I would be curious to know the age distribution in yesterday's Iceland vote. In the case of Brexit, the brexiters were mostly old people and the bremainers mostly young; for this reason, the forces of demography are slowly pushing the UK back in the EU's orbit again (looking at the polls). Wondering if the same could apply to Iceland.

It might be seen as this ideologic thing, but I don't think it is to the degree many people believe. I have lived in Iceland. Most Icelanders are pretty open-minded and an astounding amount of them have lived abroad for at least a year.

However their island is somewhat reliant on import (e.g. if you need wood to build something, there is no really useful amount of wood growing there). That means export is really important. And that for many people means fishery.

I could imagine that many young people in Reykjavík have a different experience as many of them can earn a living selling online services internationally.

As a EU citizen I don't see this as a Brexit-like event, it is clear that our Icelandic friends are EU-friendly and aligned with many of our laws and regulations already. The fact that they don't want in does not change that there are existing deep ties to the continent.

Iceland's in a fairly different situation. It's already in the EEA; that is, it's subject to most EU law and gets most of the benefits, but gets to have its own rules around fish.

(This was an option for the UK, and is actually pretty much what a lot of the yes campaign was pushing, but is very much not where the UK ended up.)

Too bad an updated edition of PCL never materialised

did you forget the "/s" or is it a serious question?

On Ponte dei Pugni (Bridge of Fists), which was the most famous venue for these spectacles, there are marble feet markings which were the starting positions for fighters.

To my ears, the sound is wrong. At least the Solari flip boards had a typical rustling sound, this is too much clicking.

Sound could be better.

SPI does not exist anymore, but there are other publishers still doing it, although the market is much smaller now. The biggest one is probably GMT games.

I think some of their games are available from others, and I hope there’s on line versions being created by hobbyists.

Interesting... However, ironically, EBGRIA is awful too, in its own way. The typography is rudimentary.

ISBN prefixes does not always indicate a country. They may be are indeed countries, but others are language areas (e.g. 0/1=English) or "regions" (groups of countries) or even other subjects.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISBN_registration_grou...

High level programming languages were conceived by humans and for humans. Will AIs in future better use their own languages, or maybe even output machine language directly?

Unusable on iphone SE, the UI is cropped on the bottom and cannot be scrolled.