Amen. While we're at it, let's replace the stones in Jerusalem's Wailing Wall with something a little more stable and less likely to cause an antisemitic collapse. Cinder blocks seem to stack well.
Are you a moderator here? Strange that I posted a recommendation for this book an hour ago on this thread before discovering I've somehow been shadowbanned. If you are a moderator, congrats for bravely re-purposing my post, if not, you'll never see this anyway...
For those that may be interested in "Foundations of Databases", also see C.J. Date's "Introduction to Database Systems" for a diatribe on why Nulls are evil.
Update: Odd that I'm inexplicably shadowbanned. Guess the moderators at yc are flinching cowards...
Just another skinned-DroidOS reseller. Would love to have seen something like the QNX-based Blackberry q20 have survived, something actually different from Android/iOS.
Perhaps one day daylight "bent" by a sufficiently strong black hole and turned back toward the Earth can be collected and analyzed revealing pre-historic and possibly even ancient conditions of the world. Of course, this would be birds-eye, but who can fathom the ability of light to be analyzed by sensors developed several millennia hence. Man may one day obtain images of the Permian–Triassic extinction event, flocks of pterosaurs migrating, or something as detailed as Socrates being led off to prison for his execution.