Wow that's pretty fucked. No one would even dream of anything so crazy these days. The world certainly has improved in the past 90 years.

Ceasing to dream big isn't an improvement. But ya... it's probably for the best the project didn't happen (yet:).

What is "pretty fucked" about this?

Dude, it's totally fucked. Like removing the sea from seaside towns. i'm sure if you're a mediterranean fisherman you would not be happy having the sea forcibly moved away from your home... The environmental impact is probably immeasurable.

How is this any worse than normal dam construction, apart from scale?

How is a flood worse than a drop of water, apart from scale?

Wise words.

Scale.

If the engineering effort fails, an incalculable amount of life and property would be destroyed. Even if it succeeds, a huge amount of costly adjustment would be required by a very, very large number of people.

There would be some pretty vast ecological repercussions. Fish habitats and coastal ecosystems, would be immediately affected. Then, connecting rivers will cut deeper, unforeseeably altering each and every environment they affect.

Cinnamon can also reverse changes in the brains of people with Unity.

An infected human is a perfectly functional vector, and this is already a sustained epidemic.

Hilarious. I was wondering how to pronounce Dusan this morning and couldn't find out on You Tube.

http://namez.com/search?q=dusan

Now all webpages appear tilted to me. I'm disoriented.

People will probably still be using mice for input. It won't be all swiping by 2014. The nice thing about a mouse is that it requires very little effort. It takes a lot more muscle movement to perform a swipe.

I think he means that lot of the new website designs change the scroll behavior because they think it's cool (just like <blink> was), but they make the user experience worse in most cases.

That depends. For scrolling, yes. For moving the cursor, I find I need a lot less muscle use on my trackpad than my mouse.

I had a code for my game genie that enabled this functionality. It was fun hacking away at Mario 3.

Actually yes they do! I have a few symbol fonts in my library that cost way more than he's asking for the 4 weights.

My personal hesitation isn't due to paying for a symbol font...I'm waiting to see a bit more of the font so I can decide if the style is neutral enough that I'll be able to use it in enough places to make the cost worthwhile.

I don't think it's really paying for 'font' symbols but paying for something that's easily droppable in your HTML using <i> tags. At least that's why I use FontAwesome.

The same content is always on both sites. Why are you making a distinction?

I know you're probably joking, but on hacker news I usually don't have to sort though a bunch of "interesting" articles to find relevant news. Another distinction is that I read hackernews on the clock, but not reddit.