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Danny72on BBC: How to generate random numbers in 1971 [video]

The content is also published on twitter.

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1223931569426952192

Danny72on In Almost Every European Country, Bikes Are Outselling New Cars

Aside from football, cycling is the most popular sport in Belgium. Maybe the bicycle market is saturated?

Has this got anything to do with the Digg acquisition, and it's patent on “click a button to vote up a story” ?

Danny72on Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone

The 4th gen Shuffle is the 2nd gen, but slightly smaller and with the VoiceOver technology. If you loved the 2nd gen, you'll love it.

Danny72on This Guy Has My MacBook

At that point, you could of just done a bit of identity theft and bought yourself a new MBP.

Danny72on Check if your email is amongst those compromised in Gawker break-in

I had that as well. No strange IP addresses are listed as having accessed it, so I assume it's safe.

Danny72on What if the greatest athlete alive decided to actually get serious?

It's generally acknowledged that Yelena Isinbayeva has been doing exactly that in the pole vault over the last few years.

Danny72on Schneier on Security: Is Antivirus Dead?

Does it really update signatures every 5 minutes?

Seems a bit excessive.

Danny72on Super-oarsmen vs. Lying Historians

When it comes to the accuracy of historical numbers, I always think of the size of the Persian army at Thermopylae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae#Persian_a...

Historical accounts were still a form of propaganda back then.

Danny72on The Statistical Problem With Soccer

Although the World Cup is the most well known (and watched) soccer tournament, it isn't that representative of soccer.

1. It's mainly a knockout tournament which obviously increases the variance

2. International sides aren't a cohesive team like domestic club sides only playing a handful of times per year leading up to the tournaments.

Compare this to the domestic leagues where the league format reduces the variance and players spend most of the year working with who they're playing with on the pitch. In the EPL, the #1 ranked side going into the season probably wins the league 75% of the time. It's a much lower number though for the domestic cups because of the knockout format.

Danny72on Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession

They're probably using the same text highlighting code as esquire.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/98o77/go_to_esqu...

Danny72on Bill Hicks's Principles of Comedy

You seem to have the idea that he's a blue comedian which although some of his material is, Hicks is mostly known for his political rant comedy.

I'm sympathetic to your point of view though. When I first heard some of his routine I thought "This isn't funny at all, he's just shouting about stuff he dislikes". His style does grow on you. Also it's hard to get an impression of a comedian like Hicks through youtube videos. His comedy doesn't lend itself to one-liners and the top videos tend to be lowest common denominator stuff of what one-liners he did do.