

Every geek and their cat wants to do new shit. See on the "procrastination" thread, the advice I give to my young self (my son). New shit is hard and taxes you. After 20 years of doing new shit I hate it even when doing it for myself, knowing why, how, how much and when it will pay. Like a...