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A bit of context, these bins tracked wifi enabled devices as they passed by for various targeted marketing things. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/londons-smart-bins-track-4m-...



Is it meant to be an amalgam of 'solution' and '-ify'?

Can you differentiate between other similar already in use terms like 'yak shaving' http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving or 'bikeshedding' http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding ?


Also, 'analysis paralysis' seems to be a related concept.


I would go farther and say that its not that analysis paralysis is a related concept, but that the concept here is a special case of analysis paralysis.


sure, but I've never know someone, when introducing their spouse, to say 'this is my common-law [husband|wife]'. Among other problems, it's quite awkward.


This describes me (I live in the UK). I'm 31 I've been in a lovely heteronormative relationship for eight years. We aren't married, and we've called each other 'partner' for years. In my head it lives in the linguistic space between '[boy|girl]friend' and the state-sponsored '[husband|wife]'. I also enjoy its gender neutrality.


"I've been in a lovely heteronormative relationship "

Are you kidding? My sarcasm detector is failing here.


Just man-up and get married.


This is because in both the US and the UK, imperial measures are legally defined in metric units. A pint is 568ml, by definition (well, in the UK, the US believes a pint is 454ml, but that's another argument).


The milk is clearly sold in pints though, if they were selling it in litres they would've sold 2 litres, not 2.272 litres.


yes! As a US expat in europe, this never ceases to cause me trouble. Plus the A size ratios are just lovely.


+1 I'd love that.


I could use it also. It would help me migrate over from yEd.


https://github.com/jgraph/mxgraph/tree/master/java/src/com/m... . It's all there in the back-end, I'll switch it on after the break.


Is very low fat necessarily optimal? I think excessively fatty birds are a problem, but depending on use, I suspect a non-zero percentage of fat is desirable. Though I have no idea what the optimal amount would be. But in plenty of food applications, grease is good.


If anything, you'd want a chicken with skin which excretes fat so you can avoid putting butter on it, although that would make it quite a bit more difficult to catch.


self-buttering chicken makes me drool at my desk. Would that make it a cow-chicken hybrid though (assuming it's butter from cow's milk anyway)


Obviously they should be cube shaped, to facilitate more efficient shipping.


If you ever played the old game HyperBlade, it had it game ads about GE chickens. IIRC, they were boneless and bun shaped.


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